Posts by Mark Allread
98 posts • joined Thursday 14th June 2012 08:26 GMT
Re: Good observation
"So there you go, two or three counterpoints to "it works well for me"."
Well it works great for me, on a number of PCs. People who have trouble with it are generally idiots of people resistant to change.
Re: I agree...
"That's the problem - it lists ALL your applications"
No it doesn't, it lists all the ones that are pinned to your start menu.. You can then arrange them, group them, add and remove them as you see fit.
As predictable as night following day
Whenever The Register posts an article about Windows 8, Phone 8 or Metro, the comments section is filled with mongs saying they don't like it, whilst at the same time showing that they don't understand it or have massive holes in their understanding. They moan about being unable to do things that in fact, they can. They moan about missing features that are in fact, present. It's incredible.
What is this article supposed to be?
Is it supposed to be funny? Is it being 'irreverent'? It's a load of old bollocks, for sure.
What about the review?
Was it a negative review? They rarely are.
Another day, another win 8 hater story on the reg
This time, the surface angle. The Register seems keen to forget that the Surface is in a market with all other Windows 8 machines whereas the iPad is not. Microsoft has deliberately balanced the Surface's availability and exposure to keep their competing OEMs sweet. The Register really ought to know and understand this.
Yet again
Another day another Window 8/RT hater story on The Register. Some agenda there lads.
Re: Price...
Why would they make the GPU upgradeable? Don't you understand the difference between a console and a PC?
Re: Unsurprising really..
Mate, if you're really expecting a Windows Phone all to be able to run Windows apps and you also think that makes any kind of sense, then I don't think you really understand the market.
Secondly, the Windows Phone platform is the most solid smartphone experience I've ever had. It doesn't crash, like ever. It just works, all the time. My brother has Android and the comparative experience he has with his devices is hilarious. He's constantly upgrading to the next new model in the hope that it'll finally be solid and fast enough, but it never seems to be.
It's about time they made this sort of 'research' illegal
Maybe I'll pop around to their house, throw a brick through the window and then tell them I was demonstrating their security problem.
"I'm not writing puff advertisment pieces and passing them off as journalism"
Nah, you're just writing a typical Windows 8 hater comment.
If I worked there and they were holding my wages
I'd be walking out of there with my PC and anything else I could carry.
It's DEFINITELY because
He's fallen in love with Windows 8. The lure of the live tiles did it in the end.
Loving all these bedroom market analysts
Telling us just what Microsoft are doing wrong, what they should have done. All contradicting each other, most displaying a misunderstanding of the products. Sheesh...
Gil Grissum: "Not many people are going to buy a hobbled Surface Tablet to get a hobbled OS and hobbled office suite when they can get an iPad mini for less and be able to do more than with a Surface Tablet"
Sorry mate, but that's just f*cking hilarous. How do people come up with these stupid opinions.. really?
Another day, another win 8 hater story on the reg
In the UK at least, no-one bought the Surface because they were mail-order only and therefore no-one saw one. Bizarrely, the only place to buy a Surface on the high street is in CEX. Along with every other kind of tablet.
New PC?
"Putting Metro aside and forgetting the fact you must buy a brand new PC"
What does this even mean? I've in-place upgraded on 3 different PCs (one a tabet) without any issues.
Colleges eh?
Well done braniac.
Another day, another win 8 hater story on the reg
"I don’t mean in the sense of what’s the fallout of poor Q4 sales for Microsoft and the PC makers"
Really? <sigh>
Re: How about spending the $1B on reducing the prices?
But you don't need to do that. I've got apps in the Windows 8 App store despite never having had an ARM tablet to test them on. I just coded against the WinRT API.
Re: How about spending the $1B on reducing the prices?
It's a reasonable point. I know all about the Surface and I'd love one. I could afford one too, but they're just not worth that money. Make it about £250 and I'll probably buy two!
Surely this has been faked?
No? It's just a still image, on a phone?
Doing this protects the developers
It's the same with the Playstation. As soon as you can sideload programs onto it, then you can run pirated or hacked software, obtained from elsewhere. Developers want to make sure that everyone running their app has bought or obtained it from the right place, not from a bloke in the pub. Honestly, some of you with your "orwellian" conspiracy theories ought to be ashamed.
Re: Microsoft's vision -locked down computing
Hi, in what way do Apple do this better than MS? It seemed to me that Microsoft sat back and watched the two opposites (locked down iOS vs insecure Android), and plumped for a solution that veered massively towards the locked down model Apple had done.
Re: a second machine with Visual Studio running a remote debugger
"..a standalone tool you simply run on the Rt device"
Isn't that catch-22 though? In order to be able to run any app, you have to run this app... I can't see MS putting it into their app-store any time soon!
Fuck me, a joke from the 90s.
Sales lost to
The Lumia 920, gathering huge momentum now.
Another day, another win 8 hater story on the reg
complete with the usual hater comments... It's like groundhog day.
Re: Mens watches are jewelery
Downvoted for saying "brought from".
niche market?
"He therefore predicts only niche sales for smart watches, comparing them to e-readers as a product category that might make sense to a small market for a short time"
Is he on about the kindle style of e-reader market? Because that was hardly a small market! The reason it might have fizzled out a bit is because everyone's already got one!
Re: Watches are a Status Symbol?
Your post oozes jealousy. People who ascribe physical traits to others who drive nice cars obviously have some issues of their own.
Re: I already own a great watch
Pretty sure that's a phone mate.
Re: forced sales to people who dont know
If only you'd bought a Windows 8 PC for your MIL, she could now be installing apps and games from the app store without you having to worry about her wrecking it and you having to go and clean it all up again.
Re: I wonder how many installations are simply as the machine came?
"My objection is the same as I had with other OS changes: it's change for changes sake and it gets in the way of my work. There's absolutely no sense in learning new keystrokes, new shortcuts, whatever - I have thirty years of muscle memory telling me how windows should work and while they may not be the ultimately most efficient, they're what I know..."
You just sound like an old dog not willing to learn new tricks. 30 years you say - would you like your OS to be the same as it was 30 years ago?
Microsoft haters
They're an excitable bunch aren't they? With all their "M$" stuff...
If, in Windows 9
.. they removed the metro start screen and put the tired old start menu back, there'd be a *lot* of people pissed off about that.
But no-one scans them, ever.
http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/
A solution looking for a problem.
Promises?
"Rather ominously the unified realm of Windows 8 that was promised"
Where was this promised please?
I agree with the article largely
Sometimes WP is amazing, but sometimes that amazement is utterly obvious holes in functionality. Perhaps in WP7 that was slightly excusable, but for the same issues to be in WP8 is just not on.
Re: Too little, no credibility, too expensive
Mate, you can't really talk of credibility issues while doing that "M$" that almost always renders the poster's comments to be bollocks.
If this goes to trial
I bet his trial lasts for 30 days.
Yes, I stole this joke from elsewhere.
Blogging from a cell
Well I've blogged from a cell phone before, but not a cell PC.
Re: Waiting for the pro
"Not me, but the people I talk to who like M$ things, they've tried out Surface, kinda liked it, but are waiting for the Pro to see if it can handle all the apps they currently run on their laptops.I'm not totally sure that was what Microsoft were hoping for when they launched Surface. Just got to hope that poor RT sales doesn't cause them to shelve, or delay further, the Pro."
Strange that no-one buying an iPad is concerned that it won't run their Mac software though. Perhaps Microsoft figured that the same customers would make the same logic but seemingly not.
Re: Said it before and I'll say it again
If you write for the Window 8 tablet, you're also writing for the Window 8 desktop. Guess which market is set to become bigger than iPad and Android combined?
Re: budget phone?
How did they miss Christmas? Isn't that about a month away? All these phones have been available to buy for a few weeks.
Re: Remind me again
The iPhone came first? Do people really believe this? Do you also think that Sky invented the PVR and that football didn't exist before the Premiership?
Re: The return rate will be interesting
Surely utterly no-one. Who the hell thinks they're going to be able to install their copy of Photoshop onto their phone?
I run a company
I'm pretty sure my company pays taxes. Perhaps I should stop doing so and then refer HMRC to this article.
Re: Is the nursery closed today?
Look at it this way, Windows 8 comes with Windows RT Metro apps available too. It's like having a MacBook with a free iPad built in.
Re: First impressions were not great
As another commenter has explained, the problem was that you expected it to work exactly the same as Windows 7 and when you found that it didn't, you decided it was difficult to use.
