Samsung: No One Is Buying Microsoft's Surface, Windows 8 Isn't Very Good
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I think they could have handled the switch to the metro UI a bit better. At this point it's almost like they're trying to force desktop users to use it. It is sad to see it compared to Vista so much...
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I compare it more to Windows ME. Vista wasn't that bad...
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Windows ME
THAT was a serious catastrophe... X|
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At the Microsoft store in Austin, the last 3 times I stopped by they were moving Surface Pros as fast as they could write invoices. I wonder if that's the exception or where Samsung got their information. Personally I love mine and Samsung can't hold a candle to the capabilities, because I compared before buying the Pro. Or was he talking about the regular Surface RT? That wasn't doing too well.
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Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Yeah, I think there are at least 2 or 3 of us here. We should have an Austin CP meeting or beer or something. I'm up north next to the IBM complex off of Burnet, but when I'm not working from home, I'm at UT most days. I'll be here at least until the end of the year, but my wife and I are looking for an excuse to stay.
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Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Yeah, I think there are at least 2 or 3 of us here. We should have an Austin CP meeting or beer or something. I'm up north next to the IBM complex off of Burnet, but when I'm not working from home, I'm at UT most days. I'll be here at least until the end of the year, but my wife and I are looking for an excuse to stay.
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Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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And another, if the Round Rock area counts. :) Every time I've been in our MS store it's been fairly busy with sales. I'm trying to hold out for a Gen 2 Pro to replace my ultrabook, but we'll see...
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And, heading still further north, I'm in Kempner. :p EDIT: And I somehow managed to log in with the "wrong" account.
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Things aren't looking up for Windows 8.... Samsung is the latest company to publicly criticize the OS. http://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-exec-on-windows-8-2013-3[^]
Everybody on codeproject predicted this ages ago. This is just validation that, yes, we were RIGHT.
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I think they could have handled the switch to the metro UI a bit better. At this point it's almost like they're trying to force desktop users to use it. It is sad to see it compared to Vista so much...
Yes. They are trying to ram Metro down their desktop users' throats. Big mistake. Vista is an apt comparison, as it was trying to ram UAC and a major device driver change down users' throats.. and it wasn't too successful at it. We had to wait till Windows 7 before users accepted those changes. Fortunately for Vista, it was at least useable without significant user retraining, which isn't the case for Windows 8.
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