Microsoft Zune Tablet released
Jun 23, 2012 | 3:54 pm
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It appears this thread has taken on a life of its own.
Jun 23, 2012 | 4:34 pm
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My Apple experience is brief, an iPod and an IPhone. But if the iPad is esentially an iPhone with a bigger screen, I am reluctant to buy one.
There are so many reasons but just looking at the built-in app Messages is enough. Why can't I store more than 1,000 messages in my mailbox when I have many gigabytes of free space? If I can mark a message as "flagged" or "unread," why can't I also hold it to prevent it from being erased? And the edtitor for composing messages is downright horrible.
If there is a tablet with the build quality of an iPad that can run Word and Outlook, I'm very interested.
There are so many reasons but just looking at the built-in app Messages is enough. Why can't I store more than 1,000 messages in my mailbox when I have many gigabytes of free space? If I can mark a message as "flagged" or "unread," why can't I also hold it to prevent it from being erased? And the edtitor for composing messages is downright horrible.
If there is a tablet with the build quality of an iPad that can run Word and Outlook, I'm very interested.
Jun 23, 2012 | 5:42 pm
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Stop trying to turn everything into some kind of bashing opportunity. Poster was clearly trying to explain that Microsoft DOES have a history of good hardware (along with some failures). Every company has its ups and downs in hardware. Xbox is the number one console in the world, they are still leaders in HID development. And yes, Zune was clearly a monumental disaster.
We are in a thread talking about tablets that will, and do, sell for $500 - $1200 and we are told that $29 mice are an example of the quality job that Microsoft does in the hardware market? LOL It deserved to be mocked.
There are plenty of things I dislike about Apple, and iTunes on Windows comes to mind very quickly. But I think it is hilarious to watch people bash Apple and their products when they can do most of what they are looking for in non-Apple products, with very little effort. The same people who love to root their Android devices turn and complain that you can't do some of the same things on Apple products without Jailbreaking. Same thing, different device, but for Apple it is decried as a defect but celebrated when the same thing is done on an Android device. Despite what some think I am not an Apple fanboi, I am simply a critic of hypocrisy.
Jun 24, 2012 | 6:39 am
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My Apple experience is brief, an iPod and an IPhone. But if the iPad is esentially an iPhone with a bigger screen, I am reluctant to buy one.
There are so many reasons but just looking at the built-in app Messages is enough. Why can't I store more than 1,000 messages in my mailbox when I have many gigabytes of free space? If I can mark a message as "flagged" or "unread," why can't I also hold it to prevent it from being erased? And the edtitor for composing messages is downright horrible.
If there is a tablet with the build quality of an iPad that can run Word and Outlook, I'm very interested.
There are so many reasons but just looking at the built-in app Messages is enough. Why can't I store more than 1,000 messages in my mailbox when I have many gigabytes of free space? If I can mark a message as "flagged" or "unread," why can't I also hold it to prevent it from being erased? And the edtitor for composing messages is downright horrible.
If there is a tablet with the build quality of an iPad that can run Word and Outlook, I'm very interested.
Outlook Web Access on the iPad is pretty darn good.
Jun 27, 2012 | 12:45 pm
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Microsoft Surface blurs boundary between tablet and ultrabook - DigiTimes
With Microsoft and Asustek both having come out with tablet-like ultrabook designs that choose to adopt the new Ivy Bridge-based Core i7 processors, instead of processors from Clover Trail platform, Intel is unlikely to be able to demand its downstream partners follow its rules for separating the two product lines, the sources noted.