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TheFourteenthDoctor
On The Verge since Nov 30, 2012
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8.1 is a free upgrade.
about 3 hours ago on Lets get some posotive feelings up in here. Who is ready for BUILD??? 1 reply
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And wouldn’t it suck if stores continued selling out of the Xbox One well into 2014 making it impossible for you to play the games you wanted?
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No.
4 days ago on can xbox one games run on windows? 1 reply 1 recommend
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No.
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When the Xbox 360 games were shown off 8 years ago, they were running on PowerMac G5s. The games looked the same or better at release. What’s your point?
4 days ago on Xbox One Games At E3 Were Running On Windows 7 With Nvidia GTX Cards 1 reply 10 recommends
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Your argument about The Witcher 2 still being $40 doesn’t make sense when talking to Microsoft. Microsoft doesn’t tell the third parties what to charge for their games. If the publisher has it at $40, that is the publisher’s prerogative. That complaint is directed at Atari.
5 days ago on Microsoft, Here's Some Xbox One Real Talk 1 reply
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You’re missing the point. I don’t mean this as a brain exercise. If I was told today that every Xbox 360 game for the last two years had this 24 hour login thing already implemented, that wouldn’t have changed anything. Most people (especially most of the people who are complaining loudest about this) already have perpetually connected devices. So the difference to them is nonexistent.
6 days ago on Why 95% of the people complaining about the 24 hour DRM are wrong
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You still aren’t addressing the question. If you had an Xbox that were connected to the internet, which it sounds like you would if you had WiFi built in, and every time you booted up a game it pinged an authentication server, would you even notice the difference between it doing that and it not doing that? Whether or not your boycotting Microsoft is entirely irrelevant to the question.
6 days ago on Why 95% of the people complaining about the 24 hour DRM are wrong 1 recommend
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This response dodges the question. If the 24 hour check were already in place, would you have even noticed?
6 days ago on Why 95% of the people complaining about the 24 hour DRM are wrong 1 reply 1 recommend
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If your Xbox 360 had WiFi, it would have been connected? So the inbuilt WiFi of the Xbox One would make this a moot point?
6 days ago on Why 95% of the people complaining about the 24 hour DRM are wrong 1 reply
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Posted: Why 95% of the people complaining about the 24 hour DRM are wrong
6 days ago 36 comments 1 recommend
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It would save Microsoft maybe $35 per unit (if you take into account packaging and shipping cost reductions), which would make the Xbox One without a disc drive likely MSRP for $459. You honestly wouldn’t just spend the extra $40 for the DVD and Blu-ray functionality? Just because?
And even if you wouldn’t, Microsoft’s costs associated with making a second SKU (redesigning the unit and packaging, making a second firmware that wasn’t expecting an optical drive, marketing materials explaining the difference, etc.) weighed against the incredibly small percentage of people who would find such an option attractive is unfeasible.
6 days ago on The Xbox is a "Steambox" and people are upset because of Blu-ray. 2 replies
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Blu-ray drives are $50 for consumers. Bulk orders from OEMs could be as little as $20 per unit. There is no way losing the Blu-ray drive would drop the price $200.
6 days ago on The Xbox is a "Steambox" and people are upset because of Blu-ray. 1 reply 2 recommends
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You clearly don’t know what “creative” means.
8 days ago on A poem for the Xbox One defenders 2 replies 2 recommends
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2 had fantastic multiplayer but the campaign suffered, 3 was a super solid story and the multiplayer remained great, ODST was a nice departure for the franchise, Reach was fantastic all around, Halo Wars was certainly a worthy entry, and Halo 4 was one of the most polished experiences I have ever played.
9 days ago on New 'Halo' coming to Xbox One in 2014 1 recommend
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Why do people want to duplicate functionality that they already are pretty much guaranteed to be carrying in their pocket? Wouldn’t you be buying something that isn’t a smartphone exactly because your smartphone isn’t fulfilling some need you have? I understand the desire for a screen larger than 4 inches, but that larger device should do more. Or at the very least do different.
Making a PC smaller fulfills the need of making productivity more mobile. Making a smartphone larger… does what? Increase visibility? Is that worth $300-500?
10 days ago on WP on a tablet 3 replies 2 recommends
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No, seriously, look it up. Here, I’ll prove it to you.
All grey super professional logo.
http://www.techinfo-4u.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/google_logo_51.jpg
Another all grey super professional logo.
http://images.jeb.be/Apple/apple_logo_(640×480).jpg
I don’t know if you can tell what company this is because the name isn’t in the logo, but it’s still super professional because of all the greys.
http://www.larevueautomobile.com/images/image-actu/Ferrari-F450-Luca-Serafini-1.jpg
A car that only successful professionals can afford, and it is super grey.
http://www.parrola.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Lamborghini-Reventon.jpg
Another example of a professional’s car, and it is somehow even greyer!
So you see? Grey is the color of professionalism.
10 days ago on Win8: Interface is killing it for me 1 reply 1 recommend
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I am having a hard time imagining a response that has less to do with the subject presented.
So defend your post, Capt Snow. What does the future return of the option to have a larger visual representation of an area that already exists in Windows 8 have anything to do with the past two months expansion of available apps in the Windows Store?
10 days ago on Rapid growth of Windows Store? 1 reply 6 recommends
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No, seriously, look it up. Every Lamborghini, Ferrari, etc. sold is dull grey because professionals don’t like colors.
Also, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc. all only use greys for everything because they are super professional. All you have to do is look at their logos to see the proof.
12 days ago on Win8: Interface is killing it for me 2 replies 1 recommend
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I’m detecting sarcasm. Why? J was one of the most clear headed creatives at Microsoft, and is largely responsible for the vision behind Xbox 360. Courier was exciting, if nothing else.
Also, Ballmer is only just now finally getting to make Microsoft his (and not just Gates’s leftovers). And I, for one, am a fan of the direction it’s going. I will take a cloud connected/synced future with powerful and capable devices offering a consistent vision and experience any day.
12 days ago on J Allard (THIS IS A RUMOR but it comes from Mary Jo Foley) 1 reply
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Cosmetic changes that promote consistency and cohesion, yes.
14 days ago on What improvements do people want in the desktop?
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The 32GB Surface RT has just over 16GB of free space, with the option to free up an additional ~3.5GB by offloading the restore partition. And then you are welcome to uninstall any of the inbuilt applications to free up more space. I got mine to almost 22GB of free space, and that’s without deleting most of the apps or Office. Considering 32GB is actually 29.8GB when formatted, it’s not as bad as you guys make it sound.
And this is without mentioning the SD card expandability and the ability to plug in whatever size external storage you want. (How expandable is the iPad again?)
19 days ago on Microsoft launches iPad comparison site for Windows 8 tablets 1 recommend
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If you think it’s possible for Xbox Live to go down the same way PSN did, then you either don’t understand what happened to the PSN, or you don’t understand how Xbox Live works.
Microsoft is a software and security company. Sony is a hardware company.
20 days ago on Why a required internet connection for the Xbox One could be a huge problem. 3 replies
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As someone who had a 360 on launch day but didn’t buy a single launch title, let me assure you, yes it was as long as you had a HDD. It wasn’t full backwards compatibility, but that’s a moot point because it still isn’t fully backwards compatible to this day.
21 days ago on The other MSFT x86 gaming platform and Xbox One
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Then… yes?
21 days ago on Should I buy a Nokia Lumia 920 now? 3 recommends
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Microsoft owns part of Immersion.
26 days ago on Five years on from HD-DVD's failure, the Xbox One has a Blu-ray drive 1 reply
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Sony pays Microsoft a small royalty for every controller they sell with rumble. Them’s the breaks.
29 days ago on Five years on from HD-DVD's failure, the Xbox One has a Blu-ray drive 1 reply 2 recommends
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Adding servers doesn’t mean there are automatically more people to play against.
29 days ago on Xbox Live adds gameplay recording and sharing, revamps achievements 2 recommends
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The problem with every company that fails is that they assume marketing is non-essential. The companies that continually perform the best are the ones who advertise well, even in times of hardship.
Apple, for instance, was nearly bankrupt when they started their (original) iMac commercials.
If you cut marketing because you don’t have the money, the only result that can (and ever does) happen as a result is less money.
30 days ago on UPDATED: Surface Phone: How Microsoft Can Push WP and Rescue HTC 2 recommends
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If you broaden your view beyond phones, WP7 has seen support for longer than things like the first generation iPad, certain Mac mini models, and it’s on its way to pass the first generation Apple TV. In the world of phones, there are a huge number of Android devices that didn’t get the next versions of Android despite being fully capable of running them.
The thing is that WP7 is not decommissioned. It is still supported. When I say that support was dropped for the devices above, that is literal; in some of the Android cases, it was even after promised support or upgrades failed to be delivered on, which is something Microsoft never did with Windows Phone. Windows XP is even still in extended support, even though there have been three whole versions of Windows since then. Just because something isn’t the current version doesn’t mean it has been dropped completely.
But since you do understand the reason behind the decisions made, then you also understand that at the very least they didn’t make the decisions for no reason. So then you must also understand that Microsoft is very unlikely to do it again as they don’t have the same motivations this time, and if they were to have to do it again, there should be some good reasons why. So your post that I responded to initially is deliberately dishonest.
about 1 month ago on Latest cool apps 90% iOS eclusives 1 recommend
