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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by bbatha on Saturday June 02, 2018 @12:26AM (#17212696)
Huh? Microsoft has several very successful hardware product lines: peripherals (the Microsoft ergo keyboard is the gold standard in many circles), Xbox, the surface line. Maybe they can’t generate Apple hype but they do know how to make consumer hardware.
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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by cm2187 on Saturday June 02, 2018 @02:29AM (#17213078)
I don’t think surface qualifies as good consumer hardware. It has been pleagued with driver problems and weird behaviour. But agree on periphericals and Xbox.
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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by philliphaydon on Saturday June 02, 2018 @12:31AM (#17212717)
The surface line isn’t avaliable world wide on release. Windows phones were released in like 3 markets. Less than surface line. Xbox gets world wide releases.

Phones, people generally want what’s new. A 12-18 month old phone is not new.

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