Hello, fellow Microsoft users:
I must confess that my evil sadist side is grinning from ear to ear this morning.
All the predictable "Microsoft Surface is too expensive and unproven and destined to flop against the glorious, glorious iPad" articles are on the pro-Apple tech sites.
Right next to the articles discussing how Microsoft is sold out of pre-orders for the "too expensive" $499 version.
I've taken to responding to every article I read with the simple note that "Microsoft reports that the Surface 32 GB is now unavailable for three weeks due to exceptionally strong sales, and it has also been reported that the company has produced 3 million to 5 million units to sell this quarter. You were saying?"
The agony of the snobs is a bit tasty. This goes against the chic notion of the "post-Microsoft world," where everything is iPhones, iPads, iMacs and the occasional Android device, and we all run Google Docs and iWork and Safari on peer-to-peer networks. They're learning that the "vanquished, irrelevant Microsoft" is neither vanquished nor irrelevant, and are facing the very real threat of the tablet market being dominated by Windows within 24 months.
It was not supposed to happen this way!
And I love it.
I'm looking forward to raising one eyebrow at them and saying "oh, you still use one of THOSE?" at their iPad or iPhone, just like they do to my Windows PC and Windows Phone, really soon now.
I must confess that my evil sadist side is grinning from ear to ear this morning.
All the predictable "Microsoft Surface is too expensive and unproven and destined to flop against the glorious, glorious iPad" articles are on the pro-Apple tech sites.
Right next to the articles discussing how Microsoft is sold out of pre-orders for the "too expensive" $499 version.
I've taken to responding to every article I read with the simple note that "Microsoft reports that the Surface 32 GB is now unavailable for three weeks due to exceptionally strong sales, and it has also been reported that the company has produced 3 million to 5 million units to sell this quarter. You were saying?"
The agony of the snobs is a bit tasty. This goes against the chic notion of the "post-Microsoft world," where everything is iPhones, iPads, iMacs and the occasional Android device, and we all run Google Docs and iWork and Safari on peer-to-peer networks. They're learning that the "vanquished, irrelevant Microsoft" is neither vanquished nor irrelevant, and are facing the very real threat of the tablet market being dominated by Windows within 24 months.
It was not supposed to happen this way!
And I love it.
I'm looking forward to raising one eyebrow at them and saying "oh, you still use one of THOSE?" at their iPad or iPhone, just like they do to my Windows PC and Windows Phone, really soon now.