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Windows Phone 8 Officially Unveiled
BogenDorpher writes with news that Microsoft has officially introduced Windows Phone 8. The new version of their mobile operating system will bring support for processors with up to 64 cores, as well as resolutions higher than 800x480 — up to 1280x768. It will also include better support for NFC and microSD cards. One important thing to note is that Windows Phone 8 won't be coming to current Windows Phone devices.
Why would you limit the max res like that?
Why not design it to scale from the very beginning so you don't have to hack it on later?
Why they could not support smp from the beginning had me wondering as well.
Why does M$ do any of the dumb shit they do?
Because Balmer is fat and sweaty and touches himself at night. That's why.
This move reminds me of when Apple stopped supporting PPC devices. The article says WinPh8 won't support single-core devices. I wonder why? That would be equivalent to them releasing Windows 7 and saying, "Won't support Pentium 4 or other single-cores."
That is because Wph8 need more than one core because it's slow and needs more cores to move at a decent pace hahah
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Yep. People with such stupid allergies should be culled from the gene pool. It's not like eating these 'non-Kosher' Jew dogs hurts them in any way.
i have seen two windows phones in the wild, one of them the owner was wearing toe shoes and i was near Redmond need i say more.
---Saying gnome 3 is better than windows 8 not so much a compliment as it is damning with light praise.
So how's Siri running on your 2009 phone?
Congratulations. They ship you the same OS packaged with the same software using the same tricks (static screenshots for animations), and you're praising them for it. Here's Microsoft trying to move their platform forward, and you're bashing them for it.
I thought you DIDN'T want to mess with the constant forced upgrades. Is there really a reason when you didn't get a server based voice recognition like Google's Voice Actions (available on all Android phones with access to Google Play, back to 2008)? (Case in point: My Nexus One's browser [and Flash] are faster than an i4's browser, and gives the i4s a run for it's money. Why? They didn't do anything to improve it)
At least MS, as bad as they are, had a good technical reason for it.