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1800 posts • joined Friday 10th July 2009 11:30 GMT

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Happy

"Facepalm because obviously..."

...Ex-Lax was taken.

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Windows

Re: The Preferred Business Model

Nobody wants it on those terms. Difficult for MS to stick it?

Too bad.

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Devil

Re: Pro Plus?!

A bit of an eye-opener...

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Meh

Re: TL:DR

It's Microsoft.

It's expensive.

It's value is debatable.

it smells fishy.

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Holmes

Re: Intollerable!

Bah!

That's Tesla's Aether Propeller!

What are they teaching in the schools these days? Indeed!!

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Meh

This sounds familiar-

Wasn't this predicted to be happening... ooh about now?

All the 'tell us who your friends are and what you are doing and we'll tell you where your tribe is meeting' things that have been pushed forward up to now just don't catch on- nobody wants tracking to that extent- and nor will this.

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Happy

Surely if it's "Cyber" (!) anything

Then it should be "Perl Harbor" (Harbour).

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Meh

Graph with *3* lines on it

One for Windows Phone 8- it's not 'success'...

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Joke

How about-

Coolio?

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Coat

Re: "places the size of wales that you would never notice if they disappeared"

Wales?

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Devil

"right- minded citizens..."

As in "your mind is as closed as ours, right?"

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Unhappy

"...all that is missing is a mechanism to remind you why you went there in the first place..."

That's what I would want one for!

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FAIL

Re: ...some cause, X...

That would be what enlightened souls have called *the Sun* for many millenia.

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Happy

Re: So if you want a good, stable Cloud coputing system do you choose:-

I think you mean MS are an Outlaw company...

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Happy

Re: Microsoft and Yahoo! are way behind Google in search, clouds, etc too

Abu Hamza doesn't like Win8 Touch Screen kit for some reason.

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Linux

There's a storm coming-

Better board up your Windows.

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Devil

So if you want a good, stable Cloud coputing system do you choose:-

a. Microsoft, A 'Software Company' or

b. Amazon, a bookshop?

Answers on a Valid Certificate...

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Windows

Re: Customers are happier with Win8 touch-

Er- the customers are supposed to be happier with them- so how come they 'aren't aware' of the products?

Tut tut.

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Happy

PayPal

Bumpay?

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Trollface

Re: Once again...

Point and laugh, everyone, point and laugh.

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FAIL

Re: Is this new?

Azure- Blue Sky (What Was I ) Thinking...

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FAIL

Customers are happier with Win8 touch-

So much that they aren't buying them, so we are dropping the price to make them happier, not to shift the things...

Riiiight...

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Boffin

Re: Meanwhile...

...a lab worker in one of Fort Meade's basements is reading this article and getting nostalgic for when they will at some time in the near future, manage to do this a few years ago...

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Thumb Up

Re: There are basically two types of people on the world....

The coathanger in turn is the pupal stage of the shopping trolley.

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Meh

Re: Uh.. how do you think they write Office for Mac?

Half-heartedly.

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Happy

Re: Buried on Mars

@Swarthy= Are you Mr Burns ? :)

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Re: He isn't walking on Mars...

Mars 8

Get your mission patch.

Mars 11, July 2019.......

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Big Brother

Re: Wee legal note

And if you don't fill your bin, but recycle it yourself- prepare for a fine- as it 'belongs' to the council to flog off, suddenly.

(There is a case of a 'green' farmer who fell foul of this but it's Friday so can't be arsed to find a link...)

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Unhappy

Re: What about the fragmentation issue?

Who are you calling a fud?

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Happy

Re: I would guess...

You can pretty much guarantee someone will complain of eye strain right after putting them on.

Now Right Ear Strain from that big rectangular bit...

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WTF?

Re:This one

You think you are Jackie Chan?

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Facepalm

Re: BAE's "Gorgon Stare"?

Ahem- "Wikipedia says:"

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Unhappy

Re: El Presidente

Unfortunately it would probably be a waste of about £100M...

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Happy

Re: Desktop Wars!!!!!

SithCo disagrees...

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Meh

Re: Different kinds of products

Look, there's a dungfly buzzing around. Oh wait it's the fans in the Surface going nuts...

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Devil

"One hundred percent of all Xboxes go to the consumers..."

...54.2% come back again.

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Windows

Re: 3:2

No.

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Windows

Re: Seriously

Seriously?Are you 12?

But I agree- the Surface is pile of shite.

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WTF?

Re: Can someone please call

Scroll up? Or are you using a Surface?

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Facepalm

Re: I used to post crap like you... @hplasm

Sorry if you are reading it wrong, Try again.

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Happy

Re: Not sure what to make of the Surface

A skateboard?

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Meh

Re: I was GIVEN a Chromebook last year...

maybe it IS You...?

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Happy

Re: What's a Microsoft Surface?

Shiny and bald, rounded- a bit sweaty.

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FAIL

Re: I used to post crap like you...

I take it you don't work in IT then.

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Windows

Re: Different kinds of products

Did I say Win 7 was any good?

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Devil

Re: Different kinds of products

"machines that run full OS's like MacOS but not Win8"

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Happy

@Derek

"They all laughed at Christopher Columbus...."

And he told you this though your Spirit Guide, Tontohontas?

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Terminator

Re: Lightbar

Cool!

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Mushroom

The correct term-

for the NK bombs so far seems to be PHUT!!!

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Trollface

Re: Please try to avoid posting too much

Said the AC troll...