Microsoft Surface Struggles to Ship A Million Units

zacharye writes "While some see potential in Microsoft's Surface tablet, most industry watchers appear to have written off the device at this point. Orders were reportedly cut in half following a slow launch, and Microsoft's debut slate has been hammered time and time again by reviewers and analysts. The latest to pile on is Boston-based brokerage firm Detwiler Fenton, which estimates that when all is said and done, Microsoft will have sold fewer than 1 million Surface tablets in the slate's debut quarter." Still better than 25,000.

Re:I haven't read a bad review of it

[masternerdguy]

That's not the party line, citizen.

this and win8 enough to get rid of balmer?

[Dan667]

at this point it may not matter. microsoft may already be mortally wounded like Motorola was a couple of years ago.

not on anybody's christmas list

[Anonymous Coward]

You can get a Nobel Peace prize for "not being George W Bush", but apparently people aren't standing in line to buy "not an iPad".

Re:The actual reason

[future assassin]

they dont pretend to be a full computer. People who buy them know this isnt a computer replacement for real work,

BS just look at all the hipster photographers trying to justify using their iPads as some sort of computer like image work flow tool and storage machine, meanwhile buying extra sd cards for dirt cheap gives you 100x more storage capacity then some 64gb tablet.

Re:failure round 2 incoming

[Trashcan Romeo]

Microsoft-level quality is expensive. [Yes, that was sarcasm.]

Re:failure round 2 incoming

[Runaway1956]

I would have thought Microsoft had recovered all the expense of developing the BSOD by now.

Re:failure round 2 incoming

[xeno314]

Apparently you failed to account for the new touchscreen BSOD R&D costs. You can't actually touch it, but they'll fix that with SP1.