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1. msuper69

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   01/05, 05:18am | report spam | close reply

   Blowhard

   This idiot thinks nobody will buy and use apps on their phone.
   
   What a dope.

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1. rvhernandez

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   01/05, 05:23am | report spam | close reply

   New Feature in Windows 8...

   The Windows App Store! I'm sure Redmond's copiers are working overtime as usual...

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1. eldarkus

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   01/05, 06:35am | report spam | close reply

   Why

   "Ballmer expected to tease Windows 8 at CES today"
   
   Everyone teases Windows.. why would Ballmer jump in?

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1. jarod

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   01/05, 07:10am | report spam | close reply

   He can keep it

   and shove it where the sun don't shine! World doesn't need more junk.

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1. Foe Hammer

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   01/05, 08:07am | report spam | (1 reply) close | reply

   A word To The Wise, Baldmer ...

   "Ballmer expected to tease Windows 8 at CES today"
   
   - Never tease Happy Fun Windows.
   
   He's also expected to recap the phenomenal 100% growth in the number of Microsoft Retail Stores in the past year. "In just one year, we've doubled the number of our stores!"

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1. Geoduck

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   01/05, 08:13am | report spam | close reply

   Over the years I've Learned

   Never believe anything MS says until the product actually ships.
   Never trust anything MS ships until SP2.

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1. bipolar.maniac

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   01/05, 08:14am | report spam | (3 replies) close | reply

   in a few hours

   we will see if these rumours are true or not.
   
   but one thing I notice is that there's a lot of hate from the commenting area. Mac fans are real predictable.

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1. iphonerulez

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   01/05, 08:52am | report spam | (2 replies) close | reply

   I was honestly hoping that Apple would spring

   news that they'd ported OSX to ARM processors. There was some talk of a quad-core ARM11MPCore processors on the horizon and I'd like to see Apple start replacing some of the low-end notebooks with that. The thing is that I don't know if it's easy to port OSX applications to ARM processors. One of the main reasons that Microsoft wasn't going to port Windows to ARM was because all the Windows applications would have to be redone. I sure hope Microsoft doesn't beat Apple to the punch on the Windows to ARM port.

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1. JuanGuapo

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   01/05, 09:14am | report spam | close reply

   "Riskiest product yet"

   Wasn't that Vista?
   
   i never used a computer that took longer to shut down than to boot up....thanks Micro$oft!

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1. mgpalma

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   01/05, 09:24am | report spam | (1 reply) close | reply

   re: in a few hours

   You know, you don't have to come to this site. I don't see any hate here, just having fun with MS's wonderful reputation.

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1. freddymac

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   01/05, 09:30am | report spam | (1 reply) close | reply

   PSOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

   The new feature will be the "Pink Screen of Death" because it's so much prettier than Blue.

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1. joecab

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   01/05, 10:05am | report spam | close reply

   re: in a few hours

   Microsoft still runs on the vast percentage of computers in the world. Whining about hate in their direction falls on deaf ears. They've done more than their fair share of dumping on Apple as have their fans so they can take it for as long as they've dished it out. They're big boys with plenty of money and power still. So unless you've defended Apple fans when they've gotten grief as well, your protests seem thin.

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1. Cronocide

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   01/05, 12:22pm | report spam | close reply

   Riskiest Product Ever

   Any riskier than vista must mean they are jumping to a new platform (i.e. Unix or Linux)
   
   Everybody practice saying "XP Compatibility Mode"!

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1. Foe Hammer

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   @bipolar

   "... but one thing I notice is that there's a lot of hate from the commenting area. Mac fans are real predictable."
   
   There's a real easy way for Microsoft to fix that: fix their stuff. And come out with products that truly innovative and make us drool over them until we can't wait to switch to them/use them.
   
   The mistake everyone makes in calling people here or elsewhere "Apple fanbois" or "Mac fans" or "kool-aid drinkers" is that we've simply chosen to use the best products available and it just so happens that in our view (at least for a good number of years as of late) many of the best technology products have come from Apple. We couldn't actually care less whether they came from Apple, Microsoft, Dell, ASUS or from the rear end of John Dvorak's giant pet scorpion - we'd still choose to use the best. And we'd still be dissing the horrible decisions, major missteps, RonCo-esque knockoffs and other cheap carbon copies that are typically done with the intention of circumventing a real effort at innovation and making a buck first, second and third while relegating making a user truly happy and filling a need to a distant fourth - this includes any of these that came from Apple. The original iMac quickly found a place on my desk; the original iMac mouse quickly found a place under the crushing heel of my right boot. The iPod? I've left many on my shelves as I've upgraded to the new models. iPod socks? I've left all of them to rot on the shelves of Apple retail stores and in their warehouses. The iPad? Bought rev. one on day one and will most likely buy rev. two the day it's available as well. There's a great example of bringing together a few new technologies with many existing technologies to create a product that is truly (dare I say it?) magical.
   
   

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1. FireWire

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   01/05, 02:49pm | report spam | close reply

   .

   is he gonna say when MS plans to "out" it? ;)

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1. dimmer

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   01/08, 12:49am | report spam | close reply

   OS X on ARM, Windows too

   OS X has been CPU-transparent since it's days as NeXTStep/OpenStep. But the core features of ARM (very low power consumption, many-core design) don't equate that well to desktop use, so it's scope is much more mobile/Atom type applications. Great for phones and pads, not so great for Photoshop, Apache, Office etc.
   
   Windows has also a heritage of CPU transparency: being available for PowerPC, MIPS, Alpha and x86 CPU's (a heritage mainly lost as those other platforms fizzled) -- so it wouldn't be too hard for MS to come up with an ARM build (which I'm sure they say they need, as Atom just sucks so hard).
   
   To make Windows apps run on ARM would need recompilation, and probably emulation (which again, MS has in the toolkit from Virtual PC) -- and there are nasty gotchas in both of those. Overall, I'd bet that MS will take the Windows 7 Mobile OS and start rebuilding from there in the mobile/tablet space.

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1. Monde

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   01/13, 08:52pm | report spam | close reply

   Long live Ballmer

   The best friend Apple ever had. If it weren't for him, Apple might have had some competition.

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1. Cronocide

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   01/13, 10:47pm | report spam | close reply

   Actually,

   Would it be such a bad thing that windows ported to ARM before OS X? I mean, as long as people have the choice to use either iOS or Windows Phone, why would they choose the latter?