Ok, enough about the Excel 'error' already. It obviously was someone entering a value but not saving it yet. Does it look bad in an ad, sure, but let it go already it's not an Excel bug. I love AI but often your bias is taken to new levels of hubris
Methinks you're missing the point entirely. No one's saying it's an Excel bug. No one's saying Excel can't ad numbers.
The claim is that it's sloppy advertising work. It may have been created by an ad agency, but it got Microsoft's stamp of approval. Yeah, the error is trivial and silly, but as yet another little indication of Microsoft's sloppiness, it should be mocked far and wide.
When a salesman uses the word, "HONESTLY" it means he's been lying up to that point.... so anything he says is doubtful. That's got to be the first time in History an ad used that word in that fashion!
He meant that it is supposed to be 900 million what was written was 900 thousand. MS write off for surface tabs was 900 million. It looks like it has been corrected now in the article.
Yeah, it completely undermines the Surface 2 by offering a complete x86 version of Windows. Microsoft should have used x86 hardware inside the Surface 2, even Anand from Anandtech felt that way. Instead another company will have to produce a premium Z3770 device (of course without the surface name).
Microsoft's identity problem.. just like Blackberry. They don't know if they want to be for business or consumers! Notice how they have Netflix and Halo app with the word Business in the same ad.
Not to mention the other none work apps. But then again if they removed those apps from the product they wouldn't have any other apps to show...
Ok, enough about the Excel 'error' already. It obviously was someone entering a value but not saving it yet. Does it look bad in an ad, sure, but let it go already it's not an Excel bug. I love AI but often your bias is taken to new levels of hubris
Excel, the spreadsheet of choice, as used by Enron.
Simple. They are inefficient at stopping piracy, resulting in millions of illegitimate copies of stuff. Of course the one thing they did well was work with manufacturers to hide the cost of software into the hardware, thereby getting around the piracy problem.
Methinks you're missing the point entirely. No one's saying it's an Excel bug. No one's saying Excel can't ad numbers.
The claim is that it's sloppy advertising work. It may have been created by an ad agency, but it got Microsoft's stamp of approval. Yeah, the error is trivial and silly, but as yet another little indication of Microsoft's sloppiness, it should be mocked far and wide.
I have no problem mocking Microsoft for advertising failures like this. But when AI has an article showing how Numbers does it correctly then devotes a reasonable amount of this article rehashing the same problem and expecting a correction from MS well that's just over the top
So, in reality, Microsoft's elaborate misleading spreadsheets have hidden the fact that the $900,00,000 Surface RT write-off was actually $2,500,000,000. At least those things are useful for something.
digiclip and edslunch, if they haven't hit enter yet, why does the value show up in the pie chart? Maybe the pie chart is anticipating the value that would be entered?
In nature, an animal caught by its throat wiggles a bit, rolls its eyes and then lets its tongue hang out in tacit acceptance of its fate. It is time for Microsoft to do likewise.
This is about as close as Microsoft got to date, not counting when Ballmer rolled his eyes at the first mention of the iPhone...
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Ok, enough about the Excel 'error' already. It obviously was someone entering a value but not saving it yet. Does it look bad in an ad, sure, but let it go already it's not an Excel bug. I love AI but often your bias is taken to new levels of hubris
Methinks you're missing the point entirely. No one's saying it's an Excel bug. No one's saying Excel can't ad numbers.
The claim is that it's sloppy advertising work. It may have been created by an ad agency, but it got Microsoft's stamp of approval. Yeah, the error is trivial and silly, but as yet another little indication of Microsoft's sloppiness, it should be mocked far and wide.
Like all the concern trolls who post, "I love Apple, but let's be honest..."
A much better effort here, Microsoft!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y2mqoDjQXI
That's truer than true!!
When a salesman uses the word, "HONESTLY" it means he's been lying up to that point.... so anything he says is doubtful. That's got to be the first time in History an ad used that word in that fashion!
I just can't comprehend how a company can be so ubiquitous and yet so inefficient at everything.
The day Microsoft Office finally dies there will be a massive leap in productivity.
So, uh, what was your point again?
He meant that it is supposed to be 900 million what was written was 900 thousand. MS write off for surface tabs was 900 million. It looks like it has been corrected now in the article.
Killer of the Surface2
Yeah, it completely undermines the Surface 2 by offering a complete x86 version of Windows. Microsoft should have used x86 hardware inside the Surface 2, even Anand from Anandtech felt that way. Instead another company will have to produce a premium Z3770 device (of course without the surface name).
Not to mention the other none work apps. But then again if they removed those apps from the product they wouldn't have any other apps to show...
Not to mention the other none work apps. But then again if they removed those apps from the product they wouldn't have any other apps to show...
The T100 in their ad is running x86 Windows 8.1, not Windows RT.
Microsoft Excel on it? Sorry, that's not a selling point for the regular consumer - not at all. That's like selling refrigerators in Antarctica.
Excel: The New Adobe Flash
Excel, the spreadsheet of choice, as used by Enron.
There, that make you feel better?
Simple. They are inefficient at stopping piracy, resulting in millions of illegitimate copies of stuff. Of course the one thing they did well was work with manufacturers to hide the cost of software into the hardware, thereby getting around the piracy problem.
Or pretty much any post that starts with a description of the Apple products the poster owns.
Money doesn't solve anything, unless you're paying smart employees.
I'm sure MS employees are smart enough having passed a Microsoft interview (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_interview). The problem lies in the upper management.
Please elaborate
This is about as close as Microsoft got to date, not counting when Ballmer rolled his eyes at the first mention of the iPhone...