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My thinking: Microsoft's bread and butter is enterprise SA contracts, and they expect the majority of SA licensees are either still upgrading to Win7 or planning to stick with it for a while. Then you can think of Blue as a series of Win8 service packs.
When the "Blue" platform picture looks solid enough and the time is right, enterprises will upgrade. Or not... as is already the case with shops still using XP because, well, it works.
OTOH, most consumers just get whatever ships with the hardware they buy, so this doesn't matter that much.
And finally, this could all be BS strategy talk that will never be implemented.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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Coming to a month near you; the Surface Pro launch will be in January[^]. The 64GB version is $899 and the 128GB version is $999.
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It will apparently only have 4GB of RAM. Pity, I might have considered one if it had 16GB.
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I'm currently using it on an Ultrabook with 4GB and it runs perfectly well.
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I guess it's a bit silly to expect to be able to do SharePoint development on a tablet. 
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I'm doing WPF development on this and it's fine.
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SharePoint Server 2013 has a minimum requirement of 24GB for development, though it works fine (so far) in a 12GB virtual machine on my Mac with 16GB of RAM. I've heard of serious issues encountered at 8GB and less.
RAM isn't even that expensive these days. On NewEgg, you can get 16GB for around $75. I'm sure the cost changes for smaller form factors like tablets, but it looks like I won't even be given the option of paying more for more RAM.
Oh well, like I said, it's silly to expect to do serious development on a tablet. Maybe it'll be more feasible in a couple years.
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As I said, I'm fine doing WPF development on this, so I reckon it should be OK on the Surface Pro as well. I'll even do some Windows Store stuff on there as well.
I looked at SharePoint a while back and decided it wasn't for me.
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Just remote to your machine with 12GB of ram from your tablet. Best of both worlds... or a compromise of both worlds.
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I like to be able to develop software without a network connection.
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Then how do you access your long term memory? Or google as the kids these days call it 
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There are, on occassion, entire moments in which I don't use Google.
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I'll probably get myself one of these when they release them. I'm still filled with nerd rage that they didn't release the Pro version at the same time as RT. Or if they had to hold something back, wait on the RT version. Least there would have been less complaints over the number of apps available.
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If it had been released before Christmas, that would have been my present sorted.
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Welcome to my JS game tutorial, or rather I should say, programming tutorial (well, it sounds better in the title and I do indeed explain it on a game (though the game itself doesn’t really matter)). Nevertheless, this tutorial is intended for those who want to get better in their Javascript coding (no matter how proficient they are yet) and therefore I will explain a lot of things around coding itself and focus a little less on the code lines. An MVC-based Tic Tac Toe game? In JavaScript? OK, let's begin...
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Just as Unix and Windows are composed of programs as units of functionality, our systems are composed of objects. When we build chunky, monolithic objects that wrap huge swaths of procedural code, we’re building our own closed universes of functionality. We’re trapping the features we’ve built within a given context of use. Our objects are obfuscating important domain concepts by hiding them as implementation details. Good code invariably has small methods and small objects.
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In the last few years, we’ve seen a pretty significant shift in how we use computers. We’ve gone from primarily using one Internet-enabled device (the PC) to using two (PC + phone) to using three (PC + phone + tablet), and who knows what else we’ll add in the next couple years. Not only are we looking up our data and documents on all these devices, we’re creating data and documents on them, and the time we’re spending to do it on the PC is getting smaller. Effortless and ubiquitous access to data is increasingly important to people. If your app deals with user’s data, building cloud sync into your app should not be a feature you bolt on to an app - it is the feature. It’s why you will beat competitors or lose hard to them. ...And you need to think about it at the beginning, not at the end of development.
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One month ago we released the Web App Preview of TouchDevelop, the mobile programming environment. Thanks to the feedback you’ve been sending us since then, we were able to greatly expand the list of supported platforms. As of today, the TouchDevelop Web App Preview at touchdevelop.com/app runs on PCs with Internet Explorer 10 or the latest versions of Chrome or Firefox, Microsoft Surface and other devices running Windows RT, iPad 2 or later (including the mini), iPhone 4 or later, various Android phones and tablets with Chrome, and Macs with the latest versions of Safari, Chrome or Firefox. For Windows Phone 7/8 you can get the fully featured app in the Windows Phone Store that can access even more sensors and data. The key? A predictive on-screen code keyboard and a touch-optimized programming language.
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What we're learning at GitHub is that opting in to open source project constraints often results in better natural survivability characteristics for many types of business, product development, and operations activities. That is to say, processes designed to conform to open source constraints results in a project that runs well, attracts attention, and seems to be self perpetuating where the same project structured more traditionally requires much more manual coordination and authoritative prodding. I'm not saying offices will go away entirely. They just won't be required... or useful.
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A year before the Macintosh was released, Apple’s Lisa introduced the concept of a GUI and mouse to Apple’s customers. Often considered to be ahead of its time, the Lisa also offered protected memory, limited multitasking, hard disk support and more. Here are all the Apple mice from the Lisa to today's Magic Mouse and Trackpad. How am I supposed to right-click with only one mouse button?
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It's super-easy to open an account at a Web hosting company and start fiddling around there—two excellent Ars reader-recommended Web hosts are A Small Orange and Lithium Hosting—but where's the fun in that? If you want to set up something to learn how it works, the journey is just as important as the destination. Having a ready-made Web or application server cuts out half of the work and thus half of the journey. In this guide, we're going to walk you through everything you need to set up your own Web server, from operating system choice to specific configuration options. Your Sysadmin membership card will arrive shortly...
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More and more of our data--our credit card numbers, tweets, photos, personal documents, browsing habits, music, and a hundred other things--is stored "in the cloud." The cloud metaphor evokes images of bits and bytes floating around in the ether somewhere, and we rarely hear tech companies talking about their data centers, where the data really lives. That's partly because data centers are boring.
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As we have embraced computational tools as our primary media of expression, and have made not just mathematics but all information digital, we are subjecting human discourse and knowledge to these procedural logics that undergird all computation. And there are specific implications when we use algorithms to select what is most relevant from a corpus of data composed of traces of our activities, preferences, and expressions.... That we are now turning to algorithms to identify what we need to know is as momentous as having relied on credentialed experts, the scientific method, common sense, or the word of God. What we know() and how we organize(it).
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While some people online stop at overall market share when comparing products, I am more concerned with their usage in the real world. I decided to look at sales numbers for Android and iOS devices in correlation with both their online market share and Black Friday sales numbers to see how they stacked up. What I found was rather interesting.... More Android devices sold. More iOS devices used online.
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