Posts by Mikel

They are down 600m units a year. "Tie all the things!"

A shame looseness is what sells.

Off topic comment here

Facebook's market value is on course to surpass Microsoft's before the end of 2017. Maybe sooner.

All patched up

Until next time. Have a good weekend and let's meet back here on Monday to start tackling the rest of it.

You will get over it

When you are finally ready, rehab is right here: http://distrowatch.com

Netflix charges too little

We use it a lot. The new original programming is nice. For more of that and some more new content we would gladly pay twice the current rate.

Continuum

One of the things that has made the smart phone popular is that it is not like a desktop PC with Windows. So desktop Windows on a phone is a natural fit. In bizarro world.

Analysts shortchange Android prospects

At over 1.2 billion units this year Android phones are 4 times PC units. This is not small potatoes. Nokia has a lot of brand value and design chops left. They would be insane not to get back into phones. They are probably designing the first units now.

Lack of tablet innovation

Our Nexus 7s from 2013 are still going strong, and I don't see anything better in the market at twice the price. No wonder they were discontinued.

Everyone will be praying Windows 10 rights the wobbling PC ship

I have some bad news...

Wrong direction

Intel has spent Way too much effort trying to make Windows on a tablet be a thing. It is not going to be a thing, and it isn't in Intel's best interest to try to push this stone up the hill. Microsoft is not a loyal partner, and spending on this disproportionately to its promise is expending Intel capital for the benefit of Microsoft shareholders. That is not the purpose for that money.

People want Android tablets and devices. 1.7 billion of them this year alone. Intel needs to quit treating Android like it's a temporary fad or a niche market, with second class gimped platforms that are basically defeatured Windows devices, if they want to move volume.

Christmas is coming, so they had best step lively. It only comes once a year.

An ElReg classic

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/01/06/microsofts_masterplan_to_screw_phone/

When this is how you behave it is easy to see why nobody trusts you. Also, leaving the ground littered with the dried husks of failed partnerships is not helpful.

http://www.asymco.com/2011/02/11/in-memoriam-microsofts-previous-strategic-mobile-partners/

Gartner Prognostication

>Gartner's blaming Windows 10 for the slowdown: the firm reckons buyers are holding on to their cash before the OS drops, in order to buy machines with Microsoft's new baby pre-installed.

Guess again. People are finally giving up on the PC. The daily malware, monthly patch debacle, difficulty of use just are too much hassle now that they see easier, smoother alternatives. Putting up with that mess isn't worth it anymore just to save that 10 year old copy of Quicken.

Besides, there are better ways to "upgrade" your PC. Attach a 4K TV as a display, swap out the HDD for a SSD instead and you get many times the bang for the buck.

The declines continue

Don't expect the situation to improve in the coming year. The PC is a dead parrot.

Oh gee

This is only one of hundreds of different hacking kits available. Face it: you're hacked.

Ok

Who was still using Flash?

Would like a couple

One for the phone and one for the tablet. Just to try it out. No need to go full oculus just to test this out

The corals in the Great Barrier Reef are 150 million years old

The current ice age is only 3 million years old. Somehow these corals have adapted to 150 meter swings in sea level, diverse thermal gradients. They are in no danger.

This is a good mission for them

No sarcasm intended - I like it. This guy is starting to impress me, and I am not swift to praise anything Microsoft does.

Of course if Sauron directed the Nazgul: "Go out and upgrade the world", the results are still predictably not rainbow butterfly unicorn kittens.

There are only two viable phone ecosystems: Apple and Android. They are 96% of the market. Apple doesn't sell an affordable phone, therefore Android wins "poor man's phone" by default. Since Apple also doesn't do a lot of other things, Android also gets "keyboard phone", " removable battery phone", "SD card Phone", " Broad selection phone ", " Keyboard slider phone", "Projector phone", and about a thousand other categories Apple decides not to compete in.

I for one am interested to see if Nokia can still pull off some high quality design that serves to create good demand. If they manage it, that will put paid to the myth they had no choice but to drink the Windows Phone poison.

People aren't holding out for Windows 10. They're giving up on the PC. That clunky old dinosaur is dead. The corpse will quit twitching in a bit.

Say what you want about Sinofsky. At least he could ship product.

Do their deployment and management tools even work now?

Last time I saw them they were a torturous exercise in self flagellation.

It might be 2015

But it's still Windows, IE and Office. Some things never change.

HP's other half

The other half of the HP split will cling desperately - and exclusively - to Windows as it sinks, until the former Microsoft execs running it drag its drowned corpse home to Redmond.

The future is often cloudy, but this one is easy.

Whoa

Multiple desktops and now SSH? Windows might someday be fully functional.

Oh my goodness

If Google Cardboard doesn't suit you, I suppose you could ask for your three dollars back.

Quoting myself here

>What if Microsoft offered Office for Android, and nobody cared? - Me

Apparently the answer is you'll get it whether you want it or not.

On a related note

The top ten list of apps in each category will be reduced to the top five - until such time as there are ten apps in the category.

Ew

>Read it if you've eaten something nasty that needs to come out. ®

WARNING: This was not sarcasm. It was literal.

Lost decade

Is it time to talk about HP's "lost decade" yet?

10KB for the OS?

Finally we are getting somewhere.

Ruining your good name with a bad partnership

King should know better.