If you watched the AFC Championship Game on Sunday, you may recall that the Microsoft Surfaces used by both teams, had a problem…at least for one of the teams. The Microsoft Surface tablets on the visitors sidelined briefly stopped working, which meant the Patriot coaches and key players could not review plays and formations. Oh-Oh!
It didn’t take long for the problems to be solved. The network feeding the info to the tablets had a glitch. Of course, the TV announcers kept announcing that the Surface tablets were having problems, implying indirectly that the Microsoft product was faulty…and they said it 3 or 4 times, if memory serves.
Well, it was not Microsoft’s fault. But they took the indirect hit for faulty tablets. They spent millions of dollars to have these tablets on the sidelines of every NFL game for the last two years, only to suffer the slings and arrows of TV scorn. But it is not the first time the company has taken a hit of some sort.
Last year, several TV announcers kept calling them iPad’s…providing Apple a lot of free advertising on Microsoft’s dollar. But they sure didn’t call them iPad’s at Sundays’s game. Oh no! They were clearly identified as Microsft Surface Tablets. It’s sad for Microsoft, especially since the Surface is an excellent product. Oh well. Still in all, the Denver/New England game was the best game of the day.
There are other excellent and informative news stories here as well as good tips for all your computing needs. So read on and enjoy. -JRC
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