Microsoft (MSFT) Windows-Based Tablets Seeing Strong Demand in Key Asian Market
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Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is getting big in Japan.
Accoridng to Digitimes, sales of Windows 8-based, 8-inch tablets accounted for 15.7 percent of tablet sales in Japan during February 2014, up significantly
over the same period last year.
Notably, demand for Microsoft's second-generation Surface is such that there are shortages with some versions of the device (two for enterprise and two for consumer, out of a toal of nine versions available).
Japan is likely to be the first balanced market for tablet sales between Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) iOS, Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Android, and Microsoft Windows, given that Windows tablets only have about 2 percent of global share.
Microsoft is just about flat Tuesday.
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