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Microsoft Surface blamed for NFL football playoffs meltdown
ericthehalfbee said:tezgno said:While I can understand bashing the competition... unfortunately, this issue can't be blamed on the Microsoft Surface (or Microsoft at all). As has been reported on (and confirmed by) the NFL before, the issue has nothing to do with the Surface. Rather, it's the NFL's servers and application that went down (hence why it goes down across multiple teams at the same time). The tablet runs an application that connects to NFL servers and pulls in data including pictures, replay information, etc. It is that system that has been going down recently. To be honest, while Microsoft has paid a large sum of money for their tablets to be shown and used, the entire process is technically platform agnostic. They can run the application on anything. Unfortunately, it wouldn't matter which tablet they chose in these cases... if their servers are down, then there is nothing that can be done.
Have you seen ANY of the Surface NFL ads? I don't recall EVER seeing any mention of servers or backend systems. The Surface tablet is front & centre in all of them. Nobody cares about where the problem is - they only remember seeing those tablets in the bright blue cases.
ON another note.....
Looks like two POS loser trolls ALREADY signed up with new accounts. Any predictions how many more will show up shilling for MS? -
Microsoft Surface blamed for NFL football playoffs meltdown
thompr said:tezgno said:While I can understand bashing the competition... unfortunately, this issue can't be blamed on the Microsoft Surface (or Microsoft at all). As has been reported on (and confirmed by) the NFL before, the issue has nothing to do with the Surface. Rather, it's the NFL's servers and application that went down (hence why it goes down across multiple teams at the same time)... -
Microsoft Surface blamed for NFL football playoffs meltdown
drkrleitch said:The Surface is doing quite well (http://www.winbeta.org/news/microsoft-beats-apple-online-tablet-sales). It was a network failure. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/reason-microsoft-surface-tablet-fail-nfl-game/story?id=36502282 -
Microsoft Surface blamed for NFL football playoffs meltdown
radarthekat said:Badstroller said:
Mmmm yes, it's failing so badly that Apple decided that it needed to make a "Pro" version of the iPad to "compete" with it. I will not argue the sales or revenue numbers. I admit that Apple is the unopposed king as far as raw revenue and margin go. However, the Surface line has done a lot to reinvigorate the Windows OEM landscape. Overall build quality has drastically increased in the high end windows space over the last few years in response to MS actually investing time and effort into showing what an innovative and premium Windows experience can be. My college campus is filled with 2 in 1 touchscreen Windows laptops and tablets. Surface may not move the same numbers as MacBook and iPad, but you're forgetting that there is an entire Windows ecosystem out there to choose from, you aren't limited to the five or 6 offerings that Apple has to offer. MS and Apple have strikingly different business models and to judge the success of any given product line by using the same criteria as the other is absolute lunacy. -
Microsoft Surface blamed for NFL football playoffs meltdown
genovelle said:The 6 surface owners clearly showed up on this site to come to their defense. Selling like hotcakes?! -
Microsoft Surface blamed for NFL football playoffs meltdown
slurpy said:Badstroller said:"Struggling product" Who wrote this? Surface products are selling like hotcakes. Your example of how Surface failed was Surface RT. Yes, RT was an objective failure, however the x86 implementations of Surface have been resounding commercial successes. The fact that you use this as an example shows that you are either hideously biased, or don't know what you're writing about. Plus you're going to quote NFL players and coaches on technology issues? What do they know? If it's a network or server issue the same thing would happen with any device. If you're not going to be objective or knowledgeable, don't be a journalist.
Do you have a SHRED of evidence for anything you've just said? Selling like hotcakes you say? Ok, provide us some sales figures for this "resounding commercial success". Cause I haven't seen any. I know you're a microsoft shill, but stop being full of shit. -
Microsoft Surface blamed for NFL football playoffs meltdown
"Struggling product" Who wrote this? Surface products are selling like hotcakes. Your example of how Surface failed was Surface RT. Yes, RT was an objective failure, however the x86 implementations of Surface have been resounding commercial successes. The fact that you use this as an example shows that you are either hideously biased, or don't know what you're writing about. Plus you're going to quote NFL players and coaches on technology issues? What do they know? If it's a network or server issue the same thing would happen with any device. If you're not going to be objective or knowledgeable, don't be a journalist.