Steve Ballmer has admitted that microsoft built too many surface tablet

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has admitted the company overestimated the number of Microsoft Surface RT tablets it could sell after it emerged the company had to right off $900 million of stock.

Steve Ballmer has belatedly and half-heartedly admitted that Microsoft built far more Surface tablets than the company could possibly sell. And at the same internal Microsoft town hall meeting, he also said the obvious: Microsoft isn't selling as many copies of Windows 8 as it hoped.

Last week, the company disclosed that it lost over $900 million on the low-selling tablet computer, and during an internal Microsoft event this week, Ballmer put the disaster into simple, understated terms, The Verge and Neowin separately reported.

"We built a few more devices than we could sell," Ballmer said during an internal town hall meeting earlier this week. He went on to admit that the near $1 billion loss was a huge blow for the company with its Windows devices facing struggling sales across the board.
"We're not selling as many Windows devices as we want to," Ballmer reportedly stated. While the company’s Surface tablet line has been plagued by weak sales, the Windows Phone platform has failed to push Android and iOS on the smartphone scene.

Despite some good reviews, Microsoft had an extraordinarily difficult time getting the Surface off of shelves, and an overwhelming number of Surface RT tablets have been left unsold. If you break down the $900 million Microsoft lost on the Surface RT, it comes out to about 6 million unsold devices.