Microsoft's Surface tablet line falls short - Report

Lets see here.  $900 Gaming PC with 1TB of storage that can play anything that exists today. vs. $900 Tablet with 64GB of memory and apparently you can throw it like a ninja star to attach it to a detachable keyboard.

I think I know which way I went.

Maybe it's because you charge to much for your product Apple, oh sorry I mean Microsoft.

Maybe those god awful commercials for this thing are the problem. Who at Microsoft decided to feature their tablet in a dancing dubstep video? What does that tell me about the product? Nothing, in fact it makes me want to ignore the damn thing.

That's because the Surface Pro is in-between a tablet and an ultrabook (tablet form, ultrabook/real OS). People don't see that, so they think it should be a cheaper tablet -_-

Competative product but un competative priceing. Sorry guys. At $500 to enter the tablet game I would go with Samsung or Apple as they have been in the game for several years now. Also, my macbook, iphone and apple TV might also work better with an ipad. Sorry gents. 

"coming up short of expectations"

I got five words for you M$......only five words.

Windows 8 is a joke.

seriously.....wtf were they thinking? "apps are hot, lets make our OS like an app. durrrrrr it will sell like hotcakes

-- lol who saw that coming?

--M$ does 1 thing well

--and then they spend all their money, time & resources

--failing at everything else 

I'm also scared of walking around with a $1000 device on me. Price cut price cut price cut!

I wanted one so bad, but when I went to the mall to the Microsoft store, they told me they ran out. How the EFF do they have 3 million units floating around, minus 400,000 only- and not have any in stock at the dang Microsoft store?

Don't get me wrong, I think the Microsoft Surface Pro is really an awesome thing. It's just a matter of time before I try again.

Sorry for the noob question, but can surface pro handle dota 2 through steam??

Surface RT thats great

They should call it the MS "You've Never Heard Of It," and try and appeal to the dumb hipsters who buy new Apple products because they add a feature something else already does.

Apple = iTunes, no MP3 sharing with friends
Microsoft = Torrents, MP3 sharing with friends, etc

It'll be 400,001 in a few weeks when I get my 128GB Surface Pro.

So it has already out-sold the Wii U? {grinning, ducking, running}

Most of it has come down to pricing for the Surface Tablets being too high and initially limiting it's distribution when the Surface RT came out . There were a great number of consumers that were interested in the Surface originally, myself  included.  The fact is the Surface isn't the iPad ---I like that. MS shouldn't look at the Surface as competing with the iPad on a price level initially but Android tablets.  Windows 8 tablets just don't have the apps or performance of the Android tablets or iPad yet. I own an Android tablet as well as I've owned various Apple products and I can say that there hasn't been anything to show on the Surface that says it can compete app wise to most consumers. The concept that it can do PC tasks is nice but most people don't expect that level of performance out of tablets unless one over-hypes it as MS has done. The truth is the technology isn't there just yet power consumption wise to do major task for hours on tablets and keep them slim, but light PC tasks, like web surfing, word processing, and light gaming, etc. are possible.  I haven't even seen any games on a Surface tablet that rivals the best looking ones I have on my Android tablet/phone or had on my earlier iPhone. I've tried the Surface and love it but it leaves a great deal of questions MS needs to answer to get consumers more hyped about it.  It can't let other tablet manufacturer's determine it's pricing if it wants to play with the big boys tech wise. I have a feeling if it does Windows 8 tablets will be duds just like most Windows 7 tablets were with the every day consumer.

I hope they cut the price (by quite a bit).

the real market for touch pc's are in wireless touch monitors for half the price and three times the power plus probably 4 times the battery life..what a bunch of retards

the ONLY thing that microsoft has done better when trying to mimic something that apples done are consoles..and even then it broke half the time. lol even windows is only popular because its cheap..not because its better

yeah...maybe its because the RT is a worthless ARM based POS with no apps and the PRO is an overpriced touchscreen laptop that can't sit on your lap properly with that stupid kickstand..."but the pc's internals are in the monitor!!!! and the keyboard is detachable!!!" that and it runs windows 8

Yeah, for the same reason  nobodies going to go into a 5 star restaurant and order McDonald's.

MS has been making some real big mistakes as of late, as if they don't know where their at in the market.

I'm glad Microsoft at least sees that their marketing of this has sucked hardcore.

The Surface Pro is really incredible but the fact that I can do all my work on it, browse/watch movies/take pics/social media, download apps, and play games like WoW and StarCraft 2 simply cannot come across with another "dance-a-thon" like commercial....

I understand advertising Surface RT like that but Surface Pro is a whole other ballgame and sticking to the same kind of ad campaign really limits your message to the consumer.

It's one of the few times where I think Microsoft actually has something great but they just don't know how to tell people that...

As a home user PC tech... I hope this fails, it looks like a major pain to work on... Oh wait, you probably can't even work on it b/c it's all soldered on and clamped up like a tank.  So, if one bit, a single transistor of memory goes bad, your entire device just went bad.  I really hope ppl wake up and realize what a rip off tablets are compared to desktops or modular laptops that have parts that can be replaced....

IMHO, Windows RT shouldn't even have been an idea to begin with. Windows 8 was designed to work on desktops, laptops, and tablets to create a cohesive ecosystem in conjunction with Windows Phone 8. The Surface Pro tablets are the only tablets I would even consider purchasing, but they come with the full blown OS, where you have the choice to use the "immersive UI" as they call it now or the Windows 7 like Desktop environment. They seem more productive and feel less like giant phones and/or toys. That's how I see the iPad and Android tablets, really.

Sigh... so microsoft has gone out of its way to hammer windows 8 into a touch screen system to work with its windows surface, even though it runs RT, they then by doing this annoy a chunk of the desktop users and don't even sell enough systems....Slow clap (and its a mocking clap! not to be confused with a 80's build up clap.)

MS problem is that for one of the largest tech companies and oldest around, these guys have yet to build an OS that isn't more bloated than it's predecessor, each OS seemingly gets larger than the last. Holy smokes why is it you have only a 1/3rd of your HDD left on a windows 8 surface pro...seriously? MS needs to rebuild their portable OS to something that is lightweight and comes with useful core applications and add-on apps for everything else. Lose the weird Glee inspired commercials as well, this is not a commercial for a toy for 10 year olds.

they should show off that it an in fact play most pc games.  I love my pro and been playing a lot of sim city on it,

Hey ms stop trying to be like apple.  Didn't you learn from your zune experience.

Yea step up the marketing....more commercials with college idiots dance clicking magnets together. Dumbasses.

This is more geared to go against ultrabooks, that's why it's not doing so well against tablets....

Love my nexus 4 and 7 :D working on 10 :D

Are we really surprised? A grand for a tablet PC that doesn't excel in any department other than portability will not do well in sales. Grnnted it is a full version of Win8 as opposed to iOS on an iPad, the fact that the pricing is even more obnoxious than Apple's is enough to raise flags. Get yourself a Galaxy Tab or an iPad for a third of the price.

Hopefully this new marketing plan doesn't involve showing a bunch of people jumping around like assholes. God I hate those commercials.

Microsoft is such lumbering, bloated behemoth that has become so horribly mismanaged. They haven't "innovated" in years. All they do is see a market, throw money at it and hope that they will somehow take it over.

They first need to work on their PR, because it hasn't occurred to them that people are still keen on the notion that Microsoft's products are unreliable.