Amethyst posted:

Bill Gates posted:

I just got my Surface Pro a week ago and it is very nice.
I am using a Perceptive Pixel display right now - huge Windows 8 touch whiteboard. These will come down in price over time and be pervasive...

Amethyst posted:

Amethyst posted:

it's gate's fault. he's still the "visionary" behind all of the microsoft blunders. balmer and elop follow his orders.

Cardboard Box A posted:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/3/6100741/toshiba-encore-mini-windows-tablet

"Microsoft promised cheaper Windows tablets with its "Windows 8.1 with Bing" option for manufacturers, and they’re now starting to arrive. Toshiba is one of the first to announce a 7-inch Windows tablet this week at the IFA tradeshow in Berlin, signalling a new price point for mainstream manufacturers to battle the cheap Android alternatives. The new Encore Mini is a 7-inch (1024 x 600) Windows 8.1 tablet running a quad-core Intel Atom processor with 16GB of internal storage and an SD slot if you need more space. It’s a pretty bare-bones machine, but it’s priced accordingly: it retails for just $119.99 and is available now."

1024 x 600



drfisheye
But you can’t run Windows Store apps at 600px, the minimum requirement is 768px. I don’t get it.

blackNBUK
They removed that requirement with, I think, 8.1.

drfisheye
Nope, the requirement of 8.1 is 1024×768.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/system-requirements

drfisheye
I have 8.1 on a 1024×600 netbook and no Windows Store app starts.

rjmccall posted:

i'm having a hard time imagining a plausible price point for this that a company might actually spring for, though. like, it doesn't have to have anywhere near the same pixel density as an ipad, and the touch sensor doesn't need to be quite as good, but you have to scale it up to cover like 12 square feet. "oh, once a week or so, this $2000 device would come in really, really handy"

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

I was picking a bologna sandwich out of the floppy drive

mod sassinator posted:

i seriously think execs like balmer and elop live in this fantasy world where they use stuff like that and think it is perfectly viable consumer technology. meanwhile they have an army of aids and staff that make poo poo work behind the scenes to make the illusion work.

it's like reagan and star wars defense initiative

theadder posted:

say more about this

prefect posted:

i remember bunches of articles about how bill gates's house was all automated and computerized. i bet that's what they think everyone wants/needs

mod sassinator posted:

i seriously think execs like balmer and elop live in this fantasy world where they use stuff like that and think it is perfectly viable consumer technology. meanwhile they have an army of aids and staff that make poo poo work behind the scenes to make the illusion work.

it's like reagan and star wars defense initiative

Pinterest Mom posted:

reminder:
"Steve Ballmer has an 80-inch Windows 8 tablet in his office. He's got rid of his phone, he's got rid of his note paper. It's touch-enabled and it's hung on his wall."
"It's his whiteboard, his email machine," Shaw said, "and it's a device we're going to sell."

Pinterest Mom posted:

reminder:
"Steve Ballmer has an 80-inch Windows 8 tablet in his office. He's got rid of his phone, he's got rid of his note paper. It's touch-enabled and it's hung on his wall."
"It's his whiteboard, his email machine," Shaw said, "and it's a device we're going to sell."

quote:

Tokyo (AFP) - The Japanese launch of Microsoft's Xbox One fell flat on Thursday, with journalists covering the debut far outnumbering buyers.

Japan finally got the console more than nine months after it hit shelves in North America, Europe and Australasia and half a year after domestic heavyweight Sony unleashed its PlayStation 4 to grand acclaim.

But the usual enthusiastic crowds that greet big launches in Japan were absent on Thursday morning, with just one buyer at a major electronic retailer in Tokyo.

"I was surprised that I was the first one to get this even though I didn't wait in a queue," said Kazuyuki Wakai, surrounded by half a dozen journalists from Japanese and international media.

Wakai, 30, said he had opted for the Xbox because of its graphics and because of certain titles that are only available on the console, including the "Halo" series.

But Wakai, who also has a number of PlayStations and a Nintendo Wii, admitted the Xbox lags far behind its Japanese rivals in terms of popularity.

"It may be because the bad impression of earlier models still lingers," he said, noting hardware designs and initial technical glitches.

Both Xbox One and PlayStation 4 are aimed at hard-core gamers, strategies the companies hope will insulate them from the challenge posed by free or cheap smartphone downloads popular among the casual player.

Microsoft says application software development and linguistic challenges are among the reasons behind the long lag in launching the Xbox One in Japan

The company said in April it had shipped more than five million of the consoles globally since it launched in November.

Sony said last month global sales of PlayStation 4 had surged past the 10 million mark in less than a year, a record for the Japanese giant.

Xbox has been trailing badly in Japan. Japanese sales of Sony's PlayStation 3 were 824,000 units in 2013, dwarfing the fewer than 20,000 Xbox 360 consoles, the predecessor to Xbox One, according to estimates by leading game magazine Famitsu.

A Microsoft marketing official told AFP the company expects sales will pick up as more titles are released towards the end of the year.

"We have high expectations as this (machine) is loaded with graphics that will surely satisfy game players," he said.

eschaton posted:

that's why such things go in a conference room as a departmental resource, if each of a few dozen people find it useful every week or so

theadder posted:

say more about this

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

nobody used floppies at that point so it only gets reported when the meat starts to stink but the heat and dry air sorta turns it in to a jerky sandwich so you have to break it up with a flathead and then pick it out with tweezers

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

listen I have a closet of bitcoin rigs pumping out heat over here

Blackula69 posted:

A new Microsoft product that allows website publishers to embed digital photographs on their sites is a “massive infringement” of copyrighted images, Getty Images claimed in a lawsuit filed in federal court in New York on Thursday.

The Bing Image Widget, released on Aug. 22, gives publishers the ability to create a panel on their websites that displays digital images supplied by Microsoft’s Bing search engine, according to the lawsuit.

Rather than draw from a pool of licensed images, the lawsuit claimed, the product grants access to the billions of images that can be found online, without regard to whether the photos are copyrighted.

“In effect, defendant has turned the entirety of the world’s online images into little more than a vast, unlicensed ‘clip art’ collection for the benefit of those website publishers who implement the Bing Image Widget, all without seeking permission from the owners of copyrights in those images,” the lawsuit said.

Blackula69 posted:

A new Microsoft product that allows website publishers to embed digital photographs on their sites is a “massive infringement” of copyrighted images, Getty Images claimed in a lawsuit filed in federal court in New York on Thursday.

The Bing Image Widget, released on Aug. 22, gives publishers the ability to create a panel on their websites that displays digital images supplied by Microsoft’s Bing search engine, according to the lawsuit.

Rather than draw from a pool of licensed images, the lawsuit claimed, the product grants access to the billions of images that can be found online, without regard to whether the photos are copyrighted.

“In effect, defendant has turned the entirety of the world’s online images into little more than a vast, unlicensed ‘clip art’ collection for the benefit of those website publishers who implement the Bing Image Widget, all without seeking permission from the owners of copyrights in those images,” the lawsuit said.

duTrieux. posted:

once i wrote a sentence about how with windows live messenger the customer can video chat in full hd. the ms lawyers had me add a footnote to that sentence clarifying that to chat in full hd, you needed windows live messenger. the text of the footnote was effectively the same as the sentence it was footnoting