Comment

… It’s like Microsoft don’t want to sell it. Now I’m finally in a position to get it, I’ve got ’buyer’s freeze’ waiting for Build, to see if a Surface 2, with Haswell, is just around the corner.

1 day ago on Surface Pro available in the UK on May 23rd, other European countries on May 30th

Comment

Exactly so, except it seems that the Type Cover is free for the first 3 months, so:

MacBook Air 11" 64GB = £849
64GB Surface + Type Cover = £719

MacBook Air 11" 128GB = £929
128GB Surface + Type Cover = £799

1 day ago on Surface Pro available in the UK on May 23rd, other European countries on May 30th

Comment

Exactly the Use Case I was thinking of: Plug it into an external keyboard and monitor, do your dev, unplug and you’ve got a great demo machine. A simlarly spec’d laptop, is about as expensive and it won’t offer the demo convenience of tablet.

But, if you’re just going to web surf then, well yeah, it’s too damn expensive.
This is for business.

1 day ago on Surface Pro available in the UK on May 23rd, other European countries on May 30th

Comment

Yeah, I don’t see the price problem. It’s a damn sweet PC for well under £1000.
I guess the question really becomes, do you need a PC?

2 days ago on Surface Pro available in the UK on May 23rd, other European countries on May 30th 1 reply 1 recommend

Comment

Couldn’t agree more with you. W8 home screen is a sickly mess of abritary lame colors. The worst implementation of Metro in their whole product line-up.

2 days ago on Metro 2.0 3 recommends

Comment

Yes, all true but it was ultimately the 8X’s screen that stopped my buying one: WP loves Clear Black AMOLED.

At launch, HTC’s LCD2 screens just didn’t kick out the nits. Although they seemed to correct that, the colors are still a bit washed out for me and black er, isn’t.

Their LCD3, on the other hand, might just swing it…

3 days ago on Lumia 920 vs. 925 vs. 928: Nokia's flagship trifecta in pictures

Comment

For me, the 8X still reigns supreme as the best looking WP machine on the market.
None of these designs come close.

4 days ago on Lumia 920 vs. 925 vs. 928: Nokia's flagship trifecta in pictures 2 replies

Comment

No, I don’t believe I’ve tried to misconstrue your words. Indeed, your reply only confirms my understanding of them. Of course, I dislike the accusation.

It’s difficult to see what gender specific qualities could provide merit to a CFO position but if there are, then those qualities should be factors in their selection – not gender. That would be sexist… wouldn’t it Pippa?

9 days ago on A Trend at Microsoft...

Comment

I imagine Amy, Julie and Tami agree with you meelahi

9 days ago on A Trend at Microsoft...

Comment

I wonder how these women would feel about your ‘obvious and conscious’ comment on their selection.

Is there anything to be proud of, in getting a job, because of gender? They would have been offered a job because of their genitals and, in taking it, denied others because of theirs.

9 days ago on A Trend at Microsoft... 1 reply

Comment

Nokia were going bust until Elop and his Microsoft billion arrived. Since then, Nokia have taken 80% of the WP market and now Microsoft cannot allow them to go bust. Well done the Nokia board. You saved the company.

Nokia handsets and the marketing are beyond reproach. It’s up to Microsoft to get WP to sell. Until then, Nokia shares won’t going up and their won’t be a dividend.

10 days ago on Shareholders fed up with Elop 1 recommend

Comment

So true.

Until WP and Windows merge, Microsoft can’t make use of Windows.

When it happens, a WP handset would appear to be just another Windows box on the company network. Same management tools. Same licensing. Same supplier. Near zero marginal cost.

Until then, Nokia will be stuck below $4 per share and WP will be stuck below 10% market share.

10 days ago on Shareholders fed up with Elop

Comment

… just a little

11 days ago on Windows 8 passes 100 million license sales, Microsoft reflects on the six month stage 1 recommend

Comment

Er…

11 days ago on Windows 8 passes 100 million license sales, Microsoft reflects on the six month stage 1 recommend

Comment

100 million is a staggering, staggering failure.

And it doesn’t mean they really sold any. Everyone I know, uninstalls Windows 8 and puts on 7 anyway. But they should put on Linux. And the PC market is in decline. And nobody likes Microsoft. They’re bad – oh – and Google is really good. And I don’t talk about Apple because they’re bad too.

11 days ago on Windows 8 passes 100 million license sales, Microsoft reflects on the six month stage 1 reply 3 recommends

Comment

A black AMOLED screen draws no power. LCD screens draw the same power, regardless of color.

18 days ago on Rant: Windows Phones is getting boring

Comment

The main stock apps: People, Messaging, Store, Pictures, Music & Videos, X-Box and Office are fabulous and have never got boring for me. Office and Email are (annoyingly for me, white) best of breed.

The Phone app however, could benefit from taking on the look of the Contact list, in the People app, by displaying the contact pictures. And it’s true, the Calendar is lame.

For the 3rd party apps developers, it’s really quite a challenge to make an outstanding looking app when the stock style is so minimal and prescriptive. You really need great content and that’s often the problem. They don’t have much content.

Finally, the home screen, just isn’t ‘lickable’, as Jobs would have put it. It works really well and is probably the best design functionally, but so gorgeous you want to lick it? No.

18 days ago on Rant: Windows Phones is getting boring