Surface sales are getting less awful

The good news for Microsoft was that it didn’t have to write off $900 million because of poor Surface sales again last quarter. The trouble, though, is we still don’t have any idea of how well the Surface is really selling, although we do know that it’s selling better than it has in previous quarters. Microsoft said on Thursday that its Surface sales generated $400 million in revenue over the last quarter and that it sold twice as many Surfaces in fiscal Q1 2014 than it sold in the previous quarter. Microsoft credits the boost in Surface sales to both price cuts for older models and an improved marketing campaign that doesn’t involve breakdancing. While this is all well and

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