If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Some time ago, top executives at Microsoft (MSFT) realized the company needed to make ...
Ironically, this news came just a few days after the 11th anniversary of the launch of Microsoft's first Surface PC product, the Surface RT. That 10.6 tablet came with Microsoft's Windows RT OS ...
How could it have failed so badly? Having failed to gain traction in the tablet market, Microsoft has cut the price of its Surface RT tablet so low that the 10.6-inch device now costs nearly the ...
The Surface RT was one of these: while the hardware was at least as good if not better than Apple’s iPad, its ARM CPU and an ill-advised signed-apps-only policy meant the tablet couldn’t ...
See Surface versions. At Microsoft's Windows 8 tablet launch, both Intel and ARM models were offered. Intel tablets ran Windows 8, and ARM tablets ran Windows RT. Although RT was later dropped ...
It’s also worth noting that Microsoft is following Apple’s strategy and keeping the first-generation Surface RT tablet around as lower-cost compliments to the Surface 2 and the Surface Pro 2.
The Surface RT was one of these: while the hardware was at least as good if not better than Apple’s iPad, its ARM CPU and an ill-advised signed-apps-only policy meant the tablet couldn’t ...
Pre-installed on tablets, RT apps were available only from Microsoft's online Store. Introduced with Windows 8 in 2012, by 2015 there was no upgrade path for RT users (see "Why Two Tablet Versions ...