Microsoft Surface...

[losCHUNK]

Looks like a tablet that will be superior to the iPad...

Hold your horses my little fuckaroo, it still runs Windows. That alone can equate to a massive suck factor. The Windows RT version intrigues me, however, since I deal with RT systems on a daily basis. What's funny is that in my world, if you want to run an RT system, the first thing you do is chuck Windows out the door and run Pharlap or VxWorks.

And out come the fanbois

[Nightshade]

Oh indeed, because acknowledging that Windows is prone to crashes and blue screens of death makes me a fanboi. So does drawing on professional experience in using Windows in machine control and automation, it would seem.

[Don Carlos]

Old Windows was like that, Windows 7 is so solid its unreal. My iPhone crashes more often than my Windows PC. What you are saying is true of the past, but absolutely not the current iterations of Windows

[seremtan]

now if only my fucking garmin would stop giving me a BSOD whenever i plug it in to my win7 64bit box

[MKJ]

Old Windows was like that, Windows 7 is so solid its unreal. My iPhone crashes more often than my Windows PC. What you are saying is true of the past, but absolutely not the current iterations of Windows

while this is true, have you seen the actual presentation?
the thing's browser crashes on stage.. very reminiscent to that win98 (i think) presentation so many years ago. thats just bad pr

[Captain]

lol who the fuck even uses IE? Everyone will install Firefox or Chrome on it, so it's a non-issue. Safari is shit too.

[Don Carlos]

Oh no, an unreleased OS crashed!!! How will they cope and possibly implement a fix?!

I know what you are saying though

[Big Kahuna Burger]

lol who the fuck even uses IE? Everyone will install Firefox or Chrome on it, so it's a non-issue. Safari is shit too.

you can't on the ARM version

[losCHUNK]

Oh indeed, because acknowledging that Windows is prone to crashes and blue screens of death makes me a fanboi. So does drawing on professional experience in using Windows in machine control and automation, it would seem.

And the iPad is the pinnacle of all things great ?, it's an oversized phone, without the phone...

[andyman]

caution: dubstep

[mrd]

I like how they called it Surface. Cause it's like a touch-sensitive surface that you touch and stuff. Very innovative.

[Eraser]

lol who the fuck even uses IE? Everyone will install Firefox or Chrome on it, so it's a non-issue. Safari is shit too.

MS is being a bit of a cunt about other browsers on Windows 8.
For some reason, they aren't allowing 3rd party browsers to run in the Windows Classic mode (which basically is Win8's desktop) and when running in the Metro UI using the Windows RT API's, they don't allow full access to all the API's that IE has access to. So that means no 3rd party can ever build a browser that can compete with IE because MS won't allow it. Both Mozilla and Google are making quite a bit of ruckus over this, already talking of possible anti trust lawsuits and such.

Not sure why they aren't making as much noise about it for iOS though, as Apple won't allow any 3rd party browser engines on there either. All custom browsers (with the exception of Opera Mini, which does the page rendering remotely) on iOS are basically shells around the Safari webkit engine. Then again, I'm not sure if MS would permit such "reskins" of IE10 either. I guess it's mostly due to legal issues. MS already lost a law suit over exactly these sorts of practices before so they're an easy target. Also, Apple isn't dominating the mobile/tablet market like MS dominates the PC market.

[Nightshade]

Old Windows was like that, Windows 7 is so solid its unreal. My iPhone crashes more often than my Windows PC. What you are saying is true of the past, but absolutely not the current iterations of Windows

Donny, I get what you're saying, but trust me, you don't run critical or real-time applications on a Windows machine. It's still not stable enough and it's definitely not fast enough. Almost the entire internet is run on Unix machines, last time I checked.

I've seen a few BSODs on my Win7 64-bit work laptop, btw.

[Nightshade]

And the iPad is the pinnacle of all things great ?, it's an oversized phone, without the phone...

Umm, you've lost me here.

[Nightshade]

Yep. Well, except for the Star Trek part, no idea about that nerd shit.

[Don Carlos]

Awesome

[obsidian]

Kubrick pwns all in 1968:

[andyman]

oh no no. we go way back, son.

[Doombrain]

If you don't get the tablet concept you're a moron or a bitter minimum wage pawn.

[scared?]

[scared?]

Btw...my was meant for Moses...not the moron below him...

[Tsakali]

what moron takes 2 minutes to post a smiley

[scared?]

A moron with a tribe of kids...

[plained]

when i get one I will wear it on a wristband!

[Tsakali]

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