* Posts by blackjesus

4 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Jul 2012

Paul Allen: Windows 8 'promising' yet 'puzzling'

blackjesus

Re: Yep

Here's a crazy idea. You could always lay out your tiles in the order that works best for you? Just a thought.

blackjesus

IE Bookmarks and Desktop Links.....

Both of these have been changed in RTM. So much disinformation on what Win8 does is going around. IE shows the same bookmarks and if you open the links from the desktop they open in the desktop apps.

Windows Phone 8: Microsoft quite literally can't lose

blackjesus

Re: Litigation

MS and Apple already have arrange licensing agreements for all of the patents involved in their competing products. That's why everyone is a little more bully on Winphone after the lawsuit. That's not to say that Apple couldn't find a reason to sue but if you look at all of the recent IP stuff MS got just about everyone to pony up a good chunk of change without ever going to court. MS' legal unit is supposedly legendary. I don't see apple wanting to open up that can of worms also.

Metro, that ribbon, shared mailboxes: Has Microsoft lost the plot?

blackjesus
WTF?

Re: When is Ballmer going to be put out to pasture?

Vista's failure equated to Rather large profits. All of the bad mouthing Ballmer gets seems to forget that no matter how you frame his time at MS, the company has never been so successful. Yes, Apple has taken a huge lead in mobile and tablets and google is way strong in mobile, but if windows 8 sells as good as vista it will still be huge and will create a big ecosystem for app developers with metro. This isn't a fanboy blowing smoke up your a$$. This is basic math.

If you look at the size of the desktop and laptop markets which MS owns and think if 3/4 of all of those sold have some kind of win8 on them from fall and afterward, it will still be massive if this is a "failure" like vista. All the posts here completely lack perspective and are thoroughly biased with selective use of facts and figures.