Old ipad for $ Microsoft Gift card for surface promotions

Microsoft Activity screenshot Phoenix Science and Technology news Beijing time September 13, according to Science and technology blog AppleInsider report, Microsoft announced in Thursday, its plan to launch the old for new activities, allowing users to the old ipad in exchange for 200 Yuan Microsoft Store gift cards, this gift card can be used to buy surface RT, Surface Pro and any products in the shop of Microsoft retailer. Microsoft's campaign will continue from today until October 27, to lure ipad users from Apple's ecosystem and push Microsoft's own surface product sales. According to the Microsoft website, the "good" ipad 2 tablet, and ipad 3 and ipad 4, can be used to buy a minimum of 200 dollars of Microsoft Store gift cards at Microsoft stores. Microsoft's ads have encouraged consumers who want to upgrade their tablets to consider surface RT or surface Pro. Previously, Microsoft has cut Surface Pro prices by 100 U.S. dollars, now 32GB Pro Price is only 799 U.S. dollars, 64GB of only 899 U.S. dollars. In addition, Microsoft is trying to push the education sector to spend on its tablets, promising to provide schools with free surface RT tablets and Bing search engines. Microsoft now faces problems in tablet computing. Earlier this year, the company had to write down $900 million in assets due to surface inventories and high advertising costs for Windows 8. The next generation of surface tablet computers are now in production, although Microsoft has not yet announced the final product specifications and prices. Microsoft will reveal more about the new surface in an event at the end of this month. (Compiling/Snow ting)