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61.
by workbench 13y ago
Office was the only reason to buy one, and MS screwed that up completely by not making a tablet version of Office. Instead the Surface team bent over for the Office team and included the desktop mode as a crutch to purely run Office.
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by workbench 13y ago
> Uses free product from a company thats only profit comes from advertisements and selling user data and yet you're surprised and upset when they use that free product to show you ads… please don't tell me you actually fell for
63.
by workbench 13y ago
Feeling pretty smug about never jumping on the gmail bandwagon right now
64.
by workbench 13y ago
Well it wasn't windows only was it because they just installed Linux in the end
65.
by workbench 13y ago
That OS is such a complete joke
66.
by workbench 13y ago
These are the opposite of subtle, more like "Netflix ruins the film"
67.
by workbench 13y ago
Bit of a strange thing to base the entire future of your career on. It's only a few years of your life, deal with it.
68.
by workbench 13y ago
They knew what they were signing up for. Maybe their minds are not that great after all.
69.
by workbench 13y ago
Microsoft purposefully built the add/remove applications list using the IE control despite it being a poor use for the job just so European courts couldn't force them to decouple IE from Windows
70.
by workbench 13y ago
> To me it's uncomfortable how much Google's tactics with Chrome resemble Microsoft's "embrace and extend" from the late 90s They're no better than 90s MS at this point, look at what Reader did to the RSS ma
71.
by workbench 13y ago
How times change
72.
by workbench 13y ago
Does it need them… as a screen design tool?
73.
by workbench 13y ago
Fireworks. Does everything on this list apart from the retina stuff (need to do it the same way you do in Photoshop)
74.
by workbench 13y ago
Try Fireworks, I've used it with 40 page documents with no real issues.
75.
by workbench 13y ago
Seems like most designers dismiss Fireworks before even giving it a chance. Once you get over the initial bump it actually feels much nicer to work with than Photoshop. The only thing really listed in this article that Fireworks hasn't
76.
by workbench 13y ago
You're surprised? We're talking about a company that named an OS after the software development methodology it used. Windows XP - Extreme Programming. Later marketing dept pretended it was supposed to mean eXPerience
77.
by workbench 13y ago
Christ those are all terrible
78.
by workbench 13y ago
More marketing than UI
79.
by workbench 13y ago
Didn't Reader kill off all the pay services…
80.
by workbench 13y ago
Is preventing an adult from drinking alcohol really a constructive use of 6 polices officers?
81.
by workbench 13y ago
haha wow… America is absolutely hilarious. The fact she was 20 years old is a great punchline
82.
by workbench 13y ago
"My name is Scott Renfro, and I’m a software engineer at Facebook working on security and privacy. We’ve put a lot of work into making deletions permanent" Had to LOL at this comment
83.
by workbench 13y ago
We can only hope
84.
by workbench 13y ago
Last time I ever trust that company with a service I rely on. and before you ask no I have never used GMail
85.
by workbench 13y ago
Most of these are not really applications, seems to be mostly just the equivalent of small adverts that would normally be a relatively cheap Flash page or Facebook app. Or they're just CDRom style multimedia experiences which we alread
86.
by workbench 13y ago
"Articles" like this make me embarrassed to call myself a designer.
87.
by workbench 13y ago
So glad I grew up in the early days of the internet. Could easily see myself making a comment like that as a joke (almost certain I did many times).
88.
by workbench 13y ago
It seems the have the NDA but if they actually don't want you to talk about something then they specifically tell you. For example when they demoed Lion I think it was to Gruber and a few select journalists they must have used somethin
89.
by workbench 13y ago
The 3G clearly had a much stronger screen. The 4 and up screens scratch as soon as you look at them the wrong way. Had a 3G for years and 0 scratches, had a 4S for a week and got 2.
90.
by workbench 13y ago
Unfortunately thats what a large number of ad agencies spend their time doing. Selling ideas they see online off to brands without contacting or paying the original creator

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