>>No big suprise, other than being worse than most thought.
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>>http://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-profit-below-estimates-tablet-201712038.html
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>Surface RT tablets have dropped from $499 to $350 too. Too bad a $79 android tablet still does more.

While not entirely false (you have more programs potentially installable and more freedom on the Home Screeen IMO), Office runs on Android with several compatble programs, but the MS offerings seem better (tested when trying out some WP8 phones, mostly Lumia 620 and 820, where Office is much better than on my 7' Android tablet despite tablet having more screen space and faster (albeit mono) core, not done in depth on RT as I think either Pro tablet or non-Windoze is right for me).

in 79$ tablets you probably have HW still below RT tablets running Android versions not having the benefit of Project Butter, so "expierience" might suffer - have not checked HW on large screen cheap tablets, as for me 10' needs HDMI resolution at least - if Nexus 10 had not received quite a few reviews citing too many restarts and other OS problems, that would have been mine. So now waiting to test some Surface pro...