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I think it is amazing a company as big as MS has converged work station, tablet, phone and Xbox One UIs in such a short amount of time. Not saying I like all t

I think it is amazing a company as big as MS has converged work station, tablet, phone and Xbox One UIs in such a short amount of time. Not saying I like all the changes, just amazed at the short amount of time it has taken.

ChikkaChiChi 13y ago
Haste makes...something something.
apalmer 13y ago
I cant really cosign this one, by converging they shoehorned 2 different UI's into 1 OS, and dont seem to have given any one of the three groups what they really wanted.
- cyanbane 13y ago
  I'm not stating they did it well, just saying that for those 4 different platforms (excluding xbox one until release) they already have stuff "in production". The ship has sailed, and they put the farm on it.
- skrebbel 13y ago
  I guess it's just taste, too. I, for one, love the combination. When I'm coding, I'm nearly only in desktop mode. Browser with 20 open tabs, developer environments, consoles, the whole shebang. Then, when I want a break, I hit start and open Twitter or fullscreen IE10. I'm suddenly on a tablet (with a dock that's always attached, but ok). My ongoing work is still there but hidden from my view and my mind. I stop using the mousepad, and browse with touch only. IE10 has a really excellent user experience on a touch screen, it makes Chrome on Android tablets feel ridiculously ancient. Then, when I'm done with HN, private mail, and the weather, I hit Win+D and poof, my tablet became a PC again. It may be a coincidence, but Microsoft essentially made a two-mode OS that precisely matches the two ways I use a computer.
s_kilk 13y ago
By my reckoning they haven't really converged anything, just duct-taped the two different paradigms together and given us the worst of both worlds.
zura 13y ago
At first, I thought this was a sarcasm.
venomsnake 13y ago
So did the mad doctor in the Human Centipede. With similar results.

ChikkaChiChi 13y ago

Haste makes...something something.

apalmer 13y ago

I cant really cosign this one, by converging they shoehorned 2 different UI's into 1 OS, and dont seem to have given any one of the three groups what they really wanted.

cyanbane 13y ago
I'm not stating they did it well, just saying that for those 4 different platforms (excluding xbox one until release) they already have stuff "in production". The ship has sailed, and they put the farm on it.
skrebbel 13y ago
I guess it's just taste, too. I, for one, love the combination. When I'm coding, I'm nearly only in desktop mode. Browser with 20 open tabs, developer environments, consoles, the whole shebang. Then, when I want a break, I hit start and open Twitter or fullscreen IE10. I'm suddenly on a tablet (with a dock that's always attached, but ok). My ongoing work is still there but hidden from my view and my mind. I stop using the mousepad, and browse with touch only. IE10 has a really excellent user experience on a touch screen, it makes Chrome on Android tablets feel ridiculously ancient. Then, when I'm done with HN, private mail, and the weather, I hit Win+D and poof, my tablet became a PC again. It may be a coincidence, but Microsoft essentially made a two-mode OS that precisely matches the two ways I use a computer.

s_kilk 13y ago

By my reckoning they haven't really converged anything, just duct-taped the two different paradigms together and given us the worst of both worlds.

zura 13y ago

At first, I thought this was a sarcasm.

venomsnake 13y ago

So did the mad doctor in the Human Centipede. With similar results.