Where have you been in the past 10 years? tablet PC meets you need has always been there. Yes, not every tablet pc has a keyboard attached to it. just gooble/bing "windows tablet pc", you will see what I mean.
do it ever occur to you, there is the possibility that the main reason of the dropping it may be the following:
An average user see the "linux" version is $20 cheaper than the windows version and decided to go with more savings. Then he spend hours on the DELL support calls to figure out why his new webcam or other fancy hardware does not work in the old way and he can not get on to MSN messenger. Those support costs add up, plus the cost to train those supporting stuff to handle two different OS.
DELL want to cut cost in order to improve their financial report. Then they looked at the costs and say: let's concentrate on what most of the user use and buy.
Why it always has to be a conspiracy?
Why stop buying "Make in China" can help the people there much? Isn't that directly hit those that work hard to produce that goods and make them lose job and the only income to the whole family? Do you think that is more ethical?
Then please explain to me why they still operate music search and sales in China? Why don't they just "pull" from China totally? Isn't that continue to do "evil"?
How proprietary the specification is when you can read the specification freely (not all ISO standards are available that way) and implement it freely? Don't tell me "it is a trap", openoffice has implemented it for long time. Has MS sued them yet?
Are you going to pay for all the extra work testing all the different versions/languages of windows 2000 pro / server /... That is a 10 years old operating system after all and way less popular than XP.
China does not allow non-Chinese companies to make a profit in china....
Please remind me your source again? I am trying to understand why there are so many western companies are currently in China if none of them can make money.
In US. Not in China. They have only about 25% of the Chinese search market. It is like Microsoft "threading" to quit US search market. Guess what people will say in China? "who cares".
You are giving too much expectation to google. It is not the most important player in the market as it is in US. the top one is baidu http://baidu.com./ In fact, I doubt if Chinese people care at all if Google really poll out of China. So much a "thread".
Where Microsoft missed the mark is on the promise that their own applications would migrate to.NET. For example, Microsoft Office would get re-written as a.NET application. Ironically, I think it's because of the lack of cross platform capability that.NET was unable to meet this need.
No, that was because it was a huge task because of the size of the current code base. And poor invest/return ratio.
You know, people don't have to use dot net on windows. There are too many alternatives there. Developers moves away from traditional c++ and C to dot net for a reason, but not because MS has "monopoly on Windows is 100%".
I guess any ms bashing will automatically get "insightful", without really matter if the submitter used his brain at all.
This is silly. The fact is the other way around. MS bought the code from sybase to start with, which sucked.
They did a total rewrote during 7.0 and keep improving it after that.
a simple search by google/bing would give you the wikipedia link right a way:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_SQL
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Where have you been in the past 10 years? tablet PC meets you need has always been there. Yes, not every tablet pc has a keyboard attached to it. just gooble/bing "windows tablet pc", you will see what I mean.
do it ever occur to you, there is the possibility that the main reason of the dropping it may be the following: An average user see the "linux" version is $20 cheaper than the windows version and decided to go with more savings. Then he spend hours on the DELL support calls to figure out why his new webcam or other fancy hardware does not work in the old way and he can not get on to MSN messenger. Those support costs add up, plus the cost to train those supporting stuff to handle two different OS. DELL want to cut cost in order to improve their financial report. Then they looked at the costs and say: let's concentrate on what most of the user use and buy. Why it always has to be a conspiracy?
Why stop buying "Make in China" can help the people there much? Isn't that directly hit those that work hard to produce that goods and make them lose job and the only income to the whole family? Do you think that is more ethical?
Then please explain to me why they still operate music search and sales in China? Why don't they just "pull" from China totally? Isn't that continue to do "evil"?
Flash for IE is an ActiveX control
How proprietary the specification is when you can read the specification freely (not all ISO standards are available that way) and implement it freely? Don't tell me "it is a trap", openoffice has implemented it for long time. Has MS sued them yet?
Wrong, those theaters are owned by individuals / companies in China. Similar to US.
Isn't that the whole point of open source? Anyone can have access to it, and the source is not fully controlled by a single company?
Are you going to pay for all the extra work testing all the different versions/languages of windows 2000 pro / server / ... That is a 10 years old operating system after all and way less popular than XP.
Bravo. Good for you. Now check your home and everything on your body, throw them out if they contains any Chinese made parts. Good luck with that.
China does not allow non-Chinese companies to make a profit in china ....
Please remind me your source again? I am trying to understand why there are so many western companies are currently in China if none of them can make money.
Right, that is why Google steals copyright from Chinese writers and publishers.
Because China is evil, so we just know they are the one behind all the internet hacking to US company/government/military sites
Right. I hope they will continue their "do no evil" when FBI/CIA/NSA ask them for cooperation. Of course, we will not know that it has happened.
If what you said will happen, then it should have already happened after 1989 Tian An Men square event. Look how everything turned out to be.
In US. Not in China. They have only about 25% of the Chinese search market. It is like Microsoft "threading" to quit US search market. Guess what people will say in China? "who cares".
Remind me why China will be really pissed off? Google will be simply blocked and kicked out of China. Good luck with that idea.
surprise ... no body cares about Google in China. It is Baidu http://baidu.com/ who is the number 1 and controls the majority of the market.
You are giving too much expectation to google. It is not the most important player in the market as it is in US. the top one is baidu http://baidu.com./ In fact, I doubt if Chinese people care at all if Google really poll out of China. So much a "thread".
Wow, they can do that. Checking out my $20 bills...
Where Microsoft missed the mark is on the promise that their own applications would migrate to .NET. For example, Microsoft Office would get re-written as a .NET application. Ironically, I think it's because of the lack of cross platform capability that .NET was unable to meet this need.
No, that was because it was a huge task because of the size of the current code base. And poor invest/return ratio.
You know, people don't have to use dot net on windows. There are too many alternatives there. Developers moves away from traditional c++ and C to dot net for a reason, but not because MS has "monopoly on Windows is 100%". I guess any ms bashing will automatically get "insightful", without really matter if the submitter used his brain at all.
Because they're not paying *any* of that money to shareholders, there's no incentive to economise.
Google does not, but Microsoft does pay dividends. http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:MSFT Better check the fact before telling.
really? firefox does not support ASP by design? Do you even know what ASP is?
This is silly. The fact is the other way around. MS bought the code from sybase to start with, which sucked.
They did a total rewrote during 7.0 and keep improving it after that. a simple search by google/bing would give you the wikipedia link right a way:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_SQL