While the submission title matches the article, it screams linkbait to me. I clicked fully expecting to read about a new 0 day exploit...
me too but the story is interesting anyway.
The Windows Incident – Day 0
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#32What did you expect from a $250 device? Or, what did you expect from an 8″ 1200x800 tablet with just 2gb ram and 32gb ssd which comes with a full Windows OS, instead of Win RT? Some phones have more powerful hardware than that. It's not Microsoft's fault that Asus decided to sell a cheap, untested, poorly-built device. It's your fault, as a tech-savvy customer, to buy it.
> It's not Microsoft's fault...
In addition to the "Signature" branding, OP bought it in a Microsoft Store. There is really no excuse for being so terrible at taking care of their own ecosystem.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, I'm saying specs alone are a warning sign of a junk device. Outdated software and lack of touchscreen drivers are just another consequence of manufacturers neglect.
OP here. I was expecting something called a "Microsoft Signature Device" to be similar to a Nexus device, wherein MS was working with the OEM to make a sort of reference device for the form factor. Nexus devices usually don't have the latest-and-greatest, and they still work pretty damn well. What I got out of this instead is that MS guarantees a "Signature Device" to just be free of any bloatware. I was also deceive…
Things seem to be much better now that I've got 8.1 and some various other updates in. Still have more updates installing, and hopefully everything is peachy keen by tomorrow evening when I do the Day 1 post :)
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#34While the submission title matches the article, it screams linkbait to me. I clicked fully expecting to read about a new 0 day exploit...
I got a different impression from the title: that this is a report of the first day of the (dramatically named) Microsoft Incident. In this interpretation, which is confirmed by OP's comment [0], the title matches the content.
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#35Consider yourself lucky you even got windows 8 installed. My lenovo laptop, with a big fat windows 8 sticker on it and win 8 screaming all over the purchase page, came with windows 7 preinstalled. Win 8 came with a bunch of dvds inside the packaging, the laptop does not even have a dvd-player.
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#36I wonder what the Surface experience is like, I can only hope it's better. This also reminds me of when I got world of warcraft CDs and had to spend almost 48 hours just to patch up to the most recent version.
I have Surface Pro 3, and I absolutely love it ... but it's not without issues. For starters, the price. Although having had it for a while now, and feeling that this is the best tech I've bought in a while, it is pricey. Between the tablet itself, plus warranty, plus the keyboard cover (a must. I love pen and touch, but too many things I use the keyboard for still), it gets pricey quickly. Usability issues, there is…
Let me get this straight. You bought a tablet you love but every time you want to use it you have to turn the wifi off and back on?
How the heck is Microsoft still in business selling garbage like that in their own store which is supposed to curate the "Microsoft experience"?
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#37Just get the tablet replaced or call Microsoft support.
Yes, take it back to the store for a refund. We took back a Win8 HP and got the money back.
Now we have a Win8 Dell. And every-time I hear about a problem, I've repeatedly said "Take it back, and get the money back." Too late now. Too bad, stop telling me about your problems with Windows. I am done with this years ago after going through the process of performing clean installs at least every six months.
If I really need to run Windows, and I don't, I use Wine. If Wine doesn't work I fire up Win7 in VirtualBox, get it in, do what I need to do and get out.
I hear that Win10 is going to be better. I certainly hope so.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have Surface Pro 3, and I absolutely love it ... but it's not without issues. For starters, the price. Although having had it for a while now, and feeling that this is the best tech I've bought in a while, it is pricey. Between the tablet itself, plus warranty, plus the keyboard cover (a must. I love pen and touch, but too many things I use the keyboard for still), it gets pricey quickly. Usability issues, there is…
Let me get this straight. You bought a tablet you love but every time you want to use it you have to turn the wifi off and back on? How the heck is Microsoft still in business selling garbage like that in their own store which is supposed to curate the "Microsoft experience"?
For what it's worth: people with those kinds of issues are rare. Not rare enough, of course, but it's not as if everybody has them. In a way, chamakits's problems demonstrate why Microsoft is still selling them: even if they show serious issues, the rest of the tablet is so good that people will still love it.
As an aside, my own Surface displayed a very minor issue with the pen tap location being off by about a millimeter at the top edge of the screen when I first got it. Windows Update fixed it right away. It hasn't shown any issues since then, at all. From what I hear from people I know that also own one, this is more typical than situations with serious problems.
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#39I wonder what the Surface experience is like, I can only hope it's better. This also reminds me of when I got world of warcraft CDs and had to spend almost 48 hours just to patch up to the most recent version.
I have Surface Pro 3, and I absolutely love it ... but it's not without issues. For starters, the price. Although having had it for a while now, and feeling that this is the best tech I've bought in a while, it is pricey. Between the tablet itself, plus warranty, plus the keyboard cover (a must. I love pen and touch, but too many things I use the keyboard for still), it gets pricey quickly. Usability issues, there is…
At least w8 made the wifi way faster to connect.
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#40This may be a stupid question, but is it possible the blog author was given a refurbished device? These all sound like exactly the kind of problems you'd expect from a device that was pre-owned and sloppily reinstalled.
Either way, the proper course of action would be to return it to the store right away, especially when it refuses touch input.