The price cut in Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet would apply in several countries, but not in the UK.
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Japanese insurance company moves 30,000 PCs to Windows 8 tablets
Meiji Yasuda, Fujitsu and Microsoft Japan would all team up to upgrade 30,000 Windows XP computers to tablets running Windows 8 operating system.
Microsoft's Windows Phone boosts its smartphone market share
Microsoft's Windows Phone boosted its smartphone market share from 3% to 4% allowing it to take the third highest position in the market.
Android smartphones continue to reign as iPhone, BlackBerry plunge
Android-powered smartphones continued to reign with its growing market share while iPhone and BlackBerry's sales plunged in the second quarter.
Apple gains second place and nearly a third of the market
Analysts said there's nothing wrong with Apple grabbing the silver medal since it also took a third of the global market share.
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Microsoft cut the Surface pro tablet's price by US$100 after the tech giant revealed that marketing the tablet cost more than the earnings it brought in.
Windows 8 was still behind Windows 7 because adapting to new operating system would cost corporation a lot of time.
Microsoft expressed its concern regarding the "Spying on Kiwis" Bill during a committee meet last Thursday.
The tech titan was forced to rename its "SkyDrive" cloud service after losing a court battle in the United Kingdom.
Microsoft and Steve Sinofsky's entered into a "non-disparage" agreement. Steeve Sinofsky, a former chief of Windows, entered into a "non-disparage" agreement with Microsoft.
Microsoft revealed that it earned US$835 million from Surface tablets since the products' debut last fall.
Microsoft Corp. specified that the Surface tablets were the reason its total production expenses increased.
Microsoft Windows 8 and Surface RT tablets were lagging behind competitors. Windows 8, the operating system Microsoft designed for touch PCs, was still finding it hard to capture a sizeable audience.
Analysts said that Microsoft's opportunity lies in the high-end market of tablets and PCs hence, it should focus there.
