back to article Microsoft Surface to die in 2019? Not while Redmond keeps making it, er, blush

Microsoft’s chief product officer, Panos Panay, took to Twitter today to insist that the Surface line was positively in the pink. In China, at any rate. Panay is in Beijing, having toured the China production facilities for the matte black Surface Pro 6 with his Surface chum, Joe Belfiore. Today, however, was a not a day to …

  1. adam payne

    Following the Dulux paint convention for giving colours silly names, the pink laptop is referred to as "Blush"

    Hasn't Microsoft been doing enough blushing with the Surface line already?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Following the Dulux paint convention for giving colours silly names

      It was a good point about Dulux though. Silly names and they seem to keep changing, which is why despite the prices we currently buy paint from a smaller independent who doesn't keep mucking about.

      I might be making an IT point there too.

    2. Teiwaz

      Following the Dulux paint convention for giving colours silly names, the pink laptop is referred to as "Blush"

      Hasn't Microsoft been doing enough blushing with the Surface line already?

      Microsoft is utterly shameless, and an embarrassment.

      1. Aladdin Sane

        Name a big tech company that isn't?

    3. JohnFen

      Nah, Microsoft knows no shame.

    4. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: the pink laptop is referred to as "Blush"

      They misspelt Blue-ish...

  2. spold Silver badge

    Predictable?

    Surface Go one minute Surface Gone the next. Should be an easy rebrand.

    Surface ---> Sunk?

  3. Lion

    Pigs are pink (er blush). Inside every blush pig is a hog (W10).

    1. Semtex451
      Coat

      ...and it isn't bringing home the bacon?

      1. Kane
        Mushroom

        "...and it isn't bringing home the bacon?"

        Mmmm, bacon....

  4. Semtex451
    Facepalm

    MS stop thinking you can charge Apple Tax, you cannot.

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    surely you remember

    The wedding scene from the classic movie "Steel Magnolias" ??

    The bride's two shades of pink were Blush and Bashful ("looks like an explosion in a Pepto-Bismol factory")

    1. JohnFen

      Re: surely you remember

      I remember that I enjoyed that movie, but I don't remember anything else about it at all. Weird.

  6. J. R. Hartley

    Surface phone?

    Still hope this happens. Android is a steaming pile of dung and iOS requires paying the AppleTax.

    I demand a third (smart) option.

    1. hplasm
      Windows

      Re: Surface phone?

      "I demand a third (smart) option."

      From Microsoft?

      Hahaha.

      1. PM from Hell
        Facepalm

        Re: Surface phone?

        You mean yet another good device launched with a fanfare then abandoned a year later with no mainstream apps working?

        I still have a Microsoft Lumia in my bedside table. Occasionally I even power it up to use as a media player. This was the device which finally drove me into the arms of Apple.

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