• Microsoft being sued over Surface space...
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[QUOTE=latin_geek;38511411][IMG]http://puu.sh/1rVs9[/IMG][/QUOTE] At least they've trimmed some of the fat down. Windows and Office only take up 8GB compared to ~20GB on a standard PC. I'd be annoyed if there was only 7GB of space left after Windows, Office and recovery, but 16GB seems perfectly reasonable. It's definitely not worth taking Microsoft to court over.
Even when 32Gb is formatted you end up with ~29Gb.. So off the bat it is less. This is pretty vexatious lawsuit, as stated above, the info is readily available.. You're paying for a full PC standard operating system that has been optimized for low power consumption on a portable device..
[QUOTE=Elgar;38512612]At least they've trimmed some of the fat down. Windows and Office only take up 8GB compared to ~20GB on a standard PC. I'd be annoyed if there was only 7GB of space left after Windows, Office and recovery, but 16GB seems perfectly reasonable. It's definitely not worth taking Microsoft to court over.[/QUOTE] Especially when they write it on the package. It's what every manufacturer does, people are just mad that Windows 8 takes up more space.
What the shit.. I know 16GB is overkill, but yes the hard drive size is 32GB, that doesn't mean 32GB is available to use, you could say the same with something like Apple for example, you have an 8GB iPod Touch, the OS takes up like 2-3GB so that's almost half taken away, I don't see why people moan, of course the OS is going to take up some storage, it's not just magic out of thin air.
Microsoft: "How much money do you want to shut the fuck up?"
[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;38513208]Microsoft: "How much money do you want to shut the fuck up?"[/QUOTE] Paying him is probably cheaper than the legal fees to take him to court and show everyone how much of an idiot he is. Shame, that'd be fun.
Writing "psst hey guys it's actually only half of the actual advertised storage space" on the back is a sleazy way of legally getting away with it Microsoft are being money-grabbing dirtbags here and you guys are fine with it.
If they can get sued for it, everyone should get sued for lying about their product having 32 gb of disk space when it's 30 or 25 in reality. There's not threshold is there? It's just kind of a shame that the actual space left was 16gb which is a common disk space for handhelds. If it was 18gb I don't think they'd get sued. Microsoft would probably win though. But I don't like this whole vaguely lying anyway. There should be a law to name the actual HDD size and what's left to use when you buy it. I could say the same about internet speeds..
32GB advertised storage means it should have ~32GB of storage. If the OS was 1-5GB, fair enough - still leaves ample room for other things, but it takes up 50% of the space.. ridiculous.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;38518076]Do you bitch about your average Acer shitbook having only 80Gb of usable space out of the 120Gb on the box due to Windows and the bloatware infested recovery partition?[/QUOTE] Well I do, until I wipe the harddrive squeaky clean and install a vanilla version of Windows. But Windows RT (Windows 8 for ARM tablets) is even more locked down than ordinary Windows, so it's even harder to remove bloat & unneeded bullshit.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;38518076]Do you bitch about your average Acer shitbook having only 80Gb of usable space out of the 120Gb on the box due to Windows and the bloatware infested recovery partition?[/QUOTE] that would be an issue if it wasn't for the fact that you can remove any that, you haven't gotten much of a choice with the surface
[QUOTE=Onyx3173;38511325]I really don't see the issue here. 32gb is obviously not the free space but the total available space. Anyone with half a brain should realize that.[/QUOTE] Anyone with half a brain should realize buying a surface is retarded
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