Windows 8 is looking good to me.
Posted on 06/19/2012 10:05:11 AM PDT by for-q-clinton
LOS ANGELES — June 18, 2012 — Today at an event in Hollywood, Microsoft unveiled Surface: PCs built to be the ultimate stage for Windows. Company executives showed two Windows tablets and accessories that feature significant advances in industrial design and attention to detail. Surface is designed to seamlessly transition between consumption and creation, without compromise. It delivers the power of amazing software with Windows and the feel of premium hardware in one exciting experience.
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Windows 8 is looking good to me.
These should be a natural for business since there won’t be the compliance problems that some other tablets bring.
Hope it does better than all its other Apple “killers” that failed miserably.
Except for the dark gray one, those keyboards are ugly.
This will probably run all the viruses that iPad just won’t run...
I’m waiting for the Kindle Fire 2 which should be out in Sept.
And after 3 windows updates it will be slower than a snail. Will the BSD look the same on this one?
For your tech Ping list.
Windows 8 Consumer Preview - One word: fail (hilarious rant)
That’s the beauty of this...everyone can get the color they like.
Hi Dave, FYI Ping!
Yeah right....read the responses to that guys rant. He’s clearly a fanboy for a non-MS competitor.
I’ve been using windows 8 and got to say it’s good. The one thing holding it back is I need a tablet to really take advantage of the touch UI. Once I have that then it will be awesome.
I remember the iPad got bad remarks when it was announced too. But then people “got it” once they held it.
Microsoft should stick to its core competencies; and hopefully they can figure out what those are.
Microsoft may have shot themselves in the foot.
Don’t they understand that when they compete with their own customers in the industry, their customers will STOP doing business with them? What other manufacturer is going to build a competing tablet/desk/something top when the supplier of the OS is competing with them for the same customers, and has an advance knowledge of upcoming improvements to the OS, and reference designs? It’s a no win situation for the competitors.
As for the keyboard in the cover. I had one for my iPad... I don’t use it any more. I found that when I wanted to use it, I had to find a table or flat surface to put it on. That was inconvenient, and got in the way of using the iPad. I have a folding prop cover for my iPad... I never use it either. It is not necessary. It also is not something one finds necessary in the way one uses a tablet. What I see in the Surface is that Microsoft is stuck in the notebook paradigm.
A tablet that doubles as a laptop? That’s a winning idea, especially for business. This could be a breakthrough product for Microsoft; number three behind the iPhone and iPad in terms of recent game-changers.
On a tablet maybe. On a computer it blows massive chunks.
Unfortunately for you the iPad cannot be made compliant. It just doesn’t provide the controls necessary for corporations who must meet PCI, FISMA, or HIPAA compliance.
It does provide many of those pesky security risks that even Apple has communicated. too bad so sad
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