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Rafux on 29 October 2012

The Pro is my next laptop/tablet, that thing is going to be huge.



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Slimebeast on 29 October 2012
man-bear-pig said:
Slimebeast said:
Comments from a very select few who don't reflect the mass market.

selnor, you are trying your best at hyping this device but 6 months from now no one here on VGC will be talking about it because it's declared dead by then with less than 5% marketshare.


Ofcourse this DEVICE will have less than 5% marketshare, but Windows 8 tablets AS A WHOLE will be huge, and Microsoft will probably overtake Android in the tablet market in the not-too-distant future. The Pro will be huge...

No, I mean all Windows Surface based tablets combined will have less than 5% marketshare in 2013.

Nothing, absolutely nothing points to Windows tablets becoming huge.



selnor on 29 October 2012
Slimebeast said:
man-bear-pig said:
Slimebeast said:
Comments from a very select few who don't reflect the mass market.

selnor, you are trying your best at hyping this device but 6 months from now no one here on VGC will be talking about it because it's declared dead by then with less than 5% marketshare.


Ofcourse this DEVICE will have less than 5% marketshare, but Windows 8 tablets AS A WHOLE will be huge, and Microsoft will probably overtake Android in the tablet market in the not-too-distant future. The Pro will be huge...

No, I mean all Windows Surface based tablets combined will have less than 5% marketshare in 2013.


I think Surface Pro will have someting to say about that. Basically the only tablet which can fully function with any business.



hunter_alien on 29 October 2012

Yeah right... Cant wait to dig up this thread in a year and see how many posters will eat crow



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selnor on 29 October 2012
hunter_alien said:
Yeah right... Cant wait to dig up this thread in a year and see how many posters will eat crow

Me too. Ive saved 3 different threads ready for Windows 8 tablet marketshare for next Q3. Its gonna be so epic.



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Slimebeast on 29 October 2012
selnor said:
Slimebeast said:
man-bear-pig said:
Slimebeast said:
Comments from a very select few who don't reflect the mass market.

selnor, you are trying your best at hyping this device but 6 months from now no one here on VGC will be talking about it because it's declared dead by then with less than 5% marketshare.


Ofcourse this DEVICE will have less than 5% marketshare, but Windows 8 tablets AS A WHOLE will be huge, and Microsoft will probably overtake Android in the tablet market in the not-too-distant future. The Pro will be huge...

No, I mean all Windows Surface based tablets combined will have less than 5% marketshare in 2013.


I think Surface Pro will have someting to say about that. Basically the only tablet which can fully function with any business.

A few million Pro tablets might sell to businesses next year but that's still not enough to become relevant or earn more than a measly 5% when ipad and Android commands 45% respectively.



selnor on 29 October 2012
Slimebeast said:
selnor said:
Slimebeast said:
man-bear-pig said:
Slimebeast said:
Comments from a very select few who don't reflect the mass market.

selnor, you are trying your best at hyping this device but 6 months from now no one here on VGC will be talking about it because it's declared dead by then with less than 5% marketshare.


Ofcourse this DEVICE will have less than 5% marketshare, but Windows 8 tablets AS A WHOLE will be huge, and Microsoft will probably overtake Android in the tablet market in the not-too-distant future. The Pro will be huge...

No, I mean all Windows Surface based tablets combined will have less than 5% marketshare in 2013.


I think Surface Pro will have someting to say about that. Basically the only tablet which can fully function with any business.

A few million Pro tablets might sell to businesses next year but that's still not enough to become relevant or earn more than a measly 5% when ipad and Android commands 45% respectively.

We will see in a years time. Apple and Android will not have that marketshare next year guaranteed. Hell like I said already Microsoft have more partners than Google for their OS on Tablets.



sales2099 on 29 October 2012
Slimebeast said:
Comments from a very select few who don't reflect the mass market.

selnor, you are trying your best at hyping this device but 6 months from now no one here on VGC will be talking about it because it's declared dead by then with less than 5% marketshare.

Seems overly negative for speculation. Surely MS is doing better then most other non-Apple/Samsung forays into tablet market



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kitler53 on 29 October 2012
Slimebeast said:
selnor said:
Slimebeast said:
man-bear-pig said:
Slimebeast said:
Comments from a very select few who don't reflect the mass market.

selnor, you are trying your best at hyping this device but 6 months from now no one here on VGC will be talking about it because it's declared dead by then with less than 5% marketshare.


Ofcourse this DEVICE will have less than 5% marketshare, but Windows 8 tablets AS A WHOLE will be huge, and Microsoft will probably overtake Android in the tablet market in the not-too-distant future. The Pro will be huge...

No, I mean all Windows Surface based tablets combined will have less than 5% marketshare in 2013.


I think Surface Pro will have someting to say about that. Basically the only tablet which can fully function with any business.

A few million Pro tablets might sell to businesses next year but that's still not enough to become relevant or earn more than a measly 5% when ipad and Android commands 45% respectively.

i'm more or less with you slime,  from a business man perspective it will take more than a year for my company to even green light the surface as an acceptable device from our IT.    then as far as window 8, my dev team is very negative on it...probably stems  from the re-work that has to be done for one of our applications due to MS dropping silverlight.  our execs green lit ipad compatability -- i don't see that changing due to surface.

5% might be low but at least from where i'm sitting all i hear is negitive remarks.



ArnoldRimmer on 29 October 2012

May I suggest you start a new thread for every single positive article/news about just any product that is somehow related to Microsoft.
Oh wait, you're already doing that.

I wonder how you manage to find these positive articles though. When I quickly googled for early adopters reviews, all I came across were articles like "Why I'm returning my Surface RT" ( http://ozar.me/2012/10/why-im-returning-my-microsoft-surface-rt/ ), "Three days in the life of a once and former Microsoft Surface RT user" ( http://www.zdnet.com/three-days-in-the-life-of-a-once-and-former-microsoft-surface-rt-user-7000006421/ ).