Posted on 06/19/2012 8:02:28 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
With its new Surface Tablet, Microsoft didn’t just break the mold. It smashed it into a million little pieces, chucked them all into the furnace and set the temperature to obliterate. There really is no precedent for what Microsoft did this week. What was once recognizable is gone. The expected is no more. There are no rules, only supply and the possibility of demand.
Microsoft finally built the tablet it wants to use for its platform: an ultra-thin, superlight, kick-stand-sporting, brainiac-cover wearing, touch screen wonder that elicited dozens of “I wants” in Mashable’s live blog chatter.
Surface is still wrapped in so much mystery (no pricing, no availability, no processor speed) that it remains something of an enigma. On the other hand, the tablet (which, depending on how you look at it, may be a full-blown tablet or a hybrid tablet PC) is no reference design. This is not the pad Microsoft wants its partners to build.
The partners are, at least in this instance, out of the picture.
This Is the Windows 8 Tablet
Lenovo, Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Toshiba and others will surely deliver dozens of Windows 8-based devices this year. Many will sport Intel CPUs. Some, like Asus and Lenovo, are planning tablets and convertibles. These may or may not be well-received. This is no longer Microsoft’s problem.
Or is it?
What, for example, does Microsoft say about Windows tablet design now? Can it point to anything but its own Surface tablet as the epitome of Windows 8 design? Not likely. And what about that very smart cover with the built-in touch or tactile keyboard (take your pick)? Microsoft won’t license that design to its partners. So it’s inevitable that Windows RT partners will always have second best covers.
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Apple computers and the Apple operating system are shit. Very susceptible to viruses, but their infrequency makes them less so because the buggers have less interest in bugging their infrequency.
If I were to write a "hands on" review of a HDTV set I would at least turn it on to see if it works. Being sleek and having a nice feel only goes so far for a computing device.
“With its new Surface Tablet, Microsoft didn’t just break the mold. It smashed it into a million little pieces, chucked them all into the furnace and set the temperature to obliterate. There really is no precedent for what Microsoft did this week. What was once recognizable is gone. The expected is no more. There are no rules, only supply and the possibility of demand. “
Only a complete idiot could have written that.
Rather than deal with facts, MS bots get defensive and toss insults. I was a Windows and NT server administrator for many years, among my clients were police departments. They had a mix of Windows and Apple devices. At times I had to build network interfaces between the platforms. In the real world, it isn’t just teachers using Apples. Are you suggesting cops are left wing wackos?
What, exactly, is my agenda?
That I am tired of an OS that starts out the gate with flaws. A history of OS’s that Microsoft is so urgently wanting to get out on the market that they are willing to put crap out there and spend the next several years fixing.
With all the resource and personnel that Microsoft has at their disposal, you would think that they might get it close the first time.
That is my agenda.
“Are you suggesting cops are left wing wackos?”
Probably. What city?
Mac Virus Infects Over Half A Million Computers
So basically.. All of them?
I wonder if Microsoft finally figured out that they can’t really afford to screw up anymore. Sometimes people do their best work under those conditions. I’ve found Windows 7 to be very bug-free, and I appreciate the security updates (Apple has those also).
Apple is not as juicy of a hacking target (yet), so you don’t hear about as many threats. It’s just a matter of market share for the hackers.
Bwahahahahahahha
Be sure and get your Windows 8 update....coming daily to you
Hey individual...
I seriously don’t want to meet you in a dark alley.
I mean you’re trimming microseconds off intra/inter device protocols. I was proud to do nested calculations...on a slide rule.
“I’ve found Windows 7 to be very bug-free”
Yes, but W7 is one of the usuable OS’s following the “every other release” rule of thumb: W95 - Bad, W98 - Good, WME - Bad, WXP - Good, Vista - Bad, W7 - Good.
“If I don’t move on to the next version of windows I will lose any support for the previous version with a short period of time.”
Hogwash. They are only phasing out support for XP next year, and it was released in 2001. That’s 12 years of support. If they follow a similar time frame, you can use W7 and get support until 2021.
The support given XP is minimal. I have two computers that still run XP and the only support is in the area of security. NO OS upgrades for many years.
I’m a novice. All I’m sick and tired of is buying a nice system that isn’t cheap and three years later I get errors both hardware and software.
But I get really pissed off about the constant upgrades and then the ones that won’t load. No real help from MS and the user boards are ridiculous.
My only Apple experiences using other’s systems weren’t much better.
OS upgrades are different than support. It’s a stable OS, there’s not a lot of need for patching it besides new security threats. You can still submit something to MS tech support and get an answer, that is what is meant by they are supporting the OS.
Many good points pro and con, but Microsoft Stores are opening in malls, it seems M is about to give A an interesting run.
Isn’t Microsoft Windows the story of M stealing A’s innovation?
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