[Closed] Microsoft kicks Apple ass - Courier

And you think this is gonna work properly right from the get-go? In yer dreams.

Let me guess...you have a mac? 🙂

A Mac, who knows. A brain is all that's needed to judge the likelihood of M$ delivering a new idea in consumer-friendly form. Zune, anyone?

Great idea, Macintosh will steal it and sell it to idiots as theirs pretty soon.

Hairychested:
Great idea, Macintosh will steal it and sell it to idiots as theirs pretty soon.

*sigh*

i'll take apple's tablet thing way before i touch any MS pish! wonder if it'll come with a red ring od death so you know when to send it back for a service.

more importantly, does it have Excel on it?

That's possibly one of the lamest thread titles/posts I've ever seen on here. Seriously.
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No need to bring Picard into this....

I don't often get genuinely excited over technology, but this looks **** ing great, seriously

I still think that while the technology is quite exciting, most people who read would still be much happier with a normal, bog standard book.

Is it just me who doesn't get the point of it?

It didn't show it crashing or riddled with viruses so it can't be Windows.

I have always thought Windows to be far in advance of Mac in terms of user interface and adaptibility but Mac is soooo much easier to use.

So it is a big iphone with a stylus.

I wouldn't say it's for reading, browsing, watching videos or surfing.

It's for working, and trying to organise your digital work in a useful, clear way.

Creating not consuming.

and of course Micro$oft has never stolen anyones ideas have they? 😕

Ooh, ooh! Can we set up a windows7 party as well?

does it do porn?

Hell yeah, it'll be neat!
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I really couldn't give a gnats arse about MS vs Apple, but reading the various forums over this thing it always descends into Windows sucks, malware, virus, blah blah yawn.
The geeks have inherited the earth.

I really couldn't give a gnats arse about MS vs Apple

bit of a strange thing to say, given the thread title ...

Microsoft labs do release some incredible stuff. None of it makes it to production, but it keeps them in the press.

Apple on the other hand, do nothing, release few hints about future products, but when they do release stuff, it tends to be awesome that real-world MS products just can't touch.

Just trolling DrJ, and it seemed to work.

Well I'm optimistic anyway. I imagine there's a similar number of employees at both companies that would like to create useful, innovative products.

I imagine there's a similar number of employees at both companies that would like to create useful, innovative products.

But only one company actually lets it's employees create innovative products that come to market. Zune? Never made it outside of the US, Vista lost MS millions because nobody trusted it to work...
I started on computers using DOS based machines for some years, before changing, reluctantly, to a Mac, as it was the interface for the Crosfield scanner I was going to use. A couple of days was all it took to show me the superiority of the Mac OS, and this was in '95, well before the introduction of consumer products like the iMac. My first Mac was a beige tower, only the OS set it apart from a Windows PC. Professional use of Macs in a working environment proved their superiority to me, not hype. The iMac brought decent computers into the home as a nice looking machine that owners felt they could have out on show, instead of hiding under a table being kicked and covered in crap, and I truly fail to see any problem with that. Would [i]you[/i] buy a new TV that was ugly and shut down on you every other time you switched it on? 'course not. So why criticise Apple for making products that consumers find attractive, are very easy to use, and don't need replacing every eighteen months. My own PowerBook is six years old and working fine, and a Mac I started using in '96 was only retired this year, at a different company because it couldn't keep up with the demands being placed on it.