My Leatherman Skeletool is an example on how near sighted you are about design. Its blade isn't as heavy duty as a dedicated big knife. It's screwdriver isn't as comfortable as my big screwdriver or as easy to use as my power screwdriver but it's always with me so I use it far more often than the dedicated tools.
Have you spent more than 10 minutes playing with an RT? The design is brilliant. It is a very good tablet either with the keyboard folded back or snapped off. I often hear people complain that it can't be used in a lap and I assume these are people who have also not really tried one. Mine works great on my lap and on the airplane etc. Only complaint I have is that it doesn't work with my Garmin GPS watch to load the data (no drivers) and it doesn't have a pen. Surface Pro fixes those. Sure it only has about 5 hours battery life but that's plenty for a flight across the country or a long commute.
I spent much of the 2000s playing with and wanting various Tablet PCs. Having a mobile art device with a real Wacom pen has always been a goal. This still isn't perfect but even the haters (maybe not yourself) should admit that it's a solid V1.0 product, especially for Microsoft.
I see what your saying but I don't think the Zune is a good comparison. MS entered the market with Zune way too late, just as it was ending in fact because of the growth of smartphones. Tablets are going to be around for a long time. So even though they are late (to this generation, let's not forget tablet pcs) there is plenty of time for them to catch up with android. Apple isn't the main worry. They'll just keep doing their own thing no matter what. MS *can't* let android take over the majority of their oem market. If they fail (and they may) it will be for different reasons than why Zune failed.
I don't think so. When people buy ebooks via their amazon kindle app they know they are dealing with amazon. Apple shouldn't be involved in any step along the way, so why should they get 30%?
Did you know that you could already compile and run your own apps on it? They even give you the dev tools for free: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/windows/apps/hh974577
Spending all that to change many of the road signs and all of the exit signs would cost a lot for little benefit. I'd like to but lots of better ways to spend that money.
Yep. I replaced a 1st gen HP WHS that had been doing a great job for many years with drive spaces. He was a good server. Felt a bit sad powering him off at the end.
I also like File History way better than the old backup utility. And drive space lets me group several drives into one virtual drive. So it's got that goin for it, which is nice.
They may be justified in ripping the damn thing off but the vast majority of users won't. They'll just follow the path of least resistance which is all MS needs. Nothing to see here. Move along.
I would really like to have a metro version that I can snap to the side while working on other things. So yeah, I'll kick in a few bucks. Oh, and I'd also like to have the RT version to run on my Surface.
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My Leatherman Skeletool is an example on how near sighted you are about design. Its blade isn't as heavy duty as a dedicated big knife. It's screwdriver isn't as comfortable as my big screwdriver or as easy to use as my power screwdriver but it's always with me so I use it far more often than the dedicated tools.
Have you spent more than 10 minutes playing with an RT? The design is brilliant. It is a very good tablet either with the keyboard folded back or snapped off. I often hear people complain that it can't be used in a lap and I assume these are people who have also not really tried one. Mine works great on my lap and on the airplane etc. Only complaint I have is that it doesn't work with my Garmin GPS watch to load the data (no drivers) and it doesn't have a pen. Surface Pro fixes those. Sure it only has about 5 hours battery life but that's plenty for a flight across the country or a long commute.
I spent much of the 2000s playing with and wanting various Tablet PCs. Having a mobile art device with a real Wacom pen has always been a goal. This still isn't perfect but even the haters (maybe not yourself) should admit that it's a solid V1.0 product, especially for Microsoft.
I see what your saying but I don't think the Zune is a good comparison. MS entered the market with Zune way too late, just as it was ending in fact because of the growth of smartphones. Tablets are going to be around for a long time. So even though they are late (to this generation, let's not forget tablet pcs) there is plenty of time for them to catch up with android. Apple isn't the main worry. They'll just keep doing their own thing no matter what. MS *can't* let android take over the majority of their oem market. If they fail (and they may) it will be for different reasons than why Zune failed.
"The Surface Pro isn't good at anything."
Or so you've read and like to repeat on the internet.
MS can't win. "Why is win8 so focused on touch!?!" and then "Why can't your touch tablet run XP!?!"
MB air is $100 more and doesn't even have a pen or touch?
I'd rather have the Surface Pro.
"IE6-8 just had yet another remote exploit days/weeks ago."
Too bad. There is no reason a home (game) machine should still be running IE6-8.
Yep, it was up to the labels. emusic was always drm free for example.
I agree that Apple shouldn't care and I hope they don't. They also shouldn't care if I want to buy an ebook through a kindle app.
I don't think so. When people buy ebooks via their amazon kindle app they know they are dealing with amazon. Apple shouldn't be involved in any step along the way, so why should they get 30%?
Apple Xserve?
Heck, the Apple Mac Pro? (just kidding, I know they still sell those. Kind of I guess.)
No idea if this is the case or not, but maybe they get killed in the environmental impact stage.
Did you know that you could already compile and run your own apps on it? They even give you the dev tools for free:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/windows/apps/hh974577
Minecraft.
Still have to be complied to ARM right?
Spending all that to change many of the road signs and all of the exit signs would cost a lot for little benefit. I'd like to but lots of better ways to spend that money.
Yep. I replaced a 1st gen HP WHS that had been doing a great job for many years with drive spaces. He was a good server. Felt a bit sad powering him off at the end.
I also like File History way better than the old backup utility. And drive space lets me group several drives into one virtual drive. So it's got that goin for it, which is nice.
Wait. So if they just left it just like Win7 you would have upgraded? Why?
Sorry for the self reply. Just ran it in IE9 and it works. Not IE10 though.
Which version of IE? I know they said it works in IE10 but I'm not seeing anything moving on the demo.
No, we're talking about subscription transactions here. MS does NOT take a cut of those.
The Windows App store is already way larger than the Mac App store.
They may be justified in ripping the damn thing off but the vast majority of users won't. They'll just follow the path of least resistance which is all MS needs. Nothing to see here. Move along.
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I would really like to have a metro version that I can snap to the side while working on other things. So yeah, I'll kick in a few bucks.
Oh, and I'd also like to have the RT version to run on my Surface.