OH GOD I'M RUINED!Did something just get reset? The market totals for everyone are zeroed out (though I think everyone still has their investments; I still do, I'm just afraid to sell anything).
In the short term, perhaps. They've been trending down all year.You know, it's amazing what happens when you buy a bit of MSFT.
I thought about buying them this morning. I just don't see them going up anytime soon. They released the iPhone, and two iPads this fall, and there's nothing on the horizon until next summer. Even then it will be, at best, refreshes of the current line, not anything particularly new or interesting.Goddammit, Apple.
I really don't see Microsoft doing well until they ether make some drastic changes to Win 8 or they force people to go to Win 8 when they stop Win 7 support. It's just not a good operating system.Yeah, I wouldn't trust that MSFT will continue to do well. Especially not as it seems that they left a rather key bit of functionality out of Windows 8... namely the ability to enter recovery mode on boot (that oh so helpful screen where you can choose to either reboot normally or go into safe mode). The community is still researching to see if they can find a way to get to that screen, but in the meantime all we've managed to get out of the devs/support team is a way to shut down various bits of the OS to clear up conflicts from within the OS, once you've successfully logged in - but no way to fix a problem if you can't log in in the first place.
If Windows 8 had only been released for mobile/touchscreen devices, I think they'd've been fine. As an OS for a traditional desktop or laptop computer, I have no fuckin' clue what the hell the Windows division was thinking. This could easily turn out to be as much of a snafu (if not more) as WinMe and Vista.I really don't see Microsoft doing well until they ether make some drastic changes to Win 8 or they force people to go to Win 8 when they stop Win 7 support. It's just not a good operating system.
Ahh, yes... but not just any old crap will do. They had to go for poorly thought out, poorly designed, and extremely poorly supported crap. The cream of the crap, if you will.Well that IS the rule: Every other Microsoft operating system sucks.
Windows 2000? Great.
WinME? Crap.
Windows XP? Great.
Vista? Shit.
Win 7? Great.
Therefore Windows 8 is crap.
Wow, that is weird. I feel like king of the world right now.Top portfolios on the forum front page is also slightly borked. Apparently it wiped everyone's progress off of there. Right now I'm top earner just because I bought some stocks, so it looks like my portfolio grew.
Not a major deal though.
*had $11k this afternoon*Seriously though all my fake money is gone and I'm having an existential crisis.