You see SATAN doesn't seem to understand it is now the Post-PC, Post-Windows, Post-Microsoft era.
Ballmer tried to copy Apple and done fucked up.
SATAN tried to copy Google and done fucked up.
I think this Windows Phone 8.1 stuff is horseshit and they should switch to Android instead. Every time you go some place and they say "Hey download our app, now available on Android and iPhones" they never seem to have a Windows Phone 8.1 version just Android and iOS versions. Not even a Blackberry, but RIM/Blackberry modified their QNX OS to run Android apps in a Davlik Java virtual machine and use the Amazon App Market to download and install them. Why can't Microsoft do that? They're too stupid!
Anyway a Microsoft Surface Mini tablet would have helped, that $700 price tag is too much. I have a friend who runs a PC Shop and he gets a lot of Surface Tablets in for repair. Most of them have defective power inverters, and getting a replacement power inverter from Microsoft will fuck up just as well, so he gets Power Inverters from Dell and HP and just cuts the wires to make the adapter fit and it works better that way. Microsoft refuses to address the quality control issues with their Surface Tablets.
Penny Arcade Gabe was shilling for Microsoft for the Surface 1 and 2 tablets. Until Hacker News called him on his BS and then he issued this:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2014/06/16/surface-pro-3-update
Microsoft is going to fix the Surface 3 problems.
Yet for some reason Gabe forgets to mention that the iPad and Android tablets also support pressure sensitive touch styluses and in some cases they are cheaper than the Microsoft Surface 3 tablet and don't lag like the Surface series does.
But whatever, LOL! At least now he admits the problems the Surface series has, and we hope that Microsoft will be able to fix them.
It lags even on an Intel i7 processor? Oh noes, the horror!
Meanwhile since I am a developer Microsoft keeps spamming me about moving legacy software to Windows 2012 Server in Azure using Visual Studio 2013.
I'd like to use Azure but their prices are way too high. Windows 2012 is 64 bit only so my PC that lacks virtualization support cannot run it in a Virtual Machine. When I bought it from New Egg the May the 4th be with you ad said it had Virtualization but when I installed it, it lacked Virtualization limiting me to 32 bit only virtual machines! I am finding out this is a problem in IT as management only buys the el-cheapo PCs without virtualization support and then expect their programmers and technicians to access 64 bit Azure virtual machines like Windows 2012 Server? Oopsie doodle. If the PC OEM allows it, just pay $300 for a new CPU and replace the old one with a new one if you can explain to management why you need a new one. Yeah this 64 bit virtual machine won't work on the PC you gave me, so I need a $300 new CPU to make it work.
I have been reading posts where developers are like me stuck with 32 bit virtual machines, and cannot access the 64 bit machines because management won't allow them to upgrade their PC. Management is blaming the developers and Microsoft for not enabling the 64 bit machines via software, when it is really a hardware feature of the CPU.
I myself have been running Windows 8.1 because the cheap motherboard from New Egg won't install GRUB during a Linux install. It doesn't even have EFI or Secure Boot, and was listed as being Linux compatible. Windows 8.1 is horseshit I keep losing my wireless connection a lot, the system keeps locking up, and sometimes gives me an Azure screen with the unhappy face. Sometimes I get a Windows Update that fixes it and it runs good for a while, until Patch Tuesday or whenever Microsoft releases an update without quality checking it first, and my system becomes unstable again.
I used the Ninite installer to get the Classic Start Menu http://ninite.com/
Modern UI is also horseshit, there are no visual clues that tell you how to do something. It all looks like Circa 1991 AOL for DOS shit. 2D Menus and Boxes, forget trying to multitask programs in Modern UI, it just cannot be done. If Microsoft would just go back to Windows 7 and rename it Classic Windows 9.0 or something they would not lose money in Windows sales and actually gain a profit.
I am sorry for being so negative but my entire experience with Microsoft Software has been negative for several years now. I know I am not the only one with a negative Microsoft experience, and I think that explains why they are sinking faster than the Titanic.