Microsoft has announced that it has slashed down the rates of its Surface RT tablet by $150.
The reduction brings the price of the tablet with 32GB of memory to $349 without a cover, which also acts as a keyboard. Including a cover with a touch-sensitive keyboard, the device comes to $449. The Surface has a 10.1-inch (25.6-centimeter) screen measured diagonally.
With this announcement, Microsoft is aiming to succeed in tablets because personal computer sales are falling.
According to market research firm IDC, Microsoft shipped about a million tablets in the first quarter of 2013. That includes about 260,000 of the slimmed-down RT version and 7, 50,000 of the Pro version of Surface, which is compatible with older Windows programs. This gave Microsoft a slim 2% share of the 49.9 million tablets shipped worldwide.
