There isn't a flash memory slot on a tablet or smartphone that will give you access to the petabytes of content you can access remotely. As a power user, I choose not to limit myself to the relatively tiny amount of local content a device can store.
Good for you. Meanwhile, when the power went out for eight hours in our part of town recently, I was glad I had a couple of hundred books on my Kindle.
Punishing patching is a good strategy for games that aren't normally supposed to be updated. The last thing Microsoft wants are bug-riddled messes that are released and patched later.
Yeah, so let's encourage them to release a bug-filled mess and never patch it...
People buy consoles because even a 7 year old 360 will play, for example, Max Payne 3 at better quality and better frame rates than a 7 year old PC will lay the PC version.
Well, duh. A 7 year old console is typically about equal to a 6 year old PC since they normally have the equivalent of a next-gen GPU inside them.
So a 5 year old PC with a half-decent graphics card should be able to play the game at least as well as a 7 year old console. How many people keep PCs for more than 5 years?
Oh please. XP is going to turn 11 when that thing comes out. It is time to move on and it is rediculous to keep supporting it.
XP was still for sale a couple of years ago.
It is not a simple matter of a recompile either. Businesses will stop using it if no one writes software just like we still would be using IE 6 if Google didn't refuse to support it for docs and youtube.
So you think business will rush out to buy new PCs so they can run a new version of Office? Uh, no. Most will continue running the old version of Office on XP and look at other alternatives for the future.
XP can't do HTML 5 in IE9 because it can't do the hardware acceleration.Also it can't support h.264 due to the lack of DRM and hidef in the driver level. Because of that the office365 features will not work fully for remote features. The GPU graphics can't be done. The malware protection and group and document management DRM can not be done for the cloud integration etc.
Says 'can't' when means 'won't'. Nothing is preventing Microsoft from supporting those things on XP.
If you want to replace Office it has to be user friendly, not a royal PITA with a giant learning curve.
Hang on. Are you suggesting that Word is user friendly? Because 'a royal PITA with a giant learning curve' is pretty much what I'd call it; particularly with the stupid 'ribbon' interface which never displays the things I actually want.
Mass Effect, with its repetitive, unskippable cut-scenes, is the most boring game I've played in years. It's a bad ScyFy B-movie with a few interactive sections which try to pretend that you're not playing on rails (yes, you will go here and you will do something fscking stupid that you as a player would never choose to do, because that's THE STORY, you see).
Its a lot better to feel like you've just saved the world than it is that you just mowed down a bunch of enemies.
Not when you had to sit through fifteen hours of tedious, poorly-written, poorly-acted cut scenes to get to the ten minutes of actual gameplay along the way.
I'll just say, that the big launch method has worked a couple of times. The lots of little launches method has yet to work at all.
Sure, it works. If you have an infinite amount of money. America didn't, which is why NASA doesn't go to the Moon anymore.
If you actually want to be able to afford to go to the Moon and keep going there, then building your own massive, specialised rocket to launch you into orbit is absolutely, unquestionably the wrong way to do so.
Stories in video games suck, at least when the game tries to make me care about them. When I'm playing a video game, I don't need to know why the bad guys are the bad guys, I just need to know where they are.
For a logical fallacy, it's true a remarkable fraction of the time. The entire political history of the 20th century was a slippery slope toward socialism with people such as yourself shouting 'but the slippery slope is a logical fallacy!' all the way to the death camps.
It's not necessarily even that; back when I was working for a hardware company we had to get the 'designed for Windows' (or whatever it was called) logo because if all the hardware in an OEM machine had the logo the OEM got a discount on Windows. A hardware manufacturer without the logo would have to sell for substantially less to get OEM deals.
Yeah, I totally want to replace my 3.3GHz quad-core i5 system with an ARM that's a tiny fraction of the speed, just because Microsoft lock me out of the new motherboards.
No-one wants to pay the Apple tax so they can run Linux on an iPad. Windows tablets would be the cheap end of the market where installing another OS is a sane option... except Microsoft are prohibiting that.
How? Is not the user free to make the decision whether or not to purchase the product? Yes he is.
Why, yes. Instead of buying a $50 'made for Windows' motherboard they'll be able to buy a $1000 'made for Linux' motherboard with is exactly the same hardware with the 'Windows Lockin' disabled.
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Is this a Big Content Requirement to prevent lawsuites?
Or so they can sue you when you post unauthorised content.
Your whining is annoying to others.
I note you don't use your (full) real name to comment here.
There isn't a flash memory slot on a tablet or smartphone that will give you access to the petabytes of content you can access remotely. As a power user, I choose not to limit myself to the relatively tiny amount of local content a device can store.
Good for you. Meanwhile, when the power went out for eight hours in our part of town recently, I was glad I had a couple of hundred books on my Kindle.
Where does this house of mirrors end?
When we can rewrite DNA directly without having to rely on viruses to do it for us.
Punishing patching is a good strategy for games that aren't normally supposed to be updated. The last thing Microsoft wants are bug-riddled messes that are released and patched later.
Yeah, so let's encourage them to release a bug-filled mess and never patch it...
People buy consoles because even a 7 year old 360 will play, for example, Max Payne 3 at better quality and better frame rates than a 7 year old PC will lay the PC version.
Well, duh. A 7 year old console is typically about equal to a 6 year old PC since they normally have the equivalent of a next-gen GPU inside them.
So a 5 year old PC with a half-decent graphics card should be able to play the game at least as well as a 7 year old console. How many people keep PCs for more than 5 years?
Oh please. XP is going to turn 11 when that thing comes out. It is time to move on and it is rediculous to keep supporting it.
XP was still for sale a couple of years ago.
It is not a simple matter of a recompile either. Businesses will stop using it if no one writes software just like we still would be using IE 6 if Google didn't refuse to support it for docs and youtube.
So you think business will rush out to buy new PCs so they can run a new version of Office? Uh, no. Most will continue running the old version of Office on XP and look at other alternatives for the future.
XP can't do HTML 5 in IE9 because it can't do the hardware acceleration.Also it can't support h.264 due to the lack of DRM and hidef in the driver level. Because of that the office365 features will not work fully for remote features. The GPU graphics can't be done. The malware protection and group and document management DRM can not be done for the cloud integration etc.
Says 'can't' when means 'won't'. Nothing is preventing Microsoft from supporting those things on XP.
If you want to replace Office it has to be user friendly, not a royal PITA with a giant learning curve.
Hang on. Are you suggesting that Word is user friendly? Because 'a royal PITA with a giant learning curve' is pretty much what I'd call it; particularly with the stupid 'ribbon' interface which never displays the things I actually want.
Word processor pages are rendered similar to a web browser. We now use graphics card acceleration for browsers. Why not for publishing software?
Now?
Now?
We were using graphics card acceleration for browsers and word processors in the 90s. And didn't require some fancy 3D hardware to do so.
Mass Effect, with its repetitive, unskippable cut-scenes, is the most boring game I've played in years. It's a bad ScyFy B-movie with a few interactive sections which try to pretend that you're not playing on rails (yes, you will go here and you will do something fscking stupid that you as a player would never choose to do, because that's THE STORY, you see).
Its a lot better to feel like you've just saved the world than it is that you just mowed down a bunch of enemies.
Not when you had to sit through fifteen hours of tedious, poorly-written, poorly-acted cut scenes to get to the ten minutes of actual gameplay along the way.
I'll just say, that the big launch method has worked a couple of times. The lots of little launches method has yet to work at all.
Sure, it works. If you have an infinite amount of money. America didn't, which is why NASA doesn't go to the Moon anymore.
If you actually want to be able to afford to go to the Moon and keep going there, then building your own massive, specialised rocket to launch you into orbit is absolutely, unquestionably the wrong way to do so.
Stories in video games suck, at least when the game tries to make me care about them. When I'm playing a video game, I don't need to know why the bad guys are the bad guys, I just need to know where they are.
I hate to use the words "slippery slope", but Nazi Germany didn't just spring up overnight.
Didn't you get the memo? The slippery slope is a logical fallacy, so we have nothing to worry about.
Must be true, I read it all the time on Slashdot.
Well, duh. The whole point of a National Security State is that everyone is a suspect.
For a logical fallacy, it's true a remarkable fraction of the time. The entire political history of the 20th century was a slippery slope toward socialism with people such as yourself shouting 'but the slippery slope is a logical fallacy!' all the way to the death camps.
It's not necessarily even that; back when I was working for a hardware company we had to get the 'designed for Windows' (or whatever it was called) logo because if all the hardware in an OEM machine had the logo the OEM got a discount on Windows. A hardware manufacturer without the logo would have to sell for substantially less to get OEM deals.
Hopefully none because the slippery slope argument is a logical fallacy.
As Bogwin's law states: sooner or later in any Internet discussion, some retard will claim that 'the slippery slope argument is a logical fallacy'.
This is blatantly false. No PC boots from the CD by default. You always have to change the setting.
Weird. Mine do and always have.
Yeah, I totally want to replace my 3.3GHz quad-core i5 system with an ARM that's a tiny fraction of the speed, just because Microsoft lock me out of the new motherboards.
No-one wants to pay the Apple tax so they can run Linux on an iPad. Windows tablets would be the cheap end of the market where installing another OS is a sane option... except Microsoft are prohibiting that.
Then what are the odds that those users will ever want to install another OS besides Windows?
Linux install today: put the CD in the drive, boot up, select 'install', click 'OK' a couple of times. There's rarely any need to touch the BIOS.
And your point then is what?
Ah, you're a loon. That explains it.
And when that happens, you will have a good reason to get upset. Until then it's just speculation.
Yes, you're right. Microsoft would never, ever even think of locking all other operating systems out of the PC market.
How could I possibly have been so stupid?
Meanwhile, back in the real world, the day you're locked out of all new PC hardware is a day too late to get upset about it.
How? Is not the user free to make the decision whether or not to purchase the product? Yes he is.
Why, yes. Instead of buying a $50 'made for Windows' motherboard they'll be able to buy a $1000 'made for Linux' motherboard with is exactly the same hardware with the 'Windows Lockin' disabled.