Comment Re:old schuul (Score 2) 328
FVWM has been my WM for almost a decade, but I'm willing to give these new DE's a try.
I hear CDE has been open sourced recently
FVWM has been my WM for almost a decade, but I'm willing to give these new DE's a try.
I hear CDE has been open sourced recently
Groucho Marx sums it up best
I find TV very educational. Everytime someone turns one on, I go in the other room and read a book.
If MS goes 100% propritary someday and cuts the OEMs out alltogether, they will have to jump at some point. Here is the problem.
Pioneers take all the arrows.
The second Mouse gets the cheese.
If they jump to soon, they take the brunt of the transition and will likely go out of business. If they jump to late, they will have to much debt from not leaving the party sooner. By that point switching won't matter.
I think everyone sees the hand wirting on the wall. They just want somone else to come up with a viable way out first before the follow.
Us Linux folks have been waiting 10 years for this. The day that Microsoft started eating the OEM's lunch. At some point they will have to compete against Microsoft. Since Microsoft gets Windows for "free" the only way to match the price point on the hardware will be to load an OS that costs them less than Windows.
With the Windows 8 App store it looks like Valve has figured out they had better have an exit strategy for leaving the Windows PC Market. Hopefully the OEMs like Dell, HP and Lenovo will figure this out soon as well.
I understand they've renamed their table computer, but I don't think I've ever seen any explaination on what motivated them to want to change the name of that and call their new tablet "Surface" instead.
They are hoping it wont be in the red, the want to break even, get their head above the "surface" of the water to not drown?
I'm even sure that this was a wake up call for Microsoft and is the reason why they try to shove down "Metro" and their "unified" vision down our throat. That in the hope that familiarity will influence the choice people make when buying a new tablet. I know a lot of people who replaced their PC with a tablet or are using the PC a lot less since they have a tablet. I think for the general population that does some surfing, e-mailing and simple games a tablet can be good enough. And that is a big threat for Microsoft when the dominant tablets don't have a Microsoft operating system on board.
Here Here!
Price is going to be a big factor. The Nexus 7 is $200 and does alot. How much? Enough to make some one wonder if they want to buy 3 Nexus 7's for them, their spouse, and a kid, OR do they want to buy on Surface or other Winsows 8 tablet at $600 plus? The only way that Microsoft adds "value" for an OS that is priced at $50 or $150 is on expensive hardware. If you put Win 8 on the Nexus 7 it would be a $300 tablet. You have to hide the price of Win 8 in the cost of overpriced hardware.
That is not to say there is not value havind a keyboard as well as front and rear facing cameras. Microsoft is betting that someone will look at a Nexus 7 wth no keyboard, front facing camera, scratchable screen at $200 and pass it up for Win 8 tablet at $600. Remember, this is WinRT at $600 and there are more Andriod apps than Win 8 apps and you must trust Microsoft with your cloud info better than you trust google.
The market to me looks like Android owns the sub $400 market, Apple owns the $500 to $900 market and those that absoletely must run a Windows desktop on a tablet might spend $900 + on a Win 8 tablet
Be serious, the last time the justice department step in and the wheels of justice finished milling their product, every cometitor was locked out or dead due to Microsofts practices.
Betting on the DOJ stepping in, in time is NOT a good business plan.
Ah, but can she get socks?
Yes, but the key there is to go where the puck is going to be. Microsoft has been a day late and a dollar short at ending up where the puck is. I think is is much more likely that they are going to guess at where the puck will be, but they will end up no where near where the puck is going.
It is an interesting question. Look at Steve Jobs in 1984 and where he thought computers would be by now. Did he have a good idea where things were going? Or did he decide where he wanted to go, and bent our will to his?
It has happened a time or two for me. Distro provide version 1.32 from 3 years ago. Version 1.85 just came out on the website with a feature I need. And the guy botched the source tarball. No Makefile and nothing that would allow autogen to work either. Sure versions
But I will give you your point. No one does it on purpose. It is a statistical anomaly.
For instance, domain managed applications and login, resilient file sharing, group policies, etc. If any of these items surface (pun!), in the new product, there will be at least a corporate buying spree.
Really? None of those features will be available on the WinRT tablet that will be out in October. It will be January or February when the over a thousand dollar we don't know the battery life Windows 8 tablet hits the market.
Right now MS is to interested in their own app store to care about anything else after the Windows 8 launch.
I noticed it the first time I thought about sitting down in the bathroom with it.
These are the same people that predicted the massive rise to hundreds of millions of Netbooks after the first Netbooks hit the market. From 2009 we can see that their 2012 predictions are off. They did not see Microsoft killing the Netbook market. They also failed to note at the time the rise of the iPAD.
It is almost to the point that if Gartner predicts something I can be sure that is the ONE thing that won't happen.
Has the XBox really broken even? After all of the parlor games and accounting tricks?
Writing off 2 billion in repairs in 2009 for what will happen in 2010-2012 and only call it a loss for 2009. How can it be a "profit" it you make 500 million but paid out 600 million in repairs that year. It is like saying we turned a profit this year because of "revenue" in the sense of a loan we gave our self 2 years ago.
For years every Xbox was sold at a loss, then every XBox360 was sold at a loss. Then there were the repairs for defective XBox and XBox 360's. Multiple repairs. With development costs, advertising, etc, we are at somewhere between 8 to 10 billion in losses.
Plus all the other losses from that division. Such as Zune, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, etc. You are heading toward 20 billion. At this point, how many years will the Xbox 360 have to be profitable before they actually break even?
Then we can talk BING! Windows Live and MSN. which all loose money as well.
I'm fine with click the tray icon and roll the scroll wheel. You make it sound like that extra click is a tragedy. Given how tray icons work, this makes sense, btw. Otherwise explorer would have to catch what your doing and pass it to the tray icon.
You could just as easily justify the one-button mouse. The problem is, after getting used to a 2 or 3 button mouse going back to a one button mouse bothers you.
After becoming used to being able to control the volume with the scroll wheel, Windows feels primitive making me have to click, wait, then scroll.
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