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by barista 15y ago
What recent MS products have you used that you hate so much? I use bing and windows phone and just love them.
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by barista 15y ago
That's like Microsoft saying that they did tablets well before Apple did iPad. Though true, the experience of thoese two devices is vastly different. Windows 8 looks very promising though...
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by barista 15y ago
Though I agree that the capacitive buttons are more reliable as compared to physical buttons and also look nicer, I think the mechanical buttons only have to be reliable enough. Particularly in case of phones, that typically get replaced e
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by barista 15y ago
Apple up, Android flat and Microsoft Nowhere in smartphone growth.
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by barista 15y ago
It's actually called list. Groups in FB is something different. Try creating a friend list and then you can share it with only that list.
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by barista 15y ago
What use is an exported that that cannot be easily imported to other system. Google should provide connectors to other popular tools e.g. export data from picasa to flickr or smugmug etc. similarly export to hotmail, yahoo mail etc.
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by barista 15y ago
well they are not as sticky as a super glue may be like a gluestick :) What I meant is that by virtue of being sticky, it gives FB enough time to attain feature parity with google+ thereby removing a reason for me to switch. Unlike a searc
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by barista 15y ago
true. apparently windows phone has a concept of groups too but then that does not sync with the lists that you have on facebook.
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by barista 15y ago
Facebook already has a conceprt of groups. I frequently share my updates/pictures with only to select set of groups. It's just that it is a bit hard to use it. Nothing that facebook can't fix. Don't know what is so great about this.
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by barista 15y ago
It is possible to do what you are trying to do (Say things to a private group) on facebook even today but I don't know why they have made it so hard to use. I literally had to spend 15 minutes figuring it out and spend time to configure it.
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by barista 15y ago
Unfortunately reforming immigration policy is not a very popular issue and neither party has any intent to solve it. It's a much easier to get votes by saying we want to protect US jobs than to say we are protecting US interestes by making
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by barista 15y ago
True. That's why I said it keeps them "looking like" they are innovating. Failed or not, each small product or feature release gives them PR points. Look at +1, buzz or any other new products. They are all the rage when they are released. E
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by barista 15y ago
Looks like Microsoft offering is still alive and you could actually use that. That's what google seems to be suggesting its users. Oddly enough...
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by barista 15y ago
This is what I love and hate about this company. They are not afraid to release products and then kill them shortly. They are no afraid to experiment. Keeps them looking like they are always innovating and ahead of the curve. The unfortunat
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by barista 15y ago
I wish it wasn't released. A Contractual obligation seems likely. Remember Microsofts failed Kin Phone? This looks linda similar. Mocrosoft lost a lot of PR points for releasing kin and then cancelling it in a few days. Elop doesn't seem to
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by barista 15y ago
The reason its not competitive is not because of the hardware its the software. As a software my resources are split if there are more platforms that I need to develop for. There are already too many. iOS, BB, WP7, android (with all its fra
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by barista 15y ago
Also it would be nice if they supported IE.
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by barista 15y ago
What do you mean directions to developers? As a developer, I will write my app in the new more touch friendly "Metro" UI because it can also be used with a keyboard and mouse. The familiarity that is there in the old platform is the familia
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by barista 15y ago
But that doesn't mean when people want to buy a new car they go out and get a boat instead. Change from Windows 7 to Windows 8 is a marginal one. Change to another platform is much larger.
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by barista 15y ago
If people are swtching because the UI alienates them then I understand them sticking to Windows 7 but why would anybody switch to Lion given that its even more alienating than Windows 7. Besides, it looks like the OS will still have the old
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by barista 15y ago
What they showed was primarily the UX though. Nothing about the capabilities of the new "windows 8 apps". Though given that it has a powerful OS underneath it should have all the capabilities that windows provides. It would be exciting to d
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by barista 15y ago
Kinda cute but looks more like fed by MSFT PR
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'Real' JavaScript benchmark topped by...(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by barista 16y ago|0 comments
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by barista 16y ago
Now just replace Jha with Elop, Motorola with Nokia and Andriod with Windows Phone. One thing lacking is the operator like Verizon.
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The Android Explosion: How Google’s Freewheeling Ecosytem Threatens the iPhone(wired.com)
1 points by barista 16y ago|1 comments
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by barista 16y ago
This guy was formerly at MSFT. The same guy who when quit, Ballmer threw a chair at him. Not sure if he was worth the chair now. http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2005/09/1106.ars
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Future Windows Phone specifications announced(neowin.net)
11 points by barista 16y ago|2 comments
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Vulnerability In Skype For Android Is Exposing Your Data(androidpolice.com)
3 points by barista 16y ago|0 comments
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by barista 16y ago
Google is really novice in this game. They will learn the tricks over time. Microsoft has played the game for many years now.
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by barista 16y ago
Also it's not fair to single out just Google here. SalesForce, Microsoft and many others offer cloud based solutions. Any cloud solution has the risk of them screwing up something in their data center and losing your data. Stay local and in

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