No, the canned guy made silly remarks on twitter while acting on behalf of MS. Try dissing your company's customers in front of your company folks and see how it goes. (if you work i.e).
They mothballed it because the world moved onto smartphones for playing music. WP7's music player was called zune and the interface was heavily derived from it too.
Severely less gamer friendly features like what, not requiring users to keep changing the discs in the console to prove they're not thieves after paying for a 500gb hard drive? Or not getting screwed by a scratched or lost disc like on the PS4?
That poll was all over reddit trying to get people to vote for PS4 to show their Xbox hate. I am surprised they only got 38K people to vote.That actually shows how small the online vocal minority raking up hate on twitter, reddit and forums like this one.
2 different government agencies are already investigating them for violations of the competition act and the consumer protection act.
Citation needed.
Also, perhaps they will allow playing from external hard disks. Or you can just juggle discs on the PS4, while Xbox One users can play another game while waiting for players to join one multiplayer games. But you've already decided to hate on the Xbox regardless of the facts, so just move on and stop making up lies about the Xbox.
Did I say you own the iPad or that you own the Xbox One(which isn't even out yet so how can you own it)? Who cares what you own which is totally irrevelant to the conversation at hand. You may be a Luddite and Amish for all I care.
It was a lowest level support rep on twitter versus the Director of Programming for the Xbox. Who was likely to have got confused and who would actually know better?
So you would rather believe a lower level twitter rep willing to work on minimum wage with no experience who was probably confused and thought someone was trying to cheat on multiplayer games on the 360? Or the Director of Programming of the Xbox a couple of days later? The witchhunt is getting lame. You just want to hate on the Xbox and are willing to deny facts for that.
Perhaps you don't know that you add a 3 or 4TB hard disk or multiple ones using the USB3 ports. Or perhaps you already decided to hate on the Xbox One thanks to 13 year olds on reddit.
PS4 also requires a paid monthly subscription to play multiplayer games.
Atleast with the Xbox One, if you have a bunch of games, you needn't go to the trouble of changing the disc inside the console everytime to verify you're not a criminal when you try to play the games you pay for. Why have a 500GB disc if you have to insert disc everytime to play?
Well, since you were a bit non-specific on what you're feeling butthurt about, I'll have to guess...Holy shit, a console made out of spare parts still has a better rep than the Xbone. Allows you to run your own software. Costs $99. 63,000 pre-orders. Meanwhile, at Microsoft HQ... "There aren't any official numbers..." (troll face)
Where are the hard numbers from Sony on PS4 sales? According to your logic, that must mean the Ouya has a "better rep" and more orders than the PS4, right?
(With the xbone, if your live account is banned you lose access to all of your games, even singleplayer)
Please stop making up shit, that's why I hate this circlejerk of hate and its disregard for facts. Or maybe Sony's reputation management has been very successful planting lies on Reddit.
You have multiple first level posts on the same article hating on the XBone. I would accuse you of being part of "Sony rootkit reputation management" but for the fact that you just seem to be a reddit kid trying to look cool on Slashdot saying things like "herp derp derp". I would like to hope that Slashdot is a bit more mature than that.
There are Kickstarter consoles still on the drawing board, I mean, not even prototypes available yet, that have more pre-orders than the XBone. I don't think they could fail harder. Unless (dramatic pause)... they bring Square Enix to headline this collossal cluster f*ck.
Because Office is not the same as every other 99c fart app on the App store.
The Office app needs special rules because you and MS say it's special. Yeah, that's not a reason. So all the subscription based apps like the WSJ app can do whatever they want because they are special too?.
Which app on the iPad among the million apps following the "rules" is going get more business sales in companies for the iPad apart from Office?
Funny how you defined "business sales" because if you want to talk millions in sales to consumers you have to ignore Pandora, Kindle, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, etc.
Thus, MS is in a way stronger negotiating position than the developer of a fart sounds app. If you can't understand that simple logic, I have nothing more to say to you.
Lets say Apple demanded 100% instead of 30%, does this mean it's all MS's fault? Who is to say 30% is the "right" amount? You, the MS hater?
If you went to any business in this world and you wanted them to make exceptions for you, you would say it's partially their fault if they say no? What kind of warped sense of entitlement do you have? Can you say to a potential landlord that you want to pay less rent than he's offering and then blame him because he didn't say yes? That the landlord is partially to blame that you were without an apartment.
If I were renting a thousand apartments, yes I would ask the landlord for a discount. That is not a warped sense of entitlement, it's getting a good deal for your company. If you didn't, and paid one of your biggest rival companies extra money you didn't need to, you would be called an unknowing fool and would be fired from any half decent company for wasting money like an idiot. You fail at Negotiating 101. Good that you aren't responsible for big companies' business decisions.
I honestly can't make out if you're that dense, or your abject MS hate is clouding your logic. I hope it's the latter. And Slashdot moderation shows how it's more about MS hate than insightful comments, no wonder the site is dying as people flee from theirrational hating circlejerk.
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No, the canned guy made silly remarks on twitter while acting on behalf of MS. Try dissing your company's customers in front of your company folks and see how it goes. (if you work i.e).
I love it how when faced with simple facts you retreat to personal insults instead of addressing them.
Ask someone else to read the thread and they can tell you if your post makes any sense.
If you can't see the difference between a level 1 rep, a director of programming and a spokesperson, no one can help you.
They mothballed it because the world moved onto smartphones for playing music. WP7's music player was called zune and the interface was heavily derived from it too.
How is it different from every iPhone, iPad, Android phone or tablet or laptops with webcams, recording even your location, video and audio?
Severely less gamer friendly features like what, not requiring users to keep changing the discs in the console to prove they're not thieves after paying for a 500gb hard drive? Or not getting screwed by a scratched or lost disc like on the PS4?
That poll was all over reddit trying to get people to vote for PS4 to show their Xbox hate. I am surprised they only got 38K people to vote.That actually shows how small the online vocal minority raking up hate on twitter, reddit and forums like this one.
How is the webcam different from the ones on every iPhone, iPad, Android phone and tablet and PCs/laptops?
And you the famous anti-MS hater zealot considered buying Xbox? C'mon, stop making up things.
In other unrelated news Ballmer has perfected his chair throwing skills....
For some reason chair skills are very important to MS's upper management.
Look at BillG showing off his chair skills:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxaCOHT0pmI
2 different government agencies are already investigating them for violations of the competition act and the consumer protection act.
Citation needed.
Also, perhaps they will allow playing from external hard disks. Or you can just juggle discs on the PS4, while Xbox One users can play another game while waiting for players to join one multiplayer games. But you've already decided to hate on the Xbox regardless of the facts, so just move on and stop making up lies about the Xbox.
Or perhaps some minimum wage twitter support rep got confused and got corrected by the Director of Programming of Xbox.
Did I say you own the iPad or that you own the Xbox One(which isn't even out yet so how can you own it)? Who cares what you own which is totally irrevelant to the conversation at hand. You may be a Luddite and Amish for all I care.
It was a lowest level support rep on twitter versus the Director of Programming for the Xbox. Who was likely to have got confused and who would actually know better?
So you would rather believe a lower level twitter rep willing to work on minimum wage with no experience who was probably confused and thought someone was trying to cheat on multiplayer games on the 360? Or the Director of Programming of the Xbox a couple of days later? The witchhunt is getting lame. You just want to hate on the Xbox and are willing to deny facts for that.
Perhaps you don't know that you add a 3 or 4TB hard disk or multiple ones using the USB3 ports. Or perhaps you already decided to hate on the Xbox One thanks to 13 year olds on reddit.
Thanks for the citation showing that consoles on Kickstarter have more preorders than the Xbox One. Oh wait....
PS4 also requires a paid monthly subscription to play multiplayer games.
Atleast with the Xbox One, if you have a bunch of games, you needn't go to the trouble of changing the disc inside the console everytime to verify you're not a criminal when you try to play the games you pay for. Why have a 500GB disc if you have to insert disc everytime to play?
Citation badly needed.
Well, since you were a bit non-specific on what you're feeling butthurt about, I'll have to guess...Holy shit, a console made out of spare parts still has a better rep than the Xbone. Allows you to run your own software. Costs $99. 63,000 pre-orders. Meanwhile, at Microsoft HQ... "There aren't any official numbers..." (troll face)
Where are the hard numbers from Sony on PS4 sales? According to your logic, that must mean the Ouya has a "better rep" and more orders than the PS4, right?
(With the xbone, if your live account is banned you lose access to all of your games, even singleplayer)
Please stop making up shit, that's why I hate this circlejerk of hate and its disregard for facts. Or maybe Sony's reputation management has been very successful planting lies on Reddit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lMhjM9BK7M
The iPad costs the same, and you can't run your software on it.
I don't see what the price has to do with that.
You have multiple first level posts on the same article hating on the XBone. I would accuse you of being part of "Sony rootkit reputation management" but for the fact that you just seem to be a reddit kid trying to look cool on Slashdot saying things like "herp derp derp". I would like to hope that Slashdot is a bit more mature than that.
There are Kickstarter consoles still on the drawing board, I mean, not even prototypes available yet, that have more pre-orders than the XBone. I don't think they could fail harder. Unless (dramatic pause) ... they bring Square Enix to headline this collossal cluster f*ck.
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Citation badly needed.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/22
Because Office is not the same as every other 99c fart app on the App store.
The Office app needs special rules because you and MS say it's special. Yeah, that's not a reason. So all the subscription based apps like the WSJ app can do whatever they want because they are special too?.
Which app on the iPad among the million apps following the "rules" is going get more business sales in companies for the iPad apart from Office?
Funny how you defined "business sales" because if you want to talk millions in sales to consumers you have to ignore Pandora, Kindle, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, etc.
Thus, MS is in a way stronger negotiating position than the developer of a fart sounds app. If you can't understand that simple logic, I have nothing more to say to you.
Lets say Apple demanded 100% instead of 30%, does this mean it's all MS's fault? Who is to say 30% is the "right" amount? You, the MS hater?
If you went to any business in this world and you wanted them to make exceptions for you, you would say it's partially their fault if they say no? What kind of warped sense of entitlement do you have? Can you say to a potential landlord that you want to pay less rent than he's offering and then blame him because he didn't say yes? That the landlord is partially to blame that you were without an apartment.
If I were renting a thousand apartments, yes I would ask the landlord for a discount. That is not a warped sense of entitlement, it's getting a good deal for your company. If you didn't, and paid one of your biggest rival companies extra money you didn't need to, you would be called an unknowing fool and would be fired from any half decent company for wasting money like an idiot. You fail at Negotiating 101. Good that you aren't responsible for big companies' business decisions.
You want to see how Apple might bend rules? Look at this email where an Apple exec was proposing an exception to Amazon books. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57589185-37/apples-eddy-cue-yep-we-caused-e-book-pricing-to-rise/
I honestly can't make out if you're that dense, or your abject MS hate is clouding your logic. I hope it's the latter. And Slashdot moderation shows how it's more about MS hate than insightful comments, no wonder the site is dying as people flee from theirrational hating circlejerk.