Re: Microsoft Surface: Between a Rock and a Hardware Place

2012-06-22 Thread Jerry Barnes
"Hasn't this happened with almost every Microsoft demo, like with XP, Vista, and Win7? why should we expect otherwise? " Exactly. That's why it's surprising that they were surprised. J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger Politicians

Re: Microsoft Surface: Between a Rock and a Hardware Place

2012-06-22 Thread Cameron Childress
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > Hasn't this happened with almost every Microsoft demo, like with > XP, Vista, and Win7? why should we expect otherwise? Afterall as far as > MS is concerned beta ends at the 1.5 version. Timing analysis aside, this is also true. -Camero

Re: Microsoft Surface: Between a Rock and a Hardware Place

2012-06-22 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Hasn't this happened with almost every Microsoft demo, like with XP, Vista, and Win7? why should we expect otherwise? Afterall as far as MS is concerned beta ends at the 1.5 version. On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Jerry Barnes wr

Re: Microsoft Surface: Between a Rock and a Hardware Place

2012-06-22 Thread Cameron Childress
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > > The question is: Why were they surprised? I think any demo going wrong is a surprise to someone. :) Word on the street is that they rushed this out to launch before Google I/O (next week) because Google's expected to also announce a "G

Re: Microsoft Surface: Between a Rock and a Hardware Place

2012-06-22 Thread Jerry Barnes
Surface freezes in first public appearance ( http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/27596-surface-freezes-in-first-public-appearance ) We were surprised to see that Microsoft’s Surface tablet crashed during its public debut members of the media witnessing the event failed to cover this rather embarr

Re: Microsoft Surface: Between a Rock and a Hardware Place

2012-06-21 Thread Cameron Childress
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Sam wrote: > Are the fanboys getting nervous? Not to my knowledge. -Cameron ... ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/

Re: Microsoft Surface: Between a Rock and a Hardware Place

2012-06-21 Thread Cameron Childress
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > But the screw you > attitude towards their OEM's are going to hurt them in the long run. ...or save them... One of the reasons that all Apple products have such a seamless experience is that they own both the hardware and the software.

Re: Microsoft Surface: Between a Rock and a Hardware Place

2012-06-21 Thread Sam
Are the fanboys getting nervous? . On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > Interesting writeup from John Gruber (full disclosure: he's a huge Apple > fanboy) about the Microsoft Surface launch. > > http://bit.ly/MNl8PY

Re: Microsoft Surface: Between a Rock and a Hardware Place

2012-06-21 Thread Larry C. Lyons
One area where the iPad is weak and the competitors have done nothing about has been the enterprise market. If M$ can make inroads there then that will mean major competition for the iPad. But the screw you attitude towards their OEM's are going to hurt them in the long run. On Thu, Jun 21, 2012

Re: Microsoft Surface: Between a Rock and a Hardware Place

2012-06-21 Thread Bruce Sorge
And on CNET I read a few articles on their pre-launch. One of the stories was from the VP of Google. He had less than positive comments, but then MS and Google do share the same ecospace. It will be an interesting platform for sure though. Let's see how much competition it give the iPad. ~~~

Microsoft Surface: Between a Rock and a Hardware Place

2012-06-21 Thread Cameron Childress
Interesting writeup from John Gruber (full disclosure: he's a huge Apple fanboy) about the Microsoft Surface launch. http://bit.ly/MNl8PY -Cameron ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-