Comments on: Microsoft Surface Touch Cover splits within days, exposing wire; early users complain

By: Robyn Harris

Robyn Harris — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 01:13:16 +0000

Wow, those iPad Mini grapes must be sooooooooo sour.

By: Pete on Heat

Pete on Heat — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 08:31:53 +0000

The reason the keyboard splits is because the users keep bashing the fuck out of the keyboard looking for the CTRL ALT and DEL keys!!!!!!

By: Mr.Tuttle

Mr.Tuttle — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 16:07:21 +0000

By: ppctyler

ppctyler — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 04:27:02 +0000

They need to start by executing some of their executives. Well, maybe a broken cover can do that for us.

By: ppctyler

ppctyler — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 04:22:54 +0000

It’s all caused by the clicks, didn’t you know. Too much clicking can cause breakage and failures. Just ask your dentist!

By: whu?

whu? — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:35:18 +0000

“MS has never executed their (sometimes great) ideas well,”

NOT THEIR IDEAS, their Stolen or hostile purchased ideas, they usually take the stolen ones and turn them around which makes them backwards (go to start to stop the computer, etc,,,,)

By: R Eunson

R Eunson — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:08:43 +0000

What I see in the surface is a tablet trying to be a laptop.
Except it can’t comfortably be used on the lap and is best used on a desk.
Leave it to Microsoft to turn a tablet in to a desktop computer that can’t run desktop applications.

By: tincan2012

tincan2012 — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:29:11 +0000

By: tincan2012

tincan2012 — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:28:18 +0000

By: MacGenie

MacGenie — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:01:08 +0000

…don’t keep closing the case – it’ll snap right off!

By: DRMSSDB

DRMSSDB — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:29:41 +0000

“…you let the Surface rest on your lap (for example, when you’re reclining and reading something…”

There’s the problem. The Surface is meant for work and serious business, not a recreational item. Stop relaxing, put the Surface on your desk so you can work hard. MS isn’t going to make money on recreational items.

By: mrfergus

mrfergus — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:26:40 +0000

What else would you expect from Microsoft other than crap?

By: JoeBin

JoeBin — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:15:04 +0000

Ballmer will address this with a press conference tomorrow and announce, “Bumpers for everyone!”

By: HHS

HHS — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:14:09 +0000

As usual, here’s testicle man with another profound comment.

By: Rorschach

Rorschach — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:01:55 +0000

I’ll give you another 36 hours until the case splits and you’re desperately trying to cover up the fact that what you’ve actually bought is an overpriced piece of plastic garbage.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:53:48 +0000

Monty said it so well, “It’s just a flesh wound!”

By: NHL

NHL — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:49:41 +0000

Microsoft will issue “Service Pack 1″.
It will include a roll of duct tape.

By: Damian75

Damian75 — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:48:53 +0000

I love how MS solution to not having a presence in the tablet market is to make a tablet then make a cover that forces the user to use it like a laptop, and charge them more than the price of a windoze laptop.

By: rolf

rolf — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:38:45 +0000

hilarious that Apple competitors/naysayers mock Apple’s perfectionist engineering prowess for materials & finishing touches.

want a perfectionist reason as to why such german-style engineering is a must?!:
Cheap plastics suck!
Buy Apple (& AAPL).

lest you prefer to be frustrated & jump out of Windows or fiddle instead of be productive in peace.

Peace!

By: @Jim

@Jim — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:22:59 +0000

lol

I love how Microsoft’s so cheap and incompetent they hire shills that barely even know English.

By: DNA

DNA — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:17:35 +0000

See? That just sounds retarded.
“I love my Surface”.
Fuck off troll.
This isn’t YouTube.

By: Jersey_Trader

Jersey_Trader — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:16:12 +0000

That is correct. The first 16GB is the bloated always freezing and crashing Windows 8 OS. Without a lot of apps to take up storage room, no one really needs any of the first 16 GB.

The Windows viruses and malware will fill the balance of the Surface device storage. Isn’t that why they went with Windows again?

By: wzinc

wzinc — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:01:06 +0000

You can’t have a *-gate scandal if hardly anyone buys your product.

By: Now, Now...

Now, Now... — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:00:14 +0000

“Electrical Groin Stimulation Device…” Eer, sex toy?!

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:32:02 +0000

I love my Surface. Works flawlessly without these pathethic FUD.

By: dddd

dddd — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:26:56 +0000

$69 for a beautiful apple bluetooth wireless keyboard to work with iPad
or
$120 or $130 for the plastic surface keyboard that breaks after 3 days of use.

MS is in big trouble.

By: praus

praus — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:23:30 +0000

Microsoft definitely needs more execution…

By: I love Apple

I love Apple — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:16:21 +0000

“I mean it in a big way: Microsoft simply has no taste.”
Case closed.

By: Grigori

Grigori — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:11:07 +0000

That’s SUCH a shame. . .

Surface is a cool idea on paper, but in reality? Not so much. It’s ALL in the execution, and MS has never executed their (sometimes great) ideas well, so it’s all for naught.

By: MAChiavelli

MAChiavelli — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:10:28 +0000

The Surface will be akin to the zune

By: twilightmoon

twilightmoon — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:09:15 +0000

They should have included some duct tape in the box.

By: Bizlaw

Bizlaw — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:06:20 +0000

Ew.

By: pdr400

pdr400 — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:03:43 +0000

Microsoft: dealers in fine plastic.

By: MightMouth

MightMouth — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:57:27 +0000

It’s only a Surface-ficial problem.

By: oldjoey

oldjoey — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:45:44 +0000

No big deal, just add a little duct tape.

By: Ice

Ice — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:27:24 +0000

I heard the windows software eats up half of the capacity for the 32 gb. No wonder Microsoft didn’t market a 16 gb tablet. Haha.

By: Tobias Tate

Tobias Tate — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:26:41 +0000

Freakin’ hilarious!

Beyond that, are people really using it in their lap with the kickstand digging into their legs?

By: Ballmer's left nut

Ballmer's left nut — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:24:25 +0000

They designed it after Ballmer’s zipper, Microsoft’s failed effort of copying Apple’s skeuomorphism of Steve Jobs’ private jet leather stichings. And like Ballmer’s zipper, it is liable to split open at any moment.

By: Jax44

Jax44 — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:19:43 +0000

” It’s a tablet, a laptop, an Electrical Groin Stimulation Device…”

By: breeze

breeze — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:14:42 +0000

Color it brown, shit brown…

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:12:34 +0000

Just add a little electrical tape and call it a fashion statement

By: AAPLGuy

AAPLGuy — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:10:49 +0000

By: tincan2012

tincan2012 — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:09:01 +0000

I had read that some reviewers (not sure if they actually had one to review) found the Surface ‘exciting’. Now these reviewers can add “electrifying” to their descriptions. Or that users will “get a charge out of typing..”. Or that the Surface will “zap the competition … and the user!” Love it.

By: opsono

opsono — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:03:18 +0000

Using it in your lap!? As we all know, you’re supposed to be dancing around with it and constantly clicking it on and off.

By: rfrmac

rfrmac — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:59:43 +0000

Wires are Good.

By: Me

Me — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:58:10 +0000

Just waiting to hear about more flaws and failures of this plastic Windows (P)OS ……thing…

By: humbug

humbug — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:57:03 +0000

It is not a bug (defect), it’s a feature!

By: rdiddly

rdiddly — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:51:42 +0000

It’s simple really. They’re holding it wrong.

By: Indentured1

Indentured1 — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:47:19 +0000

Where’s covergate? It should begin to “Surface” shortly…