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Subject: Microsoft reveals social network, Socl.

Quite a stupid name. I imagine this will die off pretty quickly.

  • 12.05.2012 2:07 PM PDT


Posted by: Xbl Vejer
Microsoft is going down the toilet. The stocks, Windows 8, their new interest in the phone business, and Steve Balmer's amount of fail all prove this.

Oh, and Halo 4 as well.

Almost all that you listed have been pretty good or on par with the competition.

  • 12.05.2012 2:08 PM PDT
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Posted by: bergXX09
Posted by: Xbl Vejer
Microsoft is going down the toilet. The stocks, Windows 8, their new interest in the phone business, and Steve Balmer's amount of fail all prove this.

Oh, and Halo 4 as well.

Almost all that you listed have been pretty good or on par with the competition.
I've heard from a lot of MS shills on places like /g/ that Windows Phone is SO 4MAZ1N LOL XD XD, but I just don't see it going anywhere. The Metro is worse than iOS in my opinion. Multiple phone reviewers like jon4lakers and (I think) phonedog have said it's just not gonna go anywhere, ever.

The stocks are dropping. That's confirmed.

Windows 8 has a lot of design flaws. Of course it can still be considered better than Vista, but the way that Metro is integrated into the OS is very poor. Plus the fact that they're trying to force it down people's throats with a $1 billion ad campaign proves how bad it is.

Steve Balmer really is just the source of all this. I don't see him lasting long with the company. I give him another 2 years until he hits the highway. -blam!- him.

  • 12.05.2012 2:13 PM PDT

What actually transpires beneath the veil of an event horizon? Decent people shouldn't think too much about that.

Academician Prokhor Zakharov
"For I Have Tasted The Fruit"

I went there, and the first thing that popped up was p0rn.

  • 12.05.2012 2:17 PM PDT
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english is not my first language ;)

been here since 2006

what the
i don't even

  • 12.05.2012 2:19 PM PDT

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Posted by; ghostvirus
This apple is brown, and rotten. This orange on the other hand, is in relatively average shape. So the orange is definitely the preferable option.
----------You can't compare apples and oranges. You're so dumb.


Posted by: Blacknight159
Have the people at Microsoft lost their minds? When did they think they had ANY chance at competing with facebook, now stronger than ever? If facebook was falling in popularity and losing a significant amount of users for whatever reason THEN I see a point in making and releasing "Socl" but as of now they have no chance.



Microsoft doesn't need Soci to beat Facebook, any more than Bing needs to beat Google. There is a reason why there is a new social network every other month, some appealing to specific niches, others with a more broad appeal. They produce high yields, as long as they find a niche, iterate, and produce something that is different you can be successful.

I mean Pinterest only appeals to educated women, and it was worth over a billion in less than two years.

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