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Quote: Originally Posted by bullhead LOL. if you believe you can develop for WP7 with those tools....LOL, i hear there is a bridge in Alaska Sarah Palin would sell you. Name one developer using the "free" versions of Microsofts tools? Of course …
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Quote: Windows 7 Phone launched a 500 million U.S. dollar advertising campaign last month to sell carpets are estimated at tens of thousands. In the UK, has opened a launch event for the Orange line only two people. heads of damage control later su…
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Since the second developer pretty much retracted his story (or was heavily miss quoted by the Apple FUD machine), please change the title to "Windows Phone 7 developer fear platform flop". That's one out of 15,000. That?s some pretty impressive s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Alfiejr looking at today's Nielsen survey, between 5% and 7% of those surveyed plan or desire to buy a new Windows phone (i guessed 5% below). which pretty much tells what's going to happen to it: MS' new "hobby." C…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross The 2002 article is jut as relevant as all the others up there. Why? Because it shoes that MS has lost money on the XBox from the very beginning. I don't know why you think that the one article you linked t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross http://news.cnet.com/2100-1040-818798.html http://www.itworld.com/030203xboxlosses http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...8/xboxloses4bi http://www.gamespot.com/news/6148512.html http://arstechnica…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Did I say anywhere that I couldn't install Vista? No, I didn't. What I said, as we know very well from the fiasco from when Vista first came out, was that it couldn't install on many machines that were one yea…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM Why you say that, I don't know. That assumes everyone that uses Windows has installed it for themselves, which isn't true. You don't need to install Windows in order to be able to use it, you just buy the comp…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross I've installed every PC OS going back to PCDOS 1. How about you? I've also installed OS's for Digital Equipment VAX's. How about you? I learned my first computer language, Fortran IV, in 1966 while in HS. How …
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Macs used PCIx as well for a few years. Nice to know you have an old, obsolete machine around. Yes, we had PCIx raid controllers, sound cards, tuners and the rest. Of course, modern machines don't use PC…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox If you're trying to make the case that WinCE is the equal to any of the mainstream desktop OSs out there, I'll just have to leave you to that. I mean, good grief. Good God amighty, are you just determin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mr4js This review shows the Zune HD display in sunlight. Completely washed out. http://www.suntimes.com/technology/i...091609.article Same problem I had at the fotball field with my iPhone today. None of these de…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism He?s now comparing a feature that accessed by several of 40 different buttons and a stylus to a touch interface that uses a meaty finger for input. His argument is that they are somehow the same. I gave him t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox I have no idea what that means. Of course it works for you and "the few apps", that's what it's designed for. What happens when you want to cut and paste a line from an email into a doc? Or download an…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox Except WinCE is by no means desktop Windows with stuff stripped out to make it fit. It's an embedded OS designed around extremely constrained power, memory and CPU conditions. It's not supposed to do any heav…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox Right, you want to make a spurious argument that's irrelevant to the topic, because it's one you feel comfortable with. The argument you are not and possibly cannot make is why many people would be pleased w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox You seem really intent on shifting the discussion to old marketshare vs. quality desktop battles. Why is that? We're talking about the Zune HD vs. the Touch. And again, the argument is not "the Touch is …
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox Maybe the question you should be asking is "What can't WinCE do vs. the Windows NT lineage? If the answer in your mind is "Why, nothing!", then you have to ask yourself why MS isn't using WinCE as their desk…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Since I use x86 to mean AMD or Intel architecture since there are others out there. x86-16, x86-32 and x86-64 are what I find used across other boards I use, but I understand that AI tends to get a different …
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross That's very funny. I'll give you graphics boards. There aren't as many, though most PC graphics boards are the same board designs supplied from different companies. Mother boards? I don't build crap. I don'…