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Microsoft Reportedly Scheduled to Introduce Tablet Today
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Engadget again: 8:11PM "Thank you very much." And Robbie is gone. And... that's it? Wow. Incredibly boring. Incredibly incredibly boring. Really.
The big news of the night remains . . . Central Michigan University wins the GMAC Bowl (is that the "Granddaddy of them all"? Oops, wrong bowl game.), thus ending the MAC's losing streak in bowl games (something like 10,000 games in a row).
I can now exit the keynote happy.
The big news of the night remains . . . Central Michigan University wins the GMAC Bowl (is that the "Granddaddy of them all"? Oops, wrong bowl game.), thus ending the MAC's losing streak in bowl games (something like 10,000 games in a row).
I can now exit the keynote happy.
Just posted this on the other thread..Love it.
We were the only ones who thought so
Your history is exactly backwards.
Tablets without keyboards have been called "slates" since the '90s.
That's why a reporter called the Apple tablet a slate. It's a pretty old term, but obviously a new one to many inexperienced computer users.
If Apple was worried about being first, they would have spoken up by now. But it's not Apple's style. they don't mind speaking last.
in fact studies have shown that people remember the first and last of a collection. so being last isn't really bad at all.
true. but a true netbook isn't a full powered laptop shoved into a tiny size. a netbook is for the internet -- email, web browsing, perhaps text/video chatting. that doesn't need necessarily need the Mac OS. We know that the iphone OS can handle video cause it's on the phone. now place the camera in the right location and meld the video support with chatting and done.
and in Apple style, support the ipod, add perhaps an ereader function and the popular and portable games and such from the App store.
it would be a device whose functions are chosen because they fit a tablet form. Rather than ones crippled to fit the tablet. Which is where some of these other tablets could fail.
LagunaSol never hypocritically condemned commenting about a CEO, before doing so.
You, OTOH, self-righteously denounce it, only to commit your typical double-standard act, immediately following.
Speak for yourself.
Speaking of yourself, for once.
God of the Underworld.
Geez Shaw, your obvious disappointment with Lord Ballmer's manifesto tonight shows in your dulled wit. Take heart, you'll always have Windows market share to crow about. Fortunately you don't need to create exciting or innovative new products when you have a desktop OS hegemony. It's the gift that keeps on giving.
That's very interesting, because Ballmer said:
"I want to highlight new form factors in what we call Slate PCs."
"New" form factors? "What we call?"
Seems Mr. Ballmer isn't familiar with 90s computing history either.
Microsoft: Inventing Something New (We Think) Since 1975 (TM)
That was classic!
At least BG would address his audience, holding his hands together, fingers touching, above his chest, with that passive look on his face, secretly waiting to run the hell outa there.
Ballmer is repulsive, shockingly so.
The abyss is the limit, with this guy - he never ceases to amaze.
Lame, but greatly expected.
Their mimicry has no limits.
"Me too, Me too!!"
Apple is making a bad habit of this too.
In before DMann joining in. Seriously this isn't the replace for green text and reaction images. If you want that I can point you to where you want go.
God of the Underworld.
Hades would have a field day with him, down there.
With nothin' to crow about, he's sure to find a way.
From his mouth, to his own ears...
That arrogant, self-serving thief.
Who knows, he may actually believe the s**t he puts out there.
"Give it up for me... I'z can smelz it"
Apple: "iPhone now has 100,000 apps."
Microsoft fanboys: "Big deal, 99,950 of them suck poo!"
Microsoft: "Windows now has 4 million apps."
Microsoft fanboys: "Woooo, that's right, suck it Apple!"
Question: how does Microsoft count Windows apps exactly? It's not like they have a centralized app store (like Apple) where they can count the number of apps they have (like Apple). And does Microsoft really feel so threatened by Apple that they have to one-up their talking points?
And 4 million apps??? I bet the quality is stellar!
Microsoft fanboys: "Big deal, 99,950 of them suck poo!"
Microsoft: "Windows now has 4 million apps."
Microsoft fanboys: "Woooo, that's right, suck it Apple!"
Question: how does Microsoft count Windows apps exactly? It's not like they have a centralized app store (like Apple) where they can count the number of apps they have (like Apple). And does Microsoft really feel so threatened by Apple that they have to one-up their talking points?
And 4 million apps??? I bet the quality is stellar!
Some teens were very impressed by MSFT's "Surface PC":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NX-DhW5An4
*yawn* what a useless device. Nobody would want such a thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NX-DhW5An4
*yawn* what a useless device. Nobody would want such a thing.
Actually, those were very likely, young, paid MS shills, talking it up in a casual way. (a la the W7 party video)
I love how unresponsive the menu drawer was, on such an expensive "Big Ass Table" as that.
Amazing demo - tyeah, I'd pay over $10,000 for a colossal dishwasher, with twice the moving parts of a standard one.
I can visualise them
Thank you very much, exactly my thoughts. I hope that they will find a job soon or grow up. Let's hope that they don't eat too much biscuits and drink too much Coke.
So many childish attacks on Balmer and his looks.
It'd be interesting to see photos of some of the people who post here all the time. Wonder how handsome they are?
(Of course, the kids here are already pretty obvious... they're the ones who think everything is either black or white, with no shades of gray. And they define themselves by what they buy that's designed by others, not by what they themselves have done creatively in life.)
Thank you very much, exactly my thoughts. I hope that they will find a job soon or grow up. Let's hope that they don't eat too much biscuits and drink too much Coke.
Isn't that image not that big of a deal. The PC lost power so it didn't have a proper shutdown, the OS knows this and asks the user if they want to either boot normally or boot into a diagnostic mode. Macs know the same thing (improper shutdown) but don't give you a similar screen (AFAIK).
What strikes me from both camps is picking that argument as a means of saying the other side is hypocritical. In reality if your platform is popular you have tons of applications (widgets, games, whatever) for it. That is a good thing.
In the Windows world there are a ton of apps, and yes most of them are crap. The same thing applies to the App Store, just as equally.