Does the author know how many times Microsoft has been declared dead and buried already?
Last report I saw the debacle was outselling the Apple Macbook Air...
A “double debacle” according to the author, who never explained what he meant by it.
Not from what the analytic statistics report:
"Microsoft has never disclosed unit sales of the Surface, but most analysts believe it sold fewer than one million in the most recently-reported quarter (July to September-2014, emphasis mine — Swordmaker), its best ever revenue-wise. Nor does Apple reveal the numbers of its MacBook Air notebooks sold; instead, it publicizes sales of Macs overall, which in the September quarter totaled 5.5 million, a record."Apple stopped disclosing the split between notebook and desktop sales in late 2012, but during the two years before that, the former accounted for 73% of all Macs. If that same fraction is applied to the September quarter sales, Apple sold approximately 4 million laptops. The MacBook Air is Apple's bestselling notebook, so by that reckoning it sold more than 2 million, or at least twice the number of Microsoft's Surface." — Source: "Microsoft expands anti-MacBook campaign with switching tips", by Greg Keizer, Computerworld,com, December 27, 2014
Those are the facts. Apple is estimated to sell 5.8 million to 6.0 million Macs in the 1st Quarter of Apple's 2015 Fiscal year which runs from Saturday, September27, 2014 to Saturday, December 27, 2014. Time will tell if that prediction is true. . . but analysis of sales looks like it probably is. . . along with 70 million iPhones. There is no way that Microsoft will sell anywhere near 3 million Surface Pros in a single quarter, when they have not sold that many in a year.