Or you could go to Tourneau and check out a fine selection of dozens upon dozens of watches selling for 4 to 5 figures. Plenty of people buy watches and wear them.
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Microsoft Looking to Join the Smart Watch Race
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Or you could go to Tourneau and check out a fine selection of dozens upon dozens of watches selling for 4 to 5 figures. Plenty of people buy watches and wear them.
Im just saying it works both ways. everyone is copying from everyone, so no need to flame either on ms or aapl. people need to realize it instead of bashing companies
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Kiddos wear phones , real men wear watches.
i just cant wait for all of these with iwatch posting here about battery problems
i dont remember when i changed battery in my toissot
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it may not be the system issue but hardware. every os will fail if hw will die.
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do the same with osx. install os on imac coreduo and put hdd into latest one. it will fail the same as windows.
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its already happening
No, it has to do with portability and configuration.
Stability has to do with how crash prone is a system, not how you can change the hardware and boot up
So if smart watches do take off it appears Microsfot had a great idea but abandoned it in favour of following others.
Microsoft smart watch is an oxymoron. I love the discussion of rumours upon rumours. Nothing's been announced.
IF MS do produce a watch I can imagine it would be the ugly sister, arriving late to the ball, overweight, unlikely to do anything easily, be difficult to get running, but yelling how attractive and advanced it is while completely ignoring the reality of the beauties in the room. Some will call out but there are more beautiful ones that work better here. Steve Ballmer will yell back. We're Microsoft, we do it better, people love our products and we will sell gazilions of these. The MS crew won't say a word knowing dissent means dismissal so they'll clap and cheer like North Korean Generals as their leader makes more unbelievably bizarre statements.
I wonder if that many people would want a watch again if it did more. So many just don't care anymore if all it does is time.
Of course, it will be a full system!
... Much like everything Microsoft does, this will of course run full desktop software including Word and Excel.
Of course, it will be a full system!
Not really, I'm pretty much done with apple. Except for my personal laptop, I've switched away from Apple. They really aren't at the forefront of tech anymore.
Admitting that Microsoft isn't horrible now is a crime.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BbRffBCeYw&safe=active
Just had one at work haha, but I totally agree with you! I'm sure it almost never happens in Windows 7/8.
It's great that you haven't encountered them. Everyone makes his personal experiences there. I can reproduce a blue screen on demand anytime you like. I just need play a random game on my gaming pc, open up a youtube video or actually any media player and I'll get a bluescreen. Every single time. As it's been going for a few weeks now I am at the edge of developing the same obsession...
Seriously, though, the only time when I've seen a Windows 7/8 BSOD was related to bad drivers. It went away after they were updated. Even my brother-in-law doesn't get BSOD on his ~200 laptop (Christmas sale, I believe).
if you change the hardware, and it crashes, that has nothing to do with stability?
well I guess this video has nothing to do with stability:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW7Rqwwth84
anyways, we're getting off topic. go on Twitter, search for Blue Screen of Death, and just look at how many Blue Screen of Deaths people are getting every single day. stable? nope.
do you even use windows? any current bsod I have seen has been driver issues or corrupted install in need of reformat (due to malware etc..)
used Windows since 3.1
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I see less kernel panics than BSODs on Twitter. Your point?
Has zero to do with stability.
Again... that is a compatibility issue.
This will happen to ANY OS if you change out hardware without proper driver support being in place.
As for your BSOD comments... they are pretty much relegated to driver issues and to a lesser extent, configuration issue.
Guys talking about their "gaming rig" throwing a BSOD, blame it on Windows when 99% of the time it's an outdated driver or poorly configured/written app.
Those that brag about being able to create a BSOD on demand are the real gems. Anyone can make it happen. Wipe a key registry entry or nuke a driver... poof.. instant BSOD.
I can make a Mac kernel panic in 2 seconds flat. It's not rocket science.
But none of this has anything to do with stability.
A properly configured Win7/8 installation is just as stable as a properly configured OS X, Linux, AIX, etc installation.
All are easily breakable too.
Sounds like an issue with your specific system, not windows. Since you did mention gaming, I suppose you're correct that you don't have to worry about this particular issue on a mac
If the device is compatible with Windows 7, and in order to make it work is to format/reinstall Windows, then it's a stability issue, which I've encountered many times. If Windows crashes when you do X, Y, and Z, then it's a stability issue. What's so difficult?
You're trying to defend Microsoft by putting blame on third party drivers. But I'm not talking about Microsoft, I'm talking about stability in Windows in general which encompasses third party drivers. If you're blaming third party drivers for crashes, it still refers to the stability of Windows, especially when a driver is WHQL certified.
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