Why Microsoft could Sold only 1.4 Million Surface Tablets?

All technology companies are fighting to get high market share by introducing new tablets with advanced technology features. Today, market is highly profitable but a bit inflexible too in gaining market share. Question is that why Microsoft failed in gaining high market share even they introduced highly competitive surface tablets as compared to Apple’s and Samsung tablets.  Answering this question needs to evaluate everything about surface tablets from its launching to the selling points.

According to market analyst, the first problem with this failure was the launching time period of Microsoft Surface Tablet. Microsoft Surface Tablets are powered with Windows 8 and Window RT which were launched in the month of October 2012. According to analyst it was the worst time period for introducing any new thing in the market and hence consumers could not make them familiar to these windows.  Markets analysts noticed that operating Microsoft Surface Tablets requires an orientation or in other words it requires time to completely understand it because of its new Window versions as compared to other tablets already available in the market which are powered with Window 7.

Microsoft Surface Tablet is Microsoft’s first ever introduced Tablet in its history. Keyboard is also available as optional with Microsoft Surface Tablet.

Microsoft Surface Tablet is powered with any of above operating systems (Windows 8 or Window RT), consumers are not even much familiar with those windows and hence people fells difficulty in operating Surface Tablets as compared to Apple’s and Samsung’s Tablets which are powered with Windows 7. Another highly confidential report by BloomBerg said, Microsoft first tablets (Microsoft Surface Tablet) is failed in getting its desired goal in the market.

Sale of Microsoft Surface Tablet and their prices till the end of 2012

Microsoft Surface Tablet (Powered with Windows RT)

•        Price – ($499 for 32GB and $599 for 64GB )
•         Sold – 1 Million devices only

Microsoft Surface Pro Tablet (Powered with Windows 8)

•         Price – ($899 for 64GB and $ 999 for 128 GB)
•         Sold – approximately 4 million devices

Today Microsoft is continuously changing its products and features added. Currently Microsoft is working on making windows based tablets for competing tablets available in Android or iOS. Microsoft is working very hard to increase its market share in tablets competitions. Apple and Samsung are market leaders in the field of tablets and Microsoft is an emerging company in this field, hope for the best that entering of Microsoft in manufacturing tablets with its own operating system windows will be beneficial for consumers in quality and price reduction benefits.

Microsoft had sold a million Microsoft Surface Tablets till the end of last year. Market analysts are now predicting a high growth for Microsoft tablets in coming years with fastest markets share, IDC (a research company) reported.

Microsoft should overcome this problem in future in order to get highest attention of consumers in a widest but rigid market. It could be said that now tablets will be manufactured by many other companies for making tablets like Microsoft Surface Tablet. Microsoft has issued licenses to other companies for manufacturing of its operating system. Companies will definitely get benefit of this offer and will make tablets like Microsoft Surface Tablet.

Let’s see what's happening to Microsoft and its share in coming quarters and years. Stay connected with my blog and read latest information regarding Microsoft and its latest tablets.

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MS Office 365 plus 20GB SkyDrive storage free for Students

Great news for the students who has their (.edu) educational  e-mail address. Microsoft always cares for the students and possibly helps educational institutions. This time Microsoft is offering MS OFFICE 365 with 6 months free usage without charging a single penny from students. Not only this offer but, Microsoft is also giving students and additional advantage of having 20 GB storage space of Skydive free.

This offer is only for students, teachers and staff members of universities and colleges all over the world only.

 People other than students, tutors and staff members of universities and colleges have to pay US $ 79.99 for 4 year subscription of Microsoft Office 365. This is really a great news and a gift from Microsoft for vary beneficiaries.

Microsoft Office 365 application package includes following features;

•         Microsoft Word
•         Microsoft Power Point
•         Microsoft Excel
•         Microsoft Outlook
•        Microsoft Access
•         Microsoft Publisher
•         Microsoft One Note

Additional Advantages:

•          20 GB Free Space of Sky Drive
•          60 Minutes of Skype for calling internationally each month for 6 month subscription

If you are student having your educational email of .edu then you are most welcome by Microsoft to avail this offer. Initially students can get free subscription for 3 months only and if you share this offer on Social Networking Site Facebook via its sharing button then you will be emailed with greatings that you have awarded additional 3 months subscription free of using Microsoft Office 365 with an extra advantage of 20 GB space of Sky Drive and 60 international calling minutes of Skype free per month. (Nromally Sky Drive subscribers can have only 7 GB of free space).

This promotion of Microsoft Office 365 is for limited time period. As and when it ends up, the application of Microsoft Office 365 will be in read only mode and the storage of Sky Drive will cut down to previous free space of 7 GB only (if anyone have files storage more than 7 GB then they will be mailed to upgrade for premium account).

Students, faculty members and educational staffs should really thanks to Microsoft for such a great offer of Microsoft Office 365 6 months free subscription plus 20 GB Sky Drive space. On the other hand, Microsoft doesn’t want to disappoint people other than students. So, if you are not a students, teacher or staff member of any educational institution, don’t be disappoint with Microsoft because Microsoft has offered Home Premium Microsoft Office 365 subscription free of cost for 1 month only. So, hurry up guys and get advantage if the offer as soon as possible.

Download Office 365 Here

https://www.officeforstudents.com/default.aspx#main

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China is officially warned by US for its cybercrimes

US is now taking serious steps against cybercrimes of China and has officially warned Chinese Government on their repeatedly cyber attacks on US based website.

From the starting of new year 2013 many United States based famous companies’ website (including Facebook, Twitter, Apple, several Newspapers etc) were hacked through using different sources like malware, Trojan horses, virus or worms. Read my earlier article about the Chinese cyber attacks on different US based companies by a private US cyber security company “Mandiant”. Mandiant report showed that more than 150 US companies and famous institutions/organizations including Banks were hacked and data was theft secretly.

After facing several cyber attacks and had found their bases in China, US seems very serious towards this issue. A high senior White House official today warned china for its cyber crimes and said this is a new challenge for United States of America and this should be eliminated by talking to China. US official forces Chinese government to take necessary actions eliminating cyber attacks originated from China otherwise, it could harm US-China relations. Moreover, Tom Donilon (US security official) forced China to start serious talks with US about this issue.

On the other hand, Chinese government in their response to talks said that China is not behind those cyber attacks and questioned the validity and proof about the reports of Mandiant (Publicly Cyber Security Company of US). Mr. Hua Chunying (Spokesperson of Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs) said, China is always ready to talks but we strongly rejects and persisted that China is behind any attacks. He further said that, China believed in mutual respect and trust with rest of the world and we appreciate meaningful talks on any international platform or any country even US for cyber security issues and to maintain peace.

United States top officials are continuously blaming China over cyber attacks and hacking indirectly on different forums but they don’t blame China directly. Today US have officially forces China to overcome this issue and stop cyber crimes against US. Now information technology officials are in a hope that forcing China will be a good sign for betterment.

A high class security official of US said, we are aware of these attacks and we want to let know China about this and this is not a bad thing. Mandiant report was not published by government rather it came from a private organization that helped government to think seriously and hence, today government has officially forced china to talk on this issue.

Now, we can hope for the best and I am sure talking with China will really gives a good result. It might help in minimizing cyber attacks. Attacking companies and personal computers of different companies is a crime and this issue should be settled by other countries of the world before they got attacked. So be ready and make people ready to counter any possible attacks.

Keep visiting my blog for more latest updates about cyber attacks and the attackers.

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Central Bank of Australia attacked by Unknown hackers

Australian Newspapers and television channels reported today that Australian central bank of reserve has been attacked again and again by some anonymous hackers and data had been lost. On the other hand, Australian Central Bank officials told to the press that Bank was attacked with a cyber attack but not data is theft and none of our system is affected.

Australian newspapers published report about this cyber attack that, the bank is continuously attacked since November 16, 17 to present. Several times Banks computers and systems are hacked and compromised. It might be possible that secret data has been theft from bank’s system. Report says that, Bank was attacked with a malware of malicious software/application attached with an e-mail sent to various members of bank from lower management to middle.

This report was published today on 11 March 2013. Report told that bank is attacked several times and hackers got success many times in bypassing banks official database.

Australian Central Bank in response to the report published in newspapers today told that, Central Bank has its own widespread security measures operational that has made inaccessible these cyber attacks. Our security system is strict and it captured the virus spreading in our system. In short, bank strongly denied that any of its system compromised in recent attacks or any kind of data theft.

In today’s world of information technology, it’s common to attack a government of business websites in any country of the world by some hackers. Many of the countries are blaming that Chinese hackers are behind those attacks but on the other hand China strongly denied this and said that it might be possible that US hackers are doing so.

Australian Central Bank told in a press release today that, the bank has contacted Australian security agencies and Defense officials to make sure the security of its computers and softwares from any possible cyber attacks.

According to the report, this cyber attack was initiated with sending an email with the subject as “Strategic Planning Financial year 2012” and was sent to its lower management to the middle management. Report told that email was sent to many of its staff members but, only 6 of them were affected with it by opening the file which was a compressed file containing a malware of virus. The e mail was sent from anonymous account but was supposed to come from a senior official.

Report further stated the red alarm that it might be possible that Australian Central Bank’s assets and secret information system database patched by hackers and information could be lost.

After the recent attack, Central bank of Australia had taken this as a serious issue and had provided its staff members updated antivirus program that could automatically block those e-mails and web links that might be equipped with malware, virus or worms.

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Nokia Cancelled decision of updating Lumia phones OS

Two months ago Nokia Corporation announced that they will update Windows 7.8 in its most popular Lumia phones Lumia 510, Lumia 610, Lumia 710, Lumia 800 and Lumia 900. Now Nokia officially cancelled its decision through its Twitter account that is not longer going to update its Lumia phones. Market analyst are thinking why Nokia took that decision, possibly because of some complains from its customers that after applying change in Lumia phones its battery life reduces and will die soon as compared with current condition.

Market analyst are also saying that Nokia cancelled its decision of updating Lumia phone operating system because some of its customers were asking Nokia for battery change as they felt some faults in battery after updating Lumia Operating System i.e. Window 7.8.

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Indus Motor Company launched SUV Fortuner in Pakistan

IMC has recently launched a new sports vehicle named as “Fortuner” in Pakistan. Indus Motor Company is continuously developing auto industry of Pakistan by introducing new advanced technology in automobiles. Indus Motor Company’s new SUV product “Fortuner” is a family product of famous brand Toyota.

Indus Motor Company (IMC) CEO is Mr. Parvaiz Ghias. He said that we are working very hard to change the shape of Pakistan local industry with new technology and quality products. He further said that,   we highly appreciate our customers’ needs and wants and the value they give to Toyota.

IMC’s Fortuner is at least 40% cheaper as compared to other imported models and it’s offering a wonderful safety functions, making driving a passion, Mr. Parvaiz Ghias Chief Executive Officer IMC said. Fortuner has some other state of the art technology functions like ABS (Anti Brake System), 7 seats belts, 7 inch touch screen entertainment tackle, 6 advanced speakers for listening songs or watching movies, hand free Bluetooth for calling and SRS Air-Bags.

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ASUS Transformer Desktop/Tablet PC powered with Windows 8 and Android both

 One of world most famous information technology company ASUS has launched its transformer AiO. AiO means all in one.  This state of the art transformer is supported with 2 operating systems i.e. Widows 8 (Microsoft) and Android (Google) with a multi hardware facility.

Asus Transformer AiO usually runs Windows 8 while using it on wharf or dock but, when you take it out of its dock then it automatically turns to Android operating system. Hence, it’s also called a Desktop/Tablet Computer.

Some Important specifications of Asus Transformer AiO are as follows;

·         It has 18.4 inch high definition display screen.

·         Its supports multi touching display of 10p

• ·         Asus Transformer (Windows) has modern Intel Dual core processor i5-3350P processor
• ·         Asus Transformer AiO (Android) is powered with NDVIDIA Tetra 3 quad core processor/
• ·         Asus Transformer AiO has 80 GB DDR-RAM
• ·         Asus Transformer AiO has graphic supports by 2GB NVIDIA Enforce GT 739M
• ·         Asus Transformer AiO has re-writable DVD drive.
• ·         Asus Transformer AiO supports high definition display up to 1 TB HDD.
• ·        Asus Transformer AiO (with Android) has its own hardware and software installed with 32 GB of 
•       storage facility and 2 GB DDR RAM.
• ·         Asus Transformer AiO can support 4 USB ports at a time with high speed and safety.
• ·         Asus Transformer AiO has extra facilities of Wi-Fi, Internet and Bluetooth 4.0
• ·         Using it in tablet mode, Asus Transformer AiO has its own battery of 38 WH Li-ion.

In short, ASUS is really challenging market leaders. ASUS has offered this Desktop PC/Tablet with multi functions. Asus Transformer AiO can be used in a desktop mode like a normal PC or you can take it out of its dock and use it like a tablet.

According to the officials of ASUS, its new desktop/tablet PC “Asus Transformer” AiO (Desktop/Tablet) will be soon available in the markets of United States of America with an amount of $1299. Let’s see how Asus Transformer is getting attention of desktop/tablet lovers. Stay connected and read my further articles about ASUS and its new products.

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