Microsoft Slashes Prices On Surface 330
McGruber writes "Thursday, The Verge broke the news that Microsoft was slashing the price of its tablets — the price of the 32-gig Surface RT plummeted by 42%! Staples, TigerDirect and many other retailers are already selling the tablets at the lowered prices. I wonder what Microsoft will do for customers who purchased a tablet right before the price drop?"
Still overpriced (Score:5, Funny)
It's a first-gen hardware product from Microsoft, they should have to pay you for the headaches you're inevitably going to have
Re:Price Adjustment (Score:5, Funny)
"I wonder what Microsoft will do for customers who purchased a tablet right before the price drop?"
Salute them as 'early adopters' and congratulate them for getting in early to avoid the rush.
Re:They are in such demand (Score:5, Funny)
Well, I want coke to cost 1 euro per gram, also retail Windows 8 should cost 10 euros and Windows Server 2012 Datacenter would cost 80 euros at most (granting you a license to install on 15 physical machines).
That's not possible yet, so an option is to get drunk with red wine and use linux.
Re:Awesome! (Score:4, Funny)
That's a fantastic deal, especially now that RT devices come with Outlook. I need to pick one of these up.
But... didn't the company issue you one?
Re:Linux? (Score:3, Funny)
Help me I am trying to swap my Ford engine for a Chevy and it won't fit!
How about a free brown Zune? (Score:5, Funny)
"I wonder what Microsoft will do for customers who purchased a tablet right before the price drop?"
Microsoft has great products they can use to compensate those early adopters.
How about a brown Zune?
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zune#Sales)
Or maybe a WebTV?
(http://slashdot.org/story/13/07/07/1224244/microsoft-says-goodbye-to-webtvmsn-tv)
Well Zune Pass has got to work (ForSure)!
Re:Translation: (Score:0, Funny)
They cost $50 to make, and it's another $300 for the Windows licence.
Re:Price Adjustment (Score:4, Funny)
> Will this mean Windows 9 will be part of the WIndows 7 lineage and not WIndows 8/Windows mobile?
We can only dream. Hey, if Intel could admit Pentium 4 was a horrible mistake, Microsoft can do the same with Metro.
One of my coworkers put it well... Microsoft has turned so many people so vehemently against Metro by virtue of fucking up Windows 8 in its name, if you forced him to choose between:
a) walking around the mall wearing a leather jockstrap and high heels, or
b) being seen at DefCon or BlackHat using a Surface tablet,
he'd sigh, put on the leather jockstrap, and try to not break his neck walking in heels... because he values his good name and reputation too much to be seen in public with something as scorned and taboo as a WindowsRT tablet.
Re:Price Adjustment (Score:5, Funny)
What are you saying you heretic!
Bill says that in order to do serious Enterprise work, you need a stylus, a keyboard and Microsoft Office. The Surface RT has all three [well, you need to spring for the keyboard and stylus, but oh, that satisfying 'click' when you attach the keyboard to the Surface]!
And Bill knows!