Microsoft Announces Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2

fourthtunz said:

There are some apps that right now are not being done for android/windows.
And some of us would not use android/windows even if they were.
Hence why I'm on macrumors and not windows rumors.

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BC2009 said:

I feel bad for Microsoft. I don't know how they get things back on track. I think there is going to be more decline before recovery, but I do think there will be a recovery. I don't think the new Surface tablets will sell well even if the Pro is a decent replacement for a Windows 8 Ultrabook. Until Microsoft fully embraces touch interface on tablets and optimizes all their apps, they are going to struggle.

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Ghost31 said:

Always fun to see old myopic posts like this Microsoft is doomed obviously

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spinedoc77 said:

You are actually in a thread entitled "Microsoft Announces Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2". I wasn't sure if you realized that. Doh?

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PinkyMacGodess said:

I remember in the 'old days', when IBM came out with a personal computer, many businesses just reflexively bought them. Those lucky (unlucky?) enough to have IBM boat anchors in their buildings got some free, and even got huge percentages off of them. Many students also reflexively bought their PC's too because that is what they used in school.

And there are still people that will ALWAYS buy a 'pc'. They will always use Windows. And they will usually, always hate Apple and the Macs.

Microsoft will likely always be around. They might shift to a Linux core, but they will likely always be around because there are people that will always buy their stuff, and love it. Just because that's what they have always done.

I think just as many people have been prophesying the end of Apple as have been prophesying the end of Microsoft.

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fourthtunz said:

Heh, there was an in between for a while..the Amiga

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PinkyMacGodess said:

True, true. So many 'other runs' influenced the 'big guys'...

Heck, look at the effect of Xerox PARC! How much of what we have now is because of PARC! How much we would all owe PARC, if they had capitalized on their ideas. They could have owned the world...

I wished I could have bought an Amiga. At the time, I couldn't even afford a C-64. But all of the good stuff that came out in the 'old days'. When memory was scarce...

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PinkyMacGodess said:

Heck, look at the effect of Xerox PARC! How much of what we have now is because of PARC! How much we would all owe PARC, if they had capitalized on their ideas. They could have owned the world...

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