I don't think anything was "wrong" as such with Windows ME, but there weren't any significant additions to justify the cost of upgrading; it should have probably just been released as a service pack to Windows 98. It didn't also help that Windows 2000 was released around the same time, and being based off the NT kernel, was a better choice than ME.
Mac has supported multi-button mice for years now. And Windows 8's touch interface isn't actually bad on touch devices, most people complain because they don't like it on a desktop.
The number of such states is dwindling rapidly. It won't be long before Amazon has a presence in all states, and there will likely be a national sales tax as well. Oh, and even if Amazon isn't currently charging sales tax in your state, you're supposed to be reporting your purchases to the state yourself.
That's not a fair comparison. Back when BB was big, Windows Mobile was also big. Both platforms failed to keep up with the times, and iPhone/Android ate into their market shares. Fast forward a few years, BB10 and Windows Phone were both redesigned completely, and guess who's moving faster of the two?
Same-day delivery is certainly more of Amazon's doing than any carrier's. Very few (if any) retailers have a vast network of fulfillment centers like Amazon does, enabling them to ship out locally and deliver on the same day.
Nokia sold 7.4 million Lumias in Q2 2013, Samsung sold about 10 times as many Android phones, but most other Android manufacturers (and there are dozens of them) sold way less than either of the above.
And no Lumia phone was discontinued after 2 months -- perhaps you're thinking about the Facebook phone?
Some simple math based on the numbers in your link:
Android market share went from 64.2% to 79%, that's a 23% increase since last year.
iOS went from 18.8% to 14.2%, that's a 24% decline.
Windows Phone went from 2.7% to 3.3%, that's a 27% increase.
Also keep in mind that WP is the newest of the 3 platforms and still has room to grow while the others are pretty much saturated at this point (or have already started declining as is the case with iOS).
Try typing "firefox" into the Run box and you'll be pleasantly surprised. Most well-designed applications add their install path into a registry key that is the GUI equivalent of the PATH variable. You can even have multiple keys pointing to the same path (similar to symbolic links) which is why both "mspaint" and "pbrush" work for opening Paint.
Does it really matter when you only do this about once a month? If you're a power user, there's always Win+R and type your command in directly -- no loss of context there. If you're the typical user, you only care about your browser and a couple other apps -- just pin them to the taskbar.
Window 8.1 will have a start button that... still does not open start menu
This is getting old, but why exactly do you need the Start menu? Ever since Windows 7 came out, I've pinned my daily-use applications to the taskbar and that works 99% of the time. The remaining 1% of the time (when I need to find an app by name), I hit the Win key and start typing, and you can still do that in Windows 8. I agree they should have had boot-to-desktop right when Win8 was released, but anyway that's coming in 8.1 now.
And 8.1 will be even slower
Either you haven't used Windows 8 or you're trolling. Win8 has been noticeably faster than Win7 from the very first preview release, both on cold boot and resume from sleep (and no, sleep is not the same as hibernate).
Really, what's the point in supporting such crap by making apps for it?
Sure, Microsoft may have failed with their grand vision to unify tablets and desktops, but with boot-to-desktop, Win8 is flexible enough to make most people happy. Tablets can just use the Metro UI, desktop fanatics can just boot to desktop, and some others like me are perfectly happy staying in desktop mode most of the time yet switching to Metro occasionally.
I'm sure the browser plugin API can be extended to provide generic activate/deactivate operations (that would map to play/pause for Flash), then the browser (and in turn, the user) can be in total control of which tab/plugin is active.
With its pastel colors and overly-animated interface, it looks like they got the inspiration by watching Technicolor cartoons and browsing web pages from 1996.
This seems to be a misconception fueled by all the WP ads out there. Your home screen can be however you like it, your tiles don't have to form a rainbow and flip every second. I use a Windows Phone and I am perfectly happy with it, my home screen is simple and updates automatically to display notifications, weather and the latest headlines. The beauty of WP is that everyone's home screen is his/her own, so it's hard to pick up a friend's phone and appreciate the utility of the home screen. Try using one for a few days, customize the home screen, and see how you like it.
Some days it seems like they don't ever try any more -- and with a lot of movies about a week or so after you hear about it, you also start hearing about something which is based on almost exactly the same premise which will also be out soon.
Honestly, if they hadn't put the title in the trailers, I couldn't have told them apart.
Mark Zuckerberg must have inherited Steve Jobs' reality distortion field, since nobody seems to have brought up the fact that Facebook Home is essentially a blatant rip-off of Windows Phone. Put people before apps? Facebook photos on the lock screen? Status updates on the home screen? Integrated Facebook chat? Windows Phone has been doing these for years now.
Flash may be crap now but for a long time, it (and Shockwave before it) was the only practical way of displaying interactive multimedia content in the browser.
Web forms ultimately need to be validated on the server side, so client-side validation isn't 100% necessary.
Server-side and client-side validation serve different purposes. Server-side validation is important for security reasons, but client-side validation provides for a better user experience by identifying errors right away instead of waiting to submit and refresh the page.
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I don't think anything was "wrong" as such with Windows ME, but there weren't any significant additions to justify the cost of upgrading; it should have probably just been released as a service pack to Windows 98. It didn't also help that Windows 2000 was released around the same time, and being based off the NT kernel, was a better choice than ME.
Mac has supported multi-button mice for years now. And Windows 8's touch interface isn't actually bad on touch devices, most people complain because they don't like it on a desktop.
Okay, I can agree with you on Windows ME, but DOS and Windows 95 were both pretty darn good for their time.
The number of such states is dwindling rapidly. It won't be long before Amazon has a presence in all states, and there will likely be a national sales tax as well. Oh, and even if Amazon isn't currently charging sales tax in your state, you're supposed to be reporting your purchases to the state yourself.
I'm assuming this is only for touchpads. I have a desktop with a regular mouse and I don't see any delay setting.
That's not a fair comparison. Back when BB was big, Windows Mobile was also big. Both platforms failed to keep up with the times, and iPhone/Android ate into their market shares. Fast forward a few years, BB10 and Windows Phone were both redesigned completely, and guess who's moving faster of the two?
Same-day delivery is certainly more of Amazon's doing than any carrier's. Very few (if any) retailers have a vast network of fulfillment centers like Amazon does, enabling them to ship out locally and deliver on the same day.
It was something about indexing and knowledge.
It was also something about not being evil...
Nokia sold 7.4 million Lumias in Q2 2013, Samsung sold about 10 times as many Android phones, but most other Android manufacturers (and there are dozens of them) sold way less than either of the above.
And no Lumia phone was discontinued after 2 months -- perhaps you're thinking about the Facebook phone?
How exactly is 100k apps = no apps?
Some simple math based on the numbers in your link:
Android market share went from 64.2% to 79%, that's a 23% increase since last year.
iOS went from 18.8% to 14.2%, that's a 24% decline.
Windows Phone went from 2.7% to 3.3%, that's a 27% increase.
Also keep in mind that WP is the newest of the 3 platforms and still has room to grow while the others are pretty much saturated at this point (or have already started declining as is the case with iOS).
Try typing "firefox" into the Run box and you'll be pleasantly surprised. Most well-designed applications add their install path into a registry key that is the GUI equivalent of the PATH variable. You can even have multiple keys pointing to the same path (similar to symbolic links) which is why both "mspaint" and "pbrush" work for opening Paint.
Yes, because it's certainly easier than digging through 5 levels of sub-menus in the labyrinth that is the Start menu.
Does it really matter when you only do this about once a month? If you're a power user, there's always Win+R and type your command in directly -- no loss of context there. If you're the typical user, you only care about your browser and a couple other apps -- just pin them to the taskbar.
I have 10 apps pinned on my taskbar, and there's still room for LOTS more. On a 1920x1080 screen, there's space for around 30 pinned apps.
This is getting old, but why exactly do you need the Start menu? Ever since Windows 7 came out, I've pinned my daily-use applications to the taskbar and that works 99% of the time. The remaining 1% of the time (when I need to find an app by name), I hit the Win key and start typing, and you can still do that in Windows 8. I agree they should have had boot-to-desktop right when Win8 was released, but anyway that's coming in 8.1 now.
Either you haven't used Windows 8 or you're trolling. Win8 has been noticeably faster than Win7 from the very first preview release, both on cold boot and resume from sleep (and no, sleep is not the same as hibernate).
Sure, Microsoft may have failed with their grand vision to unify tablets and desktops, but with boot-to-desktop, Win8 is flexible enough to make most people happy. Tablets can just use the Metro UI, desktop fanatics can just boot to desktop, and some others like me are perfectly happy staying in desktop mode most of the time yet switching to Metro occasionally.
I'm sure the browser plugin API can be extended to provide generic activate/deactivate operations (that would map to play/pause for Flash), then the browser (and in turn, the user) can be in total control of which tab/plugin is active.
It's funny that Ubuntu Edge is trying this all over again, with a phone that can run desktop Linux.
With its pastel colors and overly-animated interface, it looks like they got the inspiration by watching Technicolor cartoons and browsing web pages from 1996.
This seems to be a misconception fueled by all the WP ads out there. Your home screen can be however you like it, your tiles don't have to form a rainbow and flip every second. I use a Windows Phone and I am perfectly happy with it, my home screen is simple and updates automatically to display notifications, weather and the latest headlines. The beauty of WP is that everyone's home screen is his/her own, so it's hard to pick up a friend's phone and appreciate the utility of the home screen. Try using one for a few days, customize the home screen, and see how you like it.
Some days it seems like they don't ever try any more -- and with a lot of movies about a week or so after you hear about it, you also start hearing about something which is based on almost exactly the same premise which will also be out soon.
Honestly, if they hadn't put the title in the trailers, I couldn't have told them apart.
Works exactly the same way it did in Windows 7 -- right-click on taskbar and choose "Show windows side by side".
Mark Zuckerberg must have inherited Steve Jobs' reality distortion field, since nobody seems to have brought up the fact that Facebook Home is essentially a blatant rip-off of Windows Phone. Put people before apps? Facebook photos on the lock screen? Status updates on the home screen? Integrated Facebook chat? Windows Phone has been doing these for years now.
Flash is crap though, always was, always will be.
Flash may be crap now but for a long time, it (and Shockwave before it) was the only practical way of displaying interactive multimedia content in the browser.
Web forms ultimately need to be validated on the server side, so client-side validation isn't 100% necessary.
Server-side and client-side validation serve different purposes. Server-side validation is important for security reasons, but client-side validation provides for a better user experience by identifying errors right away instead of waiting to submit and refresh the page.
At least this one didn't reload the entire page for each slide.