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| Microsoft updates Windows 8, Metro 8 applications |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-10-09 18:21:53 |
| "We are pleased to be releasing a set of improvements to Windows 8 in broad areas of performance, power management and battery efficiency, media playback, and compatibility. These improvements are available starting today via Windows Update. We wanted to briefly talk about our improvements to the engineering system and in particular the speed at which we were able to deliver these updates to you." Good stuff. They're also updating the core Metro applications to make them less useless. |
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| Still no mouse scroll in metro? |
| By stabbyjones on 2012-10-09 19:19:41 |
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Can't see any details in there. The viewer requiring drags to scroll down on a pdf is insanity. From what i have used, metro apps seem to only have more support to emulate a finger instead of being thought of as an actual mouse. |
 - Score: 2 |
| Really? |
| By Ultimatebadass on 2012-10-09 19:22:33 |
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Up until now the default email client lacked imap support and they are adding this obscure feature between rtm and ga? Speaks volumes about how "finished" those applications are. EDIT: Almost like they looked at KDE 4.0 release and are aiming for the same kind of reception it got from the end users ;) Edited 2012-10-09 19:24 UTC |
| - Score: 6 |
| RE: Really? |
| By WorknMan on 2012-10-09 19:43:45 |
| Yeah, would've been nice had they actually finished it before releasing to manufacturers. |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE: Still no mouse scroll in metro? |
| By ronaldst on 2012-10-09 20:15:53 |
| On the app panel there's an icon for continuous scroll. |
| - Score: 3 |
| It's depressing... |
| By ronaldst on 2012-10-09 20:32:22 |
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I have a feeling no one on the Windows Team know what to do with Metro app. The mail app is pretty horrible. Where's the Universal inbox. The map app still can't find my location (if my iPod Touch can find me then MS' app can also). They need to separate the fvcking stores from the video and music apps. I don't give a sh*t about Zune Pass. Most Windows 8 apps haven't reach parity with their Mango/360 equivalents. MS is shooting themselves in the foot. If MS wants to introduce a major shift then they need to make it as smooth as possible. |
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| RE: It's depressing... |
| By kaiwai on 2012-10-10 04:36:38 |
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> I have a feeling no one on the Windows Team know what to do with Metro app. The mail app is pretty horrible. Where's the Universal inbox. The map app still can't find my location (if my iPod Touch can find me then MS' app can also). They need to separate the fvcking stores from the video and music apps. I don't give a sh*t about Zune Pass. Most Windows 8 apps haven't reach parity with their Mango/360 equivalents. MS is shooting themselves in the foot. If MS wants to introduce a major shift then they need to make it as smooth as possible. Groan - and Microsoft, through the power of software, can make a GPS chip suddenly appear in your computer to provide said functionality. |
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| less useless |
| By l3v1 on 2012-10-10 06:42:31 |
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> They're also updating the core Metro applications to make them less useless. My day just started out with a good laugh on that line :D Less useless, hehh, go figure :) No matter how many times I tried to use them, I always felt they need some more progress to be even approach the useless-but-promising category, and they remained there ever since. |
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| Comment by MOS6510 |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-10-10 07:25:08 |
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Windows 8 ran very slow in Virtual Box on my computer, but I downloaded it again while updating Virtual Box yesterday and now it runs fine. I still can't like it though. These "Live Tiles" seem like a good idea, in theory, but not in practice. The whole screen is filled with these tiles, but really it's just a small portion of what normally would be found within the Start Menu, while a few provide information that you can easily do without, let alone be staring at all day. A number of things I tried just switched to the classic desktop, minus the Start button. If you want to do a different GUI do a different GUI, but don't keep using the old one too. It gives a very messy feeling. I don't know if it's possible, but if I had the choice I would turn Metro off and only use the classic mode. Windows 7 was a great step in the right direction, I can't imagine why they'd mess it up with Metro just so their tablets would have kind of the same GUI. |
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| RE[2]: It's depressing... |
| By Underphil on 2012-10-10 12:30:08 |
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I don't believe the current iPod touch devices have GPS functionality, do they? Don't they use the IP address to get something resembling a location (at least the area of a country you're in)? Edited 2012-10-10 12:31 UTC |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE: Really? |
| By pgeorgi on 2012-10-10 16:56:30 |
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> Up until now the default email client lacked imap support and they are adding this obscure feature between rtm and ga? It definitely supported IMAP before. They probably improved support for more obscure IMAP features (there are some obscure parts in the standard and its various extensions) and fixed bugs. |
| - Score: 2 |
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