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by bztzt 14y ago
They're not rolling back the interface.
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by bztzt 14y ago
You can search with the search charm
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by bztzt 14y ago
Yeah, I realized most / everyone probably wouldn't have time to watch but hoped someone might be interested. I guess my basic point is that the animations and gestures are deliberately designed to feel more precise and clarify the discrete
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by bztzt 14y ago
well, he correctly noticed that the gestures and animations take a different approach than Apple's but that apparently just makes them "wrong" to him - Apple's is the only valid approach. fwiw, here's a good presentation of the design ratio
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by bztzt 14y ago
OK, but I'm not sure what you can point to that they're currently doing that's a reaction to that. The products you're seeing now (Windows 8, WP8, etc.) were all put into motion before WP7 was released.
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by bztzt 14y ago
I'm actually not sure what you mean by Windows Phone being a wakeup call ... ?
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by bztzt 14y ago
(note: I work for Microsoft. but I certainly don't represent them and in fact I think they'd probably rather I didn't run my mouth here :) Also just because I work for Microsoft doesn't mean I know what I'm talking about when I talk about M
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by bztzt 14y ago
Ever since Windows 8 was first shown to the public back in June 2011 people have speculated about / been confused about what relation the "new system" has to the existing Windows, technically - is "Metro" a thin layer over "Desktop" Windows
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by bztzt 14y ago
I don't know how this failure happened, but I'm certain it wasn't intentional. IE market research has been tracking the effect of the browser ballot closely and found it to be almost completely negligible - the people who don't pick IE from
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by bztzt 14y ago
The Zune desktop app is actually (still!) pretty popular with employees.
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by bztzt 14y ago
nobody will care about this stuff when the phone launches. which isn't to say it will (or won't) be successful, but whether it is will have nothing to do with the launch event or what they did or didn't have ready then. the press and pundit
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by bztzt 14y ago
It's not particularly a touch paradigm either. It's simply a "new" convention introduced by Windows 8. FWIW, moving to the mouse to the corners or edges to trigger "invisible" actions isn't unprecedented, for example that's how you show an
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by bztzt 14y ago
Windows RT is Windows 8 with the desktop, but without the ability to install new desktop software . The built-in desktop utilities such as Explorer, Control Panel, etc. are still there and work the same.
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by bztzt 14y ago
Windows RT is no better or worse for touch than Windows 8, they are identical interface-wise. The only differences are that you can't install new desktop software on Windows RT (but you can use the preinstalled desktop software) and it come
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by bztzt 14y ago
Yeah, I think setting the default file associations to Metro apps is something that really damages people's first experiences with Windows 8 on non-tablets. I find it hard to believe that many people, even "casual" PC users, would prefer th
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by bztzt 14y ago
Is using the edges and corners of the screen not a mouse paradigm? Isn't the Fitts's Law value of the edges and corners one of the classic tricks of mouse UI design?
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by bztzt 14y ago
I haven't tried it on a multimonitor system yet, but my understanding is that the start screen and apps will appear on whatever monitor they're launched from and can then be moved around ( http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/21/enha
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by bztzt 14y ago
It doesn't prevent them of course, but the higher price floor and the lower cut incentive for >$25k seem to both be designed to encourage devs to focus on high-quality apps rather than flood the store with a lot of crappy ones. Don't ge
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by bztzt 14y ago
This doesn't negate your point, but Yahoo Japan is a different company from Yahoo (which owns about a 30% stake in it).
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by bztzt 14y ago
They are a database company :)
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by bztzt 14y ago
They are doing this because they know that today's consumer market = tomorrow's enterprise market.
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by bztzt 14y ago
If that's the problem, what's the better approach to solving it: cleaning up the file system organization, or making it so that those things don't happen and make people mess around with the file system in the first place (e.g. by introduci
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by bztzt 14y ago
? For me all 8 sizes are visible with no need to expand or scroll. edit: I guess it depends on your window size - if you shrink it horizontally it does only show 6 items. Though I'm not quite sure why there need to be so many layout options
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by bztzt 14y ago
I didn't realize Chrome was being preloaded by OEMs. It's nice to see that OEMs are actually using their freedom to customize Windows installs to do something socially valuable for a change.
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by bztzt 14y ago
People won't switch because sites are hectoring them with lectures about how something they might be fine with is actually awful. All it would take for them to switch are compelling apps (whatever definition of "compelling" applies to eac
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by bztzt 14y ago
I always thought the "one foot on the ground" was what it meant. You figure out a way to keep about half of your current strategy or assets or whatever fixed but applied in a new way to a new context, and change/recreate the other half. Thi
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by bztzt 14y ago
To make it clear: Groove -> Office Groove -> SharePoint Workspace (not SharePoint in general) Office Communicator -> Lync (unrelated to Groove, internally developed from the start I think)
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by bztzt 14y ago
Gates and Allen thought there were too many other established companies in the microcomputer software market?
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by bztzt 14y ago
Compiled from bytecode
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by bztzt 14y ago
Although they didn't come out and say this, the impression I get is they are bringing over the WinRT APIs for lower-level stuff like networking, etc., while the XAML UI stuff is an extension of the Silverlight in WP7x rather than a port or

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