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Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
office 2013 is ugly as all gently caress and i won't upgrade to it ever

it is going to have to deal until office 2010 goes eol

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Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
around the holidays, everybody loves my schweddy ballmers

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:

i think they'd be better off without the polish at this point

hey gently caress you man

polska na zawsze

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
i just did the same calculation on an iphone calculator and it came back with the same result as the non-scientific ms calculator, just fyi

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

pram posted:

thanks for Doing Labor stymie but we already know

no i don't think you do, in any context

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

pram posted:

u need yr diaper changed lil baby stymie

yep you mad

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

pram posted:

r u gonna cry

he said, tears streaming down his face

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
to be fair, however, if you get any less user hostile you get triangulating garbage like samsung and apple products

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

program666 posted:

makes you healthy

no, you're thinking of Labor

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
isn't the whole "authentically digital" thing essentially what apple did moving away from ios skeumorphic designs?

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
from the makers of "free to play" comes "free to operate (system)"

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

shown: the moment when ballmer realizes he got conned into overpaying for a loser team

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
remember how they tout the "kickstand" as some kind of amazing differentiator and something to be envied vs. a regular laptop

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Beeftweeter posted:

so all the windows updates finished and it rebooted my vm into a black screen. if i reset it i get the normal windows boot logo and then it just boots into blackness, everything i've tried just results in a black screen

gj ms this will definitely be ready to ship in 6 weeks

i've had this happen before, it's showing the login menu on a different screen

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Mr Dog posted:

I do have to wonder if Steve's presentation revealing the original iPhone actually contained the Nam-Shub of Enki or something because that one presentation made every other major software and hardware company that existed at the time suddenly seize up, convulse, and vomit/poo poo itself to death over the course of the next five years

whatever it was apple itself clearly wasn't immune, the effects were just postponed until steve died

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

PleasureKevin posted:

it's extremely hosed up that we have M$ xbone apologists right here in yospos besides shaggar, stymie, smythe... gently caress this forum is starting to suckkk arse.

to accuse me of being pro-xb1x is entirely out of line

i only support pc gaming and nintendo gaming platforms, never a console

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

eschaton posted:

poo poo like this is why I'm amazed Valve isn't pushing their own graphics, sound, etc. APIs—or their own complete builds of common engines, for games to link against at runtime—via Steam, possibly even with discounts on their cut of sales for the developers as an incentive.

that would involve having to actually create something and valve isn't in that business any more

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
here is a quick and easy 2 step process to never ever get a virus:

1) pay for your media

2) don't use pornography

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

JewKiller 3000 posted:

who the gently caress would do either of those

smart people with dignity and consideration for others

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
hmm, maybe--and this is just a crazy thought--we shouldn't leave space travel to private industries run by visionary idiots like elon musk

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
it needed to be at a 4th grade reading level because it was for it workers/programmers

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Cardboard Box A posted:

Windows 10 different types of context menus

That hosed perspective is really messing with my head

Wait did iPads just disappear completely in Q2 2015 or what?

ipad is cratering badly thanks to tim's mismanagement

the ipad mini is officially dead and the ipad maxi is coming

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

i misread a news article, the non-retina ipad mini is dead

however, there is mounting evidence that the ipad maxi is coming, both from leaked foxconn hardware and ios 9 specs

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

anthonypants posted:

retina ipad mini is probably the best tablet that would suit my needs and i'm glad to hear it's not been killed off yet

but today i just found out that the settings options in the charms menu has different options whether you're in the start screen or not. thanks, michaelsoft.

it's not all good news

the ipad is still rapidly declining in general so it may not survive the ipad maxi release

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Smythe posted:

the talkman looks freakin sick. any chance of picking this baby up for a reasonable price and without carrier/oem blaot? looking for a pure ms experiene here.. authetically digital etc etc

hiii kiiiids weee're hooome eeeeearly

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

The_Franz posted:

sort of. the main problem was that they switched to lead-free solder late in development to meet new eu regulations at the time and didn't take into consideration the fact that leaded and lead-free solder have different tensile properties.

this is a stupid rumor

the engineers hosed up the design and blamed it on the solder

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
all the boomer hate is really hilarious because once the boomers cease to be a significant voting bloc, gen x is going to really show the world what it's like to live in a right wing nightmare state

i have never met a single boomer that is as vocally and actively reactionary as a gen xer

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
sriracha sauce is good but you have to bear in mind that it's basically spicy ketchup and ketchup is literally a condiment for children

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Shaggar posted:

wmp is good

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

pram posted:

microsoft did not invent tablet keyboards

no but apple copied the fact that they're selling a tablet device with a first party version of a tablet keyboard

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

pram posted:

interesting



cool, it was and remains a bad idea

now they're just copying microsoft's version of the bad idea

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

pram posted:

nice backpedaling bitch

you appear to have signed your post, it is typically considered poor form to do so

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
tim literally watched tv ads that microsoft created that compared the surface to apple products and said "you know what? they're right!"

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Wild EEPROM posted:

reminder that the first Microsoft surface was not a tablet but it was a big rear end table.

somewhere there's a consumer that would look at an original surface and say "geez, why so small?"

tim will be there to cater to that consumer's needs

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

PleasureKevin posted:

has Xbox made a profit yet in its life

1 billion dollar loss on Xbox original

1.1 billion cost due to rrod on 360

Xbox one outsold 3:1

why aren't they just doing enterprise cloud consulting yet

microsoft surface resulted in a 1 billion dollar write off, and yet somewhere in the effort that led to that 1 billion dollar write off they made some commercials that scared tim so bad that he made an apple surface

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Stux posted:

the penhaaghahahagahahaha



at least it's not sticking straight out of a port ready to be snapped off

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Stux posted:

one is a s torage solution, one is used for 30 seconds to get an hour of battery life

both are terrible ideas

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
it will be interesting to see apple's take on the flexihinge in a couple of years

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

program666 posted:

yeah, it's not a failure, bad wording there

it can still be a failure and move a lot of units (initially)

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Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

qirex posted:

wow those are terrible

I'm pretty sure microsoft has the worst marketing roi of any company ever

really? because the microsoft surface advertising made tim cook scramble to create a rival product in the ipad maxi

seems like they're effective at influencing apple, if not consumers

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