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[Grieve]

Microslop still has not learned what apple has been trying to teach them for the last decade.

Praise for Apple from Maul - I might have to put that in my sig...

I agree, though. This board is full of pretty technical folks, but all the feedback I've seen is that regular folks are befuddled by W8. I think MS is at risk of this being another Vista, despite it being technically much superior.

The Surface is also shaping up to a failure - a poll showed that just 4% of tablet buyers are considering buying it:

http://bgr.com/2012/12/13/tablet-poll-mi...t-surface/

And this article talks about all the ways they screwed it up (mainly price and not including the touch cover):

http://bgr.com/2012/12/11/microsoft-surf...-analysis/

Finally Goldman Sacs released a report yesterday saying that Microsoft's "market share of "total consumer compute" has fallen from 93 percent in 2000 to an expected 20 percent in 2012 due to smartphones and, more recently, tablets", and that they "would have to sell roughly 5 Windows Phones or roughly two Windows 8 RT tablets to offset the loss of one traditional Windows PC sale."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-575588...man-sachs/

I think MS may now be a short. Alternatively I'm considering buying a few hundred shares and writing covered calls every month. The stock has done absolutely nothing in the last ten years:

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&c...JaPj0QGNWw