too centralised already

The UK is already too centralised on London - we need to spread employment further afield, even if it is just M3/M4/M40 corridor

I wonder if they check

I have just asked for Hull to be removed from the map :)

What did she ever do to me?

Most of my education was in the Thatcher years, when schools had enough teachers, when I got a full grant to go to university and had no debt when I finished. Blair/Brown screwed up all of that.

Unlike your cousins on the PC, you won’t be getting OneNote, Access or Publisher.....

or any update to Outlook 2011 which is slow and buggy

2) State that as China/India/The US won't reduce emissions why should we.

No need for us to do anything until China/India/US make major changes. Even if we just switched off the UK it would have no impact on global pollution.

I have one - meh

The Surface Pro is not really a tablet - it is too heavy and thick. It is a laptop with a slightly different design. The keyboard add on is awful - very easy to hit the wrong buttons and is like a cross between the keyboards on Sinclair ZX81 and Spectrum.

so what about outside?

O2 reception is poor outside most of the time and Vodafone is not much better !

Sony smart TV too slow

I have a 2012 model Sony 'smart' TV - it takes several seconds to respond to the remote after the picture is on, presumably because it is still booting. All the menus, guides and other crap are accesses via a slow and poorly designed UI, none of it works as well as my Humax PVR which is quick, slick and just does what is needed and nothing else.

very dubious figures

So they claim that 21% of workers currently use a tablet - where?

My company, among other things, produces software for tablets yet still less than 21% have a tablet.

Should be free

If Microsoft want all kids brain-washed into thinking theirs is the only software then they should be providing it free to schools.

Also, if schools already have a version of Office, why do they need to upgrade?

My 8 year old son was set homework he had to do on Powerpoint the other day - ridiculous.

O2 boostbox doesn't work

We had 2 O2 boostboxs supplied for 2 home workers, neither ever worked and O2's technical people gave up trying and just said that the users needed to buy a new router but would not guarantee it would work after that

That much!

I am surprised they got 16% - who buys a Nokia phone these days?

good grief

That makes even Virgin Atlantic economy food look appetising!

Apart from the 'breakfast' of an oat cereal bar and a mouthful or orange juice.

support nightmare

Unless all internal systems are accessed via Citrix or some other remote technology is situations where you get a user saying 'I cannot do this and I am working on a multi million pound deal' who will determine that the isssue is with the user's own equipment and we will not fix it?

Is it just us?

Do other countries have all this hoop jumping just to roll out digital TV?

Free parking should be the norm

We have free parking in West Oxfordshire, the towns seem to be thriving, even new shops opening during the recession.

very poot

Even my local Sainsbury's is shown at least a mile from where it actually is!

WTF

Is there anything you will not publish if it has iPhone5 in the title?

I have an iPhone 4, I want an iPhone 5, but I do not want to read ever piece of crap about it

Free is too much

Even if they were lending them for free I still have absolutely no need or want for one, it does nothing that either my phone or my laptop provide

hmmm

So if I replace my iPhone 4 with an iPhone 5 then I cannot use it with my Bose Sound dock or my Pure digital radio - guess I don't need an iPhone 5 as much as I thought then !

and?

What has this got to do with anything?

Never used it

Youtube video on a mobile phone - never used it, never need it, won't miss it when I upgrade my iPhone and iPad to iOS6

O2 network coverage poor - that is not news

that is sadly everyday O2 'service'

What about 3G?

Super, but how about a decent 3G signal anywhere?

Fix 3G first

Until companies like (and specifically) O2 can provide a decent 2G/3G signal they should not be allowed to work on 4G.

Really? I would never have guessed!

Thanks for letting me know that an iPad using Apple's consumer software is no good at work - I would never have worked that out!

While you are at it why didn't you point out that MS Publisher is no good for serious publishing work.

Issue not just in UK

I have users travelling abroad also reporting their O2 phone not working

What is this box for?

I have a Humax Freeview HD DVR box with 500Gb HDD that cost £199 that does all of the above apart from ITV Player (no loss there) so why would I want this?

In my corporate...

with over 12,000 staff globally we have over 40% of staff using a Mac, the percentage in IT is over 50%. Why - because staff are able to choose and almost all internal systems work cross-platform. Macs require less initial setup time, less ongoing support than PCs and the failure rate in much lower. Also a 4 year old Mac laptop is still perfectly usable with the latest OS, you cannot say the same about the PCs are 3 years old.

Who wants to go in an MS shop?

I was in the Valley Fair shopping mall in San Jose,CA in March, it was 11am on a Sunday. The Apple Store was jam packed with people, the Microsoft store opposite had 2 people in it, both staff. Apple stores work because most of the items in them are Apple products so it is a focussed experience, MS stores are basically just another PCWorld - no USP.

director of customer experience - really?

The big surprise is that they have a 'director of customer experience' - obviously he has never used the underground where the customer experience is awful from beginning to end

hmmmm

What if I don't want the lights on during the day? No network

Always hated BT, just got BT Infinity

Virgin Media cable stops at the end of my road, they didn't bother installing on my new estate of 1000 houses. BT just rolled out Infinity 3, I now have 67meg download - happy days.