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Witness Ridicules 'Hands-On' Reviews of Surface
Freshly Exhumed writes "Danny Sullivan over at Marketing Land has been tipped over the edge by various colleagues: 'After seeing yet another "hands-on" review of the Microsoft Surface tablet, I thought it would be interesting to shed more light on what exactly the journalists who assembled in Hollywood this week for the Surface launch event actually got to do with the tablets. In short, not a lot. Come along as I explain the hands-off reality of what I saw.' In response to Sullivan's criticisms, TechRadar contributor Mary To Many rebuts that merely touching something that does not operate nor even truly exist equates to an actual hands-on review. So, what do Slashdotters expect a "hands-on" review to reveal and/or include?"
I guess these reviews just scratched the surface.
Someone should at least get a feel for the key functionality and most popular productivity functionality being there.
Show how to touch the screen for control-alt-del
Show Antivirus software with some cool animation as it kills something
Show a drive defragmenter moving things around
And the most important, show an uninstall program running
And if there's a deluxe premium version, show it able to play a DVD or run Solitaire
I will gladly volunteer for a review of Scarlett Johansson.
The point of TFA is that some people got to paw Scar-Jo, but not take her clothes off, and then expressed opinions on her skills in bed.
"It's a metaphor." "I know it's a metaphor." -- Moneyball
No, no, no. It is a working product already. Didn't you see IE10 crashing on in the demo video?
I'm telling you man, it's there operational and finished a product as it ever will be!
-- no sig today