Extremely disappointed in the latest build - they've completely regressed on OneDrive support. The ability to see your files without syncing them was a killer feature introduced in Win8.1. With that gone OneDrive is incredibly weaker.
You obviously are just hating... Name wise Bing is no more bad a name than Google. Google has just been around longer.
Search results in Bing/Google are nearly identical now adays, I try side-by-side searches every month or so just to see how things are going.
I've never had a problem...
I most certainly enjoy using one search for everything.
Universal search is good and useful. This has been the direction things have been moving for a while. URL Bar + Search Box yielded to unified search bars in browsers. The reason Google/Bind desktop programs have been failing is...
Every windows search from Vista onwards (V/7/8) has been a godsend. Searching before Vista was awful. Now you find what you're looking for before you even finish typing your query. Can't get much better than that.
I can't believe even Hardforumers here are falling into the trap of "only some games/movies/etc. are art". It doesn't matter if somethings are more artistic and some less artistic. They are still art.
Legacy programs aren't been gotten rid of, that would be suicide.
The point of the direction Microsoft is going with Windows is NOT to replace keyboards and mice. It is to provide an OS that is fully functional on any form factor device.
Some people seem to be acting as if adding touch...
I totally disagree. If there was touch on my desktop monitors, I would certainly get use out of them. Even if it was just for web browsing purposes. Especially on laptops I'm saddened when I can't just swipe scroll and pinch zoom.
Whelp after watching the video, he already lies at 1 minute 1 second in. "Windows 8 is unusable" The vast majority of Window 8 users use Windows 8 just fine.
Additionally the complaints that Windows 8 prevented him from "getting stuff done" basically implies that he is not the expert user he...
I'm pretty sure with SharePoint and/or Sky Drive in 2013 you can get pretty effective collaboration. I don't think it's realtime (but might be on the web app) but it's worked well for the smaller teams I've worked with it on.
Except that requires using two devices for testing: one for development and one for testing. Using something like the Surface Pro allows you to use one.
Sorry for any confusion, my post was meant to be in agreement. What I meant was having a Surface Pro for something like Android development is a boon because you should be able to more easily leverage testing because your dev machine has real touch instead of emulated mouse touch.
It is available from a emulator environment. I've done plenty of touch screen development for windows and android on my Windows 8 desktop. But a touch emulator will never be as good as having actual touch hardware regardless of platform.
Well I imagine that Windows caches the background image, but relies on the original file for cases when the cache or background needs a refresh. In that case deleting the original file would cause the background to disappear after some time.
The point of refresh is to put you back as close to a factory/fresh install of windows as possible without having to actually reinstall the OS. Just reinstall whatever programs you need and you're set.
You're missing the bigger picture. An operating system is not a bag of popcorn.
Video game console makers have been selling their systems at a loss at launch for years (ex. Xbox, PS3). The important thing that the company gets for selling consoles and OS licenses is NOT profit. It's...
Most the people I've seen complaining seem to think that the Start Screen is some sort of alternative operating system attached to Windows. Really though, at worst on the desktop it's just a launcher, and it works fine.
I've been running Windows 8 for months and I have yet to find any use cases where 7 would be preferable.
Typical scenarios: Developing with Photoshop, Visual Studio, etc. Running VMs, web services, playing games both new and very old (GOG stuff works great)
Posted from a Windows RT tablet.
I've been running stuff from GOG on 7 and 8 with no problems yet. They all but guarantee it'll work and they put effort into making sure everything is compatible.
My experience is quite the opposite.
I've never seen the blue screen of sadness in Windows 8, both 7 and 8 being rock solid even after leaving the machine on for months at a time.
Fingers are not a requirement to use Windows Store applications. Mouse and keyboard work just fine.
I've watched people having Wordament parties on a big screen TV using mouse and keyboard. Quite fun.
I find it bizarre that people are interested in this.
My desktop is already hooked to my TV and I can run steam on it just fine. The only way to pull weight behind a console is to snag exclusives, which puts them in the line of fire competing with MS, Nintendo, and Sony.
Seems like the...
This is non-sense. I use Windows 8 on my desktop and my tablet computer. On the desktop it's equivalent to 7 in terms of productivity, usability, and gaming. On the tablet I like the OS significantly better than competing OS. The touch gestures simply work really well and it has real...
I haven't run into any issues on my desktop running AMD6950. There were a couple opengl driver issues during the early betas, but the RTM release seems to have cleared them up.
I find the OS to be at least as good if not better than Win7 for my gaming needs.
I've added a site to the whitelist before on the surface and it loaded flash fine. I followed the directions from a thread on xda-developer forums: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1961793