"Many of the holy grails of computing that have been worked on over the last 30 years will be solved within this 10-year period, with speech being in every device and having a device that's like a tablet that you just carry around,"
For the last time, Bill...I still don't want a tablet pc!!!!!
Heck...if I made Bill's salary, I'd already think of hardware as free. In any case, if I was running a company and had global influence, what better model could there be than to dictate that the hardware required to run my product should be (virtually) free, but that my product is too valuable to be expected to be given away.
DAve
I'd didn't create a poxy one table test...I actually created my monthly billing report for the lab and tested it. Text, tables, misc formatting.
Of course, I created in OO.o and read in Word, not the other way around...of course, if someone produces a crap document, I wouldn't expect to see anything but crap.
Dave
I must be missing something. I just created a doc with a table in OO.o and saved it three times (XP doc/win95 doc/rtf). I then opened it up in word 2000 and it was correctly formatted in all three cases.
Of course, I haven't bought a copy of office since office 2k premium, so this may relate to office xp and later revs...
DAve
I suppose if I were going to buy one of these, I'd probably want to toss the TiVo out the window and replace it with a bright, shiny Media Center PC. A little microsoft sync program between the two to easily transfer the content.
It seems more like a wedge into the TiVo market than IPod.
Dave
That's the benefit of being Microsoft. You can sell a brick to see if a market can be created or competition squashed and not worry about the money that will be lost.
The only potential "Ipod Killer" on the market is the Rio Karma (marvelous player), but rio doesn't have the enough cool points to actually deliver the killing blow.
Dave
...and I remember the NEJM article back in what...'92 that definitively proved that electric razors cause leukemia...now this...better dump that Norelco stock...
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"Many of the holy grails of computing that have been worked on over the last 30 years will be solved within this 10-year period, with speech being in every device and having a device that's like a tablet that you just carry around,"
For the last time, Bill...I still don't want a tablet pc!!!!!
Dave
Heck...if I made Bill's salary, I'd already think of hardware as free. In any case, if I was running a company and had global influence, what better model could there be than to dictate that the hardware required to run my product should be (virtually) free, but that my product is too valuable to be expected to be given away. DAve
I'd didn't create a poxy one table test...I actually created my monthly billing report for the lab and tested it. Text, tables, misc formatting. Of course, I created in OO.o and read in Word, not the other way around...of course, if someone produces a crap document, I wouldn't expect to see anything but crap. Dave
I must be missing something. I just created a doc with a table in OO.o and saved it three times (XP doc/win95 doc/rtf). I then opened it up in word 2000 and it was correctly formatted in all three cases. Of course, I haven't bought a copy of office since office 2k premium, so this may relate to office xp and later revs... DAve
Useful site for those who didn't catch it first on the screensavers. DAve
I suppose if I were going to buy one of these, I'd probably want to toss the TiVo out the window and replace it with a bright, shiny Media Center PC. A little microsoft sync program between the two to easily transfer the content. It seems more like a wedge into the TiVo market than IPod. Dave
That's the benefit of being Microsoft. You can sell a brick to see if a market can be created or competition squashed and not worry about the money that will be lost. The only potential "Ipod Killer" on the market is the Rio Karma (marvelous player), but rio doesn't have the enough cool points to actually deliver the killing blow. Dave
...and I remember the NEJM article back in what...'92 that definitively proved that electric razors cause leukemia...now this...better dump that Norelco stock...