Be curious to see how it does in the Enterprise, many which still run on Windows Office products.
I work for a huge enterprise, in fact it is the single largest employer in my state, (even bigger than wal mart) and the surface is DOA. Official mobile platform is iPad.
In other orgs I’ve worked for they are all persuing or implementing BYOD (bring your own device) models.
There is no strong market argument, if you are going to provide a tablet, to choose the tablet that brings nothing serious to the table. Cheaper and easier to just provide laptops to your users, if you need that. Every org I’ve been in that has had a formal standard tablet its been iPad, others are BYOD.
MS is making a product with no market, spending billions to market it, and going nowhere.
Its at best a niche/fanboy product, and will never be anything more.
Why buy a tablet who’s only real claim to fame is it runs windows? When you can buy a laptop that runs windows for the same price or less and not stuck with a 10” form factor?
I’m completely ignoring the RT since its just a punchline looking for a joke.
There is nothing different going at MS today than what went on in the 90s... MS completely missed the internet, and has missed the smart phone and tablet boats. The difference was in the 90s they still owned the desktop and could and did engage in illegal activities to recover once they realized how badly the missed the internet.
Today they can’t leverage the desktop to win at mobile, and they are doomed in those markets. They will never be a serious player there, at least not in market share, and are just burning cash on a fools errand.
MS should be focusing on their software side of things, instead they have been so busy trying to protect the desktop they have been left in the dust.