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On The Verge since Nov 01, 2011
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Recommended Elysium's comment in Windows RT is Windows
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Yes, but this is supposedly a maximum of five plays per song too.
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For Xbox Music, it looks like they might be adding a play limit for free streaming of songs. I just saw this from a link on Reddit:
I pay for an Xbox Music Pass, so I can’t confirm or deny that.
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the more brand name apps, the better.
Pretty much my thoughts on this exactly. As I mentioned, there are probably currently some better touch-based photo editors in the Store… but that doesn’t really matter too much to the general consumer who only knows to look for “Photoshop”. Things like this are definitely very important to the success of the Store, so I hope more come soon.
(Ironically enough, too, earlier this week I had just been asking myself when the last time that we saw a name-brand app in the store was, because there’s been a ton of garbage lately.)
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That’s from last update. The changelog generally takes longer to get updated than it takes for the update to show up in the Store itself.
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I’m pretty sure it is cached now (and has been since the last update). I mean, the initial loading of all of the album art took a few seconds per album to show up. Now, no matter where you scroll to, it only takes a fraction of a second to redisplay that.
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Recommended Turbofrog's comment in The Verge forums are kinda like Lord of The Flies?
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The lack of a brightness slider doesn’t affect me at all, and I’m not bothered by lack of user-customizable notification tones (though it would be nice if apps could choose their own notification tone. I’m thinking stuff like ESPN using the ‘Sportscenter’ tone like it does on other platforms, for example). Honestly, I personally don’t even care about a notification center.
That being said, I’ve said for a long time that Microsoft has been concentrating way too much on new features… of which some are more useful than others… and not enough on the gaping holes in its functionality compared to the competition. If you don’t have feature parity, well then the new stuff isn’t going to mean much. But hey, I’m glad they brought us Rooms, so I can connect with all zero of my friends and family members that have Windows Phones.
If I wasn’t so addicted to OneNote, then I’m not sure I’d be using a Windows Phone myself. (Yes, I know it exists on other platforms, but it’s not the same).
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There actually used to be good discussion in them, but as the site gets more popular, the forums (at least in the Microsoft section) go more and more downhill.
But seeing as everyone on the internet has decided it’s okay to troll on Microsoft stuff, I don’t see that changing. ;)
(And to preempt the responses I’m about to get… no, I have zero problem with people complaining about Microsoft screwing up or making mistakes, I do that all the time myself. But when certain people come here repeatedly just to talk crap, then yes, it’s trolling.)
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Recommended madthoughts's comment in Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in
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Recommended lurker22's comment in Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in
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The company’s new music service has the best feature set in the game
Really? In what way? They all pretty much have the same feature set. You could make arguments about interface, library size, music quality, who knows… but the feature set is pretty much the same for any of them… Rdio, Spotify, or Xbox Music.
I know you say:
The combination of a store, cloud storage, and streaming service means that All Access is currently unique
… but isn’t it more important if the songs are in their library anyway?
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Of course, there’s a ton of other clients. Just what initially struck me is the irony of this coming the day after Microsoft announced they were integrating Gtalk in Outlook.com. … and then later on that they had the stones to complain about Microsoft not working towards interoperability.
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That’s not what I’m talking about at all. Microsoft just added Gtalk into their system yesterday… and today Google is announcing that they’re dropping Gtalk. They’d have been better off not even putting the work in on it.
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With Hangouts, Singhal says Google had to make the difficult decision to drop the very “open” XMPP standard that it helped pioneer.
So, looks like Microsoft implemented Gtalk into Outlook.com for literally no reason at all… if this catches on, that is.
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Exactly.
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Recommended Xale's comment in Outlook.com gets Google Talk support, rolling out worldwide this week
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I don’t have my RT with me, so I don’t know for sure. It works fine on my Pro though.
Right click on the desktop, and try going into Screen Resolution, and confirm that the auto-rotate option is selected, maybe?
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Good to see Microsoft is continuing to update the Intel video drivers, but they’re still a release behind. Intel released 9.17.10.3071 on March 22; Microsoft just pushed out 9.17.10.3062. I know that Microsoft generally takes longer to certify GPU driver releases for Windows Update, but still, they should be prioritizing this on their flagship device.
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Stupid question, but are you connected to a cover?
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Recommended Entegy's comment in Surface RT gets improved speaker volume with latest firmware updates
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I was just re-reading this and it sounded a little too negative. There’s definitely some huge positive changes from what I’ve seen, too… just a bunch of little things like those that feel like mistakes to me.
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I posted a little about it in the forums at one point… and while I’m not a fan of the start button or the boot to desktop and think those are mistakes, those aren’t even in the current leaks, so I’m not even referring to them.
From memory, I don’t like how they changed the start screen so that you can’t move tiles without being in ‘customize’ mode. I don’t like that they’re introducing inconsistencies by putting print and search buttons all over the place in their apps and settings. (I know people can’t find the Devices and Search charms, but putting buttons all over the place, never in the same place either, is not a good solution). Because you now swipe up on the Start screen to get to “All Apps”, now the little ‘swipe select’ on tiles only worked in one direction and was very touchy. You can only rename categories of apps on the “Customize” screen as well, instead of being able to select them from the Semantic Zoom view.
Like I said though, hopefully the official preview (and of course final version) will have some of this stuff worked out.
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Personally, having tried the leaked builds, I think some of the changes they’re making now are the mistakes, but obviously a leak isn’t a good indicator of final quality and I’ll reserve judgment.
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I find it interesting that there will be a preview for Windows RT as well. I just sort of assumed that the preview would be Windows 8 only.
I guess that means that the preview will have to be distributed through the Store as well, and not as an ISO? If so, here’s hoping that means that you’ll be able to upgrade from the Preview to the final version whenever that is released as well.
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Clearly it’s not too viable since even Google isn’t using it.
