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Will Microsoft cancel the Surface?

  • Yes - 12 months or less

    Votes: 3 6.7%
  • Yes - 24 months or less

    Votes: 2 4.4%
  • If this was a Google product, it would've been cancelled already.

    Votes: 14 31.1%
  • No but [see comments]

    Votes: 2 4.4%
  • No.

    Votes: 23 51.1%
  • Other (see comments)

    Votes: 1 2.2%

  • Total voters
    45
  • Poll closed .
Apr 12, 2023
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Which ultimately seems to be of their own making... they have made some very questionable decisions for what is meant to be a premium 'halo product' line, and which is priced to match. Ergo extending down into entry level devices with the Go products is bizarre, and they're just bad computers as a result (pentium processors, eMMC storage, low pixel density displays, cheap plastic body parts). Replacing the unique Surface book with the banal Surface studio laptop was also a bizarre decision, and put it more directly in competition with 360 convertibles which other companies are already doing better. Leaving premium devices languishing with years-old chips and low storage and memory options is also unlikely to ingratiate Surface to customers, I just don't know exactly what they're thinking behind the scenes. As with Windows Phone, rather than putting the sustained effort in to make something a success, Microsoft seem to throw a massive tantrum and cut funding/resources off if it's not an automatic massive hit with minimal effort.
This. Tantrum is the nadella way.
 

maflynn

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Which ultimately seems to be of their own making.
Agreed, they only have only themselves to blame

they have made some very questionable decisions for what is meant to be a premium 'halo product' line, and which is priced to match
I've long complained the mentality of releasing new (premium) products using 1 or 2 generation old components.
 

max2

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May 31, 2015
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Agreed, they only have only themselves to blame


I've long complained the mentality of releasing new (premium) products using 1 or 2 generation old components.

Agree.

The Surface is good but not $1000+ good yet.
 
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