While the Surface Pro 2 was shown off with a set of power upgrades earlier today, the Surface 2 is set to return with a collection of slim-downs. This starts with a thinner body, a lighter body, and a silver option (so you’re not just stuck with black.) This device is coming with a Full […]
This week the folks at Microsoft have introduced the Surface family in a bit of a reboot, starting with the Surface Pro. As the company is making clear this week through their own Panos Panay, “reinventing the wheel is not the goal, making it better is.” In other words, this isn’t going to be a […]
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Microsoft will reveal its new Surface tablets at an event in New York City on September 23, according to invitations sent to press, with the new Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 expected to debut. The “save the date” invite is believed to be for Microsoft to reveal the Intel “Haswell” update to the Surface […]
Microsoft just sent out invitations for an event in New York City on Monday September 23rd, two weeks from today. It will be showing off the new Surface. Which is to say, it’s going to be showing us the future of Microsoft.
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The temporary price cut that Microsoft made to its Surface tablets earlier this month will be permanent, it has been revealed, leaving both the Surface Pro and the Surface RT varieties of the tablets — as well as the Touch Cover — a fair bit cheaper. The price change isn’t instantaneous, however, with the company […]
The Surface RT may not have lived up to every expectation Microsoft had, but it doesn’t look like that is going to stop them from returning with a follow-up model. Despite nothing official coming from Microsoft just yet, there is already talk of that follow-up device. That talk has come by way of NVIDIA’s CEO […]
Microsoft revealed its fiscal Q4 2013 financial earnings today, and the company raked in a healthy revenue, for which they even got to keep a nearly a quarter of for themselves, but it wasn’t all roses, however. Microsoft’s Surface RT took a huge hit, and the company lost $900 million just on the device itself due to “inventory adjustments.”
The $900 million loss is huge, and it comes out of Microsoft’s total Windows revenue for the quarter, but lucky for them, Windows revenue still grew compared to last quarter, as well as year-over-year. This means that Windows 8 sales most likely made up for the Surface RT’s poor sales over the past year.
However, Microsoft didn’t give specific Windows 8 sales or revenue numbers for the new operating system, but we may hear more on that in the near future. The huge loss for the Surface tablet comes just a few days after the company announced a big $150 discount on the tablet in order to increase sales, but it wasn’t quick enough to improve the situation before Microsoft’s earnings call today.
Overall, Microsoft raked in $19.90 billion this past quarter, and got to keep $4.87 billion of it as cold, hard profit. Revenue for this quarter surpasses the same time last year when the company brought in $18.06 billion, and revenue for the entire year saw another increase yet again compared to last year.
Today’s earnings is also hot on the heels of the company’s recent reorganization that sees top-level execs shuffled around and changing responsibilities. Whether or not that will improve things over at Microsoft remains to be seen, but it’s said that former Xbox head Don Mattrick left the company because of the changes.
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Surface RT losses sting in Microsoft’s Q4 2013 is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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