Sales of Microsoft's new tablet are modest despite the fact that one model was sold out online for more than a week.
Speaking to French daily Le Parisien, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said sales "are starting modestly."
Ballmer claimed that sales were constrained by the limits of the sales channel, according to the report. The Surface tablet is only available at the Microsoft Store online and, in the U.S., at a few dozen brick-and-mortar stores.
But demand for the tablet through Microsoft's sales channels was apparently high enough to trigger a shortage of the $499 model online for more than a week, when it was listed as "out of stock".
Ballmer did not disclose sales numbers to the French newspaper.
The Microsoft CEO did mention that the Intel-based high-end version of the tablet is on the way.
The pricier 0.53-inch thick, two-pound version packs some pretty high-performance silicon: a 3rd Gen Intel "Ivy Bridge" Core i5 Processor with Intel HD Graphics 4000, 4GB of memory, and solid-state drives up to 128GB.
It will also sport a high-resolution 1,920x1,080 10.6-inch display.
Pricing for the Intel-based Microsoft Surface with Windows 8 Pro -- expected early next year -- has not been announced but Microsoft has said in the past that it would be priced in line with ultrabooks that have similar configurations.
Microsoft did not respond to a request for comment.
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