I am curious....have you taken your RT or Pro into what I call Macland ( Starbucks ) ??? :smile:
I went off to visit my Mom, take her some treats and the finish cut of a video of my Father in his marching band prior to his passing. (She loved it)
Any way I don't drive, so I use a combo of bus and taxi to make my way, and at the change over spot (Starbucks), I got coffee for us and called the cab.
I was told it would be a bit as the cab company was overloaded. As I had my Surface with me I was happy to wait.
Well you would have thought I pulled out kittens from my backpack and started to tear them apart. It went from nice and quiet to mumbles and grumbles. :smile: One comment I did manage to hear was " Ugh what's that doing here?" :smile:
Being I live in a University town there is a large population of Mac users......and they do not seem to like us Surface dwellers.
What reaction have you gotten from your Surface? Good or Bad????
Dude!!! Guelph, Ontario? Never thought that I'd see that on WPcentral. Small (online) world.
I would have to disagree. The reason it will not be embraced by Fortune 500 companies (yet) is because the OS isn't five years old. I've worked for three different Fortune 100 companies. At one of those, I was an IT guy.
You are free to disagree but the age of an operating system is only ONE of factors to consider when deciding whether or not to deploy a new OS. Win 8 can be 5 years old and there would still be hesitancy to deploy it if it continues to rely on the Metro/Modern UI.Bingo. I work for a F200 company and we just went to Windows 7 last spring. We are still rolling out the new image to almost half the company. Too much is at stake to roll out an immature OS for X more dollars.
I never thought there was another Surface Dweller in Guelph
You are free to disagree but the age of an operating system is only ONE of factors to consider when deciding whether or not to deploy a new OS. Win 8 can be 5 years old and there would still be hesitancy to deploy it if it continues to rely on the Metro/Modern UI.
Training, reworking legacy software, productivity, etc. are significant costs associated with rolling out an OS upgrade. While Metro can work for basic office work, it is a complete dud for vertical, mission-critical applications.
That "company" is IBM.Sounds like a company that's not on top of its ****. I know of one massive global company rolling to windows 8 for its tech advances (SMB 3.0 for example). Metro takes minutes to understand with a good teacher. Don't mistake many companies falling behind the curve being the norm or having bad IT people as a negative against win8. Major companies have the option of working with Microsoft at least a year before they actually release the OS, to be sure it will suit their needs and work with their stuff.
This must be a North American thing or something to do with university peers. I frequent coffee places all the time here in the UK. In different parts of it. In London all over the place and so on. I've yet to come across anything this pretentious. I see a general mixture of laptops in some places. Yes, there's overwhelming Macs and iPhone everywhere but no one really cares what you use.
I would really like to get a Surface 2 but haven't convinced the wife yet. I've yet to see one in the wild here but I do spend a lot of time at work so it only the weekends mostly that I'm in London. I have seen more WPs lately, which is nice.
It can be laggy and now is way behind in terms of apps and service, but I like turning it on, playing Radiant, looking at new apps, and my wife occasionally uses it for taking notes or reading PDFs in bed. Yesterday I turned on my VeerThe video review I watched said it was not fully finished in terms of OS. Overall the review was good, but the person's opinion was it was kinda buggy. That and he was waiting on some form of hack to finish.
HP WebOS and the BB Playbook are 2 items I never really looked at, and I know so little about them. It would be fun to learn and tinker with them!
What pisses me off is that people go to a coffee shop to play on their laptop. Do it at home you sad loners. Nobody cares what hardware you have. It's like going to a pub and playing on your phone all night. Why don't you ever see these people on their laptops in McDonalds?
That "company" is IBM.
Why don't you ever see these people on their laptops in McDonalds?