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Windows 8 tablet freezes in Microsoft keynote demo

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Re: Windows 8 tablet freezes in Microsoft keynote demo

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Post by freehunter »

firefoxman1 wrote: post #3

Has anyone figured out why exactly Microsoft makes such buggy software? Is it a company culture thing?

Massive company. Massive software projects. Massive amount of end users. Massive amount of use cases for their software. Time restrictions on their development.

The wording you used makes it sound like they make buggy software on purpose, which makes no sense.

Re: Windows 8 tablet freezes in Microsoft keynote demo

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Post by jaems33 »

"Luckily, there was a second tablet available on stage that was working, so the changes for the hypothetical app were successfully written to the pretend database, and all was well."

That's not luck. I would think that a backup is almost always a must for any presentation.

Re: Windows 8 tablet freezes in Microsoft keynote demo

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Post by freehunter »

Radzell wrote: post #2

Lol, maybe Microsoft hasn't changed. I like windows on desktop, but I love android on tablet. I guess I'll sticking with android for now.

Android never freezes or crashes. Come to think of it, neither does iOS or OSX, or Linux.

Oh wait, almost all software crashes.

Re: Windows 8 tablet freezes in Microsoft keynote demo

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Post by firefoxman1 »

freehunter wrote: post #4
firefoxman1 wrote: post #3

Has anyone figured out why exactly Microsoft makes such buggy software? Is it a company culture thing?

Massive company. Massive software projects. Massive amount of end users. Massive amount of use cases for their software. Time restrictions on their development. The wording you used makes it sound like they make buggy software on purpose, which makes no sense.

Oh, sorry. Yeah I meant why they end up producing buggy software when competitors like Apple have proven it's possible to both ship and make stable software. And Apple does both hardware and software.

Re: Windows 8 tablet freezes in Microsoft keynote demo

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Post by elorant »

firefoxman1 wrote: post #3

Has anyone figured out why exactly Microsoft makes such buggy software? Is it a company culture thing?

Because they have to support every freaking hardware device out there. If you control all aspects of the machine things can work out pretty smoothly.
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