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Re: Fed Up with Microsoft Surface tablets

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ronb wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> Ah, the "joys" of Microsoft ...
>
> ~~
> Bill Belichick fed up with Microsoft Surface: 'I'm done with the tablets'
> ...
>
> It appears Belichick is ready to chuck his Microsoft Surface into the 
> junk drawer. NFL teams can use the devices on sideline as a supposedly 
> quicker — and better — way during games to view plays, formations, all-22 
> shots and the like. The interactive software is meant to give coaches an 
> edge on adjusting strategy. But based on Belichick’s comments on Tuesday, 
> it sounds like he’s going back to old school: pencil, paper, Polaroid and 
> his brain.
>
> Don’t expect to see Bill Belichick holding a Microsoft Surface anytime 
> soon. 
> ...
>
> “As you probably noticed, I’m done with the tablets. I’ve given them as 
> much time as I can give them. They’re just too undependable for me. I’m 
> going to stick with pictures as several of our other coaches do as well 
> because there just isn’t enough consistency in the performance of the 
> tablets, so I just can’t take it anymore.”
>
> “There are very few games we play, home or away, day, night, cold, hot, 
> preseason, regular season, postseason, it doesn’t make any difference. 
> There are very few games where there aren’t issues in some form or 
> fashion with that equipment.”
> ...
>
> Fond of saying “why don’t you ask the league about that” anytime there’s 
> a controversy at hand, Belichick took a more verbose route here — and did 
> so my slamming a product the NFL is making money off of.
>
> Of course, he slammed it in a different way — quite literally — a few 
> weeks ago: out of frustration during a loss to the Buffalo Bills.

Great product placement!  :-D

> ~~
> http://tinyurl.com/gq8q7lj
>
> Miserable Microsoft hobbyware. 

Great product placement!  :-D

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		-- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"

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Fed Up with Microsoft Surface tablets ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2016-10-21 17:55 +0000
  Re: Fed Up with Microsoft Surface tablets Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-21 13:59 -0400
  Re: Fed Up with Microsoft Surface tablets Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-10-21 14:01 -0400
  Re: Fed Up with Microsoft Surface tablets Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-21 20:18 +0000

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