Microsoft Total Failure: Microsoft Sold Only 230,000 Surface Tablets, Says Analyst

[vissha]

While Microsoft remains tight-lipped on Surface RT sales and refuses to provide official statistics to confirm whether the device is a successful product or not, analysts continue to criticize the tablet and point to a very disappointing sales performance.

After Barron’s said that Microsoft had managed to sell approximately 1 million Surface RT units since the October launch, Goldman Sachs analyst Heather Bellini claims that the device has completely failed to impress.

Bellini estimated that Microsoft had sold approximately 230,000 tablets, which means that the first tablet in the history of the Redmond-based technology giant is a complete failure.

Of course, the Surface Pro tablet that’ll hit the market on February 9 is regarded as a much more appealing product, so the Surface product range is very likely to record increased sales in the next few months.

Source: Softpedia

[DKT27]

Moved to Mobile News. In most cases, anything that is mobile or tablet related should be posted here (with exceptions of course). :)

I don't know. 2 lakh units sold is still a lot for me. The reason of failure is said to be of many reasons, one of it is price and another is inspite of being Windows 8 and marketed as same as Windows 8 on desktop, it doesn't run general legacy apps (some people don't know it) which many haven't liked.

[rudrax]

Before the dead what more do you expect than this? Hats off to M$ that they have at least managed to sell that quantity :lmao:

[software182]

what ? poor microsoft...

[vissha]

what ? poor microsoft...

We are only poor than MS, bcoz we r getting the worst/shocking out of MS. But MS is getting money[in different ways of Ballmer]

[dcs18]

I'm not sure if the Surface is globally available (off-the-shelf) - at least, when one of my Customers tried to purchase it (last week) it was not readily available. In this early stage, a two lakh-plus seems to be quite good (coming especially from a non-Microsoft source.) :dunno: