Microsoft Surface Touch Cover 'Splits Within Days' 135
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An anonymous reader points out a report at the Guardian of a potential problem for early adopters of the Microsoft Surface tablet. The Touch Cover is one of the available protective covers for the device; it acts as a keyboard, and has both a gyroscope and an accelerometer on board. Unfortunately, some users have found that the edges of the Touch Cover have split open after only a few days of use. "The defect is identical in each case: the cover ... begins to split at its seam where the device attaches magnetically to the main computer. [One developer] was told to return his Touch Cover to Microsoft for a replacement, and Microsoft has been swapping faulty covers for users where it has retail stores. It's unclear whether the problems that people have encountered are due to a faulty batch or are a subtle problem that will become more apparent as more people use it for longer — but the fact that users in the US and the UK have reported the problem suggests that it is not isolated to a single manufacturing batch."
Re:My experience with Surface (Score:5, Funny)
I would say that this story might be a bit over-sensationalist.
Well, now that Microsoft wants to compete with Apple, they'll have to deal with over-sensationalist news as well.
Let me be the first to suggest "Covergate". ;)
So what? (Score:5, Funny)
They're just holding it wrong!
Fix-It-Yourself is the new game (Score:4, Funny)
Re:My experience with Surface (Score:5, Funny)
BUNCH OF CRY BABIES !! (Score:0, Funny)
Like a little slip of a cover is worth the bitching !! Deal with it !! Live with it !! Take it like a man !! Or are you a little girl crying because her doll's clothing has a wrinkle !!
Re:My experience with Surface (Score:5, Funny)
Of course they're defective.
Which part of "Microsoft Product" did you not understand?
Re:BUNCH OF CRY BABIES !! (Score:5, Funny)
Like a little slip of a cover is worth the bitching !! Deal with it !! Live with it !! Take it like a man !! Or are you a little girl crying because her doll's clothing has a wrinkle !!
Ballmer, is that you?
Microsoft has been swapping faulty covers for user (Score:5, Funny)
So, how does that work? You go in with your faulty cover, you leave with a new user? Do you get to choose your user?
Re:My experience with Surface (Score:4, Funny)
It's OK! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:My experience with Surface (Score:5, Funny)
Well, now that Microsoft wants to compete with Apple, they'll have to deal with over-sensationalist news as well.
Though I suspect they may find themselves in a patent infringement lawsuit regarding this.
Re:My experience with Surface (Score:2, Funny)
I would say that this story might be a bit over-sensationalist.
The implication being there is some level of sensationalism that is acceptable?
Re:My experience with Surface (Score:5, Funny)
I agree. As a busy, young, professional, and I kept finding that my Android and Apple devices were holding back my potential to synergize my cloud potential at work, but it also got in the way of my X-treme lifestyle when I'm not. After a few days of using my new Microsoft® Surface, it magically unleashed my creativity and X-tremeness and earning potential with it's radical Microsoft® Windows® technology, and I was offered the job of CEO. The styling and unique VaporMg (patent pending) casing caught the eye of a few supermodels today, while I was doing some Xtreme mountainbike-hang-gliding-surfing-rock-climbing-base-jumping, which is a new sport made possible only by thoughtful design and precision craftsmanship that make Surface a joy to behold. They were aroused by the split touch cover, and told me they'd be my harem as long as I never to get it changed.
Re:My experience with Surface (Score:5, Funny)
This is Microsoft we're talking about. There is the obgligatory "...of death" which must be added to every Microsoft based failure.
lol somebody bought a surface? (Score:0, Funny)
servers you right, sucker!
Re:So what? (Score:5, Funny)
I bet the only people who get this problem are the same people who fold paperback books completely back on themselves when they read them.
Re:My experience with Surface (Score:5, Funny)
It just works, and you have Windows underneath.
If you have the RT version the only thing you have underneath is disappointment and tears.
Re:My experience with Surface (Score:5, Funny)
At least Apple ... (Score:4, Funny)