Posted on 06/19/2012 8:02:28 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
With its new Surface Tablet, Microsoft didn’t just break the mold. It smashed it into a million little pieces, chucked them all into the furnace and set the temperature to obliterate. There really is no precedent for what Microsoft did this week. What was once recognizable is gone. The expected is no more. There are no rules, only supply and the possibility of demand.
Microsoft finally built the tablet it wants to use for its platform: an ultra-thin, superlight, kick-stand-sporting, brainiac-cover wearing, touch screen wonder that elicited dozens of “I wants” in Mashable’s live blog chatter.
Surface is still wrapped in so much mystery (no pricing, no availability, no processor speed) that it remains something of an enigma. On the other hand, the tablet (which, depending on how you look at it, may be a full-blown tablet or a hybrid tablet PC) is no reference design. This is not the pad Microsoft wants its partners to build.
The partners are, at least in this instance, out of the picture.
This Is the Windows 8 Tablet
Lenovo, Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Toshiba and others will surely deliver dozens of Windows 8-based devices this year. Many will sport Intel CPUs. Some, like Asus and Lenovo, are planning tablets and convertibles. These may or may not be well-received. This is no longer Microsoft’s problem.
Or is it?
What, for example, does Microsoft say about Windows tablet design now? Can it point to anything but its own Surface tablet as the epitome of Windows 8 design? Not likely. And what about that very smart cover with the built-in touch or tactile keyboard (take your pick)? Microsoft won’t license that design to its partners. So it’s inevitable that Windows RT partners will always have second best covers.
(Excerpt) Read more at mashable.com ...
Especially when they go on to say how the thing is all "wrapped in secrecy" and that no one knows anything about it.
Windows 7 is at the very least as secure as any Apple desktop OS, if not more secure.
? Not sure what you are trying to say ... I’m using windows 7.
“Gee, another Microsoft device that will need security upgrades every two days, not to mention the OS will be outdated every year requiring a total upgrade ... another Microsoft money sinkhole.”
Microsoft, still chrome plating their turd OS. PC’s are still like Slinky’s, they aren’t really much good, but it’s fun to kick them down a flight of stairs.
http://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2012/04/mac-virus-infects-over-half-a-million-computers
Widespread Virus Proves Macs Are No Longer Safe From Hackers
“With all the resources of Microsoft, you would expect better.”
They are just like Democrats, aren’t they! All horn, no driveshaft!
He is an obvious Applebot troll. Called him out on that from the get-go.
The MS Superficial may be available late Fall 2012 and the Pro in early 2013. When Apple has a major announcement, they say "And it's available starting today.". MS needs to learn this trick.
Then why do I have to download security fixes once a month or better.
Instead of paying, let’s say $99 for each yearly upgrade of Windows (you must be running release #17 by now!) you could switch to a Mac for that price. Just a friendly suggestion.
You don't need to know what chip is inside a product, or how much RAM it has, before you can have a hands on evaluation(which they did) of how it works. For example, do you know what processor is running your HDTV set?
So I exaggerated a little, just seems like I get use to a version of windows and along comes yet another. I have windows 7 and all I hear about is window 8. Crap, get window 7 cleaned up and secure before you force me to go to window 8.
Force you say, yes, force. If I don’t move on to the next version of windows I will lose any support for the previous version with a short period of time.
You also claimed that you did “yearly upgrades to the next version of windows”, when in fact Windows XP was released in 2001, Vista in 2006, and Windows 7 in 2009.
So you were in fact lying and trolling to push an obvious agenda.
AMEN!
Who uses Apple other than teachers? Just a few other left wing wackos.
Real Americans use Windows or versions of DOS.
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