Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer delivers his keynote address at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show, Wednesday Jan. 6, 2010 where he showcased the new touch-enabled slate from HP
Late to the game, as usual.
Microsoft’s iPad Answer?
WHAT WAS THE QUESTION?............
I hereby make an ad hoc claim to the name “1Pad” at this date and time barring any prior claim.
As for Microsoft, put a fork in it, Ballmer has been a disaster to this once flourishing GROWTH Company.
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and predict it to be an unstable, bug infested pile ‘o’ crap(the typical result of MS trying to do something other than operating systems).
I’d love to have the $$$$$ they have pissed away on dead end ventures.
Hahaha. GFL with that, Microsoft.
Son of Zune.
I have no faith that this thing will not be a big glass brick.
Let’s face it, Microsoft does NOT do anything user-friendly. Yeah, Windows does business applications but the OS itself is user-hostile.
I have Windows 5 for Phone on my PDA and it is clunky as all get out. My wife’s iPhone is so slick it almost anticipates what you want to do.
My business forces me to use Windows but by and large it stinks (and don’t get me started on Office — 2003, 2007 and 2010).
yawn, c’mon microsoft. We need a healthy competitor against Apple and Google. You got to do better than this
“Microsoft’s iPad Answer Will Be Here for the Holidays (Expect a Windows 7 iPad this shopping season)”
Always nice to have a new way to get viruses!
Can’t wait to see how they butcher a tablet...
How about a Windows Vista “iPad”?
You could use it as a doorstop or throw on the ice during hockey games.
I hear that it will not have the Blue Screen of Death, it will have a Silver Screen of Death so that you can also use the device as a mirror.
Thanks for the post. This is directed at wherever it sticks, not at you.
“So you got a Mac. That don’t impress me much.”
Dang! I was just comfortably reading along on FR, getting psyched to kick some socialist butts, and the macho-men of on this thread just pissed me off. Wrong timing or you would have escaped this.
So gosh. I will reply, and then let you posers beat yourselves into apoplexy that anyone would disagree, and then I won’t even reply back! Ha!
I’ve programmed computers since the 1960’s, bought my first Mac in 1984 with borrowed money, ran a business operated with Macs, written and sold software on both Macs and PCs, own an iBook, own an iPod Touch (actually used for business, not music), own an iPad 64 GB 3G, and own several hot up-to-date PCs. I use them all for business (mainly), communications, photography, video, games, music, and development every day. I am also developing software for iPod/iPad, and right now an writing this on one of my PCs (that I built from components) on which I run Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7. And that’s no big deal — millions of people do similar things. I almost never say this kind of stuff on FR, but every 5 years of so I get sick of some of you, and want to make it clear that I know the turf and I am well positioned to criticize you.
Did you know that many people, just like me, watch these threads like this, and just ROLL OUR EYES (for years) at certain macho posers even when we don’t say anything back?
Most of you guys bashing Microsoft and Windows remind me of big fat softies sitting at home watching “real” pro wrestling and cheering for “the butcher” because he’s so much prettier to you than “the mad dog,” while all the while you are too flabby to even walk upstairs to your bedroom without getting out of breath. You are posers.
Apple and Microsoft are both great American companies. Nothing is perfect. Apple products are LOADED with dysfunctional frustrating crap, just like Microsoft products. But there is also a lot of greatness in both. FREE MARKETS. Iterative development. Of course it would all be better if developers did not have to make provisions for the lowest common denominator in their target audience, but it pays well to keep you happy.
I look forward to new Microsoft products as well as new Apple products. I hate some, I like some. Many improve with time and the free market. But I don’t get my self-esteem from either company or product.
In these threads, try some actual discussion of the possibilities instead of just making unsupported little statements with your fake asterisked cusswords about Microsoft.
What would you like to see improved on the iPad? Hmmm? Maybe some competition for iPad will help. It is currently pathetic as a general computing platform, but GREAT for portable consuming and communication. People who know how to drive a stick-shift are totally cramped by it at times. I want a real multitasking flexible operating system on an iPad-like tablet, not a glorified copy-protection scheme where the critical piece of the operating system revolves around selling online music. Competition will help.
So I say, Go Apple! Go Microsoft! For that matter, Go Linux! Go America! And down with “real pro wrestling” loving wannabe posers getting all macho about their pet turnkey product.
iWad