How many people use IM on their smartphones? I don't know a single person who does. Its SMS/MMS/Twitter/Facebook et all all the way.
I'm sure though its only a matter of time before IM functionality is incorporated since the phone is based on cloud services anyway.. instead of an "app for that" it will be a "cloud service" for that.
I really like the fact that MS is consuming external services and publishing them to end users rather than re-inventing them.. can't say the same for google buzzzzzz
Microsoft provides the OS and Cloud Computing infrastructure. Sharp provides the phone.
I personally thing this is pretty cool. Its not the best device by any means but it has great utility and if verizon can sell an affordable plan this phone makes perfect sense for people who want twitter, facebook, zune and the excellent camera features.
This also puts MS head over heals above every other smartphone company out there in terms of cloud computing and infrastructure. Instead of downloading "an app for that" the cloud simply integrates the service and consumes it and presents it to the users of these devices.
I know my niece and nephew will get one to replace their phones just for the zune service alone.
How does drivel like this get modded up? Microsoft has one of the best privacy policies of any of the cloud computing systems, probably better than the telco that most "Smart phone" users have for their contracts. IE, it isn't the azure/cloud platform you have to worry about.
Bank fraud is why i shutdown my business after losing about 15k. Banks make a LOT of money milking the merchants with fees & services to create a "Safe shopping facade" but to screw you over in the end. What sucks even worse is that the consumer always wins in the end regardless or not if the consumer is legit or fraud and the banks LIKE it that way.
Banks make a lot of money in playing the high risk game and its screws everyone over in the end.. someone is paying for it.
From my perspective, you have it all wrong. Taking care of fellow humans is simply respecting humanity and being willing to love and cherish this one life we have to live.
The only "Entitlement Generation" i know are people of faith who entitle themselves with the only path to salvation. They entitle themselves with absolute truth. They entitle themselves with morality.
And yet, people think helping out our fellow brothers is "Entitlement"
Its most importantly the roads and drivers.. Drivers being one of the hardest things to fix but roads being the expensive thing to fix. Some roads are great, but some are destined to claim the lives of hundreds of people over the life span of the road.
What i don't get, is why we don't engineer our roads to be safer? If you build a road between a valley and there are 100 deer accidents a year, don't you think it would have been better to have built a raised road so the deer can go under the road and through the only choke point in the entire valley rather then get themselves killed and a few humans while they're at it?
I don't think fog is a problem.. slow down I don't think rain is a problem - slow down and make sure your tires are safe to begin with
However both those problems can be addressed with roads once again. - roads that correctly drain water so you don't hydroplane off into someones yard or into opposing traffic. Roads that have grade variations so you know when you're traveling outside your direction of travel - so on and so forth.
Love technology, but firm believer in the simplest technology being the best technology since its less prone to failure and mistakes.
I work for a defense contractor and you bet your beans MS provides top notch support. We also use open source software however it is "at your own risk" and no project manager or implementation team jumps on the open source bandwagon because of the risk of having to to it yourself or find your own resources to handle it above and beyond what can be accomplished via a support contract or phone call.
The only monopolies i deal with every day are my Electric Utility and Cable company. MS isn't the only choice out there however PPL and Comcast are. yet PPL and Comcast continually rape me on pricing, services and features and somehow microsoft comes off as the evil company? MS has innovated many products from operating systems to keyboards, mice and hardware systems to their cool ass research department that many companies simply don't bother with anymore.
MS got busted yeah, they paid the price, yeah, they're still being sued for stupid things - of course - as with any big multinational company making money hand over fist.
Xbox live & zune is pretty innovative if you ask me - Apple is struggling to pull off what Microsoft has delivered with their new media eco-system - from Xbox live to Zune to Windows Media Center on Windows 7 - its an amazing product. The fact i can run 2 xbox 360s off my media center and integrate with zune and zune pass and allow my family to watch what they want to watch on their tv, zune or computer is pretty nice - and it was all done for a very affordable price and it works out of the box. Not only that but zunepass offers us a limitless library of music - good by cable tv and good by sirius sat. The 2 360s and pc were paid for after the first year and i'm on year 3 of the hardware and months into windows 7:)
What are you talking about? Windows isn't a closed eco-system, beyond the 50,000 employed directly by Microsoft there are hundreds of thousands if not MILLIONS of jobs created to implement, maintain, enhance, extend and embrace Microsoft products. MS doesn't lock you in to anything and in the case of schools and businesses those businesses are choosing to lock-in to a specific vendor for business reasons - not ideological ones.
Believe it or not, the world wants accountability and you don't get that with open source since the accountability falls squarely on your own resources in most cases. People want a large resource pool, people want a stable business, support they can rely on and an infrastructure than can grow with their business.
There is plenty of open source software regardless of the platform to support academia, small businesses and those that simply hate Microsoft. There is also plenty of Commercial software as well.
Weird, if you ask me the open source movement always comes off communistic not anarchistic.. too much organization and ideology mixed into the movement to come off as anarchistic. Unless you're speaking of BSD open source licensing:)
How is this funny or even on topic? Codeplex already exists.. the foundation appears to be seeking a new director and thats about it. As far as answering the question regarding the 100 days why not email the existing board and ask them directly? The info is on the foundation website.
No matter how much people hate Microsoft, comments like this may me despise the free software movement. Somehow, i have this idea that MS providing 50,000 jobs, Microsoft funneling BILLIONS into research and believe it or not, Microsoft making some great products is a *GOOD* thing. The FSF has its merits and should do more to be a leader of what MS could do rather than dividing the community into believers or non believers for all the wrong reasons.
As for codeplex itself, there is some amazing projects in there and i doubt MS is gonna piss away the effort. THey're just like google in many ways with their online presence where they test the waters and see if it sticks, but that *IS* business my friends.
If they got off their asses and let hulu work on your tv.. the fact its limited to computer or media center hacks keeps people from enjoying it enough to replace OTA or cable strongholds.
yes.. i know it can be done, but they don't make it easy.
Didn't we just witness android os having the same issues? Many important aspects being proprietary (proprietary google apps) as well as the fact that the OS can't boot without the proprietary binary drivers from each handset device?
Now what *I* find weird is that apple can lock their phones to specific networks, restrict any and all apps they want to on phones and also limit the OS that should run on any x86 hardware to only hardware they make as well as fail to make their software run on other platforms in which many cases even Microsoft makes its software run on Apple (which Silverlight does thank you, as well as office thank you..)
The Doc isn't just a doc, it offers wireless remote control and full functionality of the zune on your tv - including syncing, HD radio playback and HD video playback and alll other zune functionality.
The HD in zune does relate to High Definition video.. only someone severely ignorant of the direction of microsoft could claim otherwise. From 1080p instant watch HD content through Zune on Xboxlive to the 720p TV, Movies & Videos that you can download and watch on your device through either the docking station, the zune player itself or through an xbox 360.
I purchased a docking station for my upstairs tv and love it however i use my already available xbox 360 downstairs.. Of course for the xbox i just use the dashboard integration with windows media connect and play the movies, videos and music that way.
No, you don't need a zune pass to dock the zune to play on your tv. Zune pass is only the optional service to pay 14.95 a month to subscribe to 30k + songs that you can sync up and play on your zune, windows pc, windows media center extenders and xbox 360s as part of their media hub strategy.
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How many people use IM on their smartphones? I don't know a single person who does. Its SMS/MMS/Twitter/Facebook et all all the way.
I'm sure though its only a matter of time before IM functionality is incorporated since the phone is based on cloud services anyway.. instead of an "app for that" it will be a "cloud service" for that.
I really like the fact that MS is consuming external services and publishing them to end users rather than re-inventing them.. can't say the same for google buzzzzzz
Microsoft provides the OS and Cloud Computing infrastructure. Sharp provides the phone.
I personally thing this is pretty cool. Its not the best device by any means but it has great utility and if verizon can sell an affordable plan this phone makes perfect sense for people who want twitter, facebook, zune and the excellent camera features.
This also puts MS head over heals above every other smartphone company out there in terms of cloud computing and infrastructure. Instead of downloading "an app for that" the cloud simply integrates the service and consumes it and presents it to the users of these devices.
I know my niece and nephew will get one to replace their phones just for the zune service alone.
How does drivel like this get modded up? Microsoft has one of the best privacy policies of any of the cloud computing systems, probably better than the telco that most "Smart phone" users have for their contracts. IE, it isn't the azure/cloud platform you have to worry about.
Bank fraud is why i shutdown my business after losing about 15k. Banks make a LOT of money milking the merchants with fees & services to create a "Safe shopping facade" but to screw you over in the end. What sucks even worse is that the consumer always wins in the end regardless or not if the consumer is legit or fraud and the banks LIKE it that way.
Banks make a lot of money in playing the high risk game and its screws everyone over in the end.. someone is paying for it.
Some government pencil pusher mixed up wikileaks with wikipedia... after all the "strange tweets" from @wikileaks it sounded feasible ;)
From my perspective, you have it all wrong. Taking care of fellow humans is simply respecting humanity and being willing to love and cherish this one life we have to live.
The only "Entitlement Generation" i know are people of faith who entitle themselves with the only path to salvation. They entitle themselves with absolute truth. They entitle themselves with morality.
And yet, people think helping out our fellow brothers is "Entitlement"
Its most importantly the roads and drivers.. Drivers being one of the hardest things to fix but roads being the expensive thing to fix. Some roads are great, but some are destined to claim the lives of hundreds of people over the life span of the road.
What i don't get, is why we don't engineer our roads to be safer? If you build a road between a valley and there are 100 deer accidents a year, don't you think it would have been better to have built a raised road so the deer can go under the road and through the only choke point in the entire valley rather then get themselves killed and a few humans while they're at it?
I don't think fog is a problem.. slow down
I don't think rain is a problem - slow down and make sure your tires are safe to begin with
However both those problems can be addressed with roads once again. - roads that correctly drain water so you don't hydroplane off into someones yard or into opposing traffic. Roads that have grade variations so you know when you're traveling outside your direction of travel - so on and so forth.
Love technology, but firm believer in the simplest technology being the best technology since its less prone to failure and mistakes.
HDMI is fine
Ethernet is fine
No more "super cables" for the sake of another super cable so i have to replace everything i own just to run a damned super cable.
Thanks.
I work for a defense contractor and you bet your beans MS provides top notch support. We also use open source software however it is "at your own risk" and no project manager or implementation team jumps on the open source bandwagon because of the risk of having to to it yourself or find your own resources to handle it above and beyond what can be accomplished via a support contract or phone call.
WTF??
The only monopolies i deal with every day are my Electric Utility and Cable company. MS isn't the only choice out there however PPL and Comcast are. yet PPL and Comcast continually rape me on pricing, services and features and somehow microsoft comes off as the evil company? MS has innovated many products from operating systems to keyboards, mice and hardware systems to their cool ass research department that many companies simply don't bother with anymore.
MS got busted yeah, they paid the price, yeah, they're still being sued for stupid things - of course - as with any big multinational company making money hand over fist.
Xbox live & zune is pretty innovative if you ask me - Apple is struggling to pull off what Microsoft has delivered with their new media eco-system - from Xbox live to Zune to Windows Media Center on Windows 7 - its an amazing product. The fact i can run 2 xbox 360s off my media center and integrate with zune and zune pass and allow my family to watch what they want to watch on their tv, zune or computer is pretty nice - and it was all done for a very affordable price and it works out of the box. Not only that but zunepass offers us a limitless library of music - good by cable tv and good by sirius sat. The 2 360s and pc were paid for after the first year and i'm on year 3 of the hardware and months into windows 7 :)
.Net miserable failure? stopped reading right there..
What are you talking about? Windows isn't a closed eco-system, beyond the 50,000 employed directly by Microsoft there are hundreds of thousands if not MILLIONS of jobs created to implement, maintain, enhance, extend and embrace Microsoft products. MS doesn't lock you in to anything and in the case of schools and businesses those businesses are choosing to lock-in to a specific vendor for business reasons - not ideological ones.
Believe it or not, the world wants accountability and you don't get that with open source since the accountability falls squarely on your own resources in most cases. People want a large resource pool, people want a stable business, support they can rely on and an infrastructure than can grow with their business.
There is plenty of open source software regardless of the platform to support academia, small businesses and those that simply hate Microsoft. There is also plenty of Commercial software as well.
Weird, if you ask me the open source movement always comes off communistic not anarchistic.. too much organization and ideology mixed into the movement to come off as anarchistic. Unless you're speaking of BSD open source licensing :)
How is this funny or even on topic? Codeplex already exists.. the foundation appears to be seeking a new director and thats about it. As far as answering the question regarding the 100 days why not email the existing board and ask them directly? The info is on the foundation website.
Its on the front page of: http://codeplex.org/index.aspx
No matter how much people hate Microsoft, comments like this may me despise the free software movement. Somehow, i have this idea that MS providing 50,000 jobs, Microsoft funneling BILLIONS into research and believe it or not, Microsoft making some great products is a *GOOD* thing. The FSF has its merits and should do more to be a leader of what MS could do rather than dividing the community into believers or non believers for all the wrong reasons.
As for codeplex itself, there is some amazing projects in there and i doubt MS is gonna piss away the effort. THey're just like google in many ways with their online presence where they test the waters and see if it sticks, but that *IS* business my friends.
If they got off their asses and let hulu work on your tv.. the fact its limited to computer or media center hacks keeps people from enjoying it enough to replace OTA or cable strongholds.
yes.. i know it can be done, but they don't make it easy.
Running DD-WRT for years :)
Didn't we just witness android os having the same issues? Many important aspects being proprietary (proprietary google apps) as well as the fact that the OS can't boot without the proprietary binary drivers from each handset device?
Way to turn a blind eye and re-iterate the obvious. Thanks for completely ignoring the topic and posting your useless drivel!
Open Source Silverlight: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/06/18/moonlight-open-source-silverlight-on-mono/
MS Office: http://www.microsoft.com/interop/osp/default.mspx
Now what *I* find weird is that apple can lock their phones to specific networks, restrict any and all apps they want to on phones and also limit the OS that should run on any x86 hardware to only hardware they make as well as fail to make their software run on other platforms in which many cases even Microsoft makes its software run on Apple (which Silverlight does thank you, as well as office thank you..)
The Doc isn't just a doc, it offers wireless remote control and full functionality of the zune on your tv - including syncing, HD radio playback and HD video playback and alll other zune functionality.
The HD in zune does relate to High Definition video.. only someone severely ignorant of the direction of microsoft could claim otherwise. From 1080p instant watch HD content through Zune on Xboxlive to the 720p TV, Movies & Videos that you can download and watch on your device through either the docking station, the zune player itself or through an xbox 360.
I purchased a docking station for my upstairs tv and love it however i use my already available xbox 360 downstairs.. Of course for the xbox i just use the dashboard integration with windows media connect and play the movies, videos and music that way.
No, you don't need a zune pass to dock the zune to play on your tv. Zune pass is only the optional service to pay 14.95 a month to subscribe to 30k + songs that you can sync up and play on your zune, windows pc, windows media center extenders and xbox 360s as part of their media hub strategy.
Probably nothing worthwhile..
I work with lots of laptops and sony is never one of them. I'd say Apple laptops are making a larger dent in IE than Sony ever could.