Microsoft ships 900k Surface tablets in Q1, breaks into IDC’s top 5 for first time

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Microsoft is officially back on the radar in the worldwide tablet market, with its Surface Pro and Surface RT tablets combining for 900,000 units shipped in the first quarter, according to a report today by the IDC research firm. That gives the Microsoft Surface 1.8 percent market share, in fifth place, according to IDC’s estimates…. Read More…

Surface chief hints at broader plans for Microsoft tablet

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Panos Panay, the corporate vice president in charge of Microsoft’s Surface tablet business, made a brief appearance this morning at the company’s U.S. Public Sector CIO Summit in Redmond, running through the basics of the devices and dropping a hint about where the Surface is headed next. He began by telling the audience that Microsoft… Read More…

Stylus Points: Why Penny Arcade’s Gabe is a fan of Microsoft’s Surface Pro

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Standard product reviews are fine, but we’re big fans of people actually incorporating new technologies into their daily routines and reporting back on what happens. And among those types of reviews, it doesn’t get more interesting than this piece by Penny Arcade artist Mike Krahulik, better known as Gabe, who documents his experience drawing on… Read More…

Microsoft ad stokes Surface Pro demand amid shortages

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What was that tablet in that ad during the Grammys? The one with the pen and the USB port? It was the Surface Pro, the new Intel-based tablet from Microsoft, but anyone asking that question today after seeing the ad last night will have a tough time finding one of the devices, at least the… Read More…

Check out this line for Microsoft’s Surface Pro

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The photo above, submitted by a GeekWire reader, shows the scene at the Microsoft Store in Seattle’s University Village about an hour ago, as people waited in the rain for the new Surface Pro tablet. Yes, this is Microsoft Country, but even considering that, this is a positive early sign for the Microsoft tablet, combined… Read More…

Hands-on with Surface Pro, Microsoft’s three-in-one PC

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If Microsoft’s goal with Windows 8 is to blend desktop, notebook and tablet, then the device I’m using to type these words is the perfect embodiment of the strategy. Well, maybe perfect isn’t the right word. But it is a relatively smooth combination of those otherwise distinct forms of computing. This is the Surface with… Read More…

Q&A: Windows business chief calls Windows 8 launch a solid start, but just a start

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Sitting in a conference room at Microsoft Windows headquarters in Redmond last week, Tami Reller was surrounded by a fleet of touch-screen notebooks and tablets from major PC makers, representing a new wave of Windows 8 machines set to hit the market. The message: 90 days after Windows 8′s launch, there’s more coming, and soon…. Read More…

Surface Pro surfaces in stores — but sorry, there’s no Surface RT trade-in program

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It’s launch week for Surface with Windows 8 Pro — the new Microsoft tablet that uses an Intel Core i5 processor and, unlike the previous Surface with Windows RT, runs legacy Windows applications. Despite a report that Surface RT users would be able to trade in their existing tablets toward the price of a Surface… Read More…

Microsoft GM: Surface Pro arriving in “coming weeks”

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Thanks to Twitter, now we have an idea for a Surface Pro debut date. On my way to the factory to check out #Surface Pro coming off the line…arriving in the coming weeks. — Panos Panay (@panos_panay) January 15, 2013 That’s a Tweet yesterday from Panos Panay, the general manager of Microsoft’s Surface division. Microsoft… Read More…

Dell exec to Steve Ballmer: Please rename Windows RT

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At least one person wasn’t happy with the way Microsoft was naming its new ARM tablet operating system. Dell vice-chairman Jeffrey Clarke spoke at a conference last week and told a story of how he urged Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer earlier this year to rename Windows RT because it couldn’t run traditional Windows applications. Clarke… Read More…

Microsoft’s Surface Pro: Yep, this feels like a tough sell

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When Microsoft’s Surface RT was released a little more than a month ago, one of the things we heard from some people in the tech industry was that they were waiting for the full-fledged Surface with Windows 8 Pro before seriously thinking about buying Microsoft’s new tablet. Now we have key details on the Surface… Read More…