The first time, sales of tablets Surface family did not bring Microsoft profits as the cost of their production and marketing outweigh the revenue. And venture to produce tablets with ARM processors based on the operating system Windows RT was stopped along with giant associated costs.
This year Microsoft will release at least 4 million. Family of tablets Surface, whereas last year they released half. Since the birth of the very first model has already produced about 12 million Copies Surface, and in the fourth quarter last year, sales volumes increased by 24% compared to the same period last year.
Together with Windows-based tablets from other manufacturers, Surface this year will be able to cross the 15-million annual volume . This is 30% more than was released last year. Surface Pro tablet fourth generation can be presented this month, go into production in June. The device must be equipped with Windows operating system 10.