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Microsoft's Risky Tablet Announcement
itwbennett writes "The New York Times describes the tablet announcement that Steve Ballmer is supposed to make in his CES opening keynote tonight as 'one of Steve Ballmer's riskiest trade show moves in years.' And blogger Peter Smith is in complete agreement. Here's why: 'Whether or not this announcement is intended as a direct response to the much-rumored Apple event that may or may not be happening on January 27th, consumers will perceive it as one,' says Smith. And if Microsoft unveils a traditional tablet then 'they'll be up against the (presumably more expensive) iTablet and the cult of Apple.' But if the device is the dual-screen Courier that we heard about back in September then it'll be up against the (presumably less expensive) enTourage eDGe, says Smith."
At the risk of sounding like a grammar Nazi ... How do you expect anyone to take you seriously when you can't even SPELL the word you're trying to use? It is "ALLUDE" not "ELUDE" (that would be when one is trying to evade capture).
Really. Think about it this way: Try your luck getting a job and saying, "I ain't got no ___ .... " (fill in the blank). Do you really think you're going to get hired?
I sure as hell wouldn't hire you if you made such a basic error. Think about it this way: we have ALL made an agreement that we will communicate in this language called English. If you can't learn the rules, get the fuck out.
Seriously.
The article says that it's a prototype, and the production version is supposed to be a lot more sleek.
And this is why Apple consistently wins. It would never ever show something that ugly and clunky, even as a "prototype".
And as for Microsoft's tablet? The hardware doesn't matter. The software will still suck. I've seen their tablet PC software before. It's sucked for years and, even with Vist... uh, Win7 as a basis and with multi-touch hung like a giant set of balls on the side (which is how it will be integrated, it will suck now. How do we know this? We know this because it will still have to work with all of the other sucky Microsoft software out there. And even if they have Microsoft Office Sucky Tablet Edition ready to go, they wouldn't have changed the UI enough for fear of breaking the eleventy bazillion other pieces of sucky software that runs on Windows. So it is a give that the software will suck. And, as such, it won't matter what they do with the hardware. They could paint it hot pink and give it a baboon's ass - it's running Windows. Ergo, "Suck Inside".
That is all.