[CoffeeFiend]

Not only Win8 is getting a lot of bad reviews, including the one from the usability guru last week, but this week brings another gem, on a MIT blog from a well known guy with a PhD in comp sci: Christmas gift for someone you hate: Windows 8.

CoffeeFiend, on 10 November 2012 - 09:04 AM, said:

Why develop a Win8-only Metro app, when Win8 has almost no users and that Metro apps are avoided by Win8 users, and when you're unlikely to make money even when there are hundreds of millions of users?

Seemingly some developers learn these lessons the hard way. In the first month alone, iOS made them £70,000, Android £50,000, and Win RT will bring in somewhere between £150 and £200... This will also serve as a lesson to others doing market research to see if its profitable to develop Metro apps.

[dencorso]

I think that the reason "Why you [one] should avoid buying Windows 8" is that either 9 will be great (and skipping 8 will have been a wise move), or there'll be no Microsoft left after 8 (and, hence, skipping 8 will have been an even wiser move), and this may very well end-up being the case, at the end of the day...

[jaclaz]

@Coffefiend,
JFYI the guy has replaced the whatever was cited by Business Insider with this:
http://www.rubiconde...t-born-to-fail/

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If anyone already read this post, it has had a very positive effect and Microsoft have graciously decided work with us to iron out the problems and get us past this incident.

With a sense of fair play, I’m putting my grumpiness on hiatus and deleting the juicy bits. Which was all of it, sorry.

Personally - and being notoriously expert on grumpy businesses - I call this "behaving as a brainless mercenary and selfish clown" instead of "fair play", though.

What the heck does he think, that by deleting that text he will make everything as before?
Some excerpts are all over the net, example:
http://www.pcpro.co....k-on-windows-rt


jaclaz

[CoffeeFiend]

jaclaz, on 09 December 2012 - 05:34 AM, said:

What the heck does he think, that by deleting that text he will make everything as before?

Yes, I believe it's pointless too. I already knew he had "deleted" it as well.

I just found it funny that a game that's sold many millions of copies on Android and iOS (and is making them millions) is basically generating zero revenue as a Metro app. Not even enough to recoup the costs of porting it.

If you want to make money selling apps, the Apple and Google stores is where the money is at and it's not going to change anytime soon with Win8 tablets like Surface failing pretty hard, and desktop users avoiding everything Metro like the plague it is.

[JorgeA]

bpalone, on 08 December 2012 - 12:28 PM, said:

As for cloud storage of personal or business data, I will use my usual not so polite way of expressing it. Only mentally challenged parties would even think of such a thing.

LOL

bpalone, on 08 December 2012 - 12:28 PM, said:

It never ceases to amaze me how sheeple are so eager to hand over all or large parts of their personal data/lives to some total stranger.

Yeah, for some (a lot of?) people it's going to take some large, destructive, and well-publicized data breaches to make them stop and think if that's really what they want to do.

--JorgeA

This post has been edited by JorgeA: 09 December 2012 - 12:03 PM

[JorgeA]

Nuno Brito, on 08 December 2012 - 01:51 PM, said:

The same thing for the symbiosis between Win8 and the Internet services. It just gets much harder to remain anonymous or even hide your preferences from data miners. For a large part of the population, they just won't care or be aware of what happens.

Apropos of this, the Wall Street Journal just had an informative article on the subject of online tracking.

For a boost to private browsing, I recommend using Ixquick's option to open a search result link through a proxy. Now it works such that every link you click on while on the website you're visiting, is also processed via a proxy server.

--JorgeA

[Nuno Brito]

JorgeA, on 09 December 2012 - 12:13 PM, said:

Apropos of this, the Wall Street Journal just had an informative article on the subject of online tracking.

Really sad to see how the crossing of all this information can give a very complete scenario of what we do online across these sites.

JorgeA, on 09 December 2012 - 12:13 PM, said:

For a boost to private browsing, I recommend using Ixquick's option to open a search result link through a proxy. Now it works such that every link you click on while on the website you're visiting, is also processed via a proxy server.

Thanks JorgeA, I have now mentioned this option at http://www.google-is...m/thread-3.html

Previously I was using scroogle until it closed doors and later duckduckgo.

[jaclaz]

Nuno Brito, on 09 December 2012 - 12:34 PM, said:

Thanks JorgeA, I have now mentioned this option at http://www.google-is...m/thread-3.html

I guess you should tell those guys that they won't be admitted to the "2013 time keeping championship", you apparently became a member there when you were -11

jaclaz

[Nuno Brito]

Don't worry, I'm quite sure google and many other companies around the web keep a tab on my age and interests..

[CharlotteTheHarlot]

Have to quote myself from Post #130 above for this update to make sense ...

CharlotteTheHarlot, on 07 December 2012 - 01:59 AM, said:

I'm still stunned by this. Does Microsoft really want a ... "Do you have a Windows malware horror story? Reply with #WindowsRage with your best/worst story and we may have a get-well present for you." Have they learned nothing in all these years? Do they not anticipate #BsodRage or #MetroRage? Insert other obvious hashtags here as desired.

Well that was quick ...

Microsoft's #droidrage campaign results in #windowsrage on Twitter ( The Verge 2012-12-06 )

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... Microsoft kicked off #droidrage again, seemingly out of the blue, and it has backfired.

#droidrage turns to #windowsrage in marketing blunder

Twitter users have created a #windowsrage hash tag that is full of users upset by Microsoft's latest marketing misstep. The company's fascination with being anti-Google reached its peak recently after the Bing division launched its "scroogled" campaign to directly attack Google's "unfair pay-to-rank shopping practices." It's the latest in a host of anti-Google attacks from Microsoft ranging from the Gmail man to newspaper ads bashing Google's privacy changes. It's clear from the #droidrage effort that end users don't always take to these in your face marketing campaigns. Perhaps the Windows Phone team will now focus on the challenges it has with its own product before trying to take down the most widely used mobile operating system.

That's Karma baby ( again )