Microsoft tablet
Microsoft tablet
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Unregisteredhttp://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/opinion/2185404/microsoft-surface-insanely-brilliant-suicidal-folly
http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2185773/surface-could-bridge-gap-ipad-fails-mcdonalds-manager
Microsoft's Surface tablets won’t have 3G or 4G connectivity
http://newswires.theinquirer.net/c/13rM9QqoCTz6RDsY2mhZNEntd
Surface - The New Microsoft Tablet Freezes At Unveiling - Epic Fail
Looks like Microsoft is having Freezing problems again.
Another Windows Me disaster in the making ?
Should of used Firefox instead. i wonder if the second Tablet froze as well?MICROSOFT boss Steve Sinofsky puts on a brave face as his company's rival to the iPad FREEZES at the opening presentation.
Posted 12 years ago # -
mikiem2
ModeratorGoogle, Amazon, & Apple are all trying to make money from search [not necessarily by offering search directly], cloud services, on-line/streaming content, & app stores, while also selling non-PC, non-Windows hardware to take advantage of that stuff. Facebook is big [huge] enough that it's going to be expanding into at least some of that market territory too, particularly with all the questions about how it's going to turn its vast army of users into a steady revenue stream. Microsoft can't afford to be left (or locked) out.
Entering the cell phone market makes sense because Apple & Google are already there, & both face serious complaints based on the way they do business. Many feel that Apple's too demanding of carriers while Google's Android is too fragmented, has too few controls in place. And if you do cell phones it could be argued that you need at least a foot in the door when it comes to tablets -- the difference between the 2 is becoming nothing more than their physical size.
Microsoft's had a long time interest in handheld computing -- their efforts haven't sold well over the years, but now they've got a guide book of sorts, with all the proven successful models they can learn from. Windows proper doesn't work all that well on a small screen, & Windows' apps (& games) require more hardware than could be stuffed into something you can easily hold in one hand, so now you've got Metro, which besides being small screen friendly doesn't demand a full-fledged PC. When it comes to hardware Microsoft also benefits from both Apple's & Google's success -- with a proven market, manufacturers have developed & are developing more powerful electronics in smaller, less power hungry packages.
ON top of their prior work with tablets & hand-held devices Microsoft has a lot of R&D + experience banked when it comes to media & on-line services -- Hollywood may have been wary of Microsoft, trying to lock them out, but MS has made up for that quite a bit with their Xbox. In theory at least their work on voice/handwriting recognition, streaming/playing media, touch, cloud services/corp. IT integration, & mature developer tools [along with the developers already using them] gives Microsoft quite the leg up... if they can pull it off. They've got a lot of experience drawing in developers for the Xbox, but will that translate into a well stocked app store fast -- could spell doom for the effort if not.
So... if you want to have many thousands, maybe millions of people writing new apps for your platform, one way to entice them might be to get them seeing $ signs, as in a huge potential market, maybe one even bigger than anything that exists today. Combining the world's Windows PC users Plus Windows cell phone & tablet users *in theory* could create that market, *If* of course Windows cell phones & tablets are successful [not everyone will upgrade to win8, but they will upgrade Windows eventually, & if Metro's here to stay...]. Besides sticking Metro in every copy of win8 [and trying to force people to use it], if that's their reasoning, Microsoft has to try and get as many win8 phones & tablets on the market as possible. One way to do that *might* be to leverage the rest of win8, the parts besides Metro on a win8 PC, alongside other, purely Metro devices. Microsoft's tried that [e.g. Windows CE & Windows tablets] & failed -- neither hardware manufacturers nor Microsoft have to be reminded of that. Microsoft may feel building their own is their only recourse, &/or they may feel that's the only way to have total control of the results so that it's done right. Acer seems to feel everything about a Microsoft branded tablet is pure marketing, aimed at encouraging [goading?] other manufacturers to bring something similar to store shelves [http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120619PD224.html] [http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/21/us-acer-idUSBRE85K17Y20120621]. Either way, Microsoft had loyal Win CE & Win Tablet markets that they can hope will become large enough this time round to make building/selling a more full-fledged win8 tablet worthwhile -- making PCs is a low profit margin biz, so companies have to sell an awful lot of them just to break even. Making an ARM version of their tablet might make sense since [or if] they're building an i5 version, but unless Microsoft's really worried about poorly designed/implemented ARM-based win8 tablets hitting the market, I'd tend to agree with Acer -- it wouldn't be worth Microsoft's efforts to build just an ARM-based tablet.
http://www.neowin.net/news/what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-microsofts-surface
Posted 12 years ago # -
Anonymous
UnregisteredMicrosoft's own advertising blog (yes, it exists) has revealed how its going to frame ads inside incoming Metro-themed apps
http://www.tncnewscentral.com/2012/06/watch-microsofts-full-summit-keynote-video-now-on-youtube/
http://www.tncnewscentral.com/2012/06/microsoft-surface-vs-the-ipad-maybe-a-little-too-similar/
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