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Microsoft plans to sell a “few million” Surface tablets next year

posted on Jul 11th 2012 at 10:56am by Joe Fedewa

There have been conflicting reports on what Microsoft wants to do with their Surface tablets. Some says they are just trying to show OEMs what is possible, and they don’t really care about how many they sell. Others say this is their attempt to compete with Apple, and they will be trying to sell a lot of these. Microsoft seems to be somewhere in the middle.

At their Worldwide Partner Conference Microsoft announced that they plan on selling 375 million PCs in 2013, and “a few million” of them will be Surface tablets. Pricing will play a large role in determining how the Surface does. Consumers are starting to expect lower prices for tablets, and they might not want to pay over $600-700 even if it can act as a PC.

[via ZDNet]

  • http://www.gamesobscura.com/ themizarkshow

    I wish it would sell a few million, but I think that’s a pipedream. If they really hope to do that well, they need to prove a lot about it before it even hits the market. Like how well the keyboard cover works or how Win8 runs/feels on it.