Posts by JPO 7 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Dec 2010
Phone 7 apps will run on 8, since those are running on XNA / Siverlight. No matter what OS there is. I would even say the this was the reason Microsoft did not allow native apps on Phone7.
And presuming Windows Phone 8 has same kernel, then it will have sama user mode driver model (including display driver) as Windows 7. And that's microkernel.
"They used to collect personally identifying information about handsets, but then Google got a shitload of flak over their wardriving and it was too good a PR opportunity to miss."
Yes.. And they still are. If you want them to do it..
It's called track my phone, which you can use if you want (off by default). Using this service you can try to locate your phone if you have lost it..
There is a quite clearly written privacy statement you can read when you enable this feature. Location data is private and not used for other purposes (based on statement)
Same goes with using location data. It's always off by default and every application asks a separate permission to use it. This data used to have and unique identifier, but it was an randomly generated one unless you used Track my Phone.
So I would guess that they have dropped this random identifier altogether.
But this was not the thing what sparked the criticism against Google. It was the Fact that Google was tracking phones without a permission from user of the phone.
Microsoft instead provided the Always Off -approach with easy to read Privacy statements what that is gathered and how it's used if user enables these features.
So not quite a same.
I actually like the idea that Microsoft has chosen the privacy and openness road. I think that after a while those two will be quite valued things.
"Firefox and IE are the two mainstream browsers with the worst standards compliance. Firefox 5 scored 97 on Acid3 test and IE 9 scored 95 with compatibility mode turned off"
At the moment these 3-5 tests which fail in Acid3 are due the fact that current W3C HTML5 draft has a different spec than Acid3 test.
W3C HTML5 test is a better metric for standards compliance
http://w3c-test.org/html/tests/reporting/report.htm
You might find surprising that IE9 and Firefox rank as top-2 HTML5 compliant browsers. None of the browsers are 100% compliant yet (FF, IE, WebKit or Chrome)
"I love what MS has done with Windows 7 (no kidding) but with articles like these I think they never really did get past their "the internet is not important" way of doing business (read: seemingly ignoring everything which is happening in the world around them)."
Actually Microsoft is very serious about supporting the latest web standards. IE9 is among top-3 browsers supporting W3C standard HTML5. Windows 8 is targeted to be the best HTML5 standards compliant platform for web. IE10 is likely continuing on the route (and is part of W8).
Based on latest information, it seems likely that Microsoft is making a huge shift towards latest web technologies, by making HTML5 as the user interface API for their operating systems and development tools.
This approach has some excellent things in it. With HTML5 UI you can run the application from the web or with local back end (application).
It seems that Microsoft is very keen on building their future platform using latest standards based web technologies.
This is a separate thing from supporting a browser as long as the OS it shipped with is supported. While I do not recommend that event business customers should use 5-10 year old browser, I fully agree that a browser need to have at least 3-4 year lifespan. Not 3 months.
The very reason why EU is invetigating Google is the fact that it has 90-95% of search advertising market in EU and it is using this (near monopoly) position to execute predatory practices, like prizing and other business practices which are not allowed to a corporation having a dominating position or near monopoly.
So - near monopoly market dominance and business pactices of Google are in the core of EU investigation and I would not expect anything less fines what Intel and Microsoft got and significant limitations to Google's business prectices and demand to open all API's to Googles services (similar to Microsoft).
In US Google has domitant position in the market (Approx 65% of market), which could and likely will lead to limitations to it's business practices.
One of the marjor topics which could be the bundling issue. A corporation who has a dominant position is not allowed to bundle it's dominant product to other products. Like with IE Google may have to strip it's search and map services from Chrome and Android and make those optional - similar to EU Browser ballot screen.
These are the real topics of these investigations and law is the same for all.
Facebook should remember that having a monopoly position is legal. You just need to remember the phrase Google forgot, "Don't be Evil" and you can focus on innovation as much you want.
We have just received a batch on 270 WP7 LG E900 phones for our employees and after a week about one third of them have activated their FB but 100% their calendar and email.
I based on this insight, I would suggest sales to be in the range of 300 000 - 400 000 phones delivered in Nov and 350 000 in back order. Half of the companies and my friends are still waiting the phones they have have ordered. We had ours just a week ago.
And I have also notices that when most of the time with my account FB does not say that my FB post has been made with Windows Phone 7 just Windows mobile, while some of us having these phones get the green orb "Windows Phone 7". Why is that? All out phones are similar and same SW version? Is the difference on FB side?
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