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Shake the shackles
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Microsoft made the mistake of going in different directions with music, offering play for sure and zune and not making them compatible. They should have made the zune service available to all play for sure devices and made the zune a play for sure device. I still think that DRM model is the best DRM model, as it allowed sales and subscription services on a multitude of devices. Zune pass’s keep songs was the most compelling of all subscription services, I just wish they had had a $10 keep 5 instead of $15 keep 10 songs and I would have been all over zune. MS just gives up instead of trying pricing differences or finding why they aren’t doing well, they just give up.
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I am an avid linux user but got excited about windows on arm but became less excited every anouncment that was made.
-Locked boot loader on arm devices – I thought I was going to get a bunch of great arm devices I could dual boot.
-Lack of desktop apps on arm devices – this just seems stupid, the fact is windows should just need to be recompiled for arm and drivers need to be written but other than that there should be no limitations, just that all old software needs to be recompiled. Which should have been an easy step built into visual studio.
I was so excited for windows on arm but now I am probably just going to buy a more power hungry intel tablet. I want to see new umpc inspired designs for windows 8 tablets based on arm, but if they keep screwing up WOA then we won’t be getting anything worth while.
16 days ago on Microsoft to block browser choice in Windows RT, says Mozilla 1 recommend
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Can someone please tell them to stop wasting one of our most scarce resources to make a camera float.
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haha you will be using phone books and 411. A lot of trips to the library. I don’t understand how you expect to communicate effectively with other employees at the verge. You are in affect forcing everyone around you to go out of their normal behavior to contact you. Why not just take an internet free vacation for a while and read the tao of pooh. You are going to need to find some things to do but you will have to find them without the internet.
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