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Yes 60 21.66%
 
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The Fury on 22 January 2015
S.T.A.G.E. said:
The Fury said:
Okay, MS obsession with Halo is wearing a little thin now. I thought the Cortana thing was funny, but 'Spartan'?

... wait *checks date* not April 1st....

Without the purchase of Halo Microsoft would never been welcomed into the gaming industry and they know it. As far as they are concerned they owe everything to Halo and saturation of the product based on its pass successes is what they consider the key to survival. The whole product revolves around Halo in some fashion. The second game in command is Forza since they recently made a hub for it.

Unless they can create new things themselves don't expect much from them unless its purchased. The only IP's MS has proven they can create themselves are simulators.

Non-gaming normal world (yes, we ain't normal. ) don't care about what they are called, while this may be a good thing as they won't get the reference but also they won't get the reference. :P

Forza is not the stand out game franchise you think it is, Gears of War is but only with 'dude-bro' gamers.... do you think MS will change the name of their Defrag programme to 'Lancer Defrag' soon? Sounds like something they'd do. In keeping with your ideas, 'WiFi' is will now be known as a 'Forza connection' (them not thinking about what the word actually means in say Italy... it'll make no sense but we will laugh).



Hmm, pie.

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S.T.A.G.E. on 22 January 2015
The Fury said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
The Fury said:
Okay, MS obsession with Halo is wearing a little thin now. I thought the Cortana thing was funny, but 'Spartan'?

... wait *checks date* not April 1st....

Without the purchase of Halo Microsoft would never been welcomed into the gaming industry and they know it. As far as they are concerned they owe everything to Halo and saturation of the product based on its pass successes is what they consider the key to survival. The whole product revolves around Halo in some fashion. The second game in command is Forza since they recently made a hub for it.

Unless they can create new things themselves don't expect much from them unless its purchased. The only IP's MS has proven they can create themselves are simulators.

Non-gaming normal world (yes, we ain't normal. ) don't care about what they are called, while this may be a good thing as they won't get the reference but also they won't get the reference. :P

Forza is not the stand out game franchise you think it is, Gears of War is but only with 'dude-bro' gamers.... do you think MS will change the name of their Defrag programme to 'Lancer Defrag' soon? Sounds like something they'd do. In keeping with your ideas, 'WiFi' is will now be known as a 'Forza connection' (them not thinking about what the word actually means in say Italy... it'll make no sense but we will laugh).


True, it was their bright idea to bring Xbox to everything in the first place to try an be like Apple. If Cortana becomes a hit with the mass market they'll look at it as a novelty, kind of like how people saw the Kinect. Then again....I'm sure people like to talk about their sex life with siri more than Cortana though. LOL



Nettles on 22 January 2015

Stopped using explorer back in 2004 for mozilla (not firefox just mozilla), even back then mozilla had tabbed browsing which IE did not have.



Dr.Vita on 22 January 2015

You did a great job and had a long life! Thank you Internet Explorer! :)




Dr.Vita talks about Playstation Vita in 2016!
Playstation Vita Media Create Sales (2014 vs 2015 vs 2016)
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Prediction: Nothing will outsell PSP anymore (except Playstation home consoles)

poklane on 22 January 2015

Now kill Bing please.



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Jadedx on 22 January 2015
poklane said:
Now kill Bing please.


Yes kill off the service that is contiusly growing in marketshare...

 



The Fury on 22 January 2015
Jadedx said:
poklane said:
Now kill Bing please.

Yes kill off the service that is contiusly growing in marketshare...

I'm inclined not to believe that, however they wouldn't kill it off anyway, they'd just rebrand it as 'The Covernant'



Hmm, pie.

Kerotan on 22 January 2015
S.T.A.G.E. said:

Literally, the only people I know who use IE are my eldery family members and my aunts. My uncle uses Apple so he uses Safari. No young person in my family use IE, just Google Chrome and Firefox. Hotmail is also the worst email on planet earth.


Haha it took a lot of training to ween my mother off it. She loves chrome now though. 



sales2099 on 22 January 2015

Killed by a Spartan, how fitting.



Xbox: Best hardware, Game Pass best value, best BC, more 1st party genres and multiplayer titles. 

 

burninmylight on 22 January 2015
Normchacho said:
We get it Microsoft, Halo is an Xbox exclusive, you can stop naming everything after it now.

Oh, and if it's just going to be like chrome, why would I stop using chrome?


My thoughts exactly!

Shinobi-san said:
RenCutypoison said:
Kerotan said:


I don't have any of those issues. The only program that eats RAM on my PC is Skype and IE actually uses a shit load even though it's never used. ANd I'm afraid to delete it because I heard it messes windows up if you do. 


When I'm talking multi tabs it's between 10-128, chrome uses 50-250 mb per tab while firefox takes about 1.5GB with a hundred tabs.

Don't delete IE, a few windows functions and MS softwares use it. The best one can do is hide it as much as he can.

So true with regards to Chrome eating up RAM. Just about every day i need to research stuff and i end up with over 20 tabs daily. On my work PC, which has 4gb of RAM, Chrome can barely run at that point.

I noticed Firefox handles it somewhat better.

When it comes to dev features though I would say Chrome gets the nod ahead of Firefox.

I'm glad they are dropping Internet Explorer...hopefully they build a light weight browser from the ground up.

There's an add-on for FireFox called Memory Fox that will drop it's RAM usage even further. It's not as useful as it was back before FF 15 and 17 (when FF was the biggest RAM  hog out there) because Mozilla drastically cleaned up the memory leaking issue with those versions, but my home laptops have always appreciated the extra RAM, even my current one (Windows 8.1 with 6GB of RAM).

hsrob said:
Kerotan said:
Ljink96 said:

Too funny:D

IE sucks ballz. Firefox is the way. Ant Video extention, adblock=perfect internet.

Adblock equals millions of people not making a living. Thank god most don't use it

I consider ad-block exceptions for websites I use regularly but Vgchartz (for example) has ads that are so ridiculously intrusive and resource intensive that I simply don't consider it an option.

Same here. I also use an extension called NoScript that is even more strict than AB+. Every once in a while, I'll temporarily allow all the ads here on VGC just to have a heart, but all that happens is that I'm reminded why I keep blocking them. I wish everyone could see the difference between loading a VGC page ad-free versus loading one with dozens and dozens of cross-site scripts and background ads burdening things down.