We have known for months that a smaller Surface device was in the works, ready to go and Microsoft came very close to releasing it in May at the Surface NYC event. However, top Microsoft execs including Satya Nadella and Stephen Elop decided last minute to pull the plug on the device and launch only the Surface Pro 3. According to many reports, Microsoft has already manufactured a large quantity of these devices, but the company felt the time was not right to release this device to market.
A discarded Microsoft tablet surfaces and prompts the question: Is the Surface line-up of devices complete or do we still have something to look forward to, preferably in the affordable segment?
Remember the Surface Mini, a device that got axed at the last minute? Microsoft gave it a shout out in its earnings report today.
The company noted in its hardware section that its “[c]urrent year cost of revenue included Surface inventory adjustments resulting from our transition to newer generation devices and a decision to not ship a new form factor.” Ding.
Rumors, secrets, whispers, dreams, what would the day be without them? Today there have been a lot of interesting Rumors swirling about in the Windows Phone ether, so we thought we’d set a few of them straight.
To start with, there was a great swell of excitement when a Reddit post claimed to reveal the complete Change Log for the first update to Windows Phone 8.1. It was stuffed full of goodies, like interactive Tiles.
Sadly, it was all a fake.
