Anton Sugar
Member
Roommate handed me his rent check. Went to my BoA app to deposit it electronically.
Feels bad, man.
Feels bad, man.
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Windows Phone 8.1 |OT| Update 1
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StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
What can they possibly be infringing?
EDIT: Duh, I just noticed the word Sky is in Skype....that's fucking ridiculous.
Edit - didn't realise the court ruled in their favour.
Yeah. Microsoft is appealing, which will likely fail. Fuck the EU and Sky.
Agreed, not with a WVGA screen.
Almost as salty as me.
LOL
He's finally completely lost it.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/5/85...t=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/5/85...t=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
it is pretty dumb especially keeping a similar logo.
Onepe! Or "Lync for home and student"
Lync just got rebranded as Skype for Business. Microsoft will fight this much harder than they did Skydrive.
IE is used by a lot of people. A lot of them know that little blue e as "the internet". It makes perfect sense not to confuse them.
The name is fine. Who gives a shit, anyway. As if Chrome is modern and uncorporate.
It's moaning for the sake of moaning. Which, incidentally, gives me something to moan about. So it's not all bad.
The verge has a specific journalistic style and Tom has fallen in line. Nothing else really to see here.
NeOak
Member
José Mourinho
cocknose
I just read that article and came to post about it. Not shocked to see people have already brought it up.
First thing I thought when he said about the name not being cool or exciting was Chrome. I mean, the names are the names. I don't think most people care. I switched to Chrome because it was the better product and not because it had a cool name -- which it doesn't. And that reasoning is why I switched again, primarily use IE Modern now, because my XPS has touch screen, so it's viable, and it doesn't cause the fan to kick in on the lightest of pages or grind to a halt under the load of a few gifs.
If Edge is good people will use it.
First thing I thought when he said about the name not being cool or exciting was Chrome. I mean, the names are the names. I don't think most people care. I switched to Chrome because it was the better product and not because it had a cool name -- which it doesn't. And that reasoning is why I switched again, primarily use IE Modern now, because my XPS has touch screen, so it's viable, and it doesn't cause the fan to kick in on the lightest of pages or grind to a halt under the load of a few gifs.
If Edge is good people will use it.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
They should've kept spartan, and they should've burned the blue icon in fire. Lots of people will never give the browser a chance because of the logo. There is an aversion to it, it carries a legacy, even if it's not always fair.
feel the same as this ex-windows phoner.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Honestly, I'm not sure. There's a stigma to the blue e, yes, but is the number of people who hate that e on principle greater than the number of people who have no idea how else to get to the internet, and are going to raise a stink if it's not present?
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Absolutely. It's 2015 dude. Plus, all it takes is one click on the new spartan icon, it's not like they'll forget after that how to get to the internet.
Poodlestrike
Banned
You would be surprised.
Also, you're assuming they would click on the new Spartan icon. Most people, they don't see the button they're looking for, in the place they're looking for, they give up.
Then the complaining starts. IIRC, about half of the features people bitch about being removed in each new version of Office are still there, just in a different place. They never bother to familiarize themselves.
The new e is close enough to not bother them, but far enough off to signal to everybody else that it's its own thing. Especially since people using alternate browsers are probably more tech savvy than not.
Steelyuhas
Member
I'm always surprised at just how much a lot of people get upset when their computing experience is changed in just about any way.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Eh, people will get used to it.
I remember when the name "iPad" first came out and people were making tampon jokes. Now it's almost ubiquitous with the word "tablet".
I remember when the name "iPad" first came out and people were making tampon jokes. Now it's almost ubiquitous with the word "tablet".
https://twitter.com/RudyHuyn/status/595744046095667200
https://twitter.com/RudyHuyn/status/595744332705071104
dog = 6discover.appxupload (dev-unlock phones can install these kind of files I guess)
What a rebel lol.
Poodlestrike
Banned
I have no idea what this means, lol.
The file is still there: https://mega.co.nz/#!MwVSFZCT!XBDBqEPbFm11663oLVs7_HIxlHqDAtDvyIVCXwhwXIk
see if I can get this to work!
juliushandle
Member
What did Rudy release? ...allegedly
TheBryanJZX90
Member
I liked Cortana but Spartan wasn't a good name for a product. You're just communicating an absence of features. Sure, there are some people (like me, actually) that can appreciate a slimmed down browser without a lot of extraneous crap, but you should frame that as a positive (words that imply speed, sleek, streamlined) rather than negative (Spartan, barren, etc)
But Cortana needs a friend.
Why wouldn't he just do that with the snapchat app
hankster
Member
Smaller phone will have smaller battery, so stepped down the processor a bit to keep the battery life comparable (and better than the smaller iPhone I bet).
I doubt many people have an aversion to a logo and those that do will not use a Microsoft browser no matter whether it's called Edge or Spartan or whether it has a blue e logo or something Halo related. They also won't use Cortana, btw.
I haven't used IE on a desktop for 15 years unless I really, really had to. I have no problem using modern IE at all, though. Because it is a good user experience, unlike desktop IE.
Yeah, I can see that, it makes sense. But I don't think they're doing the sales prospects of the smaller phone much good with that approach.
NeOak
Member
Oh ffs.
Opus Angelorum
Member
That's a real FU to Windows Phone users.
Bless those fuckers. At least we got Threes! for free.
Hurray!
The real problem here is that you guys still use checks to pay rent. Ever heard of Venmo, or at least PayPal?