Posts by divx

'We asked firms if they were looking at Windows 8, most laughed'

Windows 8 - for the Devs

Must.... Bash... Microsoft, people on this site need to wake up.

As a developer, I'm really looking forward to working with WinRT. It opens the doors to so many developers its great! Javascript, C++, C#, VB can all directly access the WinRT API - Using XAML as the front end. Whilst WinRT has its limitations, Microsoft have realised this and so you can still use your Win32 applications. Apple/Google/anything Unix don't offer anything as exciting as this.

Microsoft don't need to push Windows 8 to the business sector (nothing wrong with trying) but they have Windows 7 for that. They are using a pincer movement, using two operating systems to target a customer. When Apple did this with the iPad 2 + 3 (targeting different price brackets), they were applauded for it.

As for the two different versions of Windows 8, again, It's a great pincer movement, but its going to confuse the hell out of the average Jo - So I'm not sure how that is going to pan out.

We all know that Windows 8 isn't going to be one of the Great OS's, but it certainly isn't going to be a Vista. It's the building block to the new era of touch + sound interaction.

[Insert bash comments below]

Microsoft picks October 26 for Windows 8 launch

Re: The 11 year Hitch . . .

Win 95 -> Win 8

These are the major releases, win8 is completely different from any other OS, but haters gunna hate

The Register is rocking on Windows Phone 7

nice

nice,

needs some pictures with each title =)

been wanting this for a while tough. would be nicer to have text bigger without zooming in and chooping the sides off.

'Selling your citizens to foreigner is not acceptable!'

Yeah,

This about sums it up

Nokia + MS Bashing

Hey there "The Reg",

This is the first time I've visited the site in about 4 months, after being an avid user I used to tune in every morning to find out what was happening. But I lost all respect for the site when all you would ever do was bash MS and Nokia products - i.e the Nokia Lumia 800.

With such short sightedness and total disregard for a device that has now really mixed things up, especially with the spawn of the Lumia 900 which is now AT&T's hero device it proves that you really got it wrong.

Oh and the the new iPhone "uni-body design like the MacBook" - Try "uni-body design like the Lumia or HTC devices"

Allot of users got the Windows phone and Nokia partnership wrong, its so far a huge success...

That Brit-built £22 computer: Yours for just £1,900 or more

Arduino or Pic

If you want to teach kids programming on an embedded solution, then just buy an Arduino or a PIC based board?

Lumia sales fail to set world alight

What a phone!

We'll, i received my Lumia 800 and its really quite brilliant. (no i'm not a Microsoft PR).

My brother had a go at it and he said "i want one" after 5 mins of using it. He said that it makes his iPhone 4S look like Windows 95. He loved the hardware as well, commenting on how solid it felt, although like me, didn't understand why the hell they put the flappy USB cover there.

Also take a look at the apps market, good apps are coming in steady and fast, so impressed with the phone. Even more of a shock was the Zune software (PC end) it's actually quite good! the major change is that they really need to get rid of the "Microsoft credits" and put real currency.

Everything is integrated so well, i chose my calendar to be linked with Facebook and Gmail, so now when somebody invites me to an event it will show up on my calendar (If i choose to not attend it gets rid of the calendar entry). I can take a picture, tag the people and share it all natively. I would go on and on but i don't think my comment would get posted if i did.

All you haters who haven't even tried it, just have a go.

Wake up

Yeah tell me about it.

There are so many opinions on this about the companies, not the Nokia Lumia 800 as a product. Sure the iPhone is better, but its too expensive (for me). So looking at the next choice is Android (which people are defending to the death) and again, its very nice. Just a little too fragmented for me. To me, the Nokia is well priced, Good contracts, different, rugged and does everything i need quickly.

As a side note, people are talking about Microsoft being this evil company (which they are!) but so are the other major players out there - wake up.

Apple - They wont let you develop apps without buying an Apple mac, they also take a good chunk out of the profits from the dictatorship like App store - Very peace and loving.

Android (Google) - Completely ripped of somebody else's OS (iOS) and added nothing revolutionary at all. Just copied, made it cheap and sold.

All three are evil, but they sure do good business.

Yeah, i did.

Been a long reader of the reg. I felt like i should say something about the story.

Nice to see you have a hidden identity and in no way contributed to the story.

Don't understand why so many people are hating?

Try them all

Personal experience and views:

The iPhone is too expensive and i don't have any other apple products. Everyone and their dog has one now, so its also a little boring.

The Android OS (I've tried S2 and HTC HD) is nice, i just find that there's too many ways of doing one thing. To me, the whole "feel" just seems a little fragmented.

Playing around with Lumia WP7.5 was a breath of fresh air. Simplistic, integrated and well priced. I have a Windows running on my laptop so it feels like the right choice.

Now that Nokia are selling WP people will buy them. More people will see the WP OS and think "that looks nice" (just as they did with iOS and Android) and it will become popular - watch this space.

(So many haters here who haven't had a good look at the available options)