Posts by SteveBalmer

Fixed it for ya.

Firefox 4.02

Fixed it for ya.

Microsoft tells Nokia they can't sell the N9 to anywhere that might be stupid enough to buy a Windows Phone 7, as the N9 will make the WinMo7 phones look even crappier than they already are...

I would love to see the memo that drove this idiotic decision.

Everything Nokia does these days is epic failure. R.I.P.

Translated...

Microsoft to Nokia/HTC/Samsung/ZTE and now Motorola...

"we know you think Windows Phone 7 OS sucks ass, but if you dirty your name and make a few, then we might go lighter on than Android patent lawsuit that's happening...."...

Usual bullyboy tactics from Microsoft. I'm guessing none of these manufactuers want to be making Windows Phone 7 that nobody wants, but they are being forced down that road my Microsoft, when they really want to be continuing to make kick-ass Android gear...

Problem is of course

Is that you need to use/install iTunes.

So no thanks Apple/Orange, you can fuck off...

Fear not..

Hardly anyone uses macs in the business world, as they are practically useless (unless your job just involves surfing the net all day).

Make or Break time...

I think most people (except the remaining RIM shareholders) are predicting break....

Failure to adapt....

Solution for those not willing to ponyup £600 a year

to watch ALL the F1 races..

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?p=51720590

RTL and Radio5 Live commentary.

Fuck you Bernie and Murdoch.

Apparatus says hi...

Why not write about how this brilliant game is not on iOS..

Of course you won't, you would rather cherrypick a couple of games that aren't on Android, and ignore the Android titles that aren't on iOS....

Pathetic...

Wow multitasking...

Welcome to 2009...

Does anyone really care about Windows Phone 7?

(Microsoft paid shills excluded)

I patented...

a steaming turd. I'm guessing Kinect also infringes on that patent too.

Really, nobody cares about Kinect, the gimick wore off after a week, when it dawned on everyone that the tracking was rubbish at best and unusable at worst, CEX/GameStation and Cash Converters stores are full of unwanted Kinect units, and the only people smiling are Microsoft, who managed to sell loads of them for a massive mark up before word got around how shit it was.

"Things can only get better, can't they?"

Errm, no, Nokia are partnering with the devil, who only looks after number 1....

If Nokia had problems before, they are 10x worse now, they are partnering with Microsoft and making smartphones running an ailing OS with no apps.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire...

So sad, had Nokia adopted Android, they worst would already have been over, and products would have already been on the market.

What is this?

Pay for a report for your new product week or something?

First NSS Labs IE9 Bullshit and now this...

Still we all know how gullible Apple owners are (and the entire American general public), i'm sure they will lap this news up without even a shadow of doubt over it's validity.

Seems manufacturers think

That everyone loves big smartphones.

That's why I still havn't phone a phone that's any better than my HTC Legend...

EPIC FAIL is just apeing what everyone else is doing...

Lulz Anonymous

Those poor little idiots really thought that because they were using TOR nodes and tunnels they are anonymous.

Given enough power, money, resources NOBODY is anonymous on the internet.

What's the point thou

When Microsoft's sloppy cheap-as-chips and rushed to market manufacturing means it's unlikely to last more than a few months at best.

PRS-950

says hi...

Of course it's not got Kindle in the title and isn't plastered over every billboard on every tubetrain and every Amazon webpage, so idiots and lazy people won't know about it...

http://store.sony.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&partNumber=PRS950SC

Hmm, sounds familiar...

"I had a play on Kinect Star Wars at a Microsoft event this week "

Microsoft having events to keep the media sweet and saying nice things....

Infact it seems VERY common, so much that you have to wonder if there is ANY integrity left in the media...

http://techrights.org/2007/11/23/astroturfing-microsoft-examples/

Everything I have seen to do with Kinect has sucked badly, so you have to wonder what the media are smoking, or who is paying their wages....

LOL

"Anons are teenagers, they are programmers. They are judges and nurses and lawyers. Anons are sysadmins and teachers, the poor, the rich and everything in between."

Errm, no, they are spotty American virgins who waste their life on Xbox Live and hate Sony (a foreign company) for making a better console than their homegrown horseshit...

Bad Sony.... (yawn)

Another day, another pathetic El-Reg hate fueled Sony story, with a small footnote, that everyone else in the industry is also doing the exact same thing....

It's the way the industry has to go, too many people waiting a few weeks and picking up heavily discounted titles, that the original developer gets no revenue from.

This is good news, as it means money is actually getting back to the companies that CREATE the games in the first place, rather than staying with the retailers, who already make money on the original sales, and then double-dip.

Without the game studios creating content, there would be no games.

Are Microsoft playing legal?

Not that it matters, as they are so big, they can buy themselves out of any legal problems.. But it seems like they are using their dominance in one sector (Windows) to try and scew companies that operate in that sector and the mobile sector..

In other words Microsoft know that Samsung need to be a Windows OEM licencee, and there they know Samsung can't afford to piss Microsoft off, so basically Microsoft can charge what they want for undisclosed patent protection rackets.

I'm sure the Microsoft shills will be out in force to defect Microsoft, as soon as Amoreica wakes up...

bit.ly/ca7rUk

Further Reading

I think the whole issue is disappointing, but not surprising. Any spotty bored teenager could realise how simple it is to 'hack' most voicemail systems out there, and there are plenty of Journalists that I would not even want to share an elevator with. The surprising thing about the whole issue is that it hasn't been swept under the rug yet.

Beer because it's after 12

Not so anonymous

Clearly anyone that thinks the Internet can be anonymous, regardless of how many bots or tunnels you use is an idiot...

I'm waiting for anyone that used LOIC to get arrested next, as clearly ISP server logs will show them up straight away,

Fail

MS are 1000x more even than Google are on the worst of days....

Really don't see the point of this "news"

because it very tenuously mentions Sony (not that they really has much to do with this, and it seems it's more upto the broadcaster).

I know El-Reg love to write about anything that involves Sony of late, but this really is grasping at desperate straws.

2 x Sony Readers, 1x Asus Transformer in our house

And they are all awesome, and I wouldn't change any of them. They are also much better than their more common counterparts.

Proof?

"Sony may be hoping to claw back customer trust lost during the hacking fiasco,"

Or can you write any old tripe on here these days....

(clue 200% of 3 console trade-ins is not exactly news...)