How exciting news! You can see that imprinted on the presenter’s face!
Looks like it is going to be less interesting then the previous model
I think MS really have a gift for presentation nowadays. Maybe they are not going to use threatening gestures to sell the new one, unlike the old one. This is the ‘buy one or I hit you’ approach
Do you know anyone who bought one these things voluntarily with their own money?
Salesman-of-the-Month Ballmer in his characteristic inviting pose.
Damn Steve Ballmer looks kinda old…
Beleaguered
I don’t know anyone who has one of these, period. That includes people I “virtually” know, like Facebook friends. If they do, they never talk about it.
Anyone that bought on - NO
Anyone who has one - YES - several - but they kind of have to since they work for MS
Funny, I’ve post much less pointed observations about Apple in the past and I was accused of starting a flame war. No place for that kind of talk here, I was warned. At least this forum is consistently hypocritical, I’ll give you guys that much.
Here you go Carl, I took your idea and made it shareable:
Har.
I’ll never understand why some mock people and products who are far, far, far more successful than they or their products.
Hi everyone,
Yes, I have one, and I love it! It does everything a typical windows machine does - just much faster. The Xojo IDE runs much faster, and it runs all my 32 and 64 bit programs. It is great for those long flights when I need to create that last bit of crucial Xojo code to finish a project
Eugene
I do use Microsoft, Apple and Google products. I mock every one of those indistinctly as they make bad moves.
The case I started wasn’t a really a mockery, I was watching the announcement, and the enthusiastic face of the guy called my attention. As a technical and interesting event, I just shared the fact.
I have one also. I like it very much.
I do not own one. I’ll wait for Microsoft to create an OS for those first.
Now I am mocking.
Steve’s an easy target especially since MS share price basically flatlined under his leadership and they’ve lost market share in markets they used to be very successful in (phones)
While revenues have grown MS key income & revenue generators really haven’t moved much - it’s been largely rejigging their age old Windows & Office franchises. The Entertainment & devices division was, last I looked, cumulatively still way under water as are most non Windows/Office divisions (they’ve spent far more in marketing a& development than they’ve earned)
Basically the company hasn’t been able to expand its reach much beyond what Steve had the day he was made CEO.
From that perspective he’s not been a very successful CEO.
Personally he’s #20 or #21 on the richest person in America list so sure he’s “successful” in that sense.
But it will be interesting to see how he’s “remembered” after he departs MS since his tenure as CEO saw MS not make headway or expand into markets like music, phones, etc that have fueled Apples resurgence.
It’s not sexy, but for many people, WIndows is a helluva a lot more productive than OS X.