
1st Issue Free Windows?
Ohhhhh This could get interesting.
While a certain fruit-based company hogged much of the limelight last week by seeing just how much cash could be wrung from fanbois, Microsoft found itself in the spotlight of shame. But Edge-pleading and build-encrypting weren't the only things that happened in the world of Windows. Quick fire fast and slow ring releases tease …
> Users have 60 days to make the jump from the moribund mobile OS, or find other ways to check if they've saved up enough to buy an iPhone XS
Or stop using the App and use the web version, not quite as good but perfectly serviceable.
Or... Stop using that bank and switch to, er, OK, use the Web page version.
Mind you, RBS have told me I was 'selected' for the forced switch to another bank anyway (as agreed to get their massive bailout after the 2008 financial crash) so I could not have stayed using their App past about February regardless.
I will use it until id really dies.
I am still SO annoyed that, when MS finally fixing the last flaws of WinPhone 7 and 8 with version 10 just to kill it. Ignoring 14% Italian market share and nearly 10% German market share. (UK data anyone? Bueller?)
Technically speaking, Windows 10 Mobile is not the same as Windows Phone.
If the fucking press would stop confusing the two, more developers might make the effort to put out apps that support both mobile and desktop (and xbox 360/one and hololens and hub).
> Technically speaking, Windows 10 Mobile is not the same as Windows Phone.
That is part of the problem. WM6.x -> WP7 was a complete rewrite in a completely different development toolchain. WP7 -> WP8 was maybe just review and recomp, or maybe change away from yet another dead end. WP9 -> WM10 was another rewrite to UWP.
> more developers might make the effort to put out apps that support both mobile and desktop
Developers do not want one app for both mobile and desktop. They want a cheap mobile app that is simple to use _and_ a more expensive desktop application for better revenue.
Mobile users won't pay desktop prices for an app, developers don't want users to get desktop software at mobile app prices.
Another W10M hold-out here. I'm genuinely at a loss as to what to buy when it finally dies: friends' Android feels like a really shoddy OS compared to W10M and using iOS is basically like signing up for Scientology. A voice-phone with built-in 4G dongle and a small laptop looks the most likely thing.
But, about apps...
WP8.1 to WP10 actually is a recompile (with a bit of search/replace), unless you'd used Silverlight (WP7) to write the app, in which case it's a lot of search/replace.
The problem is that just doing a port of a WP8.1 app to Windows 10 doesn't allow you to use the big feature of UWP: a single executable that works (not just "runs") on desktop, tablet and mobile.
Mobile-phone apps are easy to design because the size of the display doesn't change dynamically. Desktop apps aren't because it does: grab that window-sizer, and see the UI designer flinch. Add in the different interface choices to accommodate both mouse and touch input, and it becomes a significant amount of work to make something that will work properly on different devices and isn't crap.
To get that working, you have to redesign your UI pretty much from scratch to make fewer assumptions about the screen aspect, resolution, viewing distance and the input methods used.
It's a lot of work, and Microsoft's lack of a mobile platform makes it not a lot of gain for that work. (Not many apps make sense on both XBox and PCs).
i feel the same, not sure what to do when my 950 dies. Got my OH a Motorola G6plus which isn't bad for £250 but I'm not a massive android fan but couldn't bring myself to buy an apple product, so it'll be an android something or other. Shame as windows phone could have been great if it was managed properly by MS still like the look and feel of it
I have a Lumia 950 too. And a Huawei P20 Pro that work bought for me. The Lumia is my everyday phone still, except for when I need to go to the big smoke, in which case I'll take the Android because I need it to buy my transport tickets (because the fucking bus company refused to ask their payment service provider to fix their Mobile Edge support).
If my 950 dies (and I've dropped it on to concrete enough that I'm almost convinced it's indestructible) I'll switch to the Android for now, and then pick up an Andromeda device when they finally ship.
I've just switched from Android back to WM10 as I was sick to the back teeth of Android and its tracking crap amateur apps. I purchased a "refurbished" (new) Lumia 950, 32Gb for under a £100. This appears to be considerably better built than the Sony it replaced - even if the Sony was considerably tougher than than anything that Samsung produces. Performance is pretty good too.
Banking apps I can live with, it's one thing less to worry about if the phone gets nicked. Which reminds me, the Lumia facial recognition is PDG.
By "issue free build" they could mean the opposite of "issue checked build"...
Windows greybeards are now nodding sagely, remembering the "checked builds" of NT 4.
Everyone else is sitting there scratching their head at this saying "wtf is he talking about". Try reading "The Old New Thing", especially if you're suffering from insomnia...
How the hell did you manage to spot this! xD
To save newtimers the Googling:
Windows (post-NT) comes in two "flavors": Free and Checked.
Free is a Release build (for long, I've seen that XP's version line read "x86fre", but had no idea why. That's why.)
Checked is a Debug build with debugging syms on and compile-time optimizations off.
While continuing to conspicuously ignore the iPhone, the
I'm torn between cheering or booing this.
On one hand there could be a lot of Apple fans cheering at the thought of their precious iDevice not being sullied by Software from Microsoft apart from Office.
And on the other there could be others who really want the MS tools/apps on their iDevice.
Oh... which way to go?
This fence is getting mighy hard to sit on...
I have many failed installs of 1803 (spring creators update) because the install can't/won't handle a junctioned User directory (or Applications or Program Files according to the reports on the error I get ), and I have way more stuff sitting in my user folder than I have room for on my SSD - can't be bothered shrinking it down & faffing about 'unjunctioning' , there is nothing compelling enough to make want to waste 4 hours of my life doing it
You know you can move the whole user folder, or even specific folders in the user one to different directories/disks, do you?
I usually move out the music/pictures/video folders. No need to use junctions.
Still, if it's a feature it should work, I agree. But hitting repeatedly the head against bugs when there are other solutions...