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Windows 8 is looking good to me.

1 posted on 06/19/2012 10:05:24 AM PDT by for-q-clinton
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http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/default.aspx


2 posted on 06/19/2012 10:06:14 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: for-q-clinton

These should be a natural for business since there won’t be the compliance problems that some other tablets bring.


5 posted on 06/19/2012 10:11:55 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: for-q-clinton

Hope it does better than all its other Apple “killers” that failed miserably.


6 posted on 06/19/2012 10:13:07 AM PDT by mgstarr ("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
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To: for-q-clinton

Except for the dark gray one, those keyboards are ugly.


7 posted on 06/19/2012 10:13:43 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: for-q-clinton

I’m waiting for the Kindle Fire 2 which should be out in Sept.


9 posted on 06/19/2012 10:24:33 AM PDT by Signalman ( November, 2012-The End of an Error)
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To: ShadowAce

For your tech Ping list.


11 posted on 06/19/2012 10:29:04 AM PDT by CedarDave
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Comments are already negative:

Windows 8 Consumer Preview - One word: fail (hilarious rant)

12 posted on 06/19/2012 10:30:44 AM PDT by CedarDave
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Hi Dave, FYI Ping!


14 posted on 06/19/2012 10:33:06 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio - http://www.istandwithrush.org/)
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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.


17 posted on 06/19/2012 10:39:52 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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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.


18 posted on 06/19/2012 10:40:57 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: for-q-clinton

On a tablet maybe. On a computer it blows massive chunks.


19 posted on 06/19/2012 10:41:34 AM PDT by discostu (Listen, do you smell something?)
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“...significant advances in industrial design and attention to detail....”

From Microsoft?

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!


21 posted on 06/19/2012 10:42:07 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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Micorosoft's entry into the tablet market is the Surface which they are going to make themselves—PING!

This is a whole new design... looks interesting.


Tablet market Ping!

Please, No Flame Wars!
Discuss technical issues, software, and hardware.
Don't attack people!
Don't respond to the Anti-Apple Thread Trolls!
PLEASE IGNORE THEM!!!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

23 posted on 06/19/2012 10:43:38 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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I just want to know how to get Windows 7 to run winword! I hate Microsoft.


30 posted on 06/19/2012 10:55:00 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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It’s gotten mixed reviews. Apparently the emphasis is all on the iPad functioning.

I happen to prefer using a laptop computer on my desk. And I prefer touch typing, with only occasional use of the mouse when I need it.

Frankly, I think they are screwing MS computer users in order to try to finally break into the touchpad business. Regretable.

I’m sticking with Windows 7. I always prefer to use the latest operating system, if I can, but it looks as if this is going to be one of their losers.


34 posted on 06/19/2012 11:05:50 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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37 posted on 06/19/2012 11:12:01 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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38 posted on 06/19/2012 11:12:39 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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“Don’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before...”


39 posted on 06/19/2012 11:12:47 AM PDT by McGruff (Support your local Republican candidates. They are our last line of defense.)
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How embarrassing. Nice 70’s interface.


81 posted on 06/19/2012 6:54:20 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" ~ Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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I suspected from the beginning that Bill Gates’ massive purchases of mosquito nets for Africa (yeah, right!) looked suspicious like a coverup of a new secret product!


113 posted on 06/20/2012 7:18:14 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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