I asked for a couple of references that show rumors about a 1Q 2013 Apple TV release, and I get a WSJ link that references sources at Foxconn, some idle speculation from NYT blogs (which is not the same as NYT btw and is extremely unreliable like the blogs on Forbes, Business Insider etc., thought you would know that) and some speculation from Gene Munster? Wow that's quite a low.

Keep telling yourself that. I had no doubts about how things played out, unlike you and the Slashdot story trying to spread FUD about Ballmer leading the Xbox into the holiday division.

Again, quote me the "speculation and misinformation and BS" in my post to which you started replying.

Again, reason X and employment contracts are just a red herring to this article and your post. The crux is that you and the Slashdot story were insinuating that Ballmer is going to lead the Xbox team long term while it was pretty much a given that he was not.

If you want to read some baseless speculation, misinformation and BS read your posts:

That period expired last year. Post anything anti-MS, get upvoted on Slashdot regardless of truth. This site is a joke.

Outdated news... Google has dropped nothing.

"Google Extends Windows Phone Exchange ActiveSync Support Until July"

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2414917,00.asp

Please stop twisting facts or posting misleading stories to further your agenda. Your entire post is bunk.

Holding out for Linux 3.11 for workgroups.

...yet.. just like secure boot on x86 PCs.
Boot kits are prevalent on PCs and Secure Boot prevents it while allowing the small percentage of enthusiasts to install alternative OSes on x86.
Just because some person wanting to install some OS can't bothered to uncheck a checkbox doesn't mean that hundreds of millions of PC users must be subject to undetectable rootkits.

The optics don't fall over. They're very good.

What makes you think the lenses are not good?

If you're comparing a phone camera with a DSLR then it means it has already won. Anyway, here's more technical details.

Sample photos from the phone http://www.flickr.com/photos/87544844%40N00/sets/72157634597356196/
Review of the photo tech http://pureviewclub.com/2013/15270
Whitepaper from Nokia on the tech http://i.nokia.com/blob/view/-/2723846/data/1/-/Lumia1020-whitepaper.pdf
Sample photos from the predecessor http://www.flickr.com/groups/nokia808/
Nokia presentation showcasing the phone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Q3bxo7vJI&hd=1

I too have. He's wrong.

Is that so? Then why can anyone run Linux on a Surface Pro?

Or do you mean that WindowsRT is doing so well that it will kill PCs will do more harm to user freedom than an iPad? Looks like you are more optimistic about it than MS itself!

If people do not want Secure Boot then why are they falling over each other to buy the iPad with a locked bootloader? Or one of the many Android phones and tablets with locked bootloaders? Or are you just speculating about "people"?

It's like saying Antivirus programs will one day prevent all executables from running just because they have the capability to block any executable and have successfully blocked some.

Not all. I just quoted four. How you can extrapolate that to all when I specifically said they are not to be trusted as much as reliable ones?

The difference should be obvious if you have any background in journalism. It is that reputable organizations like the ones I have listed vet their sources and don't post everything from every anonymous email or tip they get. They spend a minimum time and effort to make sure their reputation stays intact. You can add Reuters and AP to the list I quoted. Most other news organizations just print anything regardless of the reliability of their sources.

Maybe, but the WSJ article gave the rumors legitimacy and confirmed a lot of things. That article was widely quoted and reported in the media at the time. Why would it be if everyone else was onto the story? In fact in some cases the companies themselves leak things to the big news orgs to generate hype.

Everyone? Care to reference a couple from WSJ, Bloomberg, Reuters, AP, Washington Post, NYT that say "from our sources"? Or are you making up things as you go ?

That made me laugh, you're clutching at straws here. The whole point of the reorg is to have new divisions and heads. Ballmer need not name the head of every small subdivision. Is there even a Xbox division anymore?

  This whole Slashdot article is a misleading non-story not worthy of even being posted and only designed to rile up ignorant people who get their MS news only from here or other similar forums and who don't even know about the reorg.

Not this again, I got tired of it because you were not willing to concede the point after losing it. In one post you claimed Microsoft had a option not to let go of Mattrick. I replied no they cannot. After a couple of posts you changed your tune saying that Microsoft can't prevent him from leaving if he pays his way out. I am tired of arguing this again and again.

Did you read your own posts that I quoted? Here they are:

I am totally vindicated in all my points. All my so called speculation and misinformation turned to be actually true because it was based on reliable sources who delivered yet again, while your speculation about Ballmer leading Xbox into the holiday season turned to be total junk. Yet you accuse me of speculation and misinformation?

For example read my post, the reply to your first post in this thread:

Please quote the "speculation, misinformation and BS" in that post.

Again, the internet and media consists of tens of thousands of news organizations and blogs. Learning to separate the good ones with a great track record from the others is a valuable skill which you sorely lack. Or you're just pretending to be dumb to try not to concede the point. I don't know which is worse but the result is saddening.

Oh god, what the heck? Do you even understand English?

How in the hell is "Bloomberg, WSJ, NYT, Washington Post" the same as "the internet" ? Do you have sudden amnesia that hits you just after you read my post and before you write a reply? I specifically said that speculation by organizations like that are "NOT THE SAME AS THE SPECULATION ON THE INTERNET".

Do you even read what you yourself quoted from my post???

How can you even claim that that equates to "believing everything you read on the internet" ? Are you dumb or just acting so?

How many news sites and blogs are on the internet? Hundreds of thousands?

How many news sites and blogs are in the list "Bloomberg, WSJ, NYT, Washington Post" I count 4.

I feel that I am debating with someone who can't read.

Again you color all speculation the same.

"The sun will rise tomorrow". Is that speculation or fact? Is it at the same level of speculation as Apple will release iPhone 6 tomorrow? Don't you agree that there's different levels of speculation based on probability, track record etc.?

There's informed speculation and there's uninformed speculation.

Oh yes, ignore everything that the WSJ got right and pick on one thing(March could've been the internal plan at Apple in Jan). Also ignore that I said "it's pretty much 100% right". The link was an example about how WSJ had access to real information as opposed to the rest of the internet.

I see you still fail to read the news which broke around 30 mins before your post. Here's your new head of Xbox, Ballmer is not taking over till the holiday season like you were insinuating.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2013/Jul13/07-11OneMicrosoft.aspx

Will you admit you were wrong in your posts below?

If you don't agree that your posts and basically this whole Slashdot article and most of the comments on here are bunk after the news that broke today, you're morally and ethically bankrupt.

Windows 8 is not the same as Windows RT.

Windows 8 runs on only x86.

I love how the iPad gets a free pass but the barely selling WindowsRT is a big deal.

Sure, but they will lose Windows 8 certification which gives them marketing, discounts etc.

That's why no OEM currently prevents that option. If you have a reference stating that one does, please provide it. Until then it's just speculation, an OEM can do anything in the future, including blocking Windows from running.

Reducing contrast to confuse older folks and people with bad monitors into clicking ads to make more money is pretty evil in my book.
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