Windows 8 will run everything Windows 7 and before would run.
No it won't. An ARM tablet won't run anything from Windows 7 other than the few.Net applications which don't call native code other than that provided by Microsoft.
And any of those applications which do run will leave you with a WIMP interface on a crappy touchscreen. Microsoft have been pushing that for at least a decade and it's been a dismal failure.
So again, what does a Windows 8 tablet offer that an iPad or an Android tablet don't?
Did it not occur to you that you can put a touchscreen and a keyboard on the same device?
Uh, we were talking about laptops and desktops, which traditionally have keyboards.
Why would I want a touchscreen when I have a keyboard? How long do you think I'm going to sit at a desk prodding my monitor screen with a finger before I say 'who the hell thought this was a good idea' and go back to the keyboard and mouse?
What's Windows 8 going to offer that iPad and Android currently don't? Putting Windows on a tablet is pointless if Microsoft can't convince developers to produce apps for it... and developers probably won't be interested in producing apps if most people have iPads and Android tablets.
Bear with me, but my theory is they think they can make consoles at a cheaper price than people will be willing to pay for them. So crazy it just might be true.
That would be more convincing if the Xbox hadn't been a financial boondoggle. They may 'make consoles at a cheaper price than people are willing to pay for them' right now, but they'll take a long time to pay off the debts incurred in reaching that point and will soon have to blow another truckload of cash developing the next generation.
And don't forget that the Xbox has helped to cripple PC gaming, which is one of the main reasons for people to upgrade their PC and buy a new version of Windows.
All in all the Xbox has been a disaster; I'm amused to see Microsoft tying their loss-making search engine to their loss-maknig console and hoping it will suddenly make money.
Indeed. The British government would rather than people freeze in the dark -- or send a ton of money to the Russians to buy their gas -- than risk some slight tremors that no-one but a few scientists will notice.
What the heck kind of files do you have that take up 10TB and aren't compressed? Video, images, audio, all of those are already compressed in the vast majority of uses.
If you're posting publically about things that future employers might feel would make you unsuitable for a position in their company, then you deserve anything you get.
I get what you're saying, but a search engine is supposed to search the web, not a subset of the web.
A search engine is supposed to provide useful results, not fifteen million Facebook comments about the latest funny thing that your cat did.
Google is becoming increasingly useless because they seem to believe that more results are better than a few good results. Even Bling seems to be better than Google for technical queries these days.
So, you are saying one's time has no value, that there is not opportunity cost involved?
Sigh.
The earlier poster was whinging about how Apple is just so horrible because they charge developers $99 a year and therefore no-one can make a profit. In response, people have been pointing out that if you can't make $99 a year to pay Apple's fees then you can't make enough to cover your development costs.
No-one who's paying developers even $5 an hour would be worried about paying Apple $99 a year.
Do not compare this to other software distributors. The 99$ tag that you HAVE to pay per year to have your app in the appstore make it extremely hard for anyone to be able to make a profit (especially when apple will take 30% of anything they sell).
So if you're selling your app at $0.99 you need to sell about 130 copies a year to break even on the fees. That's a little more than two per week.
At least when you guys fully denied that climate change was even happening you were less pathetic than this shifting goalposts stance you guys take now when you can no longer deny it outright.
The only people I know of who ever claimed that the climate doesn't change are those who produced the 'Hockey Stick' with a nice flat global temperature until EVIL HUMANS started driving SUVs.
The rest of us are fully aware that the climate has changed far more dramatically in the past than it has in the last century.
It looks like the 360 became profitable back in 2008.
The 360 started making more money than it cost on a quarterly basis. I believe it's still a long way from paying back the money that's been spent on it over the years, and is unlikely to do that before they have to spend billions developing the replacement.
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Windows 8 will run everything Windows 7 and before would run.
No it won't. An ARM tablet won't run anything from Windows 7 other than the few .Net applications which don't call native code other than that provided by Microsoft.
And any of those applications which do run will leave you with a WIMP interface on a crappy touchscreen. Microsoft have been pushing that for at least a decade and it's been a dismal failure.
So again, what does a Windows 8 tablet offer that an iPad or an Android tablet don't?
Did it not occur to you that you can put a touchscreen and a keyboard on the same device?
Uh, we were talking about laptops and desktops, which traditionally have keyboards.
Why would I want a touchscreen when I have a keyboard? How long do you think I'm going to sit at a desk prodding my monitor screen with a finger before I say 'who the hell thought this was a good idea' and go back to the keyboard and mouse?
Couldn't Windows 8 tablets run windows applications?
Some, but who in their right mind wants to run Word on a tablet?
it'll run windows 8...
Exactly. Not even released yet and it's already outdated.
Oh, and I would keep making PC's and laptops, only make them better. More touch screens, maybe a best-in-class ultra light laptop, etc.
How would more touchscreens make PCs and laptops better? Touchscreens are sucky interfaces for devices that don't have a keyboard and mouse.
Windows 8 can't get here soon enough.
What's Windows 8 going to offer that iPad and Android currently don't? Putting Windows on a tablet is pointless if Microsoft can't convince developers to produce apps for it... and developers probably won't be interested in producing apps if most people have iPads and Android tablets.
China's certainly moving at a brisk pace.
NASA:
First manned flight: 1962
First orbital rendevouz: 1965
First orbital docking: 1966
China:
First manned flight: 2003
First orbital docking: 2011
I'd say more 'glacial' than 'brisk'
Bear with me, but my theory is they think they can make consoles at a cheaper price than people will be willing to pay for them. So crazy it just might be true.
That would be more convincing if the Xbox hadn't been a financial boondoggle. They may 'make consoles at a cheaper price than people are willing to pay for them' right now, but they'll take a long time to pay off the debts incurred in reaching that point and will soon have to blow another truckload of cash developing the next generation.
And don't forget that the Xbox has helped to cripple PC gaming, which is one of the main reasons for people to upgrade their PC and buy a new version of Windows.
All in all the Xbox has been a disaster; I'm amused to see Microsoft tying their loss-making search engine to their loss-maknig console and hoping it will suddenly make money.
Going from submission to publication in weeks is really fast for most journals. Several months is a lot closer to normal.
They're probably thinking of 'climate change' papers.
When I was studying physics at school I measured the gravitational acceleration of a pendulum and it was 10% different to the accepted value.
Of course back then my teacher called me a dumb-ass and told me to do it again rather than plastering the news all over the media.
Why wouldn't you want to do it the careful less damaging way (excluding other factors like contamination, which is outside the bounds of the analogy)?
Because it makes money for EVIL OIL COMPANIES!
Indeed. The British government would rather than people freeze in the dark -- or send a ton of money to the Russians to buy their gas -- than risk some slight tremors that no-one but a few scientists will notice.
There are times where it can save you thousands of MB's.
Like, wow. THOUSANDS of megabytes.
Given my ~$1000 home server has around ten million megabytes of disk space, I'm totally worried about saving a few thousand.
Actually, Windows has had a totally baffling directory layout ever since XP.
And it got much worse in Windows 7.
What the heck kind of files do you have that take up 10TB and aren't compressed? Video, images, audio, all of those are already compressed in the vast majority of uses.
If you're posting publically about things that future employers might feel would make you unsuitable for a position in their company, then you deserve anything you get.
I get what you're saying, but a search engine is supposed to search the web, not a subset of the web.
A search engine is supposed to provide useful results, not fifteen million Facebook comments about the latest funny thing that your cat did.
Google is becoming increasingly useless because they seem to believe that more results are better than a few good results. Even Bling seems to be better than Google for technical queries these days.
Failures appear to be inversely proportional to seed capital.
Business goes bust due to running out of money. Full story at 11!
So, you are saying one's time has no value, that there is not opportunity cost involved?
Sigh.
The earlier poster was whinging about how Apple is just so horrible because they charge developers $99 a year and therefore no-one can make a profit. In response, people have been pointing out that if you can't make $99 a year to pay Apple's fees then you can't make enough to cover your development costs.
No-one who's paying developers even $5 an hour would be worried about paying Apple $99 a year.
After a week you won't be selling any more copies, BTW, unless you are in the top 50.
Then the $99 is irrelevant.
People start a business without a business plan and most of them don't make money. Full story at 11.
Do not compare this to other software distributors. The 99$ tag that you HAVE to pay per year to have your app in the appstore make it extremely hard for anyone to be able to make a profit (especially when apple will take 30% of anything they sell).
So if you're selling your app at $0.99 you need to sell about 130 copies a year to break even on the fees. That's a little more than two per week.
That doesn't sound too rough to me.
At least when you guys fully denied that climate change was even happening you were less pathetic than this shifting goalposts stance you guys take now when you can no longer deny it outright.
The only people I know of who ever claimed that the climate doesn't change are those who produced the 'Hockey Stick' with a nice flat global temperature until EVIL HUMANS started driving SUVs.
The rest of us are fully aware that the climate has changed far more dramatically in the past than it has in the last century.
Kinect does not look like stagnation.
Kinect wasn't developed at Microsoft, was it? I thought they bought that in from an third party?
It looks like the 360 became profitable back in 2008.
The 360 started making more money than it cost on a quarterly basis. I believe it's still a long way from paying back the money that's been spent on it over the years, and is unlikely to do that before they have to spend billions developing the replacement.