On Thursday, Microsoft has released its report on sales from its Windows division with a 33 percent drop in the third quarter. Despite this bad news, the software maker giant’s pre-sales of Windows 8 reported to have nearly $800 million, which is forty percent higher compared to the pre-sales for the previous operating system Windows 7.
The overall profits of Microsoft for its fiscal first quarter was recorded as $16.01 billion, which is down by 7.8 percent compared to last year’s first quarter. The earnings per share was down to 7.9 percent at 63 cents while net income was at . . . → Read More: Windows 8 pre-sales figures show high revenues, Microsoft
Windows 8 and Surface not selling, Samsung Exec says
Windows 8 and the Surface are not of great deals.
Samsung’s president of its memory-chip division tells that the demand for Surface is not good and Windows 8 is no better compared to Vista.
This statement seems to describe the vague panic building up amongst tech companies. The latest little harsh comments made by Samsung’s memory-chip division president Jun Dong-Soo has quite lit up the fire among tech giants.
Although Dong-Soo was quoted of saying that the new operating system of Microsoft is good, he still thinks that the Vista platform is better. With this, analysts and experts believe that . . . → Read More: Windows 8 and Surface not selling, Samsung Exec says