Microsoft Surface RT. The Surface Pro version goes on sale February 9.
(Credit:
Brooke Crothers)
During Microsoft's second-quarter earnings conference call today, the company's chief financial officer talked about broadening the Surface tablet lineup.
After Microsoft reported reported earning today, Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein spoke about future Surface products -- though he was mum about specifics.
"We had limited distribution this quarter in our stores and we're excited about expanding that [distribution]," he said, responding to an analyst's question.
"We're going to expand geographically, we're going to expand the product lineup, we're going to expand retail distribution and capacity," he said, in comments about Surface.
Klein repeated a number of times that Surface contributed to revenue. "Certainly this quarter it was a contributing factor to revenue growth in the Windows business," Klein said.
And he inserted some serious commentary inside an innocuous-sounding statement. "It highlights some interesting innovation that can happen...demonstrates the power of
Windows 8 when tightly integrated with hardware and software."
In short, in order for a product to be done right, one company must make both the hardware and software -- as Apple has done successfully.
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