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Microsoft ad pushes Surface for 'real work', revisits education scenario

article published on 5 November, 2013

Microsoft has a new ad for its Surface tablet that claims the device is for 'real work'. If you recall, Microsoft promoted the Lenovo Yoga with Windows 8 over the iPad in an education setting with an ad that showed a class full of students struggling to type out promptly spoken words from the professor on an iPad, with the predictable exception being the one smiling student with the Windows ... [ read the full article ]

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SomeBozo
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_ 		5. November 2013 @ 12:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Seems if they need to throw Office into the OS to get people to buy a surface and/or win8, sure seems M$ is hurting and trying desperately and everything they can to put a better spin on current events. Fact of the matter it seems M$ has a hiring freeze currently as $ale$ are not what are expected. Ballmer gone yet? Sooner the better!


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mukhis
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_ 		5. November 2013 @ 12:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
well, surface won't sell w/o office, for sure. i am still considering a windows based tablet (not surface though, but surface pro or eqv) just because no other tablets (or even smartphones) can offer a full office. else, there is almost not a single reason why i shouldn't buy an ipad.
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Surface all the way.
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Surface all the way.
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