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Microsoft's $900M Surface RT write-down: What happened?

2013-07-19 01:54:39| CNET News.com

The company's Surface general manager reiterates that Microsoft is committed to Surface RT and Windows RT, in spite of today's write-down of the iPad competitor. [Read more]

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Microsoft's fourth quarter unravels, Surface RT bet a flop

2013-07-18 22:18:54| CNET News.com

Company's fourth-quarter financials miss estimates, and the software giant is left holding the bag on Surface RT units. [Read more]

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The demise of Microsofts monopoly and the PC market, by the numbers

2013-07-18 14:39:44| Extremetech

Unless you've been hibernating for the last five years, you may have noticed one of the most dramatic shifts to the technology landscape: Microsoft, once the most valuable (and probably the most powerful) company in the world, is now just another tech company. A big tech company, for sure, but one that is being increasingly marginalized by the shift away from the desktop PC and companies such as Apple, Google, and Samsung. If you need proof -- if you're desperately holding onto the belief that the PC will persevere -- just take a look at the following graphs that illustrate the demise of the PC.

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Peak PC and Microsoft's dilemma -- and opportunity

2013-07-16 17:14:50| InfoWorld: Top News

Although a historic downturn in PC shipments has made headlines since April, "peak PC" -- the moment when personal computers crested -- was two years ago, according to data from researcher IDC. In the third quarter of 2011, global PC shipments totaled 96.1 million, slightly more than the following quarter's 95.8 million, IDC said. But shipments declined 4 percent in 2012 and are headed for an even larger dip of 8 percent, perhaps more, in 2013.

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