MICROSOFT SURFACE TABLET available in stores BEST BUY
Microsoft partners have enought to gloom: the software giant continues to expand access to their own devices in retail sales. Until recently, they were only sold through the Microsoft network or in the online stores of the company, but the situation is changing. Selling Surface RT 12th, took a major U.S. trade retail chain Staples. On the same day Microsoft Surface tablets appeared in the online store Best Buy.
On December 16, the device goes and retailers Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile.
Perhaps these new clearly hostile towards partners steps the company is taking the pressure pretty sluggish sales of its tablets. In mid-November, the head of Microsoft#39;s Steve Ballmer (Steve Ballmer) acknowledged that the start of sales of Surface was Skoromnov. But it was only a few weeks after the opening.
Analysts#39; estimates for sales Surface RT differ. Rhoda Alexander (Rhoda Alexander) of IHS believes that Microsoft will be able to sell up to 1.3 million tablets in the current quarter. Analysts at Detwiler Fenton expect that the numbers do not exceed one million units. Early next year, Microsoft should release a tablet Surface Pro, working on the basis of a full-fledged Windows 8.
