Windows 8 Introduces a New Cross-App Data-Sharing System

Posted by timothy on Friday September 23, 2011 @02:50PM from the at-least-it-won't-get-exploited-by-malware dept.

There's been a lot of attention to the way Windows 8 looks; reader aabelro writes with an interesting look at one way it behaves. The article begins thus: "Microsoft has created a new mechanism for sharing information between applications in Windows 8 called Windows Share. Apps can share text, bitmaps, HTML, URI, files, and other type of data, and the usage scenarios are numerous. For example, the app receiving the information can post it to Tweeter or Facebook[, making] it easy to post information to a social network without actually visiting it." Here's a short (video) explanation at MSDN, too.

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Wrong again, Microsoft... by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-23 15:02 · Score: 0, Redundant

When will MS work out that what we really want is a simple, stable platform, not more and more OS-integrated bells and whistles that, by the very nature of software itself, must introduce further bugs and resource consumption.
If they want to get Windows to the point where it is popular, ditch all of the ridiculous embellishments and build a core platform that just works consistently and reliably. We can look after our own bloody social networking.