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The Surface RT is officially landfill material following Microsoft's decision to take a $900 million writeoff (http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earnings/PressReleaseAndWebcast/FY13/Q4/default.aspx) of "inventory adjustments" related to the underpowered and underequipped tablet.
(See also: Microsoft Tries Again To Aim Its Guns Outside The Company (http://readwrite.com/2013/07/11/microsoft-reorganziation-tries-again-to-point-all-its-guns-outside-the-company))
The writing has been on the wall for the Surface RT, which uses a tweaked version of Windows 8 that won't run most existing Windows applications. IDC recently reported that Microsoft shipped 900,000 Surface tablets in the first quarter (http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/1/4290498/surface-shipments-sales-idc-q1-2013), most of which were the Surface Pro, a bigger cousin to the Surface RT that runs the full-fledged version of Windows 8.
(See also: Microsoft Slashes Surface RT Prices By 30% (http://readwrite.com/2013/07/12/microsoft-to-slash-surface-rt-prices-by-150))
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