Microsoft rumored to build its own tablets to take on Apple's iPad - Page 4

Considering how blatantly Microsoft has attempted to copy the Apple Store with those Microsoft Stores, I think being honest with themselves was out of the question years ago.

The best way for Microsoft to try and compete with the iPad, is to do the things the iPad does, but better. Not throw everything but the kitchen sink into windows 8 - alas, I think it's too late for that.

thats a good point . to compete they have to go to a whole new level of specs.

 

 

Oh I don't know, I think Microsoft has a few successful brands here and there.. Have you heard of Windows? Or Xbox?

I'm sure Apple is quivering. This meme of 'X product to take on i-Product' is hilariously consistent in its results. 

The combination is Home Key + Power. This is only used for enterprises and corporations that's OPTIONAL. On a consumer tablet, this is never needed.

Until the system freezes and you need to quit an application.

Yeah kinda like how the iPad and iPhone never need to be forced restarting.

 

How does the iPhone & iPad restart from a lockup? 

 

Hint: Hold down Power + Home key until it restarts.

The combination is for Windows 8 with Intel processor. The combination is not intended to "force a restart". It exposes six options: Lock, Switch User, Sign out, Task Manager, Accessibility, and Power. The quickest way to unfreeze the system is to force a system restart. All tablets & phones these days have this built-in at the hardware level.

Why would I want to do that when there's a feature built into the OS on the device designed so I don't have to do that?

Windows 8-RT have a hardware reset. When you throw the damn thing across the room the accelerometer senses the frustration and restarts the device and wipes all the memory.

Are we sure you don't have to open up the tablets, remove and then reseat the battery, and while you're in there reseat the RAM, HDD drive, CPU, GPU, the ports daughter board, etc. because only Apple hates their customers enough to actually make items that can't be replaced by DIYers¡

You can customize the home screen (start screen) by YOUR preferences. When you first create an account, you are asked to choose:

 

1. Background (theme) color

2. Background style

 

Again, it makes no sense to judge this based on SOMEONE'S else settings. Once you set it up to your life, then you'll see it makes a lot of sense. Do you realize that the iPad home screen can hold 25 icons at any given time? The Windows 8 home screen can hold about 40! You are right, that's a lot of wasted space!

 

And since it supports multiple accounts, your spouse can have his/her own sets of apps. Or someone borrowing it to use the Internet can log into a "guest" account for web browsing without access to your personal stuff (emails, calendars, etc...).

It seems to be even better thing for Microsoft haters around here...

What you said is pretty much the same as some shallow Apple-hater saying something like "Since I'm not gay, I will regretfully have to pass on this Apple product"... which would be just as lame, shallow and tasteless as what you said up there...

Just so, remember every new Apple generation having issues with screens, graphics, HDD motion sensors, optical drives, overheating, signal reception..? In a dynamic market like this, when sometimes being first is being best, this is normal, unfortunately. For me, it is much more interesting how is MS going to rectify problem once it emerges. Nokia did great job with Lumia 900 wifi problem, but then, in their position, Nokia hasn't got much choice but to suck-up to anyone they can. MS probably doesn't have to go that far, not to mention Apple who can simply say "you're holding it wrong"/

I am so laughing my butt off.  Since day one Microsoft has yet to truly do anything that could even remotely be mistaken for innovation.  They've been a copy cat since day one.  Or buy someone and destroy the market (remember Netscape/IE wars?). 

 

Have you ever seen them go out on a limb and create something nobody else has?

 

I can't help but wonder if their days are finally numbered.  I'd rather use iWork or OpenOffice over MS Office and I avoid using Windows machines like the plague.  Their browser is and has been nothing but a constant headache for web developers like myself, and the number of backdoors in all their software quite frankly give me the creeps.

 

Oh well.... if you want to torture yourself be their customer.

 

I think another poster had a great name.... ZunePad..... I wonder if it will also "squirt" like the Zune did...supposedly (never bought one... yuck).

 

Steve Ballmer.... Bill Gates..... despite your Billions you'll never be cool, and your ideas are LAME.  Great marketing has carried you far but I think the road is coming to an end.

It will be the first tablet computer to come preloaded with your choice of over 3,256,473 viruses..... I mean Apps.  Will also come with the new face plant app that hears (and sometimes accidentally takes pictures) toilet flushes and automatically posts that you just went to the potty.

That's not entirely fair. Microsoft's innovations have, perhaps, been somewhat limited given the size of the company and the money they've invested in research, but it's not true to say they've done nothing new. Kinect was actually a decent change from what came before. Surface wasn't bad, although they didn't find reasonable applications for it.


Every new Apple generation had issues? That's nonsense. Oh, yes, every consumer device manufactured by the millions has an occasional problem, but that's what warranties are for. But your post suggests significant problems with every new Apple product - and that's just nonsense.

I don't know whether their OS sucks or not, but at least it's a quite different approach than Apple's.  If they had directly copied Apple, like almost everyone else has, we'd be complaining about that.   Frankly, I hope they come out with something that does work well even though the chances of me buying it are very close to zero.   You need strong competition to work against Apple's sometimes arrogant attitude.    

Please God, let them call it the "ZuneTab" and boast that is the iPad killer.

Edited by richsadams - 6/18/12 at 9:35am

iWork? Really? It's a nice effort by apple but is only really comparable to the free version of office in terms of features. So yeah apple may beat a product Microsoft gives away for free.
Now that's just not true. When have Microsoft ever made a good advert?

I liked the Windows 7 House Party set. Those were almost as good as the "Martinettis' Performa" series.

I'm pretty sure the Xbox division has yet to make a profit after all these years.  You left out the most important franchise:  Microsoft Office.

Microsoft blazes new trails once again...

 

Steve's looking down and cracking up.

Particularly at Ballmer's "intersection" quip.