
Advance sales booking?
Are MS booking sales in advance? Title and first para have revenue figures for Q1 2022, which normally doesn't finish for another five and a bit months.
Even a "stronger than expected" PC market with unprecedented demand from homebound workers couldn't lift Surface revenues in Microsoft's first quarter for fiscal 2022 - in an otherwise stellar quarter for the firm. Windows OEM revenue increased by 10 per cent – driven, as CFO Amy Hood said in an analysts' call, "by a stronger …
They are nice, premium quality devices, but always struck me as missing a big enough target market.
Development work - clearly not aimed at that with the trendy but dysfunctional half-height arrow keys and lack of # key etc.
Professional multimedia - screen's too small
Casual touchscreen/multimedia use - just get a much cheaper Android tablet
Macbook crowd - already have Macbooks, not interested
As an MS-only member of the first category I wanted one until seeing the keyboard and cost - ended up getting a PCSpecialist laptop with full keyboard and normal size keys (very difficult to find these days) for 1/3 the price.
claim that "Windows 11 is also the most open platform."
Gaslighting seems to be quite popular communication strategy these days. It's quite effective - most people don't know what "open platform" means, but it sounds cool. Who cares it is a lie. You can always call anyone who will try to point it out a conspiracy theorist.
"Open platform" is one of the "Open to interpretation" class of statement. It has no authoritative definition* that couldn't be refuted other by something diametrically opposed ( and proven to be which would also be a matter of interpretation). And further "The most open platform" is an unquantifiable statement.
aka "Weasel words",
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*Wikipaedia
In computing, an open platform describes a software system which is based on open standards, such as published and fully documented external application programming interfaces (API) that allow using the software to function in other ways than the original programmer intended, without requiring modification of the source code.