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Microsoft are telling us this. When they deliver it I'll believe it. As a Microsoft focused developer for 22 years and a windows phone user, everything still f
by setq 10y ago
Microsoft are telling us this. When they deliver it I'll believe it.
As a Microsoft focused developer for 22 years and a windows phone user, everything still feels like its held together by sticky tape and string at the moment. It works but inconsistency and sometimes show stopping failures just ruin it. As an example, Windows 10 Mail just stopped working for me for 11 hours throwing an update settings notification loop on two devices. No fast ring here; only the stable releases. Edge is all marketing and is slow and clunky as fuck still.
This is daily friction which kills the platform. They need to focus on quality before promising features.
- flukus 10y agoWere the background images always there in Windows 10 mail? It honestly looks like an amateur access app from the 90's.
- setq 10y agoYes. First thing I turned off.
- roryisok 10y agoI enthusiastically started using windows mail when I switched to win8, and then discovered that file attachments were severely broken. They disappear from emails over time, and rather than fix the problem, it was suggested that we move a message from one IMAP folder to another to make them reappear. I wonder if they seriously thought anyone would put themselves through that. That said, I am still a windows phone user. Yeah, there are no apps (even less these days, amazon and ebay actually pulled theirs from the store) but the UI is so neat, and i like to think having fewer apps makes me more productive.
- setq 10y agoWhilst bitching heavily about it earlier, I've got to be honest here. If they fix the people, mail and calendar app bugs, which they are doing rapidly, it destroys Apple and Google's offerings. I've only used them with an outlook.com and office 365 account so far but it really has potential. Just please Microsoft, don't screw it all up and feature dump too hard! For reference I went on a six month long hiatus after using Android for about two years and getting shafted by zero updates, via a Nokia dumb phone and now to WP, which was where I was before the android handset. Android on a mid range handset is a disaster worthy of it's own rant in a more appropriate thread. My wife is always complaining about her iPhone 6s random problems like audio disappearing and suddenly getting random impossible to delete stuff appear in her calendar from emails and the inability to easily move music around. There's an opportunity to kill this friction. As for app culture, screw it. When I had a dumb Nokia I learned that it pays to use a proper computer for anything serious so I run the phone as a music player, a phone and casual email/calendar device and nothing else. eBay app was awful. The android one is no better - falls over all the time.
- cmdrfred 10y agoI agree with you on the apps. I have 6 apps. Email, text, phone, podcasts, maps and browser.
- alexkavon 10y agoPeople and Calendar have a ways to go with no Carddav or Caldav support.
- pjmlp 10y agoThe developer experience is miles ahead of Android, even when looking at the phone/store split they had on 8.x. The only downside was having accelerated graphics only available as pure COM instead of WinRT components, but even there the situation is improving.
- roryisok 10y agoabsolutely. neither iOS nor Android allow you to build an app in pure javascript/html, or have an app that will run on both the desktop and mobile without a single code change.
- hashhar 10y agoThe best thing I love about Windows development after coming from playing with Java and Android is the power and flexibility and saneness (is that a thing?) of XAML and WPF. And even the C# language is very much compared to Java.
- pjmlp 10y agoAmazon only pulled theirs from Windows Phone 8.x. It is there for Windows Phone 10.
- roryisok 10y agoSadly my Lumia 925 doesn't do windows 10. It let me try out the dev previews but not the official release
- pjmlp 10y agoI was pissed off with the 630 not being supported, but then I remembered that my Windows devices have actually got more updates than the Android ones and got a 650 to keep playing with UWP.
- roryisok 10y agoI have a 640 with a smashed screen for testing. I'm liking it enough lately that I'm tempted to drop the €40 for a new screen. One thing I've noticed is that the voice recognition is not as good as it was on the WP8 SMS app. I love that I can use it anywhere now, don't understand why it's taken a backward step in accuracy though
- robbyt 10y agoYou've been a Microsoft focused developer for 22 years, and you're _still_ surprised by quality issues with their software?
- setq 10y agoI'm still surprised at how many things they can completely fuck up in one go. That is increasing.