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- elusiveqc, on 10/10/2008, -7/+78Nooooooooooo!!!!
- Hosalabad, on 10/10/2008, -5/+49For the love of god no.
- killdeer03, on 10/11/2008, -3/+45LEAVE BLACKBERRY ALONE!
they never did anything to you microsoft!
LEAVE BLACKBERRY ALONE!!!!
why oh why can't you leave them alone?
why? - virtualsnyper, on 10/11/2008, -5/+36In short,
"No."
In long,
"Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo."
;) - juliandunbar11, on 10/11/2008, -1/+30Microsoft: Stay the ***** out of Waterloo.
- hit9ent, on 10/10/2008, -4/+31why not... everything else is going to ***** too.
- Aslan72, on 10/10/2008, -3/+28For all that is pure and holy in the world no. I think the apocalypse would actually be a reality at that point. Good God, I think I need to go purge that thought from my mind.
This article = the gotse.cx of tech news. - TheWorm, on 10/11/2008, -2/+26The day when a Blackberry runs Windows Mobile will be the day that the iPhone gains a lot more marketshare.
- Shadoblak, on 10/11/2008, -3/+22Only if they fire Steve Ballmer.....
- >mark, on 10/11/2008, -15/+33digg me up if you think "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
- poogy21, on 10/10/2008, -2/+20They'll probably run Microsoft CE on it.
- carterx, on 10/11/2008, -4/+19***** No. Don't want them to drive RIM into the ground.
- czeman, on 10/11/2008, -14/+29Microsoft shouldn't get into anything else until they redeem themselves for releasing Vista.
- TheShad0w, on 10/11/2008, -1/+14Hell No
Definitely No
Please No - winmywii, on 10/11/2008, -0/+12...because Microsoft would never delay anything.
- DangerCollie, on 10/11/2008, -1/+12Microsoft would turn the Blackberry into the Zune, Vista, and Bob all rolled into one. The minute Clippy pops up on my Blackberry, it goes right in the river.
- forcedfx, on 10/11/2008, -0/+10Everybody say HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
And wave your hands in the air! - adml_shake, on 10/11/2008, -1/+11The ONLY way I would accept this is if they branched off that division and left the blackberry OS alone. I admit I'd like to see some better Exchange integration with blackberry (mostly calender and contacts) with out having to add a BES or sync it with my desktop if I have to make a change, it it's not worth it if I'm forced to put the crash loving windows mobile OS on there.
- dse78759, on 10/10/2008, -3/+13This is the true tragedy of the panic. Decent companies are going to become too cheap to pass up, and the big will get bigger.
- Asianwaste, on 10/11/2008, -0/+10No. Because they need to get back and focused on what they are supposed to be making: SOFTWARE.
I dislike watching them make these crummy devices all the while their applications are coming out subpar. - peticsu, on 10/11/2008, -4/+13NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! PLEASE NO!!!!
- osko2052, on 10/11/2008, -2/+11WinMo is better than BlackBerry's OS? Guess you have never owned a BlackBerry.
- colonels1020, on 10/11/2008, -0/+8Developers! Developers! Developers!
- klitzbtc, on 10/11/2008, -1/+8Imagine if they put the M$ OS on your blackberry?
Well ... well then I'd buy an iPhone. - artfuldodga, on 10/11/2008, -0/+6Google should buy them, and destroy the iPhone.
- sfcaptainrob, on 10/11/2008, -4/+10BSOD on my Curve??? Good god no!
- Myztry, on 10/11/2008, -2/+8Microsoft can't do jack ***** for itself to bring anything decent to market.
It might as well utilize it's only legacy asset - the cheque book!
The sooner the cash is gone - the sooner computing can start forging ahead... - inactive, on 10/11/2008, -2/+8If they did buy RIM, it would only be to put them out of business and clear the way for their abortion, Win Mobile.
- MacParrot, on 10/11/2008, -5/+10You left out the sarcasm tag
- thefinger, on 10/11/2008, -1/+6No. Absolutely NOT. To me it's a Canadian thing. I don't want RIM swallowed up by a company whose home country is going down the drain. Even if that country weren't, I don't want a good thing cheapened by something American. And that means Google too. There are no good guys in a system where capitalism is so piggish and self destructive as it is now.
Thanks MS but no thanks. - Thepirateking, on 10/11/2008, -2/+7Please do. I work with BES. The phones may be good devices, they may work well, but the server side stuff? It's *****. Pure and utter *****. Put together by retarded 3 year olds who have been huffing paint.
- inactive, on 10/11/2008, -0/+5Although i dont have one, several BB users at work wholeheartedly say NO!
- evan242, on 10/11/2008, -0/+4blackberry with windows mobile? DOES NOT COMPUTE
- Spuy767, on 10/11/2008, -5/+9It's a very overpriced piece of hold over software. Vista is fine if you pirate it, but it you pay 400$ for ultimate, you're getting ripped off.
- gamepr0, on 10/11/2008, -1/+5you forgot /s
- EtherGnat, on 10/11/2008, -2/+6Why the hell would you pay $400 for Vista Ultimate when you can pay $169? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8 ...
Vista Ultimate is pointless for most people anyway--Vista Premium is just fine for $99. Hell, in most cases you can get a computer with Vista Premium on it for the same price you can get it with no OS or with Linux, so I think the price argument is overrated. - rajinder, on 10/11/2008, -0/+4No, they shouldn't. They need the competition to improve their own products, and the same goes for RIM. If they owned RIM, they'd only have Apple to compete against.
- juliandunbar11, on 10/11/2008, -0/+4oh sure, they can poach engineers and comp sci students all they want..
- sfcaptainrob, on 10/11/2008, -0/+4We thought about setting up the BES at work but deciding it was too confusing and convoluted to waste our time with. The Desktop software does everything our Blackberry users need it to anyhow.
- robotfriendly, on 10/11/2008, -0/+3All I want is native exchange support, is that too much to ask for?
- insanebrain, on 10/11/2008, -0/+3RIMMS ?? no thank you
- acknotSW, on 10/11/2008, -0/+3kills self
- inactive, on 10/11/2008, -0/+3And our nice ATI to a second rate CPU maker.
- flarn2006, on 10/11/2008, -2/+5Where's Google when you need them?
- gcnaddict, on 10/11/2008, -0/+3long time ago, too.
- Zorkon, on 10/11/2008, -0/+3They should keep their grimy hands off our nice, shiny Canadian company. RIM is such a Canadian success story that I can't see the Canadian government allowing that to pass... then again, we *did* sell the Hudson's Bay Company to a US buyer...
- zmigliozzi, on 10/11/2008, -0/+2haha no. Why in the hell would microsoft do that? Microsoft makes a killing off their mobile OS sales why change it.
- jrbrewin, on 10/11/2008, -0/+2I know the legal mess over the fact that RIM holds patents for ideas and technologies outside of the USA that NTP holds in the USA was cleared up, at great expense to RIM, but would that agreement with NTP be carried across to RIM's parent if they were bought. If not it would make any acquisition look very very unfavourable.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/16/rim_ntp_se ... - phrstbrn, on 10/11/2008, -0/+2No! If MS bought them, I wouldn't be able to get a RIM job (I'd have to work for MS instead). MS job doesn't have the same ring to it.
- EtherGnat, on 10/11/2008, -0/+2Now I'm even more confused. You say the phones that RIM and HTC release are *****, and you think that them rushing them out the door and producing even more models is going to improve things? It seems to me (if that is the case) a better argument would be for them to release fewer phones, and concentrate on actually getting them right.
Incidentally there were only 13 months between the first two iPhone models, not 18. I accidentally counted the time from the announcement of the original iPhone to the release of the 3G model. -
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