Microsoft says it will sell customized “Microsoft Edition”

>>59658288

Go to a Microsoft Store, they'll sell you a Galaxy S8 with all their shitty apps preloaded onto it and subscribe you to a network

They're pretty blatantly abandoning the Windows Phone platform at this point.

>>59658329
But, why would anybody buy it from Microsoft when you can buy it from pretty much anybody else without additional Microsoft garbage apps on top of Google and Samsung garbage apps?

>>59658343

They're not "Garbage Apps", they're "Added Value".

I mean, they ARE garbage apps, but that's not how it's viewed at a corporate level, and that's where decisions are made, and that's why this is happening. It won't be 'wildly successful', but it might help increase the install base of people using Microsoft Apps and at least Microsoft will know that they're installing these things on phones with fairly decent hardware, which means reviews are less likely to mention things like slowness, which may increase their store ratings, which makes them look better against their competition.

If this program nets their apps a +0.2 rating in the Play Store, the program will be a success.

I think I know two of my relatives that have cheap Samsung phones with Microsoft Office preloaded on them for some reason. They really want to push their software.

Not sure why they're on the cheapest models, since they're pretty much "I want a smartphone, but I won't use it that much so I don't want to pay that much" phones.

>>59658343
Say you know nothing about technology, you're a woman in your 50s and you walk into a Microsoft store or wherever this is going to sell and you want to buy a phone. Do you really think that you, the woman in her 50s, don't want Microsoft garbage apps on your phone?

"This has Office on it" sounds like an offer and a half

>>59658459
Old people's resistance to buying "Brand X" at a "Brand Y" store will completely cancel out whatever effect "Free Office" has on possibly enticing them.

>>59658498
Yeah, but you're a woman in her 50s, how do you know that it's not Microsoft Samsung Galaxy S8

You're not acting in character

>>59658288
Worth it if you can use the DeX accessory to create a windows desktop

good
microsoft should ditch their shit operating system and just write software for os x & linux

>>59658561
She knows something's wrong because an American store is trying to pass off a phone with a Chink-sounding name as their own product.

>>59658633
But then she comes to a conclusion that the name is dedicated to all of those children who died assembling Microsoft's phones

Lol no

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>>59658625
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

>>59658288
>galaxy S8

Fuck u microsoft, i want A BB keyone with Windows 10

>>59660106
No, I was talking about linux
they can write it for GNU, OS X and linux if they want, too.