Martin Reid
mwp.reid at qub.ac.uk
Tue Jun 4 02:06:43 CDT 2013
Close. Appears tech ed USA they will sell you one for 100 dollars. In saying that I met MS yesterday and seen a demo of a cross platform app, running on multiple devices. Same experience on all of them including surface, win phone, ipad and android. Was most impressive. We are not going win 8 but are going with them as our core systems. Martin Sent from my iPad On 3 Jun 2013, at 21:57, "Hans-Christian Andersen" <hans.andersen at phulse.com> wrote: > Pretty soon they'll be giving them away for free with an order of fries at McDonalds. :p > > How well are Windows 8 Surface tablets selling anyways? Last i heard, none too well either. > > - Hans > > > On 2013-06-03, at 9:34 AM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > >> Hi John: >> >> Along with your new tag, you have brought up a very interesting subject. It >> may be a little out of step for this list but it is definitely tech related. >> >> Large tech firms all become arrogant and as they grow they forget who put >> them on the top. Many such companies have come and gone...Borland, VAX, >> Lotus, Novell, SCO and so on...they were momentarily huge but are now mostly >> gone and forgotten. >> >> For decades Microsoft was run by a tough and shrewd business man, along with >> his sidekick (Sancho Panza(?)). Now his old sidekick is trying to run >> things. The new man is not an equal, not a visionary and viewed more as a >> court-jester. Ballmer's running of the company has caused it to stagger from >> one disaster to another. The only thing that has kept the company from >> collapsing has been the huge cash cows like Office and a stable of some of >> the finest developers and managers in the business. The truth is that MS >> could go on for a long long time with this type of leadership but it will >> never regain its once held position in the market and will just slowly >> erode. >> >> Ballmer's latest disaster is Windows RT. >> http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/03/microsoft-stop-trying-to-make-windows-rt-ha >> ppen/ >> >> Microsoft could have easily solved the new low powered chip issues like >> Linux did by simply making the OS handle it. >> >> Jim >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of >> jbartow at winhaven.net >> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2013 2:42 PM >> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' >> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Start button coming back to Windows 8.1 >> >> Name a company that doesn't do this. Has Google ever released anything not >> in "Beta"? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence >> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2013 2:20 PM >> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' >> Subject: [dba-Tech] Start button coming back to Windows 8.1 >> >> <rant mode on> >> Microsoft has violated one of the major laws of development: >> >> "Treat your users as co-developers." >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com