Good Old MS

You always know you are dealing with a shitty underhanded corporation that will use just about every dirty trick in the book.

This does have echoes of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial ( made in to play/movie called inherit the wind) where backward bible bashers tried to make it a criminal offence to teach evolution in schools and prosecuted a teacher for doing so.

"He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind"

Careful Microsoft this could backfire and be known as The Microsoft Monkey Boy Trial

7200 rpm 2.5 inch ?

Erm think you might want to correct the article:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/04/seagate_momentus_hybrids/

Seagate takes 7.2k notebook drives out back - and shoots them

Probably the tip of the icberg

How many banking security failures do we not hear about on the same scale and they insist the systems are infallible.

Bollox !

ps RBS just for a laugh uses java for their RBSMarketPlace applications.. How ironic is that ?

Crosses, wooden stakes and garlic at the ready

Here comes Murdoch

A very expensive mobile computing solution

Has too much PC baggage and just doesn't quite work. I think I'll give this a pass, certainly at the price of a second mortgage. WP needs scaling up to tablet and not Server 2012 shoehorned into a tablet.

Apple really take the piss

I hear their next patent application will be on a diatomic molecule with a molecular mass of 32, they have also registered the trademark and called it Oxygen.

Route one to GCHQ

All this DPI snooping is just what GCHQ are looking for. Coincidence ?

MS kills netbook market

Then wants to charge you four times the price for something that does exactly the same job and that has a worse keyboard. It's just too expensive.

Blah blah full blown office, god I'm sick of that argument from MS apologists. Only a masochist would torture themselves using Office on a 9.2 inch screen.

Why on earth did MS just not scale up WP8 to a tablet ?

A Loan from MS !

When you sup with the Devil, use a long spoon.

I hope Michael Dell is well versed with Faust.

If Java were a boat

I'd feel much safer sailing in a paper mache colander that a java boat as the leaks are easier to plug.

Star "Coronation Street" Wars

Just going to be soap in space and flogging the franchise to death.

I've just given up going to the cinema as there just seems to be one mediocre movie after another. At least in a restaurant you can refuse (or demand a reduction) to pay if the food is rubbish.

Overpiced

Expect the next wave of Android tablets to up their game even further giving the same experience for less than half the money. Yes blah blah legacy apps but try running them on tablet windows and you are going to have an excruciating experience as they are not design for touch. As for office meh, who need such a bloated word processor and calculator ?

They Looked At The W8 Machines....

And thought WTF is that GUI all about, no thanks.

$159 !

Ah yet again we get shagged for pricing in blighty, best UK price £150

Tim, you assume perfect competition.

However there are the little matter of patents (and patent abuse) which can stifle competition for up to a period of 20 years. This is certainly the case in the software industry where trivial patents are being lodged and passed even when there is plenty of evidence of prior art or obviousness for the sole purpose of hindering competition.

20 year patents do have a place when the invention is innovative, novel and required huge amounts of R & D spend. I can sympathise with the pharmaceutical industry as regards patents where the investment is huge and late stage failures common. It costs about £1bn (and 10 years worth of testing) to bring a test tube invention to market giving about 10 years exclusivity, if you are lucky.. However a bit of code that can be cobbled together on a Friday afternoon by an intern that was probably lifted from someone else's work then given a 20 year patent beggars belief. As for rounded corners, fuck off Apple.

Horrahhh for the patent trolls !

We can all look forward to higher prices for our tech and slower product development, while the morally brankrupt grave robbers drive around in nice new maseratis.

If it looks like a computer....

Smells like a computer, acts like a computer and connects to the Internet then it always has the potential to be hacked.

If you want a smart TV get an android usb stick computer or similar then if that gets bricked by a hacker at least it's not £1000 down the drain.

As Scotty said "The more the plumbing the easier it is to stop up the drain"

An Asshole law

Drafted by assholes. Have these morons never come across encrypted off shore VPNs, real criminals and terrorists use these anyway.

Ryan Air Are Doing It For £50

However that is one way, no luggage and oxygen is extra.

After checking in and credit card handling fees the return comes out at a very reasonable £2.1bn