Microsoft and Amiga Games Inc press release

[SysAdmin]

Keep in mind there's nothing exclusive going on here. Emulated classic Amiga games won't be saving Windows Phone 8 from certain doom and death. With less than 3-4% marketshare it may soon share the same fate as the Zune. These emulated games are already on Blackberry and also coming soon to iOS and Android.

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This guy has been selling wind for the past years and he claims to be a stock trader.

Its probably his last attempt at making a few dollars before crawling back into his lair.

His Dragon's Lair? Is he in the clutches of an evil Dragon?

[SysAdmin]

The Ads keep getting stupider. Bring back the dancers.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG-ORLkMiyY&list=TL8bDp_hzmfUM

[SysAdmin]

Are they distributing any Psygnosis games?

AFAIK Sony still own the rights to those games so would be amusing to see Sony crush McBill in court.

Game list is super secret for some reason.

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@number6

You linked to something Wayne posted in 2001, not me.

[SysAdmin]

Unlike Zune, mobile versions of Windows are of extreme strategic importance to Microsoft and they will do everything they can to try to make it a success, which would include giving away free licenses to OEM partners, etc.

Zune was a hobby, Windows on mobile devices is not. Thinking otherwise would be a mistake.

MS has been making terrible phone operating systems for over a decade. While their phones should be avoided MS should never be underestimated. They have a ton of money to throw at projects and the marketing of them. The failure of the Kin phone and Windows Phone 7 gives some foreshadowing to how the majority of customers feel. Windows Phone is already free with a two year contract. Customers still don't want it. Maybe before long they will give you money to try Windows Phone?

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You?!?!? Nooooooo, Really?!?!?? :p



5% is nothing to be sneezed at. For well over a decade Apple made enviable profit from 5% of the PC market. And seeing how they're coming in late, with a sub-par OS/ecosystem, celebrating 5% seems like the sane thing to do, even for a giant like Microsoft.

MS is not coming in late. They have developed cell phone operating systems way before Apple & Google. They are coming in with a lackluster product that customers keep rejecting in large numbers and don't want. Nokia was a great company, unfortunately Windows Phone 7 & 8 are making them hemorrhage money and customers.  I hope Nokia will still be around in 3 or 4 years so they can make Android phones. Windows is something people are forced to use in the office at work. They don't want it on their personal smartphone. We have seen it all before, Windows Mobile dead, Kin phone dead, Windows Phone 7 dead.

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@agami

I looked at WinPhone 7 & 8 when they came out, Yawn........ Wake me up when Windows Phone 69 comes out if it's still around.

For Xbox360 you forgot to add +RRoD for millions of customers. There are charts that show the Xbox devison has lost more money overall then it's ever brought in.

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@agami

I think I'll hold out and wait for the brown Windows Phone.

(Joking)

http://www.amazon.com/Zune-Digital-Media-Player-Brown/dp/B000H0QDCC