|
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 07:51 AM EST |
Also - MS is trying it's old "lock-in" tricks with Win8, Win8 hard to
learn too...
There is one estimate that Win8 takes about 6 weeks to learn. Total Cost of
Ownership, when you examine the cost per employee just for the hours of trial
and error training, or formal training programs in-house, then add on the lost
productivity dollars while doing that training. Ouch.
Just imagine that issue in IT departments as to IF they will ever, ever, ever
deploy Win8 ever... (and lose their jobs for doing it)?
[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
|
|
Authored by: JamesK on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 08:38 AM EST |
Outside of my nephew, who thinks Windows phones are going to take the market
away from Android & iPhone, nobody I know, who has used Windows 8, likes it.
Might not that have something to do with this? Take a look at what happened to
Nokia for more evidence about how popular W8 is.
---
The following program contains immature subject matter.
Viewer discretion is advised.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
|
|
Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, January 10 2013 @ 07:02 AM EST |
It looked so funny. The scene was your typical young,
geeky looking computer
tech whiz that the crime scene task
force depends on to track down leads. He
(or just as often,
she) has a small office crowded with computer monitors and
can access cell phone and credit records in a blink of the
eye. Top secret
military records take only moments
longer.
For displaying locations
they seem to love Google Earth
type sweeping zooms where the display begins
with the entire
North American continent and ends up at street level. They
often carry tablets these days for quick, on the spot
responses, and transfer
photos to the on-scene investigators
in a blink of the eye.
So I have
set the scene. The detective walks into the
geek's office and wants a trace on
a phone number. The geek
has a Microsoft Surface in his hands, and the camera
zooms
in tight to fill my TV screen with that distinctive Metro
interface.
That shot lingers just a moment longer than
necessary. The geek touches a tile
and zooms into some
complex data display.
The camera pulls back while
the geek and the detective
discuss the information just uncovered. Then as if
to ensure
we really noticed "the latest technology" he was using, the
camera
zooms in once more on the Surface as the geek exits
the app he was using to
give us a final full screen view of
the Metro UI.
Wow, we are supposed
to think I guess, "How cool"! But it
was anything but... The colourful kiddy
Fischer-Price UI of
the Surface tablet was incongruous in the middle of a
serious crime drama, but it did offer some comic relief.
I wonder how
much Microsoft paid for that product
placement? They certainly got the exposure
they paid for,
but I doubt it will do them any good. Wrong type of show.
They
should have chosen a comedy. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
|
|
Authored by: ailuromancy on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 03:25 AM EST |
Before Netbooks we had small cheap computers
(The name had to change along
with the downgrade to
Intel/Windows instead of ARM/Linux). The small cheap
computer got its foot firmly in the door in 2007
(Asus Eee). Part of the
reason for the existence of
the small cheap computer was the OLPC XO-1 - which
sold like (passively cooled) hot cakes in 2006.
The other big thing at
that time was Microsoft's
Vista (reared its ugly head in late 2006 and foisted
on the unwary in early 2007). One of the big
advantages of Vista was it
required reasonably
good (for 2007) 3d hardware.
Intel's integrated 3d
hardware was on Microsoft's
'too slow for Vista' list. The hammering
OEM's
took on laptop prices was so bad that they
begged and got Microsoft to include
inadequate 3d
hardware in the Vista compatible list. This lead to
some damning
reviews that could not have helped
raise the price of laptops.
I agree
that small cheap computers
Netbooks have kept the perceived
value of PC's and
laptops low, but we should all be grateful to Microsoft
and
Vista for their outstanding efforts in making
laptops a reasonable price. I can
understand that
Microsoft are no longer keen to carry the torch on this
issue.
I am happy for them to rest on their laurels
while I install Debian on Android
and Chrome devices.
[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
|
|
|
|
|