Elepsis

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by Elepsis 16y ago
The Amazon button was also the most appealing to me, because it looks the most like my internal notion of what a "Buy now" button should be. I'm so trained by my experience on Amazon that that's what I click to make the purchase that it's t
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by Elepsis 16y ago
It seems like some of the responses here are missing the point. Sure, we get to play Angry Birds the whole way on a flight to Australia. But countless people in areas where electricity is still hard to come by suddenly gain the ability to u
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by Elepsis 16y ago
When will people learn that the right place for the power button is not right above the second-most commonly hit key on the keyboard? :/
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by Elepsis 16y ago
This is actually an interesting one, because I think it falls into its own specific category: workflow-specific startups. The reason no one is ever happy with project management software is because everyone works slightly differently, and e
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by Elepsis 16y ago
What do the Microsoft plugins have to do with developing tools for the open web or not? The plug-ins you're complaining about: * The Windows Live Sign-in Assistant enables you to automatically sign in to Windows Live websites when you're al
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by Elepsis 16y ago
And here I thought the entire outrage was due to the fact that the U.S. court system really shouldn't have jurisdiction over generic domain names and therefore shouldn't be able to do this sort of thing, regardless of the U.S. law-complia
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by Elepsis 16y ago
SkyDrive saves old versions of your Office documents, though this is perhaps not as discoverable as it ought to be. Not sure what you mean by conflict management--in general, unless you have full coauthoring support (the Office Web Apps hav
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by Elepsis 16y ago
Just like Microsoft and Yahoo, the perception that "everyone is leaving Google" is wholly out of line with reality. A few big names do not everyone make. Don't worry about it.
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by Elepsis 16y ago
Anyone who thinks that Google Apps are a "perfectly adequate" alternative to Exchange has never worked at a company of over 100 users with different needs and desires.
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by Elepsis 16y ago
The suite of products in question includes, among other things, remotely hosted Exchange.
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by Elepsis 16y ago
Coincidentally, a standalone L is the equivalent of a frownie face: :(
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by Elepsis 16y ago
The parent questioned whether there are any new markets in which Microsoft is succeeding. The poster above you gave one example.
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by Elepsis 16y ago
In fact, Windows 7 had a whole series of commercials based around that concept: the "seven second demos" - http://barnes89.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/windows-7-seven-sec... By all accounts, they were remarkably successful.
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by Elepsis 16y ago
Have you considered registering p99t.com and p99test.com as well as nice shortcuts? Both are available.
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by Elepsis 16y ago
This isn't a Redmond problem, it's a Ray Ozzie problem. You don't get a ton of writing by Sinofsky published on the public internet, but he's a fascinating and thought provoking writer by comparison.
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by Elepsis 16y ago
The Zune store also sells straight-up, no DRM mp3s for about the same price Amazon does.
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by Elepsis 16y ago
Windows Phone 7 supports sync with the cloud for all of these. Having to plug your device in for anything other than transfer of large files (like music and video) or charging is an aberration.
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by Elepsis 16y ago
Apparently gratuitous editorial spin in the titles is okay as long as it has to do with Microsoft? In any case, people are focusing on a minor detail rather than the interesting piece of this: The point is, when you buy from the Microsoft S
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by Elepsis 16y ago
In a number of countries I've heard it pronounced to rhyme with "Mike."
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by Elepsis 16y ago
I agree that the article is, to some extent, an extension of the principle... I do think, though, that most people wouldn't intuitively make the leap to applying the 'invisible hand' concept to software design. Restating a known principle i
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by Elepsis 16y ago
All the way back in 2006, Joshua Porter wrote a really good article illustrating this principle using the example of Delicious: http://bokardo.com/archives/the-delicious-lesson/ The gist of it: The one major idea behind the Del.icio.us L
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by Elepsis 16y ago
I think the sort of person who thinks that signing a 2 year contract is the same person who would be paying $50-60/month for cellular service anyway. If you need (or just want) data and text messaging, plus relatively basic phone service, y
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by Elepsis 16y ago
Microsoft makes a kind of neat kid-oriented environment called Small Basic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/ff384126.aspx Worth a shot. If you check out the blog, there are a number of tutorials available as well that can help ki
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by Elepsis 16y ago
You know, no one took away the check boxes that let you choose which Windows Live programs you want to install when you're trying to run the installer. The installer doesn't even download any of those apps if you leave them unchecked. If yo
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by Elepsis 16y ago
Really? ICQ built character by character typing all the way back in the late 90s, and users back then stumbled across basically all of the same landmines Google Wave exposed. The issue is that the problem Google's engineers perceived simply
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by Elepsis 16y ago
Are you kidding? Try comparing IE3 to IE7, and Chrome 3 to Chrome 7...
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by Elepsis 16y ago
Where is this "Microsoft killed IronRuby" thing coming from? Sure, the lead developer quit, but that doesn't mean it's officially been shut down, all support removed, etc... not to mention that it's an open source project. Did I just miss s
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by Elepsis 16y ago
Microsoft recently did release a OneNote Web App: http://office.live.com (full disclosure: I work on some of this.)
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by Elepsis 16y ago
Microsoft is a very different company depending on what division you're in and what you're working on. Sure, there are parts of the company that are less exciting for your typical just-out-of-college hire, but as someone who joined a little
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Office Web Apps are now live on Microsoft's SkyDrive(windowsteamblog.com)
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