{"id":26313,"date":"2012-11-12T17:34:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T15:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=26313"},"modified":"2012-11-12T17:38:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T15:38:10","slug":"microsoft-surfaces-modest-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/26313\/microsoft-surfaces-modest-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Surface’s “modest” start"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft Corp’s new Surface tablet – its challenger to Apple’s iPad – had a “modest” start to sales because of limited availability, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told French daily Le Parisien.<\/p>\n

The world’s largest software company put the Surface tablet center stage at its Windows 8 launch event last month in its fightback against Apple and Google in the exploding mobile computing market.<\/p>\n

“We’ve had a modest start because Surface is only available on our online retail sites and a few Microsoft stores in the United States,” Ballmer was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, 4 million upgrades to Windows 8 were sold in the three days following the system’s launch, Ballmer added.<\/p>\n

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