Pachter: Microsoft Wants to Own the Internet
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This is terrible sensationalist tabloid reporting, and should have no business on a gaming website.
Seriously, back up your "thoughts" on the industry with relevant facts and data, instead of just quoting out of context. This had no substance or real subject matter, and it certainly doesn't make me a more informed person. It's just a single sentence quoted out of context about 3 separate times. Stop it.
Seriously, back up your "thoughts" on the industry with relevant facts and data, instead of just quoting out of context. This had no substance or real subject matter, and it certainly doesn't make me a more informed person. It's just a single sentence quoted out of context about 3 separate times. Stop it.
It seems like micro soft is asking for another shanking from Google, I have no idea how but we never thought a google web browser, os or office suite would happen either.
Indeed. I've seen this Patcher clown getting airtime on a lot of sites recently, which is rather strange considering the only thing that ever comes out of his mouth is "I think ______".Bretty said:
I might as well be an analyst too. Hey guys, I think the reason why the 360 doesn't have a web browser is simply because console based web browsers suck, and they'd rather improve existing features than add one that would always be lackluster. Paycheck please.
I have a PS3 and I prefer it over XBL any day. I pick Sony over Microsoft cause I'm familiar with its products and service. Also I get better wireless reception on my PS3, while I have to have the 360 plugged in. It's really just preference, people sometimes pick the 360 because "it looks cooler!" *rolls eyes*Konrad Curze said:
Pachter, could you put that in a memo and entitle it, "Shit I already know"? Microsoft is a corporate monopoly, so almost by definition, the only thing they're looking for is power and money. This is common sense, this is obvious to anyone who's heard of Microsoft at all within the past fifteen years, why the fuck would there be a news article about this?
I use the internet on my PS3 pretty often. I stream radio stations to my stereo, or talk radio. It definitely has its uses.
Microsoft are a bunch of greedy, data-mining, hard headed fucks. Screw their plans and ideas. Not that Sony is much better but still, at least they gave us another way to stream porn.
Microsoft are a bunch of greedy, data-mining, hard headed fucks. Screw their plans and ideas. Not that Sony is much better but still, at least they gave us another way to stream porn.
Good luck. Microsoft is getting beat by Apple and it seems they don't really have a direction nor a goal with how to integrate the Xbox with their other products. Maybe in the future they can integrate but that's going to require Steve Jobs type oversight.
Not really having access to one myself, is there no alternative desktop/whateva-ya-callit for the 360 like there was in the form of XMBC? So you could quite easily add in a browser if you really wanted to... (or even 360-Linux? On a bootable CD so you could just chuck it in there from time to time).
I think the real reason is that if they do that, then a lot of people's main reason for having a PC these days goes right out of the window - ie getting on the web (from where you can find http-based clients to email, newsgroups, irc... and of course google documents these days, so that's the office side sorted). As MS's main revenue streams are STILL Windows and Office, people realising that a 360 + HDTV + cheap wireless keyboard with built-in touchpad = not a bad way of browsing the net at all (better resolution than my laptop and similar control quality) would hit them hard. Hence, lockdown. It maybe wasn't so bad when consoles started to outstrip what you could do on a PC of equivalent price, so gaming became only for the hardcore, or the casual online flash moocher, with the everyman decamping to console-ville (do MS bother doing PC games any more? Lacking a decent mid-level, PC gaming has become so irrelevant to me that I've stopped paying attention)... as that still doesn't preclude you having SOME kind of computer (and folks buying consoles are unlikely to be Linuxers or OpenOffice fans, so even if they get a Mac they'll probably buy Office still). And of course, they'd already been smart enough to launch the hugebox.
My own source of bother with this article is something else, though.
1. Network cables are officially reliable up to 100 metres. If you need more than that, you live in a mansion and can afford to buy a repeater. My house would comfortably fit into a 10-metre cube and we're thinking of downsizing because we don't need the extra space that we have to clean, and pay for in heating and council tax costs. In fact we could set up a gaming den at the end of the (reasonably large) garden and still not be bothered about having to route the cable in a dead straight line to minimise segment length.
2. Wireless access points, they still exist don't they? We certainly use them at work. Plug one into the back of the console on a short lead. BAM - access to your wireless router. Our own router is cheap, and lives in a back bedroom because that's where the wired desktop PC _used_ to live. Our wifi laptops happily work in the garden diagonally opposite the box room. A proper external WAP would get a better signal without costing much.
I'd hope a tech journo would realise these things already. Maybe that's just me.
I think the real reason is that if they do that, then a lot of people's main reason for having a PC these days goes right out of the window - ie getting on the web (from where you can find http-based clients to email, newsgroups, irc... and of course google documents these days, so that's the office side sorted). As MS's main revenue streams are STILL Windows and Office, people realising that a 360 + HDTV + cheap wireless keyboard with built-in touchpad = not a bad way of browsing the net at all (better resolution than my laptop and similar control quality) would hit them hard. Hence, lockdown. It maybe wasn't so bad when consoles started to outstrip what you could do on a PC of equivalent price, so gaming became only for the hardcore, or the casual online flash moocher, with the everyman decamping to console-ville (do MS bother doing PC games any more? Lacking a decent mid-level, PC gaming has become so irrelevant to me that I've stopped paying attention)... as that still doesn't preclude you having SOME kind of computer (and folks buying consoles are unlikely to be Linuxers or OpenOffice fans, so even if they get a Mac they'll probably buy Office still). And of course, they'd already been smart enough to launch the hugebox.
My own source of bother with this article is something else, though.
OK. Two things?
1. Network cables are officially reliable up to 100 metres. If you need more than that, you live in a mansion and can afford to buy a repeater. My house would comfortably fit into a 10-metre cube and we're thinking of downsizing because we don't need the extra space that we have to clean, and pay for in heating and council tax costs. In fact we could set up a gaming den at the end of the (reasonably large) garden and still not be bothered about having to route the cable in a dead straight line to minimise segment length.
2. Wireless access points, they still exist don't they? We certainly use them at work. Plug one into the back of the console on a short lead. BAM - access to your wireless router. Our own router is cheap, and lives in a back bedroom because that's where the wired desktop PC _used_ to live. Our wifi laptops happily work in the garden diagonally opposite the box room. A proper external WAP would get a better signal without costing much.
I'd hope a tech journo would realise these things already. Maybe that's just me.
To the editor of this article:
The story's taken from a weekly Q&A session hosted by Pachter, he simply answers questions asked by the viewers. That he's stating the obviously obvious to a crowd that consideres memes from last thursday to be actually from last thursday is merely cause of people asking the obvious; I wouldn't be to harsh on Pachter's timing, but the dude picking the source.
Well, suppose you can blame him for picking such an obvious question... *frown at self*
The story's taken from a weekly Q&A session hosted by Pachter, he simply answers questions asked by the viewers. That he's stating the obviously obvious to a crowd that consideres memes from last thursday to be actually from last thursday is merely cause of people asking the obvious; I wouldn't be to harsh on Pachter's timing, but the dude picking the source.
Well, suppose you can blame him for picking such an obvious question... *frown at self*
No that's incorrect, because fanboys are immune to logic and knowledge. Microsoft will exploit this and send hordes of xbox fanboys at google. Then the world will be controlled by 12 year old, modern warfare 2 players who also have high voices. OOH GODDDD!!!!brandon237 said:
RRH, get the SHOTGUN! It's time to go hunting fanboys. I already have a high voiced logic-repellent of a child in my house, I don't need to see them spoon-feeding their propaganda too. Small children hate me - the feelings mutual.Red Right Hand said:
