They can't enforce it. It's so widespread. Microsoft's PR Agency in the UK have paid me thousands of pounds so far to tweet good things about Kinect. Of course i'm tweeting from a crib sheet, as I don't own a Xbox, nor would I after knowing what Microsoft get upto....
have got their army of bloggers to try and talk their way out of their mess and turn the focus on non-existent Android problems.. How quaint. Apple now adopting Microsoft tactics.
1 thing I can't have for Xmas.
a working Xbox. The slim has just failed. No RROD this time, as Microsoft removed the display, but it's the same symptoms...
Time to buy a PS3.
Unfortunately, there are still retards that don't grasp this. Sony never forced anyone to remove OtherOS. Ther moment Geohot sorta hacked the system, that was the moment Sony pulled the plug on allowing those systems not updated to access the online servers.
If you want to blame anyone, blame Geohot....
Opera is still faster and more fully featured for me.
I'm 100% satisified that Opera 11 (beta) offers me the best of ALL worlds... I don't have to suffer suck performance and bloated nonsense (Firefox), I don't have to suffer Chromes lacklustre featureset or privacy issues either.
I get a browser, I get mail, RSS, IRC, news, BitTorrent and a tonne more stuff, and it's smaller than both Firefox and Chrome, and faster too... It also looks the best.
Android is outselling W7 by 15:1
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/26/windows_phone_7_sales/
And it's not going to get better, it's going to get worse. Android devices are getting better and more widespread by the day.
Microsoft need to stick to software, their hardware products are an embarrassment. Xbox, Kinect, WP7 all technical failures on a grand scale, the latter 2 being a commercial failure too.
Because if it were possible to dig deep enough, you will find that Apple funded the report.
Consumers buy what the television tells them to buy. Consumers are idiots.
Microsoft are spending half a billion dollars selling a broken Kinect system to idiots that are too stupid to decide on their own, and if sponsored spots on Oprah/Shopping Network/Whatever tell them to buy something, they will.
www.opera.com
All the good stuff (AdBlock+, NoScript, BookmarkSync, GreaseMonkey) is all built in, as is Mail, News, RSS, IRC, BitTorrent and loads more.
It's a smaller download than Firefox, faster, way more functional, more secure, more standards complaint too.
There is absolutely NO reason to suffer Firefox in this day and age.
PS. Give Opera 11 a shot, it's very stable, and is even more awesome than Opera 10.6x.
Perhaps despite the myth that Joystiq continue to spread, PS3 owners actually DO use Playstation Home regularly, millions of them infact.... Microsoft want some of this for Xbox.
No GIT is a pain in the ass to setup and use, with abysmal support. I gave up and used SVN instead.
Is EVERY slashdot reader a pirate that never pays for anything? Sometimes it seems like every single American is just downloading illegal content all day long, and complaining when companies try and protect their revenue.
Clearly this can't go on. Expect a drop in investment in Movies/Music/Games/whatever if people continue to steal..
It won't lead to a more open system. All these idiot hackers have ensured, is that the PS4 won't come with OtherOS or ability to use lots of different USB devices and your own HDD. It will be locked down in every possible respect.
You can thank idiots like Geohot for that.
Nothing happens.
