An idea that cound save Microsoft?

[Nagy Vilmos]

Any idea...

[M dHatter]

'Head' could be used as another name for bathroom or urinal. :-D

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[OriginalGriff]

This is Microsoft, remember? So move the decimal point one place to the right and it'll overheat. They aren't good with hardware, never have been...

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[Shao Voon Wong]

Their board of directors idea was to change the CEO.

[NPowDev]

well... maybe doing more Big-hard work on the Micro-soft things! ;)

[Westley Cooper Thorn]

BOOM :)

[User 10243678]

windows 8.1 on a phone, thats a crap idea. did Amstrad not try computer phones, they went out of business. What a great idea, yep Microsoft should do it. I have a suggestion for Microsoft try finishing something before you release it, make sure it works first, remember you dont build hardware so stop preventing hardware manufacturers from writing compatible drivers - try helping them. When a tile OS screen looks crap on a desktop try listening to your customers. In fact just try and make something simple that works out of the box. 99% of your customers are not programmers. the day will come when you can bang any old OS into a machine and it will run plus run any one else's applications then the monopoly of Microsoft is over. Now that's an idea.

[Lost User]

MS will never try to destroy it's desktop market.

[David ONeil]

An idea that could save Microsoft: Listen to your customers.

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[StatementTerminator]

Well, that's the direction they went with Surface, and it was a disaster. It's hard to make one device that can adapt to both mobile and desktop environments well. I don't think that I'd want to use VS on a phone anyway. MS will be fine. They're hurting right now due to a marketing guy's decision to kill the Windows desktop platform, but once Windows 9 comes out they'll be in good shape again. If they sell it at a reasonable price (and they should), then it will sell like hotcakes. Most Windows desktop users are hanging on to Windows 7 and waiting for a newer version of that, which should be Windows 9. This includes IT departments, MS's most important customers, who largely skipped Windows 8. There's a lot of pent-up demand out there. MS just isn't good at the consumer side, they'll never be Apple, I hope they understand that now. They lost on MP3 players, phones, tablets, search engines, etc. They need to stick to what they do best: boring productivity tools for getting work done.

[thund3rstruck]

So instead of texting emoticons while driving I can debug post-build events or analyze code coverage. What could be better than being tethered to my employer beyond the 14 hours a day they are already getting out of me? ;)

[ssadler]

Heh, sounds like VS would be running mighty slow. The few times I've used it (I'm a firmware engineer) on my work desktop the IDE was not very quick. Running something like VS or Eclipse on a constrained device like a phone sounds painful to me.

[Middle Manager]

15 hours. ...Oh, you mean better from your perspective ;)

[englebart]

Sounds like a Motorola Atrix + Bluetooth keboard + Remote Desktop via Citrix. Plug the HDMI into the 1920x1080 TV, login via the Remote Desktop. Oh, no! I forgot the mouse! To me there is no "future" to the mobile phone in the current foot print.. The phone should be a communication brick/hotspot with switchable batteries (pocket sized to purse sized) that communicates with your display/app device, bluetooth headset, car, etc.

[User 3769824]

Just go back in time 5 years, switch from MS dev to *nix and buy an N900. Now you root on a video out capable phone in your pocket with a USB port and 3G.

[Wez C]

That sounds exactly like the kind of device! I'd love to learn UNIX good but I'm struggling to keep up with the MS stuff! I suppose as soon as it can be done, someone will do it, roll on 5 years iii

[User 3769824]

psst 5 years ago... Awesome phone...

[HateCoding]

The screen is too small. It will push u over the edge. :-D

[Naoya Yamaguchi]

I concur. I've been waiting for such a smart phone to come out. The iPhone and the Android phone does not repair its file system automatically and it takes a series of somewhat complicated steps to install fsck on the Android.

[jeffery c]

Microsoft should have the start menu in windows 9 for desktop users. I think using a touch screen for programmers can get annoying. It would be cool to still have the windows store but without metro and use shortcuts to store apps on the desktop (as the windows 8 start menu was originally called when it came out). Windows phone 7 was a good phone they just needed more hardware manufacturers to jump in to make them. I had the Samsung Focus Flash as my phone and dropped it face down many times on the ground without a case. I put the battery back in and it kept working. I wonder why that phone survived my rough treatment? I think windows phone needs to have more hardware manufacturers support it and it will succeed. I now see them at Wal-Mart and normal grocery stores. I bypassed the windows 8 computer and kept windows 7 on my laptop. However, I do have a windows 8 phone that I received as a gift this summer. I think more highly of it then windows 8 but still like my windows 7 phone because it was extremely durable and functioned under high stress conditions. Hope I do not sound like a phone abuser. :omg: :laugh:

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