Edit: Not to say they're necessarily doing it on purpose or for marketing: Microsofties would receive these urls internally, and if only 20 or so of them immediately submitted them to HN, it would go to the top of the frontage.
Although personally and knowing the extremes Microsoft goes to with marketing, I'd also not doubt if said Microsofties were 'informally encouraged' to share such links on social media as much as possible.
>Although personally and knowing the extremes Microsoft goes to with marketing, I'd also not doubt if said Microsofties were 'informally encouraged' to share such links on social media as much as possible.
The blog was posted publicly around 6 hours ago, this post was made less than one hour ago.
Disappointing.
Apple has a great iOS/OS X experience because the integration is deeper than just "install Apple's apps on your iPhone".
So the only way to sync them is via the cloud?
In Android's case, apps can do virtually anything. They could make a sync app if they wanted to.
Ironically, there were a couple of Windows 8 behaviors I had to unlearn (for example, there's no longer the super strange "hot corners" that were the only way to access the shutdown menu). Definitely didn't take as long as initially learning how to navigate Windows 8, though :)
I'm not a fan of the hot corners. If you use a keyboard, you can use the following shortcut to shutdown your PC
WIN KEY + X, U, U
Windows Key + X is pretty much the one thing that makes Windows 8 tolerable on the desktop and the one thing I would recommend everyone having trouble with Windows 8 learn even if they aren't generally keyboard shortcut users and navigate the resulting menu (the WinKey+X menu) via mouse. I've been using Windows 8 since release and never use the hot corners stuff at all thanks to this menu.
wat.
> Cortana is working much better than expected,
wat.
>and I'm loving the new start menu.
waaaaaaat.
> been on OS X for many years
oh. now it makes sense.
After trying to ask it more and more natural-language questions, and having it speak useful answers back to me, it feels more and more like I'm in Star Trek.
I'm not usually that impressed by technology anymore (i.e. I still think lots of things are cool, but seldom do they surprise me), after being in the field for 30 years, but Cortana impresses the heck out of me.
It's just that the stuff mentioned in the blog isn't as magical as they are trying to project.
The gripes I have are mostly things that will likely get better by release, or are simply things that I disagree with design choices. To pick one example, let's talk about wifi.
The wifi selection recently moved from the windows 8 style UI to a newer UI. In the process it lost several features, the only things I can change on the properties screen for a wifi network are if it metered and if device discovery is on.
It might just been that I have spent too much time in linuxland recently, but that seems a bit like going too far the way of being idiot proof.
Essentially, you can now snap windows to any one of the 4 corners or 2 sides of any monitor and it just works (corners and sides are "sticky" when you're dragging windows). It also offers you the option to snap another window to the adjacent space with a single additional click.
It's by far the most user-friendly and elegant way of managing windows on multiple monitors I've seen on any OS so far.
Seems OK but it definitely wasn't intuitive (and I'm already running Win 8). The only thing I can think of is they are making it an easier learning curve from Win 7 than from Win 8. It's a step backwards in some respects but I guess that's the idea.
I'll probably upgrade once the first round of patches are out for the stable version. More than I can say for the Raspberry Pi version which I won't be touching again unless it gets a lot better. Sticking with Linux on that for now. At least the mouse is usable.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4074053
(especially the parenthetical)
