This sums it up for me, (from Engadget live blog):
"8:11PM "Thank you very much." And Robbie is gone. And... that's it? Wow. Incredibly boring. Incredibly incredibly boring. Really."
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.
Wake me up when it's time for Computex.Way to start off the year, MS.
I liked the part where Balmer says " We call them Slates. Because they don't have a keyboard".
What he meant to say :
We call them Slates because we heard through the rumor mill Apple was calling their ******* iSlate.
It sucks that other companies always beat Apple to a new game... And although Apple's tablet will certainly be better, it still loses the impact of being the first to which everyone else wants to catch up to and emulate...
Apple needs a device to compete with the netbooks.
Be careful - your friend DMann might call you a blasphemer for calling Microsoft's CEO a god.
When you grow up, you'll understand.
Why? You can get biased fanboi comments in realtime here, now.
Be careful - your friend DMann might call you a blasphemer for calling Microsoft's CEO a god.
Why? You can get biased fanboi comments in realtime here, now.
Your history is exactly backwards.
Tablets without keyboards have been called "slates" since the '90s.
Why Microsoft allows Ballmer to be the company spokesperson defies all logic. Is anyone honestly not embarrassed by this guy? Just because he's the CEO doesn't mean he has to be on the stage. Jobs envy? Probably. Can't the Board overrule him or something and make him sit in the audience with a paper bag over his head?
I miss watching Gates titter like a muppet on a big sofa with Conan O'Brien. At least Gates isn't repellant like Ballmer. The demo failures during that particular event were comedy gold too, particularly O'Brien's reaction to the device failures: "Who's in charge at Microsoft anyway???"
Who else would brag about being able to experience a black+white textbook in full colour? The guy is so shamelessly awful it's impossible not to watch. More compelling than a trainwreck imo.
This is Microsoft. Get used to disappointment.
"I want to highlight new form factors in what we call Slate PCs." - Lord Ballmer
"What we call?" Seriously?
Translation: "We can't upstage Apple's upcoming product, but at least we can ruin the Slate name for them."
You mean about the Great Keynote that never was? MS secret "slate" weapon, etc.?
LOL.
Apple is making a bad habit of this too."Me too, Me 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."Sorry y'all, this is all I gotz. Hey, did I just hear someone unwrap a Snickers bar?"
God of the Underworld.
With nothin' to crow about, he's sure to find a way.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)
[Ballmer photo retracted for excessive hilarity.]
"Sorry y'all, this is all I gotz. Hey, did I just hear someone unwrap a Snickers bar?"
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.
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.)
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).This is the image people will remember.
And yes. I know it's happened to Apple too.
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!