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JJ Abrams Unveils X-Wing Starfighter for New "Star Wars" Movie.

It's not a Z-95 Headhunter

Star Wars fans are keeping a close eye on any developments concerning the upcoming episodes, likely making sure there aren't any huge mistakes approaching (i.e., Jar Jar Binks-like characters and a terrible-looking CGI Yoda). Thankfully, some good news has been revealed.

JJ Abrams, director of the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII, recently showed off an X-Wing starfighter from the set of the new movie. This is great news for die-hard fans hoping to see bits and pieces from the original trilogy.

There was originally some discussion about the starfighter looking like a Z-95 Headhunter, but the official Star Wars Twitter page confirmed that it's an X-Wing:




Further confirmation was provided with this follow-up tweet:



The X-Wing is an important fighter that was partially responsible for the destruction of two Death Stars.

Disney bought Lucasfilm Ltd. -- the studio responsible for Star Wars -- for $4.05 billion USD in October 2012. At that time, it was also announced that Disney started working on the new Star Wars trilogy, beginning with "Episode 7." The new episode is due out in 2015, and Episodes 8 and 9 will shortly follow. According to Disney, the new trilogy will follow Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Han Solo beyond Return of the Jedi, which was the third film in the original trilogy (but is chronologically the sixth film in the franchise).

In March 2013, it was announced that Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford (the original Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker and Han Solo in Episodes IV-VI) would resume their roles in the upcoming trilogy made by Disney.

The rest of the cast was announced in April 2014, which included Peter Mayhew as "Chewbacca", Anthony Daniels as "C-3PO" and Kenny Baker as "R2-D2".

You can check out Abrams' update here, where he also discusses a chance to be in the new film and give away an advanced screening in the winner's hometown with 20 friends.

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Report: NVIDIA Shield Tablet Coming July 29 for $299/$399 USD.

There's a 16GB wi-fi model and a 32GB LTE model

NVIDIA's new tablet version of its handheld controller-and-screen device, Shield, now has a full spec sheet available before release thanks to a new report from VideoCardz.com.

The upcoming NVIDIA Shield Tablet will reportedly sport an 8-inch 1920x1200 IPS LCD display, Tegra K1 (quad-core A15, 32-bit) processor clocked at 2.2GHz, 2GB of RAM, a 5MP front-facing camera and a 5 MP rear-facing camera. The 19.75 watt-hour battery has an estimated 10 hours of video playback.

Some extras are front-facing stereo speakers with dual bass reflex ports, a MicroSD slot, a mini HDMI 1.4a port, Bluetooth 4.0 LE, GPS and a NVIDIA DirectStylus 2 (included).

There will be two models to choose from, including a 16GB Wi-Fi version and a 32GB LTE version. The Wi-Fi model will sell for $299 USD while the LTE version will run $399 USD. 

Separate from the Shield Tablet itself is the Shield Controller, which offers response times of about 10ms. It also has a built-in headphone jack with voice chat support.

The Shield Controller doesn't come with the tablet, but you can buy it separately for a pricey $60 USD. NVIDIA is likely betting on the higher-quality features of the controller to be worth the cost.

_{[SOURCE: VideoCardz.com]}

For the cautious gadget owner, there will also be a Shield tablet cover that folds into a stand as well. It's expected to be priced at $40 USD.

Those itching to pick one up can do so July 29 in the U.S. and Canada, with Europe following on August 14 and other regions in Fall 2014.

NVIDIA introduced Project Shield in January 2013 at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) as a way of dipping into the handheld gaming sector.

Ariana Grande Facts

Ariana Grande facts...

 

• Ariana's best friends are her long time friends Colleen Ballinger, Elizabeth Gillies, Alexa Luria, Aaron Simon Gross, Isaac Calpito and Jones Crow.
• She has never smoked.
• Her song "Baby I" was originally made for Beyonce to sing.
• Her vocal range is E♭–B5–E7.
• Ariana uses whistle tones.
• She was never accepted in her school choir.
• She is a "hopeless romantic" which means she is obsessed with love and being in love.
• She has an older brother named Frankie. He is also a performer and producer and went on tour with her as one of her dancers. He was in the Broadway show Mamma Mia!.
• Frankie is Ariana's half-sibling (they have the same mother, but a different father).
• Ariana's mother's name is Joan Grande. 
• Ariana's father's name is Edward Butera.
• Ariana's fashion icons are Marylin Monroe and Audrey Hepburn.
• Ariana Grande had an ask.fm but deactivated it. Her username was arianagrandefromfriday2nextfriday.
• Ariana has to make her voice way higher to play Cat Valentine.
• Ariana is allergic to shellfish and certain medicines. She is also allergic to dark chocolate.^[1]
  • She is not entirely sure she is allergic to shellfish, but the women in her family are, so she does not take any chances.
• Ariana's YouTube channel is called "Osnapitzari" that she started on January 21, 2007.
• Ariana runs the YouTube channel WeAreStoopKid along with her former co-stars on Victorious, Matt Bennett and Liz Gilles.
• Ariana has a birthmark on her left shoulder and a dimple on her left cheeck.
• Ariana loves Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Imogean Heap, and Whitney Housten (along with other artists).
• She had her first kiss when she was 14 and describes it as "adorkable".
  • Her first real kiss though was when she was in preschool.
• Ariana has Vine, Keek, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook accounts.
• Ariana is a huge "techno-junkie" and uses GarageBand to create remixes of her favorite songs using an Apple computer and a Boss looping station RC50, meant for guitars, but Ariana plugs her microphone in and uses her voice instead, seen on this video.
• Ariana is a fan of the Harry Potter series. Coincidentally, there's a character named Ariana (Ariana Dumbledore) in the books.
• Ariana loves swimming.
• Ariana worked with Big Sean three times. He was featured in "Right There" and "Best Mistake" and he whispered the chorus in "Problem". 
• Eric Vetro is her vocal coach. He is also Katy Perry's vocal coach.
• Ariana's favorite movies are 13 Going On 30, Bruce Almighty andAmerican Beauty (along with many other classics).
• Ariana used to collect stuffed animals, hockey pucks, and Halloween masks.
• Ariana's fan mail address is 265 S. Federal Hwy Suite 331 Deerfield Beach, FL 33441.
• Ariana's favorite colors are periwinkle blue, marshmallow white, sea foam green, red and coral/pale pink.
• Ariana was on BrainSurge with 130 points, allowing her to move onto the next round, being the only girl to compete. But then she lost, along with Carlos Pena (from Big Time Rush) and was the first one to slide down "The Brain Drain". The episode aired on April 21st, 2011.
• Ariana is studying Spanish (which became affective as she made another version of "The Way" in Spanglish).
• Ariana loves to wear dresses especially by American designer Kenley Collins.
• Ariana loves Judy Garland and Audrey Hepburn.
• She cried when she met Jim Carrey for the first time.
• Ariana has a talent for mimicking the speaking and singing voices of others, including but not limited to Britney Spears, Shakira, her co-star Liz Gillies, Katy Perry, The Little Mermaid, a laughing baby, a crying baby and a baby lamb "baaa-ing".
• Ariana's height is 5' 0" (1.53 m).
• Ariana currently lives in L.A with her brother. Her house is over 100 years old and was previously owned by Francis Ford Coppola, the director ofThe Godfather. 
• Ariana loves the restaurant Toast.
• Ariana's first crush was Justin Timberlake (when she was three).
• Ariana has three dogs named Coco, Toulouse and Ophelia.
• Ariana went to her first concert, a Katy Perry concert, in the summer of 2011.
• Ariana says she can't stand it when you smile at a stranger and they don't smile back.
• Ariana is hypoglycemic.
• Jennette McCurdy accidentally made Ariana's phone number public and later apologized.
• On December 10, 2011, Ariana reached a million followers on Twitter. On October 1, 2013 she reached 10 million followers.
• Ariana put her hands in cement at Planet Hollywood, New York on December 22th, 2011.
• Ariana does not have a middle name. 
• Ariana was in the original Broadway cast of 13: The Musical with Liz Gillies and Max Schneider. She played Charlotte.
• Ariana wrote a news article about bullying. Click here to read it.

  

• Ariana and Liz are extremely close. They stay up late together, and sing together, as shown multiple times on Ariana's YouTube channel and their tweets.
• Broadway in South Africa, the organization that Ariana supports (it is co-founded by her brother, Frankie) used her single, "Put Your Hearts Up" as their theme song for 2012.
• Ariana has recorded a song with Nick Jonas called "Please Don't Let Me Go".
• Ariana's favorite fruit is the strawberry.
• Ariana loves all her fans.
• Ariana loves hair bows, British accents, polka dots, and dolphins.
• Ariana and Graham Phillips were in a relationship for three years. However, they broke-up in December 2011.
• Ariana was in a relationship with her back-up dancer Jordan Viscomi. They had been in a relationship since February 2011. A few months later, they broke up.
• While Ariana dyed her hair red to portray Cat in Victorious and the first 20 episodes of Sam & Cat, she wears a wig to portray her on the last 15 episodes of Sam & Cat, because dyeing her hair every other week forVictorious completely destroyed her hair and it was annoying putting the temporary dye every four days.
• Ariana's devoted fans are called "Arianators", "The Ariana Army", "Tiny Elephants", "Clique", "Tweeps" and "The Loves".
• On, 7/28/2012, Justin Bieber tweeted about Ariana's cover of "Die In Your Arms" that she uploaded on her YouTube channel, Osnapitzari. They are now great friends as they are under the same management.
• Ariana started filming for Sam & Cat on September 18, 2012.
• Ariana's favorite One Direction song is "One Thing".
• Ariana was in a TV Nickelodeon movie called Swindle, along with several other Nick stars where she portrayed a very peppy cheerleader namedAmanda Benson.
• Ariana went to the Madonna concert with her mom in Vancouver on September 29, 2012.
• Ariana performed at The Big Fresno Fair on October 13, 2012.
• She loves Nutella and can apparently "eat a tub to herself".
• Ariana held a free "Meet & Greet with Ariana" in The Westin Grand, Vancouver on October 28, 2012.

  

• Ariana performed on the Annual Tree Lighting in LA on Nov 10, 2012.
• Ariana starred in the stage production A Snow White Christmas in December 2012.
• Ariana attended Matt Bennett's 21st birthday.

  

• Ariana held another "meet and greet" in Arizona, Arrowhead Towne Center Glendale on November 18, 2012. 
• Ariana had a live chat with Colleen Ballinger and her brother Frankie Grande around midnight on November 12/13, 2012.
• Colleen Ballinger is NOT Ariana's vocal coach.
• Ariana and Harry Styles have each other's numbers, they keep in touch. She has also mentioned him in some of her livestreams with Liz Gillies.
• Ariana had a "Dinner with Ariana" in New York on November 23, 2012.
• Ariana went with her family to the Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York 2012 where Jennette McCurdy also performed (though they never actually got to see it and ended up watching it on TV)
• Ariana knows how to dance the "Gangnam Style" dance. 
• Ariana would marry Cookie Monster if she could choose any fictional character to marry. 
• Ariana's favorite animals are dolphins, penguins and whales. 
• Ariana's favorite artists are Frank Ocean, Mariah Carey, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Imogen Heap, and Beyonce. 
• Ariana believes that everything happens for a reason. 
• Ariana used to be a cheerleader.
• Her favorite actress is Jennifer Garner. 
• Ariana describes her style as a cross between classic. 
• Her style icons are Marilyn Monroe, Coco Chanel, Michael Jackson and J Lo. 
• She started performing when she was eight years old. 
• Her least favorite music genre is dubstep. 
• Ariana was in a relationship with Australian Jai Brooks, from the Janoskians since August 2012. He flew across the world to meet Ariana and family in New York for New Years. In February 2013 they briefly broke up due to the long distance; however, less than a month later confirmed they are back together.On August 16, 2013, Ariana Grande and Jai Brooks broke up again.However, they got back together in early 2014.
• Ariana Grande has also dated Nathan Sykes, a member from the band The Wanted. They started dating in late September 2013. In December 2013, Ariana Grande and Nathan Sykes broke up.
• Ariana went to two schools while growing up, Pine Crest School and North Broward Preparatory School .^[34]
• Ariana said that she likes Demi Lovato's single called "Heart Attack". She also said that Demi sounded amazing in the song.
• Her single "The Way" went double platinum.
• She accidentally leaked her own number on a live chat.
• Her favorite shows are Gossip Girl, Top Model and Project Runway.
• Ariana prefers high heels to sneakers.
• Her first word was "bubble".
• Things that she like to do in her free time are spend time with her friends and family, play video games, and watch old movies.
• When she was little, she went through a phase where she had to wear a Scream mask at all times.
• In preschool, she was sent to detention almost every day for kissing boys on the playground.
• She eats at least five strawberries a day.
• She had a Harry Potter themed 20th birthday party.
• She wants Lil' Wayne to guest star on Sam & Cat.
• She is fan of YouTuber "Lohanthony," who is good friends with her brother Frankie Grande. The two have done YouTube videos as well as live chats together.
• Her style icons are Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, J Lo and Coco Chanel.
• She describes herself as an L.A. girl.
• She never babysat a child in her life, though on the Nickelodeon show Sam & Cat she plays a babysitter.
• If she could invite anyone to a tea party, it would be Michael Jackson, Audrey Hepburn, her Nona, Imogen Heap and Leonardo DiCaprio.
• She would love to go to the beach, eat lots of fruit, and have fun with her friends while listening to summer music on a perfect summer day.
• Her first role on a play or movie was Miss Hannigan on Annie.
• Her favorite Victorious episodes are "Survival of the Hottest", "Prom Wrecker" and "Ice Cream ForKe$ha".
• Leonardo DiCaprio is one of her celebrity crushes.
• Her most prized possession is her phone.
• The Wizard of Oz was one of her favorite movies when she was younger.
• She wants to collaborate with Will.i.am.
• Justin Timberlake, Mariah Carey and Imogen Heap are her role models.
• She released her debut album Yours Truly on September 3rd, 2013.
• Her debut tour was called The Listening Sessions.
• Her debut album Yours Truly reached the #1 spot on iTunes in less than 15 minutes and debuted at #1 on Billboard Hot 200.
• She become a 100% vegan on November 5, 2013.
• She's allergic to dark chocolate, but still eats it.
• Ariana Grande met musician, Bruno Mars, at the MTV EMAs and claimed she "died a little inside" upon finally meeting her celebrity crush.
• She now has three tattoos; a heart-shaped on her toe, “Mille Tendresse" on her neck, and "Bellissima" on her side.
• She wears an A cup bra size.
• Ariana broke three toes once because she slipped on Ophelia's pee while at a party.
• On March 27, 2014 Ariana said she wanted her fanbase to be called "the loves" rather than "Arianators". Since then she frequently tweets to her fans calling them "my loves". 
• She got her wisdom teeth out on April 14, 2014.
• Ariana collaborated with Iggy Azalea and made a song called Problem.
• Ariana performed at the 2014 RDMA's singing her new song Problem ft. Iggy Azalea.
• Ariana Grande became a pescetarian on July 3, 2010. On November 3, 2013, she became a vegetarian.
• Ariana performed in front of President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama on March 6, 2014.
• Ariana Grande is releasing a new album called My Everything.
• She was born Roman Catholic but has since given up on Christianity since Pope Benedict said that everything she loved and believed in were sins, such as Harry Potter, Spongebob Squarepants, homosexuality and working women.She has since started following Kabbalah's teachings, believing "the basis lies in the idea that if you’re kind to others, good things will happen to you."

Quick Note: Xbox One Sales Doubled After Introducing Kinect-less Bundle...

Who knew? Lowering the price results in a sales increase

Quickly after both console launched, the Sony PlayStation 4 quickly moved into the dominant sales lead over Microsoft’s Xbox One. Part of the reasoning could have been due to the PS4’s lower price of entry ($399) versus the Xbox One’s initial offering price of $499.

Microsoft looked to alleviate that price (and console sales gap) with the introduction of a Kinect-less bundle for $399 back in June. According to Xbox Wire, that decision has paid off handsomely. Since the June 9 launch of the new $399 Xbox One console, sales doubled compared to the month of May.

Although Microsoft failed to give exact sales numbers for the month of June, we do know that Microsoft sold roughly 115,000 Xbox One consoles (with Kinect) during the month of April.

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Samsung Continues to Pick on Apple's iPad in Two New Commercials

After years of poking fun at Windows with "Get a Mac" ads, Apple is on the receiving end of competitor assaults

It’s no secret that Apple executives have grown tired of Samsung’s commercials that either 1) poke fun at its overly enthusiastic fan base or 2) harp on the features that Apple products are missing in comparison to its own Galaxy smartphones and tablets.

In continuing its trend of pointing out features that the iPad lacks, Samsung has released two new commercials that attempt to dull the luster of Apple’s best-selling tablet. The first commercial is a continuation of previous efforts that have mocked the iPad’s inability to run apps side-by-side on the display.

While previous commercials from Samsung (and Microsoft) pointed out the benefits of split-screen multitasking in a business setting, this latest commercial goes for a lighter, kid-friendly tone:

In the commercial, a dad (who wants to follow real-time updates in a sports app) finds it difficult to share an iPad with his baby (who just wants to watch the movie “Rio”). However, after switching over to a Galaxy Tab S, both the baby and dad are happy thanks to split-screen multitasking.

The second commercial touts the superior contrast ratio of the Super AMOLED display (2560 x 1600) found on the recently released Galaxy Tab S:

Samsung’s newest Galaxy S tablets (available in both 8.4” and 10.5” form-factors) feature higher resolution displays while at the same time being lighter and thinner than their iPad counterparts. Samsung, however, is able to achieve lighter designs through the use of a plastic body, whereas Apple’s iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina Display both use aluminum shells.

Apple’s next generation iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina Display are likely to launch this fall and will reportedly support split-screen multitasking.

Microsoft Kills Entertainment Unit, May Shelve Flagship Lumia "McLaren"

Neither Halo series will be affected by cuts

It's a bit early to tell whether new Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella will be better or worse for Microsoft than previous CEO Steve Ballmer, who today is spending his days as the new owner of the Los Angeles Clippers.  But we've already seen fireworks from Mr. Nadella and some of it hasn't been pretty.

I. Nokia X -- Casualty; Nokia Lumia McLaren -- Coincidental Cancellation

On Wednesday it announced perhaps the biggest tech layoff plan of 2014, committing to culling 18,000 employees from the herd.  The move -- which Mr. Nadella says will allow Microsoft to be "more agile and move faster" -- will lay off roughly 12,500 Nokia Devices employees (roughly 2 out of every 5 Nokia Devices employees) and 6,500 Microsoft employees (roughly 1 in 20 Microsoft employees, globally).

The big question everyone wants to know is how will this affect Microsoft?

In the case of Nokia Devices, part of the cuts were organic, as Microsoft was primarily interested in Nokia's resurgent smartphone business and not necessarily its fading Asha feature phone business.  Sales dropped 30 percent between September (when Microsoft announced the $7.2B USD purchase) and April (when the acquisition completed).

Many complained from the start that the Android reskinning project, Nokia X, diluted Microsoft's Windows Phone brand. And while its first generation interface bordered on clumsy to bizarre at times, the decision to phase out Nokia X must have been a bit harder.

_{Nokia X was a predictable cut.}

The second generation Nokia X2 had only just launched and did show signs of improvement.  And perhaps driven by the potential for easier pirating of software, the first generation model had cleared an impressive 10 million units in its Feb.-Mar. pre-sale, effectively selling out its first production run.

But Microsoft probably made the right choice.  With the Lumia 520/521 already competing with the Nokia X/X2 at similar price points (<$150 USD), and with the Lumia 530 "Rock" waiting in the wings, the Nokia X project seemed a distraction in spite of its promising sales.  Also making the choice easier, was the Lumia 520/521's own sales success.  With the Lumia 530 "Rock" inbound, Microsoft would suffer too much, volume wise.

Somewhat more surprising and disappointing are reports that McLaren -- Microsoft's tentative multi-carrier fall flagship -- is reportedly cancelled altogether.  And even more surprising is that this is reportedly not even due to the layoffs, but rather due to Microsoft being unsatisfied with developer response to a very early test build of the UI.  It appears Microsoft feared McLaren would be taken as precisely what it had complained Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd.'s (KRX:005930) (KRX:005935) hands-free tech was -- a gimmick.

For those unaware, McLaren was rumored to be the coolest/most compelling Windows Phone.  It was supposed to be the first Nokia Lumia to feature Microsoft's "3D Multitouch", a technology that not only senses your fingers' positions on and near the screen, but also how far they are when off the screen.

For those who haven't seen it, here's a quick demo:



As we've seen with the Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) Fire Phone, unique hardware can draw plenty of attention/hype, even in a device with less-than-Earth-shattering hardware specs.  In McLaren's case, the pitch would likely be even more compelling, as it was reportedly packing a bleeding edge spec including a quad-HD (QHD) (2560x1440 pixel) screen, a 20 megapixel PureView camera, and a model with 64 GB of built-in NAND storage.

II. Hope of Seeing 3D Touch Product This Year Isn't Gone Altogether, But Wanes

There's still some hope, though, that the 3D touch/gesture tech could find its way still into a 2014 device.  The decision to cancel McLaren was reported by Windows Phone Central, which wrote:

Starting this fall, Microsoft was poised to release a new high-end Windows Phone featuring their new gesture technology dubbed 3D Touch. The project originally went by the name 'Goldfinger' but later moved to the prototype device stage under the moniker 'McLaren'.

Windows Phone Central has confirmed with multiple sources familiar with the matter that Microsoft is completely canceling McLaren. In effect, this leaves Microsoft in a potentially vulnerable position this fall as the hardware and services company does not have any flagship Windows Phones, to our knowledge, in the pipeline.

A couple of questions remain, however.  First, it appears likely that Goldfinger is cancelled as well, but is it truly a separate device.  The Verge on June 9 offered a subtly different account, stating:

While Microsoft had originally planned to debut its 3D Touch features with Windows Phone 8.1 and a Nokia "Goldfinger" handset, we understand that the work has been pushed to an additional update planned for later this year. Goldfinger still exists, but it’s simply being used as an engineering device to prepare developers for the upcoming changes and the McLaren launch.

Second, Neowin is reporting:

What is not known is that we had heard that Microsoft was working on at least two 3D touch devices, so are both devices dead? We do not know if this means the other device is dead too but we suspect that its future might be a bit bleak given this news.

The other device was rumored to be the Lumia 1530 phablet.  Thus there's hope that either Goldfinger -- or the Lumia 1530 phablet -- could beat the odds and emerge sometime this holiday season bearing the technology, despite McLaren's cancellation.  The odds of that, though, have certainly faded considerably.

III. Are You Not Entertained?

Another announcement made this week was the death of Xbox Entertainment Studios.  The closure will result in the layoff of most of the roughly 200 employees in the unit.

Launched in 2012, Xbox Entertainment Studios was an experimental effort.  While it produced some content for Xbox Live subscribers, the overall campaign seemed relatively random and scattered, with staff putting together a seemingly disparate, ever-growing collection of documentaries, mini-series, sports broadcasts, and other content.

In his final days as CEO, Mr. Ballmer tried to double down and refocus the vision of the team.  At the launch event for the Xbox One, Steve Ballmer set forth a bold vision for 100s of TV shows, spanning not just its most popular franchise, but all sorts of more obscure titles plus a bunch of reality TV show concepts.

Satya Nadella entertained the idea of this new look for Xbox Entertainment Studios.  But just weeks after the first series -- a reality soccer television series "Every Street United" -- launched, it's clearing house of most of the employees and scrapping most of these plans.



The cutbacks will not kill the Ridley Scott-directed Halo: Nightfall series or the Steven Spielberg-produced Halo: The Television Series as they're already in production.  The same goes for Every Street United, but don't count on more seasons.  The move was first reported by Re/code and later confirmed Microsoft Studios head Phil Spencer.

Re/code wrote:
 

[Our] sources paint a picture of a disorganized studio that struggled to close deals and lacked a fully fleshed-out business model.

Carefully scrutinizing its business model to identify places to cut, Mr. Nadella in the end reportedly decided the studio was becoming too much of a chaotic circus show and distraction from Microsoft key objectives -- making software, making hardware, and making cloud services.