Microsoft’s Surface Faces Huge Headwinds
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) needs to build and sell its Surface tablet to “hedge against a declining PC market,” a reporter from ZDNet writes. The problem is that even if the Surface does well, sales will be dwarfed by those of…
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Nevertheless, ZDNet points to a research note by Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Holt as proof of Microsoft’s resolve:
Holt is expecting Microsoft’s Surface along with an army of tablet partners can give it 14 percent of the tablet market in 2013, up from 4 percent in 2012.
Fourteen percent will not get the job done.
Douglas A. McIntyre
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