I only had an iPad 1, so my comments and experience are ignorant of the changes made after it. However as far as I know, it still does not have an active digitizer, still does not have the ability to use multiple apps side by side, still does not have an open file system, still does not have wide peripheral and software compatibility, which was the bulk of the usefulness of the tablet. Please correct me again if I am wrong on these points.
The last three use fuzzy algorithms - when it OCR's an image, it doesn't OCR it to an exact text, but rather to a set of possible texts, all of which are searched. Likewise for audio and handwriting.
Huh, I never knew this... I just wrote a novel in a post below about how I used one note through college and grad school. The searching was by far the best aspect, and today I still use some of the notes I took because they were so thorough, thanks to one note's ability to combine different sources of notes. Usually, each lecture consisted of power point slides, handouts, recorded audio, and my own handwritten notes (which I never bothered to convert to editable text since it was unnecessary). This also made studying very easy, as any question I had could be referenced in the notes with keywords.
I know Slashdot loves to hate the Tablet PC, but I went through college with it (physics + computer engineering) and graduate school now doing by (PhD computer engineering). I've also tried the iPad in my graduate work, since those didn't exist when I did my undergrad. So let me give you an idea of how I used both and how they worked out for me.
Tablet PC was a Dell Latitude XT. It has a capacitive multi-touch screen and an inductive stylus digitizer. It used Windows 7 as the OS, and my primary method of taking notes was Microsoft One Note. I digitized all my books, and bought digital copies where I could. During class, I had my books open, and when the prof. would reference diagrams or specific sections, I would clip them and paste them into my notes, annotating them there. When the professor had powerpoints available before hand, I would load them into one note and annotate there. The benefit was I could after the fact scan and recognize my handwriting (which I could train the computer to learn to a very high accuracy). Also, with one note you can put tags on specific sections or notes. These tags can be compiled into a summary, so I would typically tag equations or definitions and create quick reference study guides this way. This computer doubled as my work computer so I also installed word, excel, powerpoint, and matlab for homework and presentations. For presentations, powerpoint was especially useful with presenter view and inking capability.
The iPad was much less useful than the Tablet PC for me. I couldn't have two windows open side by side, so clipping segments from PDF to notes was not feasible. Also, the iPad doesn't have a digitizer, so it uses capacitive input for writing. The styluses are huge, and inaccurate, and your palm often causes inaccurate marks. Further, the handwriting recognition in most apps is either nonexistent or terrible. Finally working with fellow students was a pain with the iPad, since the file manager is completely closed off. We couldn't just pass around a USB drive or network our computer together, everything had to be done via drop box, and even then I couldn't open most of the formats they were trying to send me. Printing was also impossible on my campus with the iPad, and connecting to a projector can be problematic. You can't just screen share the iPad with an external display like you can a Windows computer; the particular app has to support that feature.
Now, I think if I were to do it all again I would get a Windows 8 device with a stylus like the Surface Pro. It will run all my windows apps like Office and Matlab, connect to all my devices, network with all the same computers, but have all the touch niceties and touch based apps when it's in tablet mode. The Surface Pro is pretty much what I was hoping the iPad would be, only 3 years later, and honestly if I were doing it all over again, that's where I would start (or a device like it from one of the OEMs). Price and battery life are still up in the air, but they're both most assuredly better than what I paid for my Latitude XT, which I have never regretted buying due to its usefulness.
I dunno, maybe the same way Duke Nukem Forever was vaporware even though we saw screenshots and sneak previews of it for 14 years. The only images I see of it are renderings, and the only actual video of it I've seen the thing is cobbled together with headphones, Oakley snow goggles, and duct tape.
And where are you seeing these Tweets? The only two Tweets I see by Carmack in the past year regard the Oculus are "I should make it clear that I have no direct ties with Oculus; I endorse it is a wonderful advance in VR tech, but I'm not "backing it"." Tweeted today, and "Michael Abrash from Valve and Palmer Luckey from Oculus will be joining me for a VR/AR Panel discussion at #Quakecon next week." Tweeted last week. Carmack isn't even involved with the development of the product, so how has he been tweeting about improvements he's supposedly making for months now?
Vocalizing support and shipping a product are two different things. The only prototype I've seen of this thing is held together with duct tape. Yeah maybe it works and it's cool, but it's a far cry from shipping thousands of working units, especially with $400k in funding.
Which is another worrying point... why did they set their funding goal at $250k? Do they honestly think that is enough? I don't see any indications on their website they have any other financial backing, so Kickstarter looks like their only source. They better hope they keep blowing past that $400k they have now, because they're going to need an order of magnitude more to get thousands of these units out there.
I'm not saying the team behind this doesn't have the chops, maybe they do maybe they don't. But Kickstarter in general has proven to be a place where projects go overbudget and schedules are perpetually pushed back.
All we know about the team behind this project is that it's "led by a number of successful video game veterans and virtual reality visionaries" and "The company was founded by Palmer Luckey and veterans of RedOctane, developers of the acclaimed Guitar Hero series, Scaleform, the #1 user interface software in the gaming, and Gaikai, the cloud gaming company," Okay, they have some gaming industry credendials there, but notice only one name drop, who I've never heard of. Also note John Carmack isn't part of the team, but more or less just endorsed the product.
Seriously, do we need a Slashdot story about every piece of Kickstarter vaporware that meets its funding goal? Here's an idea, how about we start running Slashdot stories when something from Kickstarter goes from rendering to shipping actual products. That will cut down stories like these tenfold. Cool ideas are dime a dozen, and it's nice to see these guys met their goal, but going from vision to prototype to product is something Kickstarters have proven to be problematic, especially for people who have no experience in business, product development, sales, and manufacturing.
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Every function on the ribbon has a shortcut. Press alt and then the letters to get you to the function. You can tell any user to do the same. True, the user can add and remove things from the ribbon, but that's really no different from adding and removing toolbars.
I love how this gets modded +4 informative when it's completely factually wrong.
1) When you install Windows it asks for you to create a Microsoft Account (which asks for those items, none of which you are required to be valid), sign in with a Microsoft Account, or run as a local user. You can choose to be a local user, where you log in with a user name and password and aren't linked to any external services like mail or calendar.
2) The start menu is gone, so get used to that (although you can install a replacement that mimics it if you really want), but the old control panel is not, and the desktop including explorer is not. I don't know how you could possibly miss it.
3) As for restart, it's still in the most obvious places it used to be including when you log out, or on the crtl+alt+del screen. They did move it from the start screen (because how much sense does it make to press start to shut down?), but moved it to the settings (along with wifi, brightness, and other common options) which is accessible from any app, including the desktop.
Apple has a history of mixed success with Ads. Look at the "I'm a Mac" ads. People loved to hate them on the internet, and they had tons of exposure. But were they successful? I would say no, given Mac market share remained pretty much stagnant at a time when Microsoft released their worst OS ever (Vista). Instead of running to OSX, people ran back to XP.
The problem with the "I'm a Mac" ads were that people identified more with the funny quirky "PC" character than the pretentious hip "Mac" character, and the point of the ads seemed more to be to affirm the choice of current owners rather than to woo new ones.
Now these new ads feature the "Apple Genius," another pretentious title which screams "I'm better and smarter than you" and supposedly the mac user is always clueless, when this Genius comes to save the day. I guess the takeaway is that Macs have support when you need them, but what I'm getting is just another variant of "You're holding it wrong." As a mac user I'm insulted, as a potential mac user, I don't want to have to deal with some asshole kid telling me "No it's easy, just do this..."
shouldn't need to derive its judgement of your professionality from your clothing
In an ideal world, I suppose looks should not matter, but in reality appearance accounts for a lot. "Wear whatever you want" is very dangerous advice, given people have very different ideas about where the boarder lies between appropriate and inappropriate, but we all have a pretty clear idea about what conservative or work dress is. I think The Office (US Version) had a pretty good take (NSFW) on this.
The way you look can have just as much an impact on your professional image as your actions, especially with people you don't interact with often and therefore don't get to witness your professionalism. If someone sees you constantly in a Hawaiian shirt and sandals, they are going to form a judgment about you in their head, whether it's justifiable or not. Also consider that you never know what day you're going to meet someone important to your business... a new client, an investor, a new key employee. The first impression these people make of you will be based on your appearance, and could lead to them making a critical decision not in your favor.
I know the nerd crowd isn't known for their hygiene and fashion sense. Maybe instead of socks and sandals, go for a pair of loafers. Maybe instead of cargo shorts, go for a nice pair of slacks. Someone else mentioned NASA Mission Control circa. 1960. Look at those pictures and you'll see everyone is clean shaven, has a nice haircut, and is wearing a tie. That's probably want you should be shooting for if you want to create a professional image before you even open your mouth.
Unfortunately Samsung they failed to convince the judge that their evidence was relevant, which is why it wasn't allowed.
No, they weren't allowed because they were late in producing the evidence. Apple then proceeded to talk about the F700m which Samsung is now arguing is Apple opening the door for the evidence to be allowed.
hey would have engaged Samsung long before the release date (obviously in order to have the phones for sale in 2007), meaning sometime predaiting the 2006 timeframe. That also happens to correspond to the timeframes that Samsung's designs morphed from their older pre-iPhone designs, to designs that were decidedly very similar to the iPhone design.
Then it's up to Apple to prove such, i.e. they gave Samsung iPhone designs in the same period Samsung sketched its own phone designs. That seems like something much more serious than simple trade dress violation, and I don't think Apple alleging such a thing.
When you have a company producing the handsets you are going to sell
Samsung doesn't produce iPhones, they produced iPhone components. Most of Apple's claims against Samsung relate to trade dress infringement and trade dress dilution. I don't see why a component supplier would have any prior knowledge of how the final product will look. The most they could know is how big the screen is (if they supplied the screen, I don't know).
products suddenly take change in design direction and begin to look very similar to the designs it is currently manufacturing
Yes, this is Apple's stance, but what Samsung is trying to show is that they didn't suddenly change course and that it was a logical design progression that started before the iPhone was ever shown to the public.
I said this in reply to another but I don't use Gmail and was only going off what my girlfriend told me. My only thought is that the new UI either obliterated her labels or just moved them to a place she couldn't find, probably under the "More" accordion.
You're both confused because there are two separate issues here (notice the word "also" in the quote you pasted)
Issue 1) Samsung wants to show it had designs of iPhone-like phones predating the iPhone. In particular the designs predating the F700, which is a Samsung Phone
Issue 2) Samsung wants to show that Apple looked toward others, i.e. Sony for inspiration on the iPhone. This would be what you quoted.
Samsung wasn't allowed to do this in trial, so they sent out a bunch of slides (linked here) to the press which do the same, and the Judge is mad at that.
You're conflating issues. I believe you're thinking of this phone, but what samsung wants the Jury to see is this, and this, which are Samsung designs for a clearly iPhone-like phone, predating the iPhone.
He was right and he did eclipse your point completely
No, his snark completely eclipses his valid point. As in, I've already conceded the point so why are you still going on about it? You've said exactly the same thing.
Because of your shilling, I will never, ever try it. Take this message back to your boss - the astroturfing attempt backfired, and actually turned users away.
Astroturfer - "Sir, a new report is in. Anonymous Coward says he will never use the new Outlook because of our efforts"
Boss, obscured sitting in a high back arm chair, Dr. Claw style - "How.... disappointing..."
Boss slowly revolves in his arm chair, revealing himself to be.... LARRY PAGE *gasp!* - "...for Microsoft! Our plan is working perfectly! Mwahahahaha"
I'm not sure how the passport days worked, since I didn't have an ID then, but the transition from Live ID to Microsoft Account has been seamless. There's only one Microsoft account you can link to any address you prefer. You don't need a hotmail, or live, or outlook acount to have a Microsoft account. So, since your hotmail account at least, you've never needed a separate Microsoft ID. The live and outlook accounts were completely your choice.
Yeah sounds like you're right. I don't really use gmail, as I have my own web accont, but her complaint was that her "folders were gone." On second thought it seems like she probably just couldn't find them.
More like an expansion. Microsoft has been following you around for a while now. Before the Microsoft Account there was Windows Live ID, and before that there was Passport and Wallet. This is just the next in line of tracking your movements between properties, now including the OS and Windows Marketplace.
I think he means "nothing bad to say about an unfinished product," as in someone with a balanced opinion on the issue should point out the positive points as well as the shortcomings. For example, the new site is completely unusable on Opera, and the calendar and skydrive still links back to the old hotmail view. These shortcomings will hopefully be fixed. Another shortcoming is to view a picture slideshow requires silverlight. This shortcoming will probably not be fixed.
Not everyone is down on the semantic labeling concept. Some people like plain old folders. For example my girlfriend switched back instantly from the new Gmail to the old one for that very reason. Now she's stuck with the new Gmail and hates it. Both are available depending on your preference in Outlook.
And who has trouble remembering their email address domain? Seriously?
Obviously he meant easy to remember for other people, not easy to remember for yourself.
And why would I want integration for my email.
I have all of my facebook contacts and their emails instantly available in my contacts list. If I want to email a friend, instead of hopping on facebook to find their email, it's right there. Very convenient.
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I only had an iPad 1, so my comments and experience are ignorant of the changes made after it. However as far as I know, it still does not have an active digitizer, still does not have the ability to use multiple apps side by side, still does not have an open file system, still does not have wide peripheral and software compatibility, which was the bulk of the usefulness of the tablet. Please correct me again if I am wrong on these points.
The last three use fuzzy algorithms - when it OCR's an image, it doesn't OCR it to an exact text, but rather to a set of possible texts, all of which are searched. Likewise for audio and handwriting.
Huh, I never knew this... I just wrote a novel in a post below about how I used one note through college and grad school. The searching was by far the best aspect, and today I still use some of the notes I took because they were so thorough, thanks to one note's ability to combine different sources of notes. Usually, each lecture consisted of power point slides, handouts, recorded audio, and my own handwritten notes (which I never bothered to convert to editable text since it was unnecessary). This also made studying very easy, as any question I had could be referenced in the notes with keywords.
I know Slashdot loves to hate the Tablet PC, but I went through college with it (physics + computer engineering) and graduate school now doing by (PhD computer engineering). I've also tried the iPad in my graduate work, since those didn't exist when I did my undergrad. So let me give you an idea of how I used both and how they worked out for me.
Tablet PC was a Dell Latitude XT. It has a capacitive multi-touch screen and an inductive stylus digitizer. It used Windows 7 as the OS, and my primary method of taking notes was Microsoft One Note. I digitized all my books, and bought digital copies where I could. During class, I had my books open, and when the prof. would reference diagrams or specific sections, I would clip them and paste them into my notes, annotating them there. When the professor had powerpoints available before hand, I would load them into one note and annotate there. The benefit was I could after the fact scan and recognize my handwriting (which I could train the computer to learn to a very high accuracy). Also, with one note you can put tags on specific sections or notes. These tags can be compiled into a summary, so I would typically tag equations or definitions and create quick reference study guides this way. This computer doubled as my work computer so I also installed word, excel, powerpoint, and matlab for homework and presentations. For presentations, powerpoint was especially useful with presenter view and inking capability.
The iPad was much less useful than the Tablet PC for me. I couldn't have two windows open side by side, so clipping segments from PDF to notes was not feasible. Also, the iPad doesn't have a digitizer, so it uses capacitive input for writing. The styluses are huge, and inaccurate, and your palm often causes inaccurate marks. Further, the handwriting recognition in most apps is either nonexistent or terrible. Finally working with fellow students was a pain with the iPad, since the file manager is completely closed off. We couldn't just pass around a USB drive or network our computer together, everything had to be done via drop box, and even then I couldn't open most of the formats they were trying to send me. Printing was also impossible on my campus with the iPad, and connecting to a projector can be problematic. You can't just screen share the iPad with an external display like you can a Windows computer; the particular app has to support that feature.
Now, I think if I were to do it all again I would get a Windows 8 device with a stylus like the Surface Pro. It will run all my windows apps like Office and Matlab, connect to all my devices, network with all the same computers, but have all the touch niceties and touch based apps when it's in tablet mode. The Surface Pro is pretty much what I was hoping the iPad would be, only 3 years later, and honestly if I were doing it all over again, that's where I would start (or a device like it from one of the OEMs). Price and battery life are still up in the air, but they're both most assuredly better than what I paid for my Latitude XT, which I have never regretted buying due to its usefulness.
It's just Window Phone now. No "series"
I dunno, maybe the same way Duke Nukem Forever was vaporware even though we saw screenshots and sneak previews of it for 14 years. The only images I see of it are renderings, and the only actual video of it I've seen the thing is cobbled together with headphones, Oakley snow goggles, and duct tape.
And where are you seeing these Tweets? The only two Tweets I see by Carmack in the past year regard the Oculus are "I should make it clear that I have no direct ties with Oculus; I endorse it is a wonderful advance in VR tech, but I'm not "backing it"." Tweeted today, and "Michael Abrash from Valve and Palmer Luckey from Oculus will be joining me for a VR/AR Panel discussion at #Quakecon next week." Tweeted last week. Carmack isn't even involved with the development of the product, so how has he been tweeting about improvements he's supposedly making for months now?
Vocalizing support and shipping a product are two different things. The only prototype I've seen of this thing is held together with duct tape. Yeah maybe it works and it's cool, but it's a far cry from shipping thousands of working units, especially with $400k in funding.
Which is another worrying point... why did they set their funding goal at $250k? Do they honestly think that is enough? I don't see any indications on their website they have any other financial backing, so Kickstarter looks like their only source. They better hope they keep blowing past that $400k they have now, because they're going to need an order of magnitude more to get thousands of these units out there.
I'm not saying the team behind this doesn't have the chops, maybe they do maybe they don't. But Kickstarter in general has proven to be a place where projects go overbudget and schedules are perpetually pushed back.
All we know about the team behind this project is that it's "led by a number of successful video game veterans and virtual reality visionaries" and "The company was founded by Palmer Luckey and veterans of RedOctane, developers of the acclaimed Guitar Hero series, Scaleform, the #1 user interface software in the gaming, and Gaikai, the cloud gaming company," Okay, they have some gaming industry credendials there, but notice only one name drop, who I've never heard of. Also note John Carmack isn't part of the team, but more or less just endorsed the product.
Seriously, do we need a Slashdot story about every piece of Kickstarter vaporware that meets its funding goal? Here's an idea, how about we start running Slashdot stories when something from Kickstarter goes from rendering to shipping actual products. That will cut down stories like these tenfold. Cool ideas are dime a dozen, and it's nice to see these guys met their goal, but going from vision to prototype to product is something Kickstarters have proven to be problematic, especially for people who have no experience in business, product development, sales, and manufacturing.
Every function on the ribbon has a shortcut. Press alt and then the letters to get you to the function. You can tell any user to do the same. True, the user can add and remove things from the ribbon, but that's really no different from adding and removing toolbars.
I love how this gets modded +4 informative when it's completely factually wrong.
1) When you install Windows it asks for you to create a Microsoft Account (which asks for those items, none of which you are required to be valid), sign in with a Microsoft Account, or run as a local user. You can choose to be a local user, where you log in with a user name and password and aren't linked to any external services like mail or calendar.
2) The start menu is gone, so get used to that (although you can install a replacement that mimics it if you really want), but the old control panel is not, and the desktop including explorer is not. I don't know how you could possibly miss it.
3) As for restart, it's still in the most obvious places it used to be including when you log out, or on the crtl+alt+del screen. They did move it from the start screen (because how much sense does it make to press start to shut down?), but moved it to the settings (along with wifi, brightness, and other common options) which is accessible from any app, including the desktop.
Apple has a history of mixed success with Ads. Look at the "I'm a Mac" ads. People loved to hate them on the internet, and they had tons of exposure. But were they successful? I would say no, given Mac market share remained pretty much stagnant at a time when Microsoft released their worst OS ever (Vista). Instead of running to OSX, people ran back to XP.
The problem with the "I'm a Mac" ads were that people identified more with the funny quirky "PC" character than the pretentious hip "Mac" character, and the point of the ads seemed more to be to affirm the choice of current owners rather than to woo new ones.
Now these new ads feature the "Apple Genius," another pretentious title which screams "I'm better and smarter than you" and supposedly the mac user is always clueless, when this Genius comes to save the day. I guess the takeaway is that Macs have support when you need them, but what I'm getting is just another variant of "You're holding it wrong." As a mac user I'm insulted, as a potential mac user, I don't want to have to deal with some asshole kid telling me "No it's easy, just do this..."
shouldn't need to derive its judgement of your professionality from your clothing
In an ideal world, I suppose looks should not matter, but in reality appearance accounts for a lot. "Wear whatever you want" is very dangerous advice, given people have very different ideas about where the boarder lies between appropriate and inappropriate, but we all have a pretty clear idea about what conservative or work dress is. I think The Office (US Version) had a pretty good take (NSFW) on this.
The way you look can have just as much an impact on your professional image as your actions, especially with people you don't interact with often and therefore don't get to witness your professionalism. If someone sees you constantly in a Hawaiian shirt and sandals, they are going to form a judgment about you in their head, whether it's justifiable or not. Also consider that you never know what day you're going to meet someone important to your business... a new client, an investor, a new key employee. The first impression these people make of you will be based on your appearance, and could lead to them making a critical decision not in your favor.
I know the nerd crowd isn't known for their hygiene and fashion sense. Maybe instead of socks and sandals, go for a pair of loafers. Maybe instead of cargo shorts, go for a nice pair of slacks. Someone else mentioned NASA Mission Control circa. 1960. Look at those pictures and you'll see everyone is clean shaven, has a nice haircut, and is wearing a tie. That's probably want you should be shooting for if you want to create a professional image before you even open your mouth.
Unfortunately Samsung they failed to convince the judge that their evidence was relevant, which is why it wasn't allowed.
No, they weren't allowed because they were late in producing the evidence. Apple then proceeded to talk about the F700m which Samsung is now arguing is Apple opening the door for the evidence to be allowed.
hey would have engaged Samsung long before the release date (obviously in order to have the phones for sale in 2007), meaning sometime predaiting the 2006 timeframe. That also happens to correspond to the timeframes that Samsung's designs morphed from their older pre-iPhone designs, to designs that were decidedly very similar to the iPhone design.
Then it's up to Apple to prove such, i.e. they gave Samsung iPhone designs in the same period Samsung sketched its own phone designs. That seems like something much more serious than simple trade dress violation, and I don't think Apple alleging such a thing.
When you have a company producing the handsets you are going to sell
Samsung doesn't produce iPhones, they produced iPhone components. Most of Apple's claims against Samsung relate to trade dress infringement and trade dress dilution. I don't see why a component supplier would have any prior knowledge of how the final product will look. The most they could know is how big the screen is (if they supplied the screen, I don't know).
products suddenly take change in design direction and begin to look very similar to the designs it is currently manufacturing
Yes, this is Apple's stance, but what Samsung is trying to show is that they didn't suddenly change course and that it was a logical design progression that started before the iPhone was ever shown to the public.
I said this in reply to another but I don't use Gmail and was only going off what my girlfriend told me. My only thought is that the new UI either obliterated her labels or just moved them to a place she couldn't find, probably under the "More" accordion.
You're both confused because there are two separate issues here (notice the word "also" in the quote you pasted)
Issue 1) Samsung wants to show it had designs of iPhone-like phones predating the iPhone. In particular the designs predating the F700, which is a Samsung Phone
Issue 2) Samsung wants to show that Apple looked toward others, i.e. Sony for inspiration on the iPhone. This would be what you quoted.
Samsung wasn't allowed to do this in trial, so they sent out a bunch of slides (linked here) to the press which do the same, and the Judge is mad at that.
You're conflating issues. I believe you're thinking of this phone, but what samsung wants the Jury to see is this, and this, which are Samsung designs for a clearly iPhone-like phone, predating the iPhone.
He was right and he did eclipse your point completely
No, his snark completely eclipses his valid point. As in, I've already conceded the point so why are you still going on about it? You've said exactly the same thing.
Because of your shilling, I will never, ever try it. Take this message back to your boss - the astroturfing attempt backfired, and actually turned users away.
Astroturfer - "Sir, a new report is in. Anonymous Coward says he will never use the new Outlook because of our efforts"
Boss, obscured sitting in a high back arm chair, Dr. Claw style - "How.... disappointing..."
Boss slowly revolves in his arm chair, revealing himself to be.... LARRY PAGE *gasp!* - "...for Microsoft! Our plan is working perfectly! Mwahahahaha"
I'm not sure how the passport days worked, since I didn't have an ID then, but the transition from Live ID to Microsoft Account has been seamless. There's only one Microsoft account you can link to any address you prefer. You don't need a hotmail, or live, or outlook acount to have a Microsoft account. So, since your hotmail account at least, you've never needed a separate Microsoft ID. The live and outlook accounts were completely your choice.
Thanks for the sarcasm, snark, and general condescension which eclipse an otherwise valid point. You're a real asset to the Internet.
Yeah sounds like you're right. I don't really use gmail, as I have my own web accont, but her complaint was that her "folders were gone." On second thought it seems like she probably just couldn't find them.
Outlook Express has been dead for ages. Who exactly are you explaining it to? Time travelers?
More like an expansion. Microsoft has been following you around for a while now. Before the Microsoft Account there was Windows Live ID, and before that there was Passport and Wallet. This is just the next in line of tracking your movements between properties, now including the OS and Windows Marketplace.
I think he means "nothing bad to say about an unfinished product," as in someone with a balanced opinion on the issue should point out the positive points as well as the shortcomings. For example, the new site is completely unusable on Opera, and the calendar and skydrive still links back to the old hotmail view. These shortcomings will hopefully be fixed. Another shortcoming is to view a picture slideshow requires silverlight. This shortcoming will probably not be fixed.
With tagging, who needs folders.
Not everyone is down on the semantic labeling concept. Some people like plain old folders. For example my girlfriend switched back instantly from the new Gmail to the old one for that very reason. Now she's stuck with the new Gmail and hates it. Both are available depending on your preference in Outlook.
And who has trouble remembering their email address domain? Seriously?
Obviously he meant easy to remember for other people, not easy to remember for yourself.
And why would I want integration for my email.
I have all of my facebook contacts and their emails instantly available in my contacts list. If I want to email a friend, instead of hopping on facebook to find their email, it's right there. Very convenient.