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by bztzt 12y ago
It's a technically deeper version of the talk in that link.
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by bztzt 12y ago
Win8 does implement fuzzy touch targeting (looking at the geometry of your entire finger contact region instead of a single point, and picking a best-match UI element) on the desktop. Office 2013 (desktop) also invested in a bunch of touch
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by bztzt 12y ago
You're right that there's nothing inherent to the tablet form factor per se that makes it less vulnerable to malware. It's just that the different input mechanism and smaller screen size makes backward compatibility less usef
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by bztzt 12y ago
Definitely agreed. Another interesting problem for the near? future is multi-device window management - can you use the collection of devices and screens (whether phone/tablet/desktop/whatever) on hand at a given moment as a
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by bztzt 12y ago
Incidentally, early prerelease versions of Windows 8 used the "Open Share" icon: http://www.neowin.net/images/uploaded/195351i26jesbggjt18g0i... ; wonder why they changed it.
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by bztzt 12y ago
since day one of Windows 8 on tablet/PC, but it wasn't brought to the phone until 8.1.
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by bztzt 12y ago
omg, something finally supports XAML 2009. =O
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by bztzt 12y ago
The search charm (which typing on Start is a shortcut to) does search settings from throughout the system, including Control Panel in the desktop, but I'm not sure if third-party extensions are included in the search.
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by bztzt 12y ago
I once worked at Microsoft on a product that was actually getting almost entirely positive feedback (while still in preview) for once and ... it was kind of frustrating. I started scouring the internet for "<product name> hate&qu
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by bztzt 13y ago
Live Mesh also still exists - it became the SkyDrive sync client which is now built into Windows.
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by bztzt 13y ago
Groove actually still exists, though it's gone through a bunch of branding and strategy contortions: Groove 2006 -> Microsoft Office Groove 2007 -> SharePoint Workspace 2010 -> SkyDrive Pro -> OneDrive for Business (the cur
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by bztzt 13y ago
Correct that you can't do this on Linux. The Microsoft CLR (.net runtime) itself is still proprietary and available only on Windows-based platforms.
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by bztzt 13y ago
At a very high level, sure.
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by bztzt 13y ago
Windows 8.1 can run multiple instances/windows of the same app, although the app needs to opt-in to implement support (which the built-in PDF reader, IE and mail client all do).
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by bztzt 13y ago
But that's an example of why inheritance-as-subtyping is dubious - sharing implementation doesn't -> sharing behavior, and for subtyping common behavior that can be relied on by clients is what we want.
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by bztzt 13y ago
I actually think a lot of media has both sets of problems at the same time. They will take press releases or whatever and reprint them coated in identical thin layers of snark and generic cynicism, without providing any real criticism or co
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by bztzt 13y ago
IE8: XP/Vista/7 IE9: Vista/7 IE10: 7/8.0 IE11: 7/8.1
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by bztzt 13y ago
Good post (even if I'm not sure how much I agree with the mouse travel argument - I find moving to the edge still quick even on largish monitors, but it probably depends on your mouse/speed acceleration settings) but I'm not
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by bztzt 13y ago
Sure, and that's the case on Windows too. You can launch and switch exclusively through the start screen and never use the recent-apps swipe. It's just included in the tutorial popups for whatever reason (maybe because Windows use
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by bztzt 13y ago
Settings is the place for configuration and management of your computer (and the current app). Shutdown/restart is a management function so it goes in Settings.
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by bztzt 13y ago
The problem with Windows 8 on traditional PC form factors is it deliberately ignores ("blows up") the model that's been fixed over 20 years in users' heads and replaces it with a new model they've attempted to desig
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by bztzt 13y ago
Both do make sense insofar as they are consistent with the design model/philosophy of their respective OS shells. In Windows 95 the model is that Start is your starting point for everything you do with a computer. Moreover, managing an
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by bztzt 13y ago
The Windows "tutorial" item in question is a shortcut for switching to recent applications. The equivalent action on iOS is either a four-finger swipe to the right, or else double-tapping the home button, then tapping on an app. T
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by bztzt 13y ago
Thurrott has been bizarrely bipolar about Microsoft for a very long time. He is pro-MS "on average" but will careen wildly between unwarranted hyperbolic praise and unwarranted hyperbolic invective. Sometimes about the exact same
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by bztzt 13y ago
I would still question the value of folders. It makes the homescreen customization experience more confusing and frustrating for everyone in exchange for functionality that's only really useful for a small % of enthusiasts.
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by bztzt 13y ago
Microsoft, infamously, has been willing to lose billions year after year on new products in the hope of future success. They spend as much as anyone on basic research and incubations with no certainty of productization. For better or worse
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by bztzt 14y ago
I think part of it is the new style of desktop/shell itself just hasn't yet had enough time to mature.
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by bztzt 14y ago
The article is wrong, Sinofsky came on at the very end of Vista development and had little to do with getting it out.
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by bztzt 14y ago
Porting all of the Windows desktop is essentially negative effort, in that the new parts of the shell are (intentionally) so technically intertwined with the pre-existing parts that it's easier to just port everything than try to separate t
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by bztzt 14y ago
To me what Myhrvold is vaguely describing as the "IHC" in this memo seems more like a set-top box or game console than a phone or tablet. I think this may have influenced Microsoft's decision to pour resources into the Xbox starting in 2001

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