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Microsoft's vision since attaining Bill Gates' "A computer on every desk..." has been this vague pen-computing drive that just won't seem to die. The latest ite

Microsoft's vision since attaining Bill Gates' "A computer on every desk..." has been this vague pen-computing drive that just won't seem to die. The latest iteration on his is the much-hyped and never-used ink notes feature in Edge Browser (deemed more important than Chrome-compatible extensions) and the otherwise outstanding Surface Studio desktop computer. If I was a C-level at MS I'd push for "A computer in every palm, running Microsoft software" - they failed with Windows Phone but succeeded with Office 365 apps for iOS and Android. I would swallow MS' pride and release a custom Android-based OS and encourage OEMs to adopt it with favourable terms compared to Google Play's. I think that would sustain the company until the next big thing. Oh, and research in self-driving cars. Everyone else is doing it ffs! (And "Make the Windows Desktop Developer Experience Great Again(tm)!")

supernovae 10y ago
The "Ink" stuff in Windows 10 is part of the next update inked (har har har) "Creators Update" - its meant for enhancing the digital creator, publisher, writer and digital note taker with tools that make it stupid easy to use a pen to draw, note, clip, cut, trace, diagram.. It's been growing into edge - and I use it ALL the time to grab snippets from books on safarbooksonline and with ePubs coming to Edge and an ebook store, my use case gets even better. My wife uses pen for photoshop and adult coloring.. so different strokes for different folks. As for chrome extensions.. MS makes it absurdly easy to port them: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/documentation/extensions/guides/porting-chrome-extensions/ https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platfor... Regarding mobile devices, WIndows 10 is "Universal".. I don't know what the big delay is as a fan of the products - seems mostly developers obsessed with Apple really than MS not having a product and the last thing that MS needs to do is spread itself into ANOTHER OS - they already provide a robust "launcher" for android to bring in MS ecosystem. It's google that is generally playing hardball here and the world would be a better place if GOOGLE worked with MS and brought its ecosystem on par. I mean, it really sucks to enjoy to use edge and have google telling you on every one of their websites to switch to chrome with popups, sliders, notifications, alerts, text boxes and all sorts of crap making the experience suck.. as for self driving cars? its just an extension of the ecosystem.. i'm curious why you want MS in your pocket but not in your car and lastly for Dev stuff.. MS owns that shit. The Windows Developer experience is a superb story and now with all their cross platform stuff you may just not be paying much attention.. MS development tools do Linux, Windows, OSX, Android, iOS, ARM & more.. also, edge extensions are generally chrome compatible.. (why doesn't google make their shit work with edge? or even win10?? eh eh? :) https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/documentation/extensions/guides/porting-chrome-extensions/ https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platfor... BTW, I think the compute in every palm is already saturated to a degree and MS is doing long tail here but who knows.

supernovae 10y ago

The "Ink" stuff in Windows 10 is part of the next update inked (har har har) "Creators Update" - its meant for enhancing the digital creator, publisher, writer and digital note taker with tools that make it stupid easy to use a pen to draw, note, clip, cut, trace, diagram.. It's been growing into edge - and I use it ALL the time to grab snippets from books on safarbooksonline and with ePubs coming to Edge and an ebook store, my use case gets even better. My wife uses pen for photoshop and adult coloring.. so different strokes for different folks. As for chrome extensions.. MS makes it absurdly easy to port them: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/documentation/extensions/guides/porting-chrome-extensions/ https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platfor... Regarding mobile devices, WIndows 10 is "Universal".. I don't know what the big delay is as a fan of the products - seems mostly developers obsessed with Apple really than MS not having a product and the last thing that MS needs to do is spread itself into ANOTHER OS - they already provide a robust "launcher" for android to bring in MS ecosystem. It's google that is generally playing hardball here and the world would be a better place if GOOGLE worked with MS and brought its ecosystem on par. I mean, it really sucks to enjoy to use edge and have google telling you on every one of their websites to switch to chrome with popups, sliders, notifications, alerts, text boxes and all sorts of crap making the experience suck.. as for self driving cars? its just an extension of the ecosystem.. i'm curious why you want MS in your pocket but not in your car and lastly for Dev stuff.. MS owns that shit. The Windows Developer experience is a superb story and now with all their cross platform stuff you may just not be paying much attention.. MS development tools do Linux, Windows, OSX, Android, iOS, ARM & more.. also, edge extensions are generally chrome compatible.. (why doesn't google make their shit work with edge? or even win10?? eh eh? :) https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/documentation/extensions/guides/porting-chrome-extensions/ https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platfor... BTW, I think the compute in every palm is already saturated to a degree and MS is doing long tail here but who knows.