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Did you see the SkyDrive features at the MS event? No. Actually neither did I. In fact it wasn't in the recent MS events. In fact it was announced with with

Did you see the SkyDrive features at the MS event? No. Actually neither did I. In fact it wasn't in the recent MS events. In fact it was announced with with a blog entry: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2011/06/07/don-t-wait-for-your-cloud-use-hotmail-and-skydrive-today-on-your-pc-mac-or-phone.aspx http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archiv... Why didn't MS talk about this at their special Mango VIP event? No idea. MS seems to think that getting too much attention for features is a bad thing.

lotusleaf1987 15y ago
Skydrive is also quite useless with file restrictions like no files over 50mb. Why not just use Dropbox?
WrkInProgress 15y ago
I agree. It appears that turn by turn navigation (via Bing Maps) is also coming in the Mango update and if so, it would be a really big differentiator (only Android has it thus far) for their platform. Not a peep during their event. -- John Gruber recently critiqued the Windows 8 preview video that was uploaded to youtube. It looked like a high school project. I doubt Apple would ever preview their OS with such a poorly produced video. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I
- recoiledsnake 15y ago
  >It looked like a high school project. I doubt Apple would ever preview their OS with such a poorly produced video. I think it's pretty good and clean. The iPad UI looks like a scaled down version of OS X in 2001 compared to that now and I've heard the same sentiment from many other people. Metro looks like that to new people but is very functional once you start using it. Here is a good primer on it. http://www.riagenic.com/archives/487 http://www.riagenic.com/archives/487
  - kenjackson 15y ago
    I didn't read the Gruber post, but I think he was refering to the actual production quality of the video, not the UI itself.
- tomkarlo 15y ago
  Whoever shot that video had no idea what they were doing. Get a lav mike or boom mike, for a start, so that your primary narration track doesn't pick up all the reverb from the room. It was definitely amateurish - not only would Apple not do such a crappy job, I doubt most startups would, either. You can have an outsourced service make a demo video with proper voiceover for less than $1,000. That video from Microsoft is just sloppy, not frugal or homespun.

lotusleaf1987 15y ago

Skydrive is also quite useless with file restrictions like no files over 50mb. Why not just use Dropbox?

WrkInProgress 15y ago

I agree. It appears that turn by turn navigation (via Bing Maps) is also coming in the Mango update and if so, it would be a really big differentiator (only Android has it thus far) for their platform. Not a peep during their event. -- John Gruber recently critiqued the Windows 8 preview video that was uploaded to youtube. It looked like a high school project. I doubt Apple would ever preview their OS with such a poorly produced video. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I

recoiledsnake 15y ago
>It looked like a high school project. I doubt Apple would ever preview their OS with such a poorly produced video. I think it's pretty good and clean. The iPad UI looks like a scaled down version of OS X in 2001 compared to that now and I've heard the same sentiment from many other people. Metro looks like that to new people but is very functional once you start using it. Here is a good primer on it. http://www.riagenic.com/archives/487 http://www.riagenic.com/archives/487
- kenjackson 15y ago
  I didn't read the Gruber post, but I think he was refering to the actual production quality of the video, not the UI itself.
tomkarlo 15y ago
Whoever shot that video had no idea what they were doing. Get a lav mike or boom mike, for a start, so that your primary narration track doesn't pick up all the reverb from the room. It was definitely amateurish - not only would Apple not do such a crappy job, I doubt most startups would, either. You can have an outsourced service make a demo video with proper voiceover for less than $1,000. That video from Microsoft is just sloppy, not frugal or homespun.