Microsoft tablet will bomb
 

The real issue of the new Windows tablet/ Windows 8 system is going to be whether or not users will cope with the radical shift in the interface with the floating blocks. From what I've read many reviewers had issues going things with a mouse that felt like they should be on a touch screen.

In other words, Microsoft's gamble that the desktop will die out by going for a heavy tablet focus many end up alienating its main user bases, home users and businesses.

Microsoft invented the tablet.

The upcoming Microsoft failure is Windows 8. It's an average to bad tablet/phone OS, but completely useless for a real computer.

Apple caught the industry short with the iphone, yes, but it's a joke these days, Android is outselling it by orders of magnitude; apple is mainly kept afloat by brand loyalty.

PS. Overuse of huge dark green letters make your post really difficult to read.

PPS. Macs are a type of PC (Personal Computer), just a broken and locked-down one, so you just insulted your own idol there.

I haz android :3

Thank God I only bothered reading 7 words of this.
Microsoft invented the tablet, and I'm pretty sure the touch screen was a Microsoft creation, as well.

What I find amusing is that it's so easy to tell that you're obviously just an Apple fan-boy who's upset that people don't use your superior Apple technology.

Windows 8 will just make people stick with Win 7 for the next decade or so like they did with XP. Funny though, as it's exactly what Microsoft wanted to avoid happening.

Equally telling, I think, is the fact that Microsoft basically paid Nokia US$1 billion to dump Symbian for Windows Phone.

Will Microsoft's tablet bomb? If past experience & history is any indicator, if it does bomb I think we'll start seeing Microsoft throwing cash around to increase market share, quite possibly to the point of a Nokia-style payoff to manufacturers and developers. Will such a payoff work? Only time will tell.

I don't give a damn if it bombs or not, personally. I use what works for me, and I'm not unwilling to change if either Apple or Microsoft go too far with the lockdowns and the back-doors -- and the way things are doing I expect I'll be doing so fairly soon.

It all depends on Windows 9. If it drops the attempt at Metro rubbish (remember Microsoft Bob, anyone?) for an option to have a real copmputer, I think it's recoverable for Microsoft. If not, we could very well see Linux gain a huge new market of admins, power users, gamers and anyone else who uses more than one thing at once.

Windows 8 is a mediocre tablet OS, and I'm fine with that on its own as it doesn't affect me. I think tablets are a useless gimmick, but even if I wanted one, I wouldn't use it as Android is orders of magnitude better. However, I recognise that it fills that niche for some people. What I object to is forcing it onto the desktop in the misguided belief that that will somehow improve market share rather than just alienate people.

I've never really understood people who want to use windows in their cellphones or tablets. IMO Android isn't exactly good but windows is still way worse. :/

If by "Tablet" you mean all Touch pads, then I would say that I like touch pads, because out here in the west Texas Desert, with it's talcum powder fine sand that gets into almost everything, the dust can NOT make it's way into the computer's innards by way of a keypad, as there IS NONE. This isn't just a "West Texas" thing, it is the same in southern New Mexico, Southern Arizona, and the south east California Desert, which is a LOT more people than just "Crazy Niri Te". I am getting an Apple iPad on the 29th, for many reasons, but the biggest is that my three year old 3G iPhone, (I got it the month after they came out) STILL works perfectly, I would just like a larger screen for my fat fingers. I also like the idea that it does NOT use the windows OS.
Niri Te

If the Surface Pro has a good pen digitiser my ipad2 is going out.
For desktops/laptops i think microsoft is a good 5 years to early with windows 8 and people will stick with win7 for it.
For devices like this i have high hopes running windows 8. Photoshop on a tablet, perhaps even more, great! :D

"5 years too early" implies it's a good idea. It isn't. It's an attempt at a tablet that's worse than Android and even than the iPad, and MS somehow believe that forcing the exact same UI onto real computers will gain them market share rather than just alienate anyone who uses a computer for more than facebook, email and youtube.

Well you got two out of the three reasons that I use a computer. All that I am interested in are Facebook, Email, and the various Forums, (the Avatar sites, and Yahoo Groups). That's all that I need to make me happy with a computer.
Niri Te

That hurt to read in more ways than one.

I stopped reading at "This has everything to do with the fact that MS is an imitator, not an innovator; everything they have done for 25 years is copy what Apple did 3 years prior."

Do you know where the GUI of the original Mac came from? Apple stole it from Xerox, and so did M$. Get your history straight. Apple has not "innovated" anything. Smartphones? Yeah, Palm came up with that one. First mp3 player was available in 1997. First iPod? 2001. Yep, they sure "predicted" that one.

If you're going to be an obviously biased and uneducated fanboy, do it somewhere else.

And how.

But hey, the text is all Avatary and stuff.

At least it wasn't papyrus.

All that may be true, there are MANY people out here that have not much money, and so for THEM, the "Cheap Imitations" will be the best that they can hope for. If ma oeya lora Yawnetu and I change our priorities, we could afford the 500 dollar apiece and up iPads, but we prefer our antique aircraft, and paying cash as we go, building our Hanger Home. We are the lucky ones, for US it is a CHOICE, now imagine the divorced mother of two with two minimum wage jobs, and no credit. If she is LUCKY, she can scrape together the money over six months to get hooked to the net for certain necessities that used to be available offline that no longer are. I realize the above is an extreme case, but there ARE such people, and for them, the "Cheap Imitations" are a Godsend. There is a definite need for them in today's economy.
Niri Te

So... not uneducated. VERY uneducated.

Have fun with your overpriced plastic.

Anyone who's willing to spend $500 on an iPad needs help.

Iphones are archaic, overpriced, have two ****ty carriers, and holds a charge as well as a piece of wool.

Ipads are over priced, can't play flash, and beyond that perform the exact same tasks as an iphone, except for the phone part. And they cost more.


Terrible company. Terrible and overpriced products. Amazing marketing team that could probably convince the world that shooting themselves in the head provides healthy cranial ventilation.

End thread.

No, this is the final kick to the kidney while Apple's down.

That looks like Ney'tiri just put a poison arrowhead through the heart of the iPads Chief of Design.
Niri Te

[/FONT]HATERZ GONNA HATE
Funny, you talk about my bias, yet ignore your own. Hypocrite. And insult me as uneducated. Physician, heal thyself.
Since you and I both own computers, I'm sure we share many of the same problems, like having to weekly update our anti-virus software... oh wait, no I don't.
Ans of course we both have the problems of some hinky bit of software causing windows to hang, forcing a quit, and a reboot... oh wait, no I don't.
And eventually, as all peecees do, it will eventually collapse into a fatal blue screen of death, and die...oh wait, not it won't.
Ever.

So just continue to dog the most valued company in the world, the one who can't get any more of the tablet market, because they literally cannot make any more fast enough.
I'm sure they heard your every word.

I never called you uneducated.

You like to get pretty dramatic about this stuff, eh?

If you don't keep anti-virus updated you're pretty retarded.


http://mashable.com/2012/06/25/apple...ot-virus-free/

The reason Apple didn't have any viruses was because nobody ****ing used them for years. Now that everybody and their grandmother has been brainwashed into the apple cult, guess what, hackers are now targeting apple users over windows! Because its easier to steal personal data from stupid people! :D



My PC won't collapse into a BSOD, because I can upgrade it! Its not permanently sealed in a ****ing heat trap of a plastic shell like apple products.


GGNORE

Yay for linux! I can haz no viruses.

Awwww shhhheeeeiiiit!

I'm not sure why this keeps going on.

Someone likes Apple, a good number of people don't. I'm really not sure why it matters so much to disprove another's point, particularly in such an aggressive manner. There are, at least in my opinion, more important things than company warfare.

I could be wrong, but I'm fairly sure the whole message of our beloved movie was to be tolerant of others. People might want to be a bit more mindful of that, but I could be wrong there as well.

I thought it was an "environmental message". :party:

It is.... that is until they start bombing the forest. At that point the message is to stick knives in them :p

Forgive me. Tolerant of others and the environment. Were the RDA tolerant of the Na'vi, the movie wouldn't have happened.

Whatever, nevermind. You can all carry on arguing.

Chill, bro.

Enough said. Thank you :)