Posts by Mikel

Re: Microsoft "birthing the client server era"?

The Softie fans will claim anything. Who invented multitasking? Microsoft did! Client-server? A Redmond product. There is no limit to it.

Agreed

It will definitely be interesting. Already major shifts are taking place.

Re: Complete Garbage

In the comments you'll find he agrees Android sales find parity with full Windows this year. It's not included because there are only 3 years of Android data, and because it's athwart the purpose of comparing these longtime rivals. That's reasonable, and if someone wants to do the paper you're suggesting I would like to read it.

Re: It would be bizzare...

The point of the above message is to sow "fear, uncertainty and doubt" - FUD. It's emotional manipulation, not reasoned argument. This is being professionally done for profit reasons. When you see things like this, you need to think "who benefits" and "what do they want?" Such offensive behavior should not be rewarded.

Re: Hmmm

You mean you've been trolling Android developer threads too?

It's a matter of scale

Android tablets will sell this year alone more than ten times the sum of the entire 17-year history of Windows tablets. Relative to the iPad, this isn't record setting. Calling it a failure though is a bit much. There are now hundreds of brands and thousands of models. They must be making money somewhere.

Re: No one's going to be able to buy for half a year.

Most of the tablets promised at CES 2009 are also not available yet. Must be some minor import holdup and they'll be along any day.

Re: Also a failure for...

If you are in IT operations security at this level and don't desolder and remove the USB ports from the PC before the engineer gets it you are not qualified to do your job. USB is that insecure.

That still goes on is amazing to me

The only way to win this game is not to play it.

Get a Mac. Get Linux. Get BSD if you really have essential work. Lock it down. Don't employ people who care more about convenience and think they are too important to learn and practice operation security. Don't trust dumb people. Just don't play this game. The vulnerabilities these things exploit are flat stupid. Autorun, really? Default admin? I have to tell you those are absurdly stupid ignorance of good practice? What is this, 1988?

Windows is never going to understand this. I hope the right people do.

Re: ARMvsIntel Win 8

Correct. They sell as many iPads as they can make, to huge profit margins. To say the iPad needs fixed in some way is just retarded.

Re: Microsoft has worked hard to up the hype this launch.

I've not seen it said, but Apple has patents on the magnet cover, stand and power switch. There will be suits.

Re: Sad day

Most symbian fans were inexplicably committed, in a way some Blackberry fans are. There was only one thing Nokia could do to drive those customers away. And they did it. And now Nokia sells fewer smart phones than that committed installed base of loyal fans would have bought even if they didn't update Symbian at all.