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Thank you! As for the patience - it helps when the topic is stacked so high in your favor. The NuMicrosoft strategies are so stupid - it's like discussing whether it would be a wise idea to add sharp iron nails to one's diet. Replacing the trademark known-like-Cola GUI with something that looks utterly foreign to pretty much every computer user. Bleaching out Office (2013), and making it look like something from Windows 3.1. Raise prices to boot, by making it only installable on one PC, while the former version could be installed on 2 (Family Pack on 3). Adding over-the-top draconian DRM to Xbox that could be straight from 1984, and because that's not enough, make it even more creepier by using the "Matrix" fonts in the SDK and hosting the preview event in a scary looking pyramid-like building. Also, of course, telling everybody who isn't living in a metropolitan area to "deal with it". p***ing off your devs with the killing off of SL and (pretty much) WPF. p***ing off your Windows-admins by killing off Small Business Server. p***ing off your professionals by killing off TechNet. Raise prices up to 400% for business customers, because not enough people are pissed. When that is done, do it again. And the madness goes on and on. This list is far from complete. That's why I can keep my cool about this topic so easy; I just can't be too much angry over someone, who defends such utter insanity like this.

Well they are apparently not aware that the English language words have a meaning: http://support.pokki.com/customer/portal/articles/517824-what-is-pokki- What is Pokki? Last Updated: Jan 30, 2013 And this confirms that at least a large parts of their customers either cannot or won't READ (which is typical of pre-school age) . The above is the FIRST page any sentient being would READ on their site. jaclaz So what? You're completely missing the wider picture here. The biggest OEM (the only one having good sales!), and poster child of Windows 8, bypassing the whole metro effort on all of its computers. That's a pretty huge thing. Who knows, maybe that was the last straw that the MS board needed to get rid of Ballmer? I think there's indeed the possibility that Lenovo's decision at least played some part in this (together with all the other recent MS f*** ups of course).

More metrotard madness: http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1172679-ballmer-to-retire/page-1

Metrotards are as crazy as ever: http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-ceo-steve-ballmer-to-retire "Ballmer leaves because he just wants some free time. Nothing to do with bad decisions or Windows 8!" Ballmer said a few years ago, he would retire in 2018, remember? So his retirement now is not "business as usual", dumbf*.. The tards are still on their LSD.

BALLMER RETIRES!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2013/aug13/08-23AnnouncementPR.aspx

Sure, but it is a kind of "simplified" message evidently aimed to "simpler" minds, for an adult public, it would have been something more similar to these, IMHO: http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photos-man-tearing-off-his-shirt-image29182678 http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-60250054/stock-photo-good-morning-woman-in-bedroom-beside-window.html?src=p-84162844-1 http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18n6zocjlt5w6jpg/original.jpg jaclaz You apparently not aware that the squirrel is in all their marketing materials: http://blog.pokki.com/ It's also in their logo: And the graphic on the start button is a nut! The whole corporate design is "cute". The company is even called "SweetLabs". The software itself doesn't look silly though. The despite the cutey presentation, the message of the graphic is more than telling, considering who backs Pokki. Microsoft got punched big here.

Kiddie or not. The squirrel is literally tearing metro out from Windows, on a computer from the biggest Windows OEM. Lenovo probably approved the graphic. It's pretty much a "FU" message to Microsoft from their biggest partners (Lenovo obviously, and Pokki is heavily backed by Intel). http://venturebeat.com/2011/09/29/sweetlabs-raises-13m-for-desktop-apps-interface/ http://blog.pokki.com/2013/07/tweeki-the-free-twitter-desktop-app-is-back/

Interesting tidbit: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-22/lenovo-turns-to-a-startup-to-bring-the-start-menu-back-to-windows.html Intel is backing Pokki? The deal was made at an Intel location to boot? Sheesh. The top Windows OEM is pre-installing a third party start menu which is co-backed by Microsoft's longest standing ally. If that isn't a cluebat about the whole MS tiles project.. And wow, this graphic must piss Microsoft off: From: http://blog.pokki.com/2013/08/lenovo-pcs-now-come-with-pokki/

I've reposted the hipster stuff on Neowin. The DotMaster made quite a revealing statement: Some guy: "Microsoft was cool in being kind of uncool. Personally the hipster stuff is a turn off for me, and probably a lot of others as well. I personally prefer the old school Microsoft." DotMatrix: "Blurry blue color schemes and blue screens of death?" You can find the post under Neowin Forums → Platform (OS) Support → Windows Discussion & Support → The future of Microsoft!

More hipsters!

In case you didn't know, Berlin is the hipster capital of Europe: http://store.hipstery.com/products/the-berlin-hipster-kit http://travelsofadam.com/hipster-berlin-travel-tips/ Since Microsoft wants to be hip, they are opening in Berlin an massively oversized Microsoft store, designed especially for hipsters! Screenies: The "digital eatery": http://www.microsoft.com/de-de/corporate/microsoft-berlin/galerie.aspx#The-Digital-Eatery The Microsoft themed Starbucks clone: The hip boss: Nothing says "Microsoft" more than walls full of hipster bands. Boring keynotes are touch-enhanced too! The future hipster customers are also shown:

Speaking of 'Tard lessons, check out Dot MetroTard himself actually badmouthing his beloved master in this thread ... Windows 8 and Hyper-V Read through it before he edits it! This is actually disturbing, because it hints at the possibility that DotTard maybe.. maybe isn't a paid MS employee! The prospect that he is shilling to this extend all for free is way more fucked up than if he would be a paid shill.

Channel9 fight heats up: http://tinyurl.com/lnvt37m

--JorgeA NSA or not, but Pamela Jones is a bit of a diva. She has shut down her site before, with a melodramatic farewell letter, only to comeback a short time later: http://slashdot.org/story/11/04/09/2315208/groklaw-declares-victory-no-more-articles Her posting back then: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110409161444432 Her newest farewell latter sounds quite similar: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130818120421175

It's a search engine. http://www.majestic12.co.uk/projects/dsearch/mj12bot.php

Fight on Channel9 regarding the XP doomsday scenarios and the wonky scare ad: http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Amnesia-and-scare-tactics

Neotards are learning how reliable cloudy stuff is, especially Microsoft backed ones: http://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsoft-to-shut-down-games-for-windows-live-july-1st-2014

You can also witness again the amazing memory problems Microsoft's ad department has. In 2001, the floppy was apparently still widespread, and fax was more common place than email. Wrong! Also LC displays were already getting pretty mainstream by 2001, unlike what the graphic implies. , They also got the internet users number wrong in 2001. They claim that only 50 Million people used the internet in 2001 - dead wrong! Here's an article from 1998: http://mailman.apnic.net/mailing-lists/s-asia-it/archive/1998/10/msg00014.html 1997 had already more people online than Microsoft's graphic shows for 2001! I know they give a source for this claim in the graphic, but the number is wrong nevertheless. Read old articles from the end of the 90s and the beginning of the 2000s - they all give far higher numbers than 50 Million. Here's another contemporary article: http://www.zdnet.com/news/world-net-population-nears-300-million/110302 "The estimated cost and detection time of these breaches weren't tracked at the time" - wrong again! http://www.lib.iup.edu/comscisec/SANSpapers/damico.htm There are far more stats and data in the article. The notion that this stuff wasn't tracked at that time is ridiculous. Also the claim in the Microsoft ad that hacker attacks were limited to big companies, in opposite to today where they attack "everyone" is another dishonest statement. Together with "vandalism then, tacking control of PCs today". Let's not forget the summer of worms in 2003, Back Orifice, CIH, ILOVEYOU. Those were threats to everyone. Distributed DoS: Sobig and MyDoom, XP era. Botnets (and accompanying information theft) are also not something new, but straight from the XP era too: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/feds-crush-coreflood-botnet-infected-million-computers-stole/story?id=13369529 How can a tech company like Microsoft get this so wrong? It's either incompetence or scaremongering. Another proof how deranged "NuMicrosoft" got.

The modern disease spreads: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2722493 Guy who designed the new logo: http://blog.seanmartell.com/2013/06/27/rebuilding-a-simplified-firefox-logo/ Notice the metro look on that site. it even has a swipe function! (The "cell" on the left side)

Crawlers. Right now, when I write this post, the following crawlers are parsing this thread: Google (6), Mediapartner (1), Google Mobile (9), ScoutJet (1) To my mind the question then would be -- why would there be 9 different "Google Mobile" crawlers in here at the same time? That they're labeled "mobile" users is what makes me wonder if they're visitors on mobile devices. --JorgeA Crawlers are threaded. One crawler generates multiple hits, especially on a topic like this one, where there are many pages to parse.

Crawlers. Right now, when I write this post, the following crawlers are parsing this thread: Google (6), Mediapartner (1), Google Mobile (9), ScoutJet (1)

Watch out what you post on Facebook. http://www.thelocal.de/national/20130715-50859.html

June 2012: http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/28/3122873/windows-8-start-button-explanation-chaitanya-sareen July 2013: http://www.neowin.net/news/ballmer-states-that-windows-is-not-selling-well-next-gen-surface-in-testing

Yea.

(No need to reveal your true identity. Just expressing appreciation.) --JorgeA No. But yea, that was a good one.