* Posts by Shagger

4 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Mar 2012

Microsoft rethinks the Windows application platform one more time

Shagger

Re: hence the seeding of, for instance, these forums with people who clearly work in Microsoft PR

I struggle to find any positive comments about Microsoft's plans on this forum. Look through all the comments here and see if you can find any. I don't see how your assertion can possibly be right.

Surface Book: Microsoft to turn unsuccessful tab into unsuccessful laptop

Shagger

That was the old Touch Cover, not the Type Cover, which is now the standard keyboard on Surface

Microsoft - do you really think you can take on Google with Nokia?

Shagger

Google doesn't really care what platform you use its products with...

They cared when Microsoft released a YouTube app to use their products on Windows Phone...

Metro breakdown! Windows 8 UI is little gain for lots of pain

Shagger

Marketing Defeats Usability

There's no technical reason why the start button can't be optional - in fact it would probably be easier to retain the start button functionality in parallel to the start screen. It's all just marketing.

The compulsory Metro interface, especially its substitution of the Start menu, is just to get us all familiar with Metro. It's irritating and far less convenient than the Start button, but it means most computer users will become used to the Metro "look and feel", as well as its branding.

So then we'll find WinPhones and WinTabs quite familiar looking. The Metro interface itself is great, but largely unknown. So this exercise is to advertise it to the millions of new Windows 8 users coming up, so that the phones and tabs will sell.

They reason that it's worth pissing off power users if they can expand Windows sales at the lower end.