“The iPad is one of the most popular consumer products of all time, but that doesn’t mean it’s perfect,” David Needle reports for TabTimes. “Just asked Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates.”
With Windows 8 Microsoft is trying to gain share by what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated, they can’t type, they can’t create documents, they don’t have Office there. We’re providing them with something… without giving up the benefits of the PC. – Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates
Gates also touted the software giant’s own tablet products as the best of both (PC and tablet) worlds. ‘Windows 8 really is revolutionary in that it takes the benefits of the tablet and PC and supports both of those,’ he said. ‘So if you have Surface, Surface Pro you’ve got that portability of the tablet, the richness of the keyboard and Microsoft Office from the PC.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: Once a liar, always a liar.
Obviously, iPad users can type.
Obviously, iPad users can create documents.
Obviously, by its wide-ranging enterprise acceptance, iPad users don’t need Office.
This is quickly teaching the rest of the world that they don’t need Office. Microsoft, by stupidly withholding it, and Apple, by providing compelling alternatives, are kicking one of Microsoft’s two legs right out from underneath them. iPad, iPhone and iOS, along with Microsoft’s utter, laughable incompetence, is taking care of the other leg, Windows, in rapid fashion.
Who’s really frustrated here? Bill Gates, the passive-agressive projectionist, and Microsoft — due to the reality that iPad users actually exist (well over 100 million, in fact) and Surface users simply do not.
What’s next, is Billy the mentally ill boy going to lash out at iPod, claiming users can’t listen to music, can’t create playlists, and don’t have access to the Zune Marketplace and that they should therefore have Zunes instead? Following that outburst, will Billy claim iPhone users can’t take photos or post to MySpace and they should instead have Kins?
Freud would have a field day with this guy.
Listen, you liar, we told you idiots that, and why, the Surface would fail last year. Let’s face it, this whole buying a stairway to heaven isn’t going to work out for a thieving old liar like you. Why don’t you give us your ill-gotten billions and we’ll do far better things with it than looting poor people and helping to finance Monsanto.
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Why Microsoft’s Surface utterly failed and Apple’s iPad succeeded wildly – July 19, 2013
Microsoft earnings, sales badly miss expectations; $900 million inventory writedown on Surface tablet flop – July 18, 2013
iPad roadkill: Microsoft’s Surface flops despite relentless advertising – July 11, 2013
IF people are so frustrated and even then won’t buy a M$ Surface, what does that tell you
Anyone else ever noticed that Microsoft can’t even get consistency within Office?
EVERY product in Office uses a different control key to bring up the “Find” panel (Outlook even has TWO different ways…depends on whether you’re in the main window, or you’ve double-clicked a message into its own window). This is true on both Windows and Mac.
EVERY MS Office product (at least on the Mac) uses a different keyboard shortcut to bring up the Font panel.
Seriously, guys??? You call this a “suite” of products, and yet have such glaring inconsistencies among its parts?!?!
I absolutely can’t wait for that product to die in corporate use, so I never have to use it again.
Heh, buying a stairway to heaven. Funny.
Only frustration I have is copying files to and from iOS. I want to mount it as a USB to manually copy files. Would make life easier when switching users from Android to iPhone or vice versa. iTunes is nice in some ways, but not always an option, would be nice to be able to transfer files manually some how. Some apps out there allow this, but are not reliable, especially with pictures and putting them on the iPhone and being able to see them on the phone then.
Gee wiz, Bill, I am typing this comment using a Zagg keyboard cover on my iPad! I’m far from frustrated not having Windows/Office on my iPad. In fact the farther I can get from them the LESS FRUSTRATED I GET.
I expect the Surface Pro is the best hybrid tablet out there. If anyone wanted a hybrid tablet they can add a Zagg keyboard cover to their iPad. Bill’s problem is that people who are FRUSTRATED with Windows/Office are buying iPads, not Surfaces, because they want to get AWAY from Windows/Office. Bill, stick to your charity work (a very worthy thing that you do) and stay away from the world of technology. It isn’t the’90s anymore.
I’m sure Bill meets daily with countless iPad users who are furious with their frustration of not having Windows/Office on their iPad. Who is he trying to kid?
I think MS frustrated the most! And stop talking about physical keyboard already!
MDN blow it out of the water.. i can stop LMAO…! cheer
Ah, yes. The long forgotten Roman Emperor Doofus Maximus speaks.
What is this? DESPERATE RAT day?
STFU Mr. Gates. Tend to your own pig pen.
Derek, please learn civility. Someday you will learn to be very critical while still being objective and respectful.
Remember, what comes around goes around. The same mistakes you claim MS and Gates make are also happening at Apple. Why do you & others here give Cook a free pass while being so rude to Gates?
If I could fish some coherence out of your points I’d thank you for your good intentions. But I can’t. What is Tim Cook supposed to have done that’s bad? Never mind. Every time I ask that question all I get back is quote-back of propaganda, always nauseating to witness.
When I was a little kid, my big horrible bully picked on me by calling me ‘Mr. Manners’. That was the sum total of what he could come up with to complain about. So, when I get vehement, you know I mean it. And note that I save that vehemence up for destroyers, trolls and the extremely self-destructive specifically because that is the language they understand and respect.
So when I tell Mr. Gates to STFU I am entirely serious. That asshole has ruined lives and ruined the entire computer community. The single best thing he could do in this world is STFU. I personally have no further tolerance for his destructive behavior. Consider that ‘speaking truth to power’ if that helps you comprehend.
Always been in the realms of delusion but now he is seeking its Presidency.
He’s Chairman of the Bored, never gets tired of playing 52 pickup with newbies in the boardroom, laughs at his own jokes which is a useful cue for others who don’t get it, and humbly repairs his own eyeglasses with bits of tape in an imagined contest with St. Francis.
Last line of MDN Take… MDN believes in high taxes on the rich and a re distribution of personal wealth.
The Register turns Microsoft Surface on it’s fiery spit:
Microsoft Surface sales numbers revealed as SHOCKINGLY HIDEOUS
Wrote down more inventory charges than it took in revenue
According to the report, Microsoft’s total Surface revenue for all of fiscal 2013 amounted to just $853m. That’s nearly $50m less than the $900m charge Redmond took when it discounted its remaining Surface RT inventory by $150 per box.
And that’s not all. That $900m writedown was related to Surface RT only, but the $853m revenue figure includes sales of Surface RT and Surface Pro combined. . . .
Further down in its 10-K filing, Redmond reports that it upped its sales and marketing budget for the Windows Division in 2013 by a jaw-dropping $1bn, which included an $898m increase in advertising costs “associated primarily with Windows 8 and Surface.”
Got that? Microsoft spent more in a single year advertising the Windows 8 and Surface launches than it took in from Surface sales that same year.
I love it when a plan comes together. Well done Microsoft. LOVE that spending curve! 😀
Where is a USB or microSD port on the iPAD? The idea of ‘universal’ has seemed to have escaped Apple’s vocabulary, which is what still makes non-Apple products so much more flexible, usable and affordable…