Surface bulk buyers return plates Microsoft

Surface RT is not in great demand among buyers. Thus, analysts IDC found that Microsoft has shipped a total of 900 000 of its tablets. Moreover, the company from Redmond faced with the fact of mass return device buyers.

Experts from another company, IHS iSuppli, claim that Microsoft has shipped about 1,250,000 Surface RT. But to end users reached only from 680 000 to 750 000. The remaining plates are still gathering dust in warehouses of retailers, so the first quarter of the manufacturer made a small order for the production of these devices.

But it's much worse for Microsoft is that analysts say the high level of return Surface RT. And the main reason for this is not the gadget, and its operating system. Users unhappy interface Windows RT and the very limited number of available applications. Because of the very high percentage of returning American corporation was forced to allow the company store to accept Surface with already opened.

As disadvantages Surface RT also called lack of a standard e-mail client Outlook and compatibility with the familiar desktop Windows operating system software. Experts said a similar problem affected and some recently introduced Android-tablets.

The analysts point out that the iPad do not stay in stock and almost immediately sold them off. For comparison, in the last quarter Apple sold 22.9 million of its tablet, leaving other manufacturers only a small part of this market.