Asus says disappointed in Windows RT

According to Asus ceo Jonney Shih has the VivoTab RT tablet not delivered what the business expected. Shih believes that Microsoft underestimated how much people still have the old Windows-applications to use, and are attached to the old start menu.

Shih made his statements in an interview with AllThingsD. Referring to the VivoTab RT says Shih that the obtained result is not very promising and he also said that Microsoft have made mistakes. As examples he gave of the fact that programs that have the classic start menu to emulate the very popular among users of Windows 8 and that users also like to have their old Windows programs to run, something that Windows RT can not. Asus currently has his arrows on Intel-cpu’s and the full-fledged version of Windows 8, already quit the company, not that it was ever with a RT tablet.

Asus is not the only manufacturer that is critical about Windows RT. Toshiba decided at an early stage its plans for an RT tablet in the fridge and also Acer doesn’t see much in the for arm-based processors, created version of Windows. Microsoft’s own RT tablet, the Surface RT, does it also not good. The manufacturer has the price of the tablet must significantly reduce and made in the presentation of the quarterly figures, announced that $ 900 million had to write off on its inventory of the device.

Despite the disappointing sales for a long time rumors that Microsoft on a new version of the Surface RT works, powered by a Snapdragon 800-soc from Qualcomm. Also would Microsoft Surface tablets with smaller beelddiagonalen in the pipeline.