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I would not pat MSFT on the back for a good job well done IDC rep interviewed with Bloomberg today ... even he sent strong suggestions to MSFT regarding the interface ... in-spite of MSFT good financial report ... he pointed out the in question ... that Win 8 didn't do well ... there are people n business that downgraded to Win7 If some business do embraces Win9 then great its only a year or two after Win8 boo boo and after 8.1 release but not all business will adopt it ... some will wait to see if it is safe. We will hear how they comment if Win8 or Win9 is at all like a Vista rally ... We will wonder how MSFT will be doing ... they did have at least two upper level employees that left the company since the Win8 release. It proves the rule of thumb ... to not upgrade on dot zero major version releases ... Win 9.0 ... it may trigger an additional wait time before acceptance. when something like 9.3 is released business will test if the OS is stable enough to start spending their budget on ... or if management deems the feature is needed above the risks they will get in exchange Partly I see why your confident MSFT will succeed ... its because they can't afford the major mistake like Vista ... the shift in hw n OS ... make it touchy state of affairs for their business ... losing reoccurring income ... and a loyal customer base Apple n Samsung or Linux doesn't mind Surface over pricing or MI boo boo ... they love to receive new loyal customers to their fold. Yeah I did hear or experience that Apple OS users don't upgrade or update their OS too readily ... I did witness my nephew getting help with Apple Support to guide him thru some updates to fix a problem ... when his mother found out ... lol she told him that she could have helped him with his laptop problems ... I guess this is why I like MSFT updates more than Apple or Linux ... MSFT will probably need to slice up that road map that will allow it to compete with Apple and Samsung regarding yearly or bi-annual releases.Perhaps this will be the time where RT n Pro will go their separate paths a little bit as each satisfies different needs. Bloomberg mentioned MSFT intends to go into the smaller device markets by upgrading their MI with smaller Tiles and other adjustments for a smaller screen. Its really spelling out that they lock themselves into the 10in size in order to put out Win 8 (beta). As long as MSFT is committed to be in the device\tablet market then this 0.9 version should look great when they get to 4.2 as android is at now or iOS 5 ... without disappoint their customers ... then success is on the way I don't recall Apple or Android upsetting customers like Win8 did ... I did notice Apple n Jobs hated Android like they hated IBM.

Car companies make major changes the look and everything else every couple of years Through that period they make incremental tweaks each year ... until people are tired of the look They put out new feature adds, corrections in design, recalls ... to attract new customers ... to save reputation among existing customer base MSFT needs to make their new interface better and usable ... they just really put Win8 out because its almost usable. Its very noticeable after trying to make practical use that Win8 can upset people more than amaze them. lol the ones that don't have touch screens ... its a no brainer that they should have eased shoving touch on a non touch system. People can't get a good trade in value for their old machines to buy a new one like you can do with cars Expensive gadgets lock you in more than it does with a car with the high depreciation ie: A 1200 retail sells a year later for 800 and then that customer buys it ... its worth 160 dollars for trade in the next day (640 lost) When new 1200 may trade in 240 dollars ... so its a lost of 960 or 640 dollars if you decide to trade in sometime after the return period. If you bought an extended warranty the store might credit you towards a new computer buy . Consumers don't have business budgets to replace equipment so readily ... to buy it saving up, sacrificing something, or buy on credit. There are some business that don't expect to buy new equipment for a period of time. They time it with the tax deductions they take for business equipment. It sort of explains why new equipment purchases occur every 3 or 5 years ... it sort of timed with MSFT new releases. There are instances that the new interface creates more work than reduces work just because of their own stubbornness. Have you noticed the demos given by Balmer and Jobs? There where times that the product failed to work ... They had to demo a certain way to make it appear it works for you. lol, Win8 demo had blatant boo boo that you can see the demo-er was embarrassed about Jobs had them too with Macintosh ... Gates had it too Samsung demo this year ... their demo of Galaxy Note 8 ... was perfectly executed ... every sell point they demo worked I not read any bad reviews as of yet ... yes give it time the good n bad will come out MSFT roadmap is really a long grocery\wish list ... what make able now and what takes time comes later Year by year some items are add, changed, done, deleted, or put off for another version depending upon the needs of their customers and what defect issues they have to tackle. The OS is released with minimal defects and known defects because the company needs to release it sooner to be able to deduct all that R&D earlier on their books than later. Its only the customer that will be happy or suffer with the features. Not knowing that the OS was really a alpha\beta. The wiser customer who are smart to wait a year to escape the defects or even smarter to skip the entire release (ie: Vista) MSFT should have been smart about how to release their product ... that it cater to the existing base with no touch and cater to the new customers who will use the touch enabled devices and non-touch ... but no ... they cause a furry of discontent Look at apple's release of iPhone5, iMaps big release mistake came with a huge number of customer complaints. There are customers waiting for a power fix for their iPhone4 and 4S and it never came. iPhone5 doesn't address it and they didn't release a fix for the 4 and 4S. Cook appologized and in that letter it revealed that they blocked Google Maps from the phone and now are unblocking it. Really that be a great Google lawsuit for now allowing in the first place the choice of using Google Maps or iMaps or whatever they want on their phone. I guess there is agreement ... the road will be bumpy for MSFT and Apple and they will make it bumpy for their adversaries All companies will play chess in business ... lol maybe more like JR Ewing ... a real battle waged in the industry The hedgers love it because it allows them to gamble to make a profit which ever way it goes. People will go to the products that fits their needs if they're available ... tablets being popular ... only shows that not all people need powerful computers, They want whats portable and Jobs was smart to know when that time has come whereas MSFT didn't. Apple did have Einstein and it failed just like HP iPaq ... I am not sure where Jobs was when it happen ... I think he was with Pixar maybe

Win 9 Leaked ... the desktop will vanish ... it means get use to the New Start than trying to keep Win7 Start menu They finally implemented Tile Grouping that should have been released in Win8 in the first place which kinda mimics Android Here are the screen shots http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/24/4141290/windows-blue-screenshots

How about Matt Bomer as Superman?

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IDC blames Win8 for the imploding pc market Its a no brainier that changing\removing a familiar interface would spark a decrease in sales or upgrades. Its sheer MSFT arrogance and laziness to not keep the product appeal to it long standing customers. Linux allows customers to use the interfaces of choice ... MSFT resisted that experience. Its clear that some of the customers are seeking alternatives to bring back the old interface. Office2013 also contributed to the declines. They sort of killed some of the features people love in Office2003 to Office2007\2010 in favor of the new WPF practices while trying to push people to the subscription sales model. Some people are trying to stay in their respective office versions because changing to a new version would cost them more to update their macros, upgrade add-ins, upgrade to Win8. It becomes two fold in annoying customers to learn a new interface while losing features that gave them a certain kind of productivity. I looked at an old product ... the commodore amiga ... they tried to bring back that 1985 OS. The company folded as the pc dominated the market. Since then the OS went into three directions Unixish, fan supported, re-invent. Last year they came out with the Amiga Mini ... using Core i7, 16GB of RAM and a Blu-ray drive ... running on the knoppix\linux os The OS resembles very little of the old OS. It had a hefty price tag of $2500 vs Mac Mini in a similar config cost $1,317.00 Even bringing down the price by $500 didn't attract customers. The people who loved the orig OS is still trying to keep it alive. They was never upgraded the OS ... it still looks like that OS from 1985 running on MC68000 type processor or Emulation for $30 The Commodore website is down so I must presume they folded again while the die hard fans thrive. Sure there are other factors to the PC Implosion ... Its the era that people have choice to choose their computing n media needs. But the industry got to realize that not many can afford to buy every gadget (laptop, Tablet, smartphone, smartTV, etc) All these products happen to be in the similar price range (expensive) In the old days a PC had an average cost of 3250 + tv 750 + cell 100 = 4,100 now its laptop 750 + smartphone 750 + smartTv 750 + Tablet 750 + Security 100 + Misc 1000 = 4,100 There is only so much you can extract from the domestic market. Companies are force to compete for new market like Asian and South American Markets, new territories that they think will be their new pot of gold. But its not easy as we can see how tough these new areas are just by observing how Apple and other foreign companies are doing. The last part to affect the market is economics ... imagine 20million people can barely afford a gadget ... thats billions of dollars of lost revenue. Can we say that the companies are expecting to make up the difference on those that can afford? lol, the DVD and Video Store markets are imploding or imploded ... because of the change of the sales model of video n rentals. Yes, OnDemand sure did change those worlds ... soon we won't need a DVD ... perhaps soon we won't need a hard drive ... all on the cloud.

ever see a cruise ship hit another cruise ship here is how it looks to cruise close to shore, it reminds me of costa concordia

gosh ... looks scary in big waves

better add another line to yer bucket list ... "Ride the zip line (upside down)" or try the keelhauler ship

Gosh, its been advertise for years to come out, but becomes a bit of disappointment 1st, Superman looking like a wrestler 2nd, Russell Crowe looks like he rekindling his role in Gladiator 3rd, Kevin Costner in his Field of Dreams farmers clothes 4th, General Zod ... gosh we already saw him in Superman2 ... we got a remake 5th, his costume is the same material as the new spiderman Other complaints?

oh its pre-Dwarven envy :-) I was looking for American version around the time UK version just came out I was browsing through the movie and wondered where's Riker n Swazey?? Never noticed that this was a UK version since I didn't have time to watch the movie Years later I found the American Version and watched some of it ... It never occur to me that I watched the BBC version until you shared eps 1 I guess education is going further this year lol

Inside the ship http://www.funcage.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-of-the-worlds-largest-cruise-ship/ Imagine the ship barring down Titanic II to step aside

looks like MSFT scored on patent licencing subscribers this affects mainly android devices Facebook hired the iMaps guy ... is that a good or goof thing? Will he work well with Zuckerberg? It looks like companies are after Appl alumni to help develop their iOS apps APPL low for today = 398 back to 2011 prices I heard it can go as low as 350 How much can appl go up if it released iRadio, iWatch, iTv, iWallet, iPhone5S, 6, iMini2? Keeping in mind Samsung n MSFT will release their products?

gosh why is it called N&S? in 1985, the USA version is about the American Civil War (1860s) yet the BBC version is England 1855, industrialization n Dickens this kinda reminds me of the England history background of 2012 Olympics

oh how lucky V1 n 2 didn't encounter any dark matter ... it be scary to discover how many wimps are out there vs seeking out heavenly bodies

Anyone get no radio since thursday 4/11??

lol, yeah right u can pick one up on google play ...

ever see a flying iPad??

I thought I heard something like that for the new Samsung Galaxy S4 having a secure separate workspace In 2010-2011 blackberry was very popular overseas like in ME and Asia so whats changed?

its Chippendales with FUR!!

Would u take a cheapy phone for a trade in lol? I see that prepaid is gone??

belated happy birthday!!

ahh will this commercial sell you the project? Deep Space Industries - Mining The Universe For The Future

Any one a Cubby Fan?