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Sagebrush posted:maybe apple should learn how the loving decimal system works current release is 10.9.2. sorry you don't understand version numbers.
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maniacdevnull posted:they're moving to the chrome numbering system. windows 27 due out in mid 2015 lol if you know what version of chrome you're running
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Boxturret posted:a store i went to once sold widows 8 computers that were modified to boot to the desktop and have a working start menu, is this very common? Windows 8 update 8.1 version 2 has the btoo to desktop
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Millstone posted:Windows 8 update 8.1 version 2 has the btoo to desktop this was before that came out
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bitcoin bastard posted:why am i thinking this is less a joke and more the truth p sure this happened to the java installer
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seriously loving gently caress the java installer grandma, dont ever click yes when the screen goes black and asks you yes/no UNLESS its jucheck.exe
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tbh don't even install java unless you absolutely must have it, and even then disable it's online use/plugin unless you absolutely must have it.
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please install this emergency security update to fix a zero day vulnerability but will introduce another zero day vulnerability - java
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Boxturret posted:a store i went to once sold widows 8 computers that were modified to boot to the desktop and have a working start menu, is this very common? no they just care about their business. lol like Staples would ever do that poo poo even tho they should. first OEM to preload stardock is a smart one even tho stardock is dumb /for babies
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windows 8? staples was selling windows 7 computers a few months ago
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Luigi Thirty posted:windows 8? staples was selling windows 7 computers a few months ago oh nvm i guess staples cares about their business too, but has the clout to say lol@ win8
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quote:Microsoft is reportedly in the final stages of licensing the Nokia brand, for the purpose of calling the handsets “Nokia by Microsoft.” Furthermore, say goodbye to Surface, and hello to Lumia, as the tablet lineup faces brand streamlining. lol Scott Forstall fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Jun 29, 2014 |
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Jun 29, 2014 22:35
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there's no way they're going to drop the surface branding after all of this money
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duTrieux. posted:there's no way they're going to drop the kinect requirement after all of this money lol
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duTrieux. posted:there's no way they're going to drop the surface branding after all of this money lol have you paid any attention to MS? it'll be lumia in 3 months and in 6 months it'll be forefront endpoint tablets
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Reminder that "lumia" means "prostitute" in colloquial Spanish
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in 3 months surface will be the name they use for the glass on the screen lumia™ with surface™ touch and cleartype™
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univbee posted:Reminder that "lumia" means "prostitute" in colloquial Spanish yeah and chevy made a car named "it doesn't go" in spanish
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i wonder which country already has lumia trademarked so they have to change the name again
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maniacdevnull posted:Microsoft Tablet Computing Hardware Essentials 2014 R2 KB123456 update for Microsoft Tablet Computing Hardware Essentials NK 2014 R2 Update 1 KB123456 update for Microsoft Tablet Computing Hardware Essentials N 2014 R2 Update 1 KB123456 update for Microsoft Tablet Computing Hardware Essentials K 2014 R2 Update 1 KB123456 update for Microsoft Tablet Computing Hardware Essentials 2014 R2 Update 1 KB123456 update for Microsoft Tablet Computing Hardware Essentials NK 2014 R2 Without Update 1 KB123456 update for Microsoft Tablet Computing Hardware Essentials N 2014 R2 Without Update 1 KB123456 update for Microsoft Tablet Computing Hardware Essentials K 2014 R2 Without Update 1 KB123456 update for Microsoft Tablet Computing Hardware Essentials 2014 R2 Without Update 1
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Phoenixan posted:lumia™ with surface™ touch and cleartype™ don't post actual literally true statements from the future
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I hope they rename all the typecvovers to surfacecovers and start up with the lumia branding so i can have a lumia tablet w/surfacecover and grandmas can but $100 Surface tablets for their grandkids but it turns out they just bought a plug in keyboard. SurfaceCover2 Pro for Lumia Pro Sagebrush posted:don't post actual literally true statements from the future
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Sagebrush posted:don't post actual literally true statements from the future just post lottery numbers or winning horses or something if you're going to time travel ffs
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duTrieux. posted:there's no way they're going to drop the surface branding after all of this money
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Sagebrush posted:don't post actual literally true statements from the future instead i got a bigger google phone, the iphone 11, and the lumia™ surface™ pro 8 with TasticTouch™ and ClearView™ Holo Display™
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bitcoin bastard posted:seriously loving gently caress the java installer just get her an ipad
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lol have u even used 1
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they came so close to doing a good job with the surface branding and it at least lives on an island where surface build quality == good and they really want to throw all of that away to confuse people with poo poo garbage nokia products? gently caress you microsoft i aint buying a fuckin lumia id sooner buy a thinkpadtab or w/e
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Millstone posted:Windows 8 update 8.1 version 2
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Bloody posted:they came so close to doing a good job with the surface branding and it at least lives on an island where surface build quality == good and they really want to throw all of that away to confuse people with poo poo garbage nokia products? gently caress you microsoft i aint buying a fuckin lumia id sooner buy a thinkpadtab or w/e y'know what we should do? Step 1: Insert one of our own guys over at Nokia to tank the brand, then buy it for pennies on the dollar. Step 2: rebrand all our decent stuff with the tanked brand lol jfc microsoft u cant even corporate espionage correctly and u practically invented that poo poo
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homo punching bag posted:y'know what we should do? you forgot step 3: change the name to something else after previous rebranding effort fails, recycle other product names if possible step 4: goto step 3
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Bloody posted:looking forward to the surface lumia 360 home premium edition NT
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PleasureKevin posted:i think the idea is to proceed with 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, etc., so windows 9 won't be for a while (ever?) no there's been word of a fall release for 9. major release every other year, .1 update on the off-year, rinse and repeat
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Microsoft has always been terrible at branding so idk what people expect e: Paul-chan weighs in Mary Jo Foley is reporting that Microsoft could be getting ready to replace its Surface branding—currently used on a PC tablet lineup—with the Lumia branding that originated with Nokia's smart phone business. Certainly, Microsoft will need to incorporate or change various Nokia brands as it further subsumes that business. But this episode highlights a growing crisis at the software giant: When was the last time Microsoft created a truly successful new brand? According to Mary Jo, who cites an @evleaks tweet, Microsoft could be planning to replace its Surface brand with the Lumia brand that Nokia used on smart phones and one ill-conceived Windows RT-based tablet. Less interesting, the firm is also considering licensing the Nokia brand for longer so it can continue using it on phones, most likely because the Nokia brand is so strong in emerging markets. Both of these plans are mistakes, I believe. But Mary Jo hits the nail on the head right up front, too: Branding is hard. It's particularly hard for Microsoft, a company that has a stable's worth of terrible brands that came and flamed out badly. And that's the real story here, I think. But don't mistake branding with product success. I don't think the iPod brand is a particularly "good" brand, for example, but that product line was obviously very successful regardless. Brands that built off of iPod, however, are often perfectly fine, in part because they do a better job of describing the underlying product. Witness iPhone and iPad as obvious examples. But what about Microsoft brands? Zune wasn't necessarily a terrible brand, though it is often cited as so. The issue with Zune, like Bing, is twofold. First, it doesn't help someone understand what the underlying product/service(s) are. (Not always an issue, yes: Amazon.com works somehow. And Pentium. Though both were curiosities at first.) And two, because they're not particularly successful or memorable—no one has ever non-ironically said they were going to "Bing" something—the brands became somewhat poisoned as the underlying products failed. SkyDrive was a good brand. Until, of course, Sky TV sued Microsoft and somehow won. Windows Live seemed like a good brand—"Windows everywhere" and so on—until it became obvious that Microsoft was over-milking the Windows brand by applying it to everything. It's like that popular song you hear on the radio way too often, to the point where just hearing the opening strains makes you want to scream. But that's the problem, right? Windows and Office are Microsoft's biggest, best and longest-lasting brands. When it comes to reusing—and reusing and reusing—brands, these are the ones that get abused the most. (There was an Office Live, too, remember. Let's move on.) To answer my initial question—When was the last time Microsoft created a truly successful new brand?—I'd have to vote for Xbox, a brand that first appeared at the dawn of the 21st century, well over a decade ago. Xbox may or may not be a successful product line depending on how you feel about revenues, investments, and research and development costs. But it is very clearly successful as a brand. So much so that Microsoft is now going to that well a little often now with such things as Xbox Music and Xbox Video. Oops. Thinking about Surface and Lumia, however, I like what Daniel Rubino said on Twitter yesterday: Maybe Microsoft should simply use Surface for its "pro" Windows PC products and use Lumia on phones and Windows devices. But I also wonder if maybe having too many brands is indeed the issue too. And if you had to choose between Surface and Lumia, is it even clear which, if any, of these brands is any good? Surface was originally used on the "big rear end table" computer, and then briefly on giant screens that are now branded as Perceptive Pixel. The name obviously suggests a surface. One you can touch and interact with. That's good, and positive. Though the products haven't exactly set the world on fire. Lumia is ... what the heck is Lumia? There's a light association, of course, and one is reminded of the French filmmakers, Auguste and Louis Lumière. (Lumière means light in French.) I think Lumia is a weird brand, at least outside of France. Unless of course you think that the flash on a smart phone—or as I call it, "the light of 1000 suns"—is somehow that device's most memorable characteristic. If it is, you're sunk. They should have come up with a name that connoted excellent camera optics. Too late. Put simply, I prefer Surface to Lumia, not that anyone is asking. It works for phones as well as it does for any other touch-based devices. And it's Microsoft's brand, not Nokia's, which I think is important. Choose Surface, Microsoft. The Lumia name stinks.
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