HP still dominates as Windows PC OEM, Surface Pro 4 most popular from Microsoft

Meanwhile, the Surface Pro (2017) is getting adopted at a nice clip while the Surface Laptop is just starting to creak through the floorboards.

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Microsoft event for educators on May 2 likely brings Windows Cloud

Microsoft is said to be combating Google's Chromebook that's been invading classrooms with a cheaper Windows experience that can be upgraded.

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Today’s Microsoft Store Mac trade-in offer for Surface never existed

This trade-in offer either went too well or extremely, extremely wrong. Maybe it shouldn’t have been offered at all. Maybe it wasn’t?The Microsoft Store decided to give Macbook Air or Macbook Pro owners up to $650 for a trade-in toward any Surface device in stock and online starting today. The way it was supposed to go was that customers would go through an online appraisal ...

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Rumor: No Surface Book 2 or Pro 5 coming this fall, no Surface Phone… ever?

With Samsung, Apple and LG’s big (-gest) fall product announcements now officially in the rearview mirror, what’s there really to look forward to for hardcore tech geeks in the coming months?An October event dedicated to new iPad and

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Microsoft Surface 3 is on its way out, no replacement confirmed just yet

Microsoft still has some soul-searching to do before deciding what’s next in the hardware-manufacturing field, with Lumia phones likely on the verge of extinction, but the Surface lineup almost guaranteed for an expansion… eventually.Unless the fabled Surface Phone is due out as a replacement of sorts for the entry-level Atom-based Surface tablet family. That makes little to no sense, since we’re talking completely ...

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Microsoft Surface 3 now starts at $385 after $115 discount on Amazon

It’s odd, but despite there being superior Pro 3 and Pro 4 configurations around, we haven’t seen a lot of solid deals offered on the non-Pro Surface 3 convertible Windows 10 tablet lately. Or maybe we haven’t paid close enough attention, since the 2-in-1 device is rather old and lackluster by 2016 computing standards.Whatever the case, the Microsoft Surface 3 ...

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128GB Surface 3 gets $150 discount at Best Buy, Microsoft

When the 64GB versions of a device cost more than a 128GB version, you know there’s something good going on. But as we have the Surface Pro 4 and the Surface Book out right now and presumably another consumer-grade Surface convertible tablet on the way, we may be looking at what we call “expensive model housecleaning.”Both SKUs of the 128GB Surface 3 (with 4GB RAM) have had their prices cut by $150, ...

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Microsoft Surface 3 (non-Pro) bundled with free Type Cover for limited time in the US

Microsoft has been running various promotions in the past couple of months to try to keep the aging Surface 3 and Surface Pro 3 in the limelight after Pro 4 and Surface Book’s glitzy introductions, the latest of which is unfortunately restricted to an American ...

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7,500 Surface 3s soar to the skies with SkyWest, ExpressJet AirLines

Microsoft has been eating up some good enterprise deals lately, including 30,000 Windows Phones for the New York Police Department. Satya Nadella’s Nokia impairment manifesto mentioned a refocusing of its target demos. While superficially similar to the audiences its always targeted, Redmond has really taken a rejiggering towards getting businesses on-board with its mobile hardware. Now, SkyWest Inc. is taking ...

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Unlocked Surface 3 LTE edition still coming – just a little later than planned

Has it really been five months already since Microsoft introduced the Surface 3, its latest Surface tablet and the first non-Pro model to run a full version of Windows? After initial sales of the WiFi version of the tablet began back in May, carriers got sales started of the 4G-connected version this summer. But for all those options shoppers had access to, one was still missing: the unlocked, carrier-free edition of the LTE Surface ...

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Microsoft already including Windows 10 on its own Surface products

Even though Microsoft has been kind of infamous for its timing at launching products, this is clearly a new company. Redmond was able to deliver its Windows 10 promise for computers, and so far stats seem positive. If you’re in the market for a product right now, it seems you won’t even need to upgrade.Microsoft has decided to already sell its Surface 3 and

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Surface 3 with LTE hits AT&T later this week

Microsoft helped usher-in spring this year with the launch of a new tablet, adding to its Surface line with the introduction of the Surface 3, the first non-Pro Surface to run a full version of Windows (and enjoy the same broad software support) and avoid all those RT shenanigans. And while the Surface 3 started hitting stores in early May, initial availability was only for the tablet’s WiFi-only option. LTE would be on the way eventually, and today we get word of the first US carrier to offer just such ...

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