Microsoft: We're nearly OUT OF STOCK of Surface 2 and Pro 2

That because they only made 11,001..

11,000 for Delta Airlines, and 1 for Steve as a leaving gift..

Additionally expect the CTO of Delta Airlines to be named as a new VP at Microsoft at some point in the next 6 months.

so wait

Microsoft now says new orders of the Surface 2 model with 64GB of RAM

That's a lot of RAM for a tablet :P

hmm

We probably won't see another big write off on the inventory this time. But do expect to see another eye popping multi billion dollar goodwill hit off some prior acquisition within the next year or so.

> But reports from the channel suggested that this had more to do with Microsoft only shipping the devices in limited numbers than with rampant customer demand.

Not that Apple would ever do something as underhanded.

Many unanswered questions on Surface 2

While Microsoft is crowing about 'sold out' sales on new Surface 2 tablets, although actual "credible" numbers are always elusive from Redmond, the question in minds of many technology buyers, and should be for Delta Airlines is that of Microsoft (not) addressing the many very serious Zero Day and other security vulnerabilities** recently exposed (during last eight weeks) in Internet Explorer and Silverlight for all Microsoft based devices and Windows Mobile 8 itself, that have not been fixed, with one case of Windows 8 Mobile Security certificates not being fixable at all.

it is surprising and ominous that so many Americans and some foreigners - particularly the English that "love" Microsoft, continue to invest in the broken, twentieth century and always-catch up technology from Microsoft that never quite reaches par with their rivals in reliability, quality, value and especially good security. This last criteria is critical.

The Microsoft "Stockholm Syndrome" is definitely holding back a good part of US technology advance.

** See exposing evidence here:

(1) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2876146

(2) http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9242950/Microsoft_to_patch_zero_day_IE_bug_now_under_attack?source=CTWNLE_nlt_security_2013-10-04