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Revenge of the 'Soft


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Microsoft have announced yet another new money-maker to make up for their losses from Vista.

 

Microsoft Surface

 

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Microsoft Surface represents a fundemantal change in the way we interact with digital content.

 

Surface features a 30-inch tabletop display whose unique abilities allow for several people to work independently or simultaneously. All without a keyboard or mouse

 

It seems exciting, but i just can't see it costing any less than an arm and a leg...

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haha... some one posted this, well not the ms, but when the guy was introducing that touch screen thingy...

 

 

well lets see how far it goes... its gotta be cheap.. i mean ppl are suspicious, ppl a scared to invest in any thing these day.. heck i ain't even got a lcd/plasma tv yet.... and i'm a techno mage <--- ::)

 

yeah and MS hasn't got the best of reps....

 

just when the PC has finally become personal... MS want us to share our porn... ahem pics with the family.... lol

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  • 9 months later...
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I still refuse the idea of having to change to XP memory requirements, not to say his even bloated descendants...

 

The 'best buy' 'doo-dad'  for me this days is to buy a new big hard drive... for less than $100, and a cheap $32-$40... memory upgrade(so you can still use 1 of your old DDRX memory, and if it wasn't because only fat32 remains as the most universal/friendly filesystem for pc's  (in my opinion) my second OS choice should be Debian.

 

But let's face it, am still 'afraid' to loose my precious cummule of withsense and nonsense data/bullsh*t stuff in linux formatted filesystems that one can not see only connecting a hard drive and booting from a 98bootdisk or on SD or pendrives. (Why there is not a open source FAT64 or FAT128 fs yet? :).

 

The wheel was and is still round and thus is how it works nice for PC's... they wanted  DOS out, and this 'revenge of soft' is also a 'Real-DOS' revenge...

 

For the quick / power tasks I prefer and I  will be using my 'Merlin2k' until the last day of its support, history repeating itself again... As Martok would say: "To Stovockov" :P   

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Right now I'm dual booting Ubuntu and XP Pro SP2. The only reason I ever boot into XP is to sync my Zune. That's it. Everything else I do in Ubuntu.

 

Someday someone will come up with a way to sync the Zune with linux. Until then, I must keep Windows somewhere.

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I think Microsoft will be waiting a long time to get any gains from Vista. It's too big and clunky to be effective in the short term. If I were Mircosoft I'd be placing my bets on the XP SP3 that should be coming out soon. It is unfortunate that XP support will end within the next year and that XP will end up like Win98 has been up to say 2006.

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