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Gray Matters (rainypixels.com)
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Google drops a Gmail-shaped bomb on Windows Phone(theverge.com)
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Every Apple-Made App On Your iPhone Can Be Replaced By A Better App(businessinsider.com)
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by cooldeal 14y ago
What in that linked article is supposed to imply or prove that she's not popular internally?
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>The other problem is the lack of linux support for their SDK. Seems rather odd, considering Mono's roots. Didn't Mono get a lot of hate and vitriol from the Linux crowd over their support for C# and .NET on Linux and then was pulled fr
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Microsoft Pressing Apple to Take a Smaller Cut on Office Sales on iOS(allthingsd.com)
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by cooldeal 14y ago
I wonder if folks with Chromebooks(and running Chrome OS, not Ubuntu) are able to use them at all now? Can anyone chime in?
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Ubuntu Community Manager: RMS's Post Seems a Bit Childish To Me and spreads FUD(news.slashdot.org)
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The secrets of the Windows Phone 8 keyboard(blogs.windows.com)
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>f Ubuntu does that, the problem goes away No it doesn't. Ubuntu's "problem" is that it's not making any money, at least not enough to support the 500 employees it has. Making it non-default will kill 99% of the revenue from Amazon sinc
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>The competition on "speed-of-opening-apps" on WP7 where nobody was allowed to win? That's wrong. Even before that specific incident, they did give out prizes to people who won, and there were multiple winners before and after. That par
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Amazon making Kindle Fire more accessible via voice, touch controls(zdnet.com)
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Ever had to use a lawyer? You'll probably find no lawyer that hasn't 'lied' in some court case. In fact, it's a lawyer's job to present his client the best way in a court case to get the least punishment. What about buying a car or used car
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>It's worth noting that Ballmer has publicly laughed in the face of two of the biggest innovations in the last 5 years - the iPhone and the iPad. Now they're racing to catch up. Copy pasting from one of my previous comments. I'm tired o
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by cooldeal 14y ago
The Internet alliance or whatever it's called formed by Reddit etc. after the SOPA fiasco needs to show their support for this person right away or there would be absolutely no point to it. Putting black badges on sites for SOPA was good bu
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by cooldeal 14y ago
You make a good point but you're just wrong.
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No surprise: Windows 8 touch screens in high demand, lesser PCs not(microsoft-news.com)
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by cooldeal 14y ago
This is the problem with the OP I was talking about. Comments without any reasoning or insight, just "this is it". And this is why length of the comment is usually negatively correlated with comment quality. You failed to tell why you didn'
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Wasn't it Statcounter that first said Chrome overtook IE in web usage and then Microsoft tried to muddy that by pointing to some other statistics site? It's hard to believe they're making things up to favor MS after that blog battle. What a
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>The biggest flaw in Secure Boot is the spec requires a single Platform Key. You can add more keys, but they must be signed by the Platform Key I think this that is just wrong, can someone please verify? I thought the user could add the
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by cooldeal 14y ago
It somehow feels as if for some folks like the author, bringing down Microsoft is more of a priority than adding to user freedom via Linux or BSD or whatever. See Ubuntu Bug #1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1 - Microsoft has a ma
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Why take the time to write an insightful comment on the actual news at hand when you can score brownie points with yet another knee jerk 'MS is dying' comment linking to blog spam that further links to one graph that somehow proves your poi
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Yet he still supports Apple in the most egregious ways. A big example when Apple started banning apps that had in app purchases that didn't pay Apple 30%, like Readability apps, ebook apps, Kindle etc.: http://daringfireball.net/2011/03/di
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by cooldeal 14y ago
How is Skype a royal mess after the acquisition? Also Skype is run pretty independently even now with Microsoft. Their entry badge IDs even say Skype and not Microsoft. Also, deprecation of MSN/Windows/Live Messenger is good. Why have two d
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Maybe his logic is that people get more invested in a platform by spending more and thus don't want to switch. Okay that doesn't make any more sense either, but it's a trademark Charlie Demerjian rant, logic goes out of the window. You shou
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by cooldeal 14y ago
I wish Apple was the one that came up with Metro and not Microsoft. If it did, then many tech pundits with high readership like Gruber, Siegler et. al. would be posting endless analysis of how Apple shook up the UI paradigm to make a great
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Flagging on HN is different from downvoting, this is not Reddit.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
I pointed folks to an article posted just a few hours before this one with more than 100 comments. Is that not enough HN discussion for you? Do we need to rehash the same things here on the exact same story every couple of hours? Why is the
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by cooldeal 14y ago
That is completely orthogonal to the fact that the news about such an ad needs to be flagged, which is meant for spam and offtopic links.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Err, I believe you're referring to the Wired article, while this post talks about the earlierMS Blog post that got flagged off the page.

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