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If your point is that the Microsoft Corporation, as a business, is doing fine, then I agree with you. Afterall they are the 5th largest corporation (measured by capitalization). And yes, their business is mostly the enterprise side. However...
Apple came from nowhere to become the SECOND largest corporation - so no one should think that the consumer side isn't relevant.
MS has got the enterprise side sown up, for sure. However every corp needs to GROW to survive, and MSFT is struggling to GROW. It appears that they want now to shore up their mobile and consumer devices side of things - can you blame them?
Not only is MSFT struggling to gorw, they're also struggling with entry into the Mobile Space and with Developer and Consumer Mindshare - and mind share is so very important. It's what propelled Apple into #2 position (behind Exxon Oil).
So when you hear/read that MSFT is yesterday's news and their offerings are being ignored and hated, what you are witnessing is peoples' sentiment - and this is a clue about Mindshare.
These days a tech firm can fall in as little as 5 years. It may have taken 20 years to kill Motorola, or 10 years to kill Nokia, but the horizon is shorter today and Microsoft has to do everything they can to grab Mindshare in order to secure their future.
I still believe that with their enormous enterprise position and almost bottomless bags of cash that they will get over the current problems with their Win8 tablet sales - even if that picture is hard to see in the near term - but so far I see absolutely NO progress with Mindshare. People routinely mock Microsoft and their products. On Sept 10th when Apple had their showing of new phones I was looking through Flipboard and I couldn't help but be aghast that EVERY SINGLE tech story was about Apple and their new phones. Now THAT'S Marketing power, my friends, and without Mindshare that's not possible.
I think Microsoft's products are good enough (for them to have a good business) but the company absolutely SUCKS at Marketing and Promotion and they should really STUDY Apple in order to get a clue for what to do. And if they really want to increase Mindshare then they need to clue in that people hate them for a REASON. Yeah, Karma's a biotch.
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That doesn't iCount - the new one has an iFingerprint iReader (and it's probably iPatented...  )
If it helps, I have an iFinger that iApple are iWelcome to iTest against?
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Don't know the point of being offensive.
Grow up.
you've been reported as abusive.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: Don't know the point of being offensive.
Grow up.
you've been reported as abusive.
And you've been reported as a knob. You've been here from the beginning, you know the rules, Apple sucks and Jobs did the world a favour by dying.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Too soon?
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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Shelby Robertson wrote: Too soon?
It's never too soon.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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In these times of excessive political correctness it warms my heart to see knobism and a knobist in our midst.
The later part of your post does seem a tad harsh though.
Good on you for sticking up for Griff's iFinger which seems to have poked someone in the iMax.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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There There griff, you having a bad day! 
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I had two of them, both died - unknown reasons. Not because of the fingerprint scanner though, that worked while the phone did. 
Scott
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And, though I can't seem to find it now, there was a Windows Mobile device with a fingerprint scanner several years ago.
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True enough, but then most people aren't all that interested in facts ... give'em the BS, it tends to make many people a lot more happy than regular boring facts ...
Something like this[^] or this[^] is high-tech, and in comparison nothing here[^] seems to measure up ...
For ***** sake, we're talking about a mobile phone & and other consumer devices, not rocket science ...
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It's like the "OH MY GOD! THEY'VE GOT FRONT- AND BACK-FACING CAMERAS!" bollocks, a few years ago (when just about every other phone -- including feature phones -- already had them).
And don't forget that apple invented the idea of putting rounded corners on items that you keep in your pocket.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I know one of you is just dying to answer this[^] question.
/ravi
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Are you closing your encoder filestream?
modified 11-Sep-13 13:09pm.
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Hmm.. I see that even.
Ranjan.D
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The using block affects the stream, not the encoder. An encoder doesn't need to be closed.
/ravi
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Sorry my bad , I didn't had a close look.. later realized
Ranjan.D
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I don't know what you mean by that. An encoder doesn't need to be closed. It's not a stream.
/ravi
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I meant to say stream. Eyes, fingers, and brain not collaborating.
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Ill post a code i use in asp.net to add shadow to a text... Maybe you can "adapt" it. Ok?
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Thanks, but I'm not having a problem with adding a dropshadow to a text string.
/ravi
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Hmmm, thanks but not quite.
Thanks for your latest solution!
/ravi
modified 11-Sep-13 17:25pm.
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