“With Windows 8, Steven Sinofsky said that Microsoft and its PC-making partners have found a way to deliver modern computing at a price far less than that fruit-named competitor,” Ina Fried reports for AllThingsD.
“He notes that there are full-featured Windows 8 laptops that sell for $279,” Fried reports. “‘It’s $279,’ he said, ‘Here we are, talking about seven-inch recreational tablets for $329.’ As for the Windows RT variant, which uses more power-conscious ARM-based processors, but can’t run older programs, Sinofsky said it will hold a lot of appeal. ‘It really is a PC for everyone,’ he said.”
“He said, while an iPad might be good for a short trip, a device like Microsoft’s Surface can suffice even on a long business trip,” Fried reports. “Apple CEO Tim Cook took his own shots at Microsoft on Thursday, suggesting that Surface makes too many compromises in trying to serve as both PC and tablet. ‘You could design a car that flies and floats,’ Cook said on Apple’s earnings conference call, ‘but I don’t think it would do either of those things very well.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Steven SinofskyDear Great Gazoo: iPad mini’s 7.9-inch display — not “7-inch,” you liar — gives users 35% more screen real estate than 7-inch tablets and up to 67% more usable viewing area for Web browsing.
And, we’ll see what sells and what doesn’t.
BTW: Nice reviews, cueball.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Joe Architect” for the heads up.]
PInheads at the top of the ivory tower @ Corp. Hdqtrs. are powerless against consumers voting with their dollars and they vote without listening to the spin from the tower.
Ina Fried used to be a guy, but had her pee-pee and jewels whacked off to become a her. The operation didn’t do a thing for her looks as her face still looks like her ass. Typical Microsoft user.
Microsoft can take their earned seat next to Chrysler as the king of mediocre. That’s what happens when your goal has been to maximize profit with no concern for quality for years and years and years. Your product is cheap and terrible. Live in the bed you’ve made.
Sinovsky is 47 going on 80. He has, like Balmer, appalling dress sense. M$oft execs wear ‘grandad clothes’ at a product launches.
Extraordinary. They just have no taste whatsoever.
ROFLOL, MDN almost killed me laughing with this one, the resemblance is so striking. With balmer as fred flintstone, we have found the true essence of microsoft and why they kept us in the stone age for so long.
this baldy moron should have known better, his boss ballmer laughed at the 1st iphone which went on to success and dealing a blow to Nokia, crackberry and motorola. some people never least 🙁
I thought I had gotten over the shock and amazement from the idiocy eminating from Ballmer’s pie hole, not yet. This guy has the inherent capacity to spew stupidity constantly and repeatedly.
Look, I see the tablet computer as a companion (or extension) to my more powerful and capable desktop computer. I’m not interested in a tablet computer that thinks it can replace my bigger and better performing desktop computer.
Basically, an iPad (or Surface) is not going to adequately replace a Mac (or PC)!
Wake me, didn’t that wing-nut Ballmer question the relevance of the iPad ( shortly before Apple sold 100Million)
I’m sure Apple won’t mind if the recreational aspects of he mini lead to another 100million selling product.
Dear Great Gazoo: iPad mini’s 7.9-inch display — not “7-inch,” you liar — gives users 35% more screen real estate than 7-inch tablets and up to 67% more usable viewing area for Web browsing.
Quality products deserve a quality price tag
Steven Sinofsky looks and sounds like a dork!
Microsoft are done.
PInheads at the top of the ivory tower @ Corp. Hdqtrs. are powerless against consumers voting with their dollars and they vote without listening to the spin from the tower.
Ina Fried used to be a guy, but had her pee-pee and jewels whacked off to become a her. The operation didn’t do a thing for her looks as her face still looks like her ass. Typical Microsoft user.
I didn’t go to college but I’m pretty sure THAT WAS THE IDEA DICKHEAD!
If a product can’t make it, marketing and branding can only go so far! 🙂 Consumers will see through these
Microsoft can take their earned seat next to Chrysler as the king of mediocre. That’s what happens when your goal has been to maximize profit with no concern for quality for years and years and years. Your product is cheap and terrible. Live in the bed you’ve made.
I sense a disturbance in the Force. Yes! Waves of Redmond fear there are rippling into the great ether.
I don’t know, I think Sinofsky looks more like Dr Evil in Austin Power then Gazoo. I wonder if he has a Mini Me?
iPad mini? More like “mini me” from Austin Power….
Let’s give it 6 months and we’ll see what Mr.Softie has to say about anything!
Sinovsky is 47 going on 80. He has, like Balmer, appalling dress sense. M$oft execs wear ‘grandad clothes’ at a product launches.
Extraordinary. They just have no taste whatsoever.
You say Microsoft execs have no taste. You’re in very good company:
Bozo
MMMM! Didn’t M$ pathetic leader Monkey Boy say something stupid about the iPhone? Look how that turned out!
Great Gazoo !!!!!!
ROFLOL, MDN almost killed me laughing with this one, the resemblance is so striking. With balmer as fred flintstone, we have found the true essence of microsoft and why they kept us in the stone age for so long.
Microsoft: probably one of the greatest vaporware dealer of this century… A living hoax, all by itself!
this baldy moron should have known better, his boss ballmer laughed at the 1st iphone which went on to success and dealing a blow to Nokia, crackberry and motorola. some people never least 🙁
i mean never learn, not least LOL
Sinofsky has spoken like a tue Polish Peasant
Projectile vomiting.. wonder why…
“Microsoft exec blasts the automobile as a passing fancy while unveiling the latest Microsoft bicycle.”
I thought I had gotten over the shock and amazement from the idiocy eminating from Ballmer’s pie hole, not yet. This guy has the inherent capacity to spew stupidity constantly and repeatedly.
Look, I see the tablet computer as a companion (or extension) to my more powerful and capable desktop computer. I’m not interested in a tablet computer that thinks it can replace my bigger and better performing desktop computer.
Basically, an iPad (or Surface) is not going to adequately replace a Mac (or PC)!
Wake me, didn’t that wing-nut Ballmer question the relevance of the iPad ( shortly before Apple sold 100Million)
I’m sure Apple won’t mind if the recreational aspects of he mini lead to another 100million selling product.