Why Acer is wrong about Microsoft Surface

11.08.2012
Acer CEO Campbell Kan slammed Microsoft this week, telling a newspaper reporter that Microsoft should " " about its decision to make Surface touch .

"It is not something you are good at so please think twice," he said.

Oh, really?

I think Kan should think twice about that statement. If he did, he'd realize that's he's totally wrong.

Everybody calls Microsoft a software company, but of course Microsoft makes hardware, too. In fact, Microsoft has been making PC hardware for longer than Acer has. When Microsoft started designing and making mice in 1982, "Acer" was called "Multitech" and was still an electronic components distributor.