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interaction?

4 days ago on Microsoft turns to Vine iOS app for entertaining Internet Explorer ads

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Speculative Suggestion: Buy as many Xbox points as you can at a discount and hope these get converted to credit. Even if they are kept as points, you won’t lose anything.

6 days ago on Microsoft killing off Xbox Points in favor of currency and gift cards system

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yay!! This simplifies things across their ecosystem. Now money in your “Microsoft” acct can buy Xbox content, Windows stuff, and Windows Phone apps.

6 days ago on Microsoft killing off Xbox Points in favor of currency and gift cards system

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That’s anti-Windows. Windows has always been the most open OS. Any developer, any OEM, any device maker is welcome to create and expand the ecosystem.

6 days ago on Google demands Microsoft remove YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads 2 recommends

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I guess there is a bigger issue here. Apparently, Microsoft had a compliant app ready in 2010 but refused to give MS access to the content. They let Apple have access, but then again, Apple doesn’t own a competitor to google search. So, the question is, if MS is willing to be compliant, will Google play nice and let them have access?

6 days ago on Google demands Microsoft remove YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads 4 recommends

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Funny, most of the time I would high five you on this but surprisingly I found myself looking for a dual standard exception. I just can’t stand Google these days. They claim this is revenue for 3rd parties, but in my mind it’s another way of Google building a dossier on everything we do. I avoid google as much as possible. They just give me the creeps like no other company.

6 days ago on Google demands Microsoft remove YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads 4 recommends

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iTunes is the opposite of Metro. iTunes is cluttered and bloated. It breaks every Metro design rule – concrete and implied. I don’t think Apple could make a metro iTunes – really.

8 days ago on Microsoft wants an iTunes app for Windows 8, but it's not coming 'any time soon'

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I have young kids who are not track stars. I get fantastic photos of them at 1/100 and 1/125 outdoors without flash all the time. Obviously, if I’m going to shoot Usain Bolt or a Formula 1 racecar, then I’m not going to use 1/250. I made a home made photobooth for a school prom last week. It was indoors, and yes, I used a softbox, but I set the shutter to 1/125 and there is no motion blur in any of the 700 photos.

8 days ago on Lumia 928: first impressions of Verizon's Nokia flagship (hands-on) 2 replies

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it will most running humans and pets. I don’t know many people who sit around taking photos of ceiling fans. If that’s the case then someone needs to get outside.

8 days ago on Lumia 928: first impressions of Verizon's Nokia flagship (hands-on) 1 reply 1 recommend

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I was told it would be on a Tuesday but I wouldn’t be surprised to see it another way too. Delivering a new program is not generally done via patch Tuesday. This is a bit different though since Office RT ships with the operating system.

8 days ago on I used Outlook on a Surface RT

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I couldn’t tell performance wise since I only used it for a few minutes. It was even my email account or my surface. Both Outlook and Publisher launched without significant delay. I am not a Publisher user though.

8 days ago on I used Outlook on a Surface RT

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You can freeze motion with ANY camera as long as the shutter is faster than 1/100 second. The only role the flash has is to give the subject enough light to be captured with a short shutter. To freeze motion in daylight you don’t even need a flash.

8 days ago on Lumia 928: first impressions of Verizon's Nokia flagship (hands-on) 2 replies

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What details do you want? It’s normal looking desktop outlook and publisher. It is not metro outlook. So now you have all the core office apps available on RT. This will be available via a patch Tuesday update. I’m not sure on the timing but it seems complete so I would guess it will be announced around build time.

The new mail app will be an upgrade of the existing mail app. One interesting note is that the reply button is no longer at the top right of the app. It’s now in-line with the header of the message itself. This is to facilitate some type of conversation view in the message pane. Like I said, it is rough.

12 days ago on I used Outlook on a Surface RT 2 replies 1 recommend

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I just held my 920 and imaged the soft buttons being lower. Even held in portrait those buttons would be way too low to comfortably hit with your thumb.

14 days ago on Lumia 928 confirmed by official Nokia website 2 replies

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Since they’re still building RT tablets that tells me they don’t like the current state of RT but believe there is a future of Windows on ARM. I’m sure they know much more about RT than all of us here.

15 days ago on Acer still planning Windows RT tablets, but sees 'no value' in current version

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I’m hearing Instagram to be announced this month.

15 days ago on Hulu Plus arrives on Windows Phone as Microsoft's game of app catch-up continues 1 reply 7 recommends

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Disagree. The screen is not large. Have you used one? It’s tablet-sized… The keyboard is an option that not everyone buys. People who use the surface on their lap use the onscreen keyboard. I’m sure most of the physical keyboard users use it on a desk or table. The detachable keyboard make it more usable than a normal tablet.

20 days ago on Microsoft shipped 900,000 Surface tablets in Q1, says IDC 1 reply 3 recommends

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A couple of points:

1. One of the main goals was to pressure OEM’s to build better hardware. If this happens then Surface will be a success regardless of sales.
2. Part of the problem with Surface Pro is that we think of it as a tablet. I mean, it looks like one and we can touch the screen, so why not. However, it is really a laptop with an Intel i5. So to the consumer, who really doesn’t care if it is ARM vs i5, their question is “if it looks like a tablet, why is it priced like a laptop?”

20 days ago on Microsoft shipped 900,000 Surface tablets in Q1, says IDC 1 reply 1 recommend

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I have the one RT device. The other 899,999 were Pro.

20 days ago on Microsoft shipped 900,000 Surface tablets in Q1, says IDC 3 replies 1 recommend

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That’s part of MS’s problem. They demo stuff like this for a “future product at a future time” and them someone else (apple) throws something similar into their existing products.

20 days ago on Inside IllumiRoom: Microsoft's world-expanding Xbox projector is 'just research' for now

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I don’t think you got the commercial.

22 days ago on Microsoft creates an Apple vs. Samsung wedding fight for its new Windows Phone ad 1 reply 17 recommends

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Xbox music has room for improvement but it has come a looooong way. I use it for Spotify-like streaming and it works well for that purpose.

22 days ago on Windows 8 Weather app updated with interactive maps and ski resort info

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Not available yet. Looking at summer.

26 days ago on Nokia to hold Lumia event on May 14th in London

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but HD actually means something. 4K actually means something. Retina, just sounds cool.

27 days ago on Windows RT 8.1 Preview and Windows Server 2012 R2 revealed in leaked code 1 recommend