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by rlu 14y ago
I find it ridiculous to use an OS that is almost 12 years old but to each their own I guess.
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by rlu 14y ago
I guess it depends what sort of track you're trying to get promoted in. If you're trying to get a raise and continue to be an individual contributor (i.e. not manage anyone) then I don't think WFH should really be an issue. However, if you
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by rlu 14y ago
Fair enough
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by rlu 14y ago
I wonder if the title is in jest. Clicking on this link and then being greeted with a wall of text (literally! It fills my entire screen) is hardly gentle. I'm sure it's a good read just not right now >_>
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by rlu 14y ago
Plain and simple this article seems like it was written 3-5 years ago. With the recent things Microsoft has been coming out with (Kinect, WP7, WP8, Win8, Surface, New xbox, etc.) that has generated genuine interest...are we really saying th
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by rlu 14y ago
Well let's not forget that before this the norm was a search box that was placed next to the address bar. Just saying :p
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by rlu 14y ago
I agree though I particularly like using the Messaging app snapped to a side while using classic desktop. Know what I mean? Pretty legit.
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by rlu 14y ago
IIRC there's some genuine awesome improvements for Win8. For example, file copying from a share/network is immensely better. I do this at work all the time.
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by rlu 14y ago
I think a quick fix that would resolve the "emails from work" scenario would be to include messages from people in your network (assuming your workplace has a FB network). Though if you're in a network for, say, the city you live in (imo si
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by rlu 14y ago
I think that a big part of this problem is that Apple played along. If I am understanding this correctly, the bigger issue here is that people's phonebooks are getting updated without consent (as opposed to the bigger issue being a differ
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by rlu 14y ago
The harm is it often comes with a bad attitude, whether on purpose or not.
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by rlu 14y ago
I applied to Waterloo in Canada knowing I wouldn't get in but figured it couldn't hurt. As such when I got the rejection letter it didn't ruin my day at all, I really wasn't surprised. What did surprise me was the way it was phrased. It was
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by rlu 14y ago
I imagine part of it might be to just get more excitement about Windows 8 both in the consumer and developer community. Perhaps they thought that it might make more developers begin to make apps for Win8? Anyone who was thinking about it sh
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by rlu 14y ago
I'm not really sure what this post is trying to say. Is it trying to criticize Microsoft? It doesn't really feel like it. Is it just a "this is a very important time for MS" post? I think that's obvious. It IS a very important time for MS a
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by rlu 14y ago
Something like 300 million PCs are predicted to be sold in 2013 I think? Most of these will have this new hardware. Just like someone above mentioned, Microsoft needs to jump first. Windows 8 is more extreme, but a similar example is that t
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by rlu 14y ago
How are they shutting out Google? I think Google is more to blame than Microsoft as far as this goes. Google just simply does not play nice with WP7
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by rlu 14y ago
>"There were no indications, cues, hints, etc, that would've led me to believe the menu was there. This isn't only limited to the settings menu." You're right. You're totally right. What I think you're missing though is that this is a p
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by rlu 14y ago
I think the power of windows 8 comes from the new form factors that will become common place. Imagine having a laptop where the screen detaches and becomes a tablet. Imagine carrying that around with you to do "tablet-y" things. You'll obvi
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by rlu 14y ago
Exactly. I don't understand what everyone is moaning about. How often do people sit on their computers, open the start menu and just stay there? Never. That means you don't have to do so in Windows 8 with the start screen either. Except the
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by rlu 14y ago
Your Office point kind of loses traction since I'd say the Office 2007 was a bigger change from Office 2003 than Windows 8 is to Windows 7. Honestly Windows 8 doesn't change how people use computers that much. Most people use the start menu
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by rlu 14y ago
Once the new form factors come out I think Windows 8 will do very, very well. But we'll see!
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by rlu 14y ago
Out of curiosity, what was your rationale for choosing Google Drive over SkyDrive? SkyDrive: * gives you 7GB vs Google's 5. (and 25gb if you ever used it before the client got released) * has a sick feature where, from skydrive.com, you can
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by rlu 14y ago
>When I say that their "My Documents" folder is a level above their Dropbox folder, I get a blank stare. I usually rephrase this as "your Dropbox folder is in the My Documents folder" which they DO understand because they're used to mak
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by rlu 14y ago
Oh, I agree. I don't think working here is like working at a startup (in some good ways and some bad ways). I just thought that it was unfair to say that only startups are allowed to have "intimacy".
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by rlu 14y ago
Out of curiosity, what team did you work for and in what years? Did you return full time to the same team you interned in?
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by rlu 14y ago
This is my second internship at Microsoft. I worked on Office last year and now I'm working on Windows Live (though it gets kind of hairy since WL is getting killed off and really my team interfaces directly with Win8 so I think of it as ju
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by rlu 14y ago
I want to punch whoever said that and also the paragraph above it (where someone claims that the competition is going to die out or whatever). Makes all the interns look like fools.
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by rlu 14y ago
Go ahead and apply online. My recruiter told me she actually literally reads every resume that gets submitted (..submitted to her schools, of course). She doesn't use any sort of software filter.
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by rlu 14y ago
I beg to differ. This is the thing that people misunderstand about Microsoft. When you work at Microsoft you don't just "work at Microsoft". You work for a TEAM in Microsoft. For example, last year I was an intern on Word. The Word client t
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by rlu 14y ago
"shit careers" how? Because they don't pay well? You won't get rich? If you're going to dedicate the next 30 years of your life to something, you'd better damn well enjoy it or you will hate your life. You spend more time at work than with

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