Re:Microsoft forgot to solve a problem
by benaiah on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @04:14PM
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"Surface doesn't solve a problem, except for all the ones it does, and we're going to hand-wave those away."
Office, printing, a real filesystem, multitasking, mouse support, legacy app support (on the Intel version), USB connection, etc.
While I am more friendly to Microsoft than most (not difficult to do), I am perfectly willing to admit the real problems with the surface (screen resolution, price, etc). "Not solving a problem" isn't one of them. I asked my mother the other day (who has used windows 8 successfully to some degree) if she would ever use her computer if she could print from her iPad. She said no.
Office, printing, a real filesystem, multitasking, mouse support, legacy app support (on the Intel version), USB connection, etc.
While I am more friendly to Microsoft than most (not difficult to do), I am perfectly willing to admit the real problems with the surface (screen resolution, price, etc). "Not solving a problem" isn't one of them. I asked my mother the other day (who has used windows 8 successfully to some degree) if she would ever use her computer if she could print from her iPad. She said no.
Problem solved.