Steve Adams
Banned
One word: Seattle
Nah, not seattle, that's where every ****** and their mother sits in starbucks with their I(whatever) and pretends to work. However they are all unemployed hipsters. ha ha
One word: Seattle
Really? I spent a large portion of my life in Seattle and found it to be made up of good, hard working people like the vast majority of most cities in the world.Nah, not seattle, that's where every ****** and their mother sits in starbucks with their I(whatever) and pretends to work. However they are all unemployed hipsters. ha ha
It was a joke. Relax.Really? I spent a large portion of my life in Seattle and found it to be made up of good, hard working people like the vast majority of most cities in the world.
It was a joke. Relax.
Guess i missed the humor, better luck next time.
There's nothing wrong with a US company giving precedence to the US, but that doesn't mean it has to treat so many other countries as a mere afterthought, including other first world countries. That is the real problem. WP is more successful in most European countries than in the US despite receiving less attention from Microsoft. With a similar level of attention as in the US, market share would be even bigger, which would help gain attention from OEMs and developers, indirectly helping the US market as well, not to mention the additional revenue for Microsoft. They are hurting themselves the most by forgetting their international customers.I see no reason why microsoft shouldn't, they are working with great effort to be the best at where it was originally started in the first place in the US.
Sent from my iPhone 5s using Tapatalk
Please clarify your point. Are you saying Microsoft isn't focused on the US because everyone in Seattle is in Starbucks being a hipster on their Macbooks writing movies? Makes no sense?The big ha ha at the end was not enough? Starbucks originated from Seattle, and here yes all the lame hipsters are in Starbucks all day with their macbooks looking like they are writing the next major screen play.
Second rate treatment?Last time I checked Europe does not consist of tiny third world islands, but most countries here still get second rate treatment by MS: Cortana, most additional Bing features, physical Microsoft stores, a language policy that works in multilingual countries and many other things, all missing.
I can only imagine how bad the situation must be in actual tiny third world island nations...
I was just saying that most of Microsoft's services like Bing rewards Xbox music Xbox video are not available outside USMicrosoft is giving importance to US when they have a bad reputation there and a very small amount of people use windows phone there. They could look at the rest of the world where they are considered a great software and hardware maker.
Okay, I didn't mean to imply that Microsoft doesn't give a **** at all, so maybe ' second rate treatment' came across a little harsher than I meant to.Second rate treatment?
First, it's not shocking that they have released Cortana in the US first. The majority of Microsoft is US English speaking, after all. Second, yeah, sorry, it takes time for language translation, regionalization of services/recommendations, news, etc.
You act like they don't give a **** as opposed to 'this takes time' to do (and do it right). So they don't want to release a half-baked Cortana experience to the world due to not wanting to be judged on it.
Even Microsoft Stores, there are like a 100 across the US. Most people here do not have access to them either. Once again, they are testing markets. You know what would be worse? Opening thousands of stores only to have them close.
Microsoft is moving cautiously these days. I do not disagree with that policy. They are more interested in getting it right, then just releasing something out there. As a result, things take longer, but when you are in distant third, you cannot afford to make big mistakes.