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| Microsoft fresh out of pre-orders for Surface |
| By Thom Holwerda, submitted by lucas_maximus on 2012-10-18 11:58:12 |
| "This may be a good sign for Microsoft: a little over a day after putting its new Surface RT tablet up for pre-order, the entry-level $499 version of the tablet has sold out. Its estimated shipping time has slipped from October 26, Windows 8's release date, to a more nebulous 'within three weeks'." We'll see. Wouldn't be the first time a company artificially keeps supply short to generate 'sold-out' hype. |
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| Evidently... |
| By gfolkert on 2012-10-18 19:00:00 |
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> > Wouldn't be the first time a company artificially keeps supply short to generate 'sold-out' hype. If the surface does well ... then everyone will be claiming that Microsoft abused their monopoly position. Evidently, you've not been around more than 4 years in the industry. Microsoft can't help themselves to NOT use it. Sorry, you are just being intentionally naive. |
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| RE[2]: All 3 device sold... |
| By gfolkert on 2012-10-18 19:06:07 |
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> Why can't you Open source nutters stop infecting every bloody thread that mentions Microsoft? *You ain't funny *You ain't clever You Microsoft Fanbois "Keepin' it real!" are? Not in the least. |
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| RE[6]: Comment by Radio |
| By gfolkert on 2012-10-18 19:10:37 |
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> > Windows 8 ... on a tablet. Been using it for a development environment for some times now Thom and it works perfectly fine. I know you don't like it, but clusterf--k it is not. Personally I use this for my Development Environment, it works perfectly fine and in not a cluster either: COPY CON > PROGRAM.EXE |
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| RE: Evidently... |
| By lucas_maximus on 2012-10-18 19:29:26 |
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> Evidently, you've not been around more than 4 years in the industry. Microsoft can't help themselves to NOT use it. Sorry, you are just being intentionally naive. No I was making a statement about how FOSS advocates change the goalposts when Linux doesn't do well on consumer computing devices such as laptops and desktops. I don't care if Microsoft leverage their monopoly ... I worked with proper vendor lock-in (bespoke closed source applications by a third party that would do as little work as possible) and anything Microsoft do is no where near as bad as what I have experienced. Do us a favour and spend 3 months coding in a html text box and the the System not giving you any feedback whether you have or have not done something correctly ... and then complain about their monopoly. Edited 2012-10-18 19:31 UTC |
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| RE[3]: All 3 device sold... |
| By lucas_maximus on 2012-10-18 19:29:59 |
| I am hardly an Microsoft fanboy, I buy OpenBSD releases ;-) |
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| RE[7]: Comment by Radio |
| By lucas_maximus on 2012-10-18 19:33:35 |
| Obvious troll is obvious. |
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| RE[5]: Comment by Radio |
| By WereCatf on 2012-10-18 19:40:42 |
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> Technically, 40% isn't "dominant." Actually it is if the other parties are less than 40% non-combined. |
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| RE: Comment by lucas_maximus |
| By WereCatf on 2012-10-18 19:43:28 |
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> If the surface does well ... then everyone will be claiming that Microsoft abused their monopoly position. Not everyone. I really have no interest in seeing it fail any more than I have in seeing it succeed. I find it somewhat silly how so many people choose one extreme or the other |
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| RE[2]: Comment by lucas_maximus |
| By lucas_maximus on 2012-10-18 19:53:13 |
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This is precisely how I feel about it. I tend to play devil's advocate a lot of here ... and a lot of the anti-Microsoft stuff gets old. We joke about it a lot at work. I joke about how I hate Macs and Linux ... and the guys joke about how I am Bill Gates's right hand man. Also I didn't mean everyone literally. Edited 2012-10-18 19:58 UTC |
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| Comment by krreagan |
| By krreagan on 2012-10-18 22:00:30 |
| When you manufacture only a handful it's easy to "sell out", artificially "creating" a demand for a product that would have otherwise bombed. Why else would MS not give numbers on how many they built. |
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