Latest tablet or hybrid or water you want to call it, Microsoft calls it Surface Pro3, is going to be on sale in 25 more countries by August 28. Device has been in pre-order for same time in these countries that include China, UK and most of Europe. Still to slow for the company that wants to sell hardware world wide, devices should be on the market sooner, and in a lot more countries.
Surface Pro 3 has been for sale in just a few countries, but it did receive all around god reviews. And what's more important people that bought the device are happy and usually have only positive things to say about the experience of using Surface Pro 3. OK, they been some keyboard issues but nothing major that would ruin the experience. Even the sales are better then with the previous models but that hasn't been officially confirmed.
However there is also a lot of bad news for the Surface department. Poor Microsoft just can't get it going as far as making profit goes. So far since Surface launched in 2012, the companies losses mount up to 1.7 billion dollars. Sure Microsoft had to invest a lot of money in production cost, they just started making hardware so you cant expect immediate results.
People at Microsoft understend that the market is very competitive and you have to sacrifice if you want to make it. Microsoft is no stranger to initial loss of money on their new project, Bing has been losing money for years and even Xbox was in losses all until Xbox 360 started to make actual profit in the gaming department.
How Steve Nadella will react to these numbers is still unknown, as he said the company will focus on services not so much on hardware. We hope that the Surface line doesn't get canceled or soled, because it is really a great product.
Source computerworld.
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