Microsoft Shipped 900,000 Floor Tablets, Claims IDC

Microsoft Shipped 900,000 Floor Tablets, Claims IDC

In line with statistics compiled by market research agency IDC, Microsoft shipped 900,000 of its Surface Family of tablets.

The numbers, which were introduced as we speak, depict a Microsoft that is slowly beginning to realize market share in the pill area after years of neglecting the form think about favor of conventional laptops and desktops.

IDC’s report signifies that Floor RT and Floor Pro pill gross sales reached a combined whole of 900,000, enough to give Microsoft the quantity 5 spot within the agency’s record of prime pill vendors ranked by shipment for Quarter 1. By way of actual market share, Microsoft’s tablets are additionally quantity 5 within the report at 1.eight% of all tablets in the first quarter which runs from January to March.

Microsoft Shipped 900,000 Floor Tablets, Claims IDC

The Microsoft Surface RT

The report isn’t all roses for all of Microsoft’s new consumer strategy. Tablets running Windows or Windows RT only accounted for a combined total of 1.8 million devices shipped. That could indicate that while Surface RT and Surface Pro device sales may be fairly high considering where the company started from just a year ago, hardware manufacturers like Dell, with its XPS 10 tablet, and HP with its Envy X2 are still struggling against Apple’s line of iPads, and tablets running Android.

According to IDC’s numbers iOS based tablets accounted for 19.5 million tablets shipped in Q1 up from 11.8 million tablets the previous year. Indicating a growth of 65.3%. Devices running Google’s Android operating system managed to surpass that, shipping 27.8 million tablets in the first quarter versus 8 million the previous year. Those numbers would indicate a growth of 257% from the previous year.
Figures reported by Digitimes, which admittedly has had a mixed track record of providing correct guidance on Apple sales note that while Apple may have shipped a total of 19 million tablets in the first quarter, 12.5 of them may have come from sales of the physically smaller and lower priced iPad mini. If that’s true that could also explain the explosive growth in Android tablet sales as well. New tablets like the Samsung Galaxy Tab and the Nexus 7 are specifically meant to attract the same kind of buyers as the iPad mini. Apple’s iPad mini starts at $329 while the Nexus 7 starts at $250.
Microsoft Shipped 900,000 Floor Tablets, Claims IDC