Infamously, Microsoft chose not to support XNA for Windows 8 app/game development. However, XNA powers a large percentage of Xbox Live / XBLIG games. Hopefully this new device will promote the use of XNA an all Microsoft platforms.
I've had a Windows Phone (7 and then 7.5) and I think I can count the total number of reboots during that time on one hand. It's extremely stable, more so than any other smartphone or even feature phone I've ever owned. I'm excited to get a Windows Phone 8 (probably the 920) but it's a huge rewrite so I would expect a few quirks here and there at first.
Microsoft's "partners" have been directly competing with Microsoft for years using Linux and Android. HP was just made a card-carrying Linux foundation member. The only partner to be loyal to Microsoft is Nokia. If I were MS I would release a Surface phone but use Nokia to actually get it manufactured.
Windows 7 already does something like this. When you hover over the icon of a running program it gives you an animated smaller view of the program's main window.
You should give Surface a chance. With the ability to plug in any mouse our keyboard you want you can do anything an laptop can do. The best thing is taking just the Surface to meetings and remoting in to your desktop/laptop for the big applications.
I've used an iPad too and you're right, it's terrible for real work. But with a surface you have a MOUSE and a real KEYBOARD. You basically have all the power of a real laptop.
Actually, with the Remote Desktop app it's very easy on Surface. You can plug in a mouse if you prefer and you'll want to use the touch keyboard (not the screen keyboard), but once you do that it's actually very easy to do. Now I can leave my laptop docked at my desk and just take my Surface tablet to meetings. I can remote into the laptop any time I need to do get some work done in Eclipse/VisualStudio/Netbeans/IntelliJ/etc. It's actually very slick.
There's no substitute for a large screen when it comes to playing games with a group of friends. I don't care how big your phone is, it's too small for a 4-person Halo session. There will always be a living room experience and that will require some sort of console.
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I know it's hard for people on here to believe, but Windows 8 is actually pretty amazing. I would never go back to Windows 7 at this point.
Infamously, Microsoft chose not to support XNA for Windows 8 app/game development. However, XNA powers a large percentage of Xbox Live / XBLIG games. Hopefully this new device will promote the use of XNA an all Microsoft platforms.
I don't know why the staffers didn't tweet from the Surface itself. I guess they weren't in on the giveaway.
Not since last decade.
Sweet! Good to hear!
I've had a Windows Phone (7 and then 7.5) and I think I can count the total number of reboots during that time on one hand. It's extremely stable, more so than any other smartphone or even feature phone I've ever owned. I'm excited to get a Windows Phone 8 (probably the 920) but it's a huge rewrite so I would expect a few quirks here and there at first.
That sounds about right.
The electoral college is fine. The problem is the Winner Takes All system. The founding fathers never intended that.
Wow, pretty much the most bigoted comment I've ever seen on Slashdot.
Zero cooperation.
...a first class citizen. Apps, music, pictures, videos, etc. all need to be able to reside on the memory card and work the same.
Microsoft's "partners" have been directly competing with Microsoft for years using Linux and Android. HP was just made a card-carrying Linux foundation member. The only partner to be loyal to Microsoft is Nokia. If I were MS I would release a Surface phone but use Nokia to actually get it manufactured.
How do I get that?
I hope they make the Surface2 an x64 version that ships with more than 4GB of RAM. That would be pretty amazing.
Since it wasn't listed I can only assume that Microsoft Azure is excluded from this liability. I'll move my data over right now!
Windows 7 already does something like this. When you hover over the icon of a running program it gives you an animated smaller view of the program's main window.
So that the live tiles are not longer perfect squares.
When is the EU going to go after Apple for some of these same things?
Of course they're going to complain. The Windows app store pretty much does away with the need for Valve, Steam, etc.
You should give Surface a chance. With the ability to plug in any mouse our keyboard you want you can do anything an laptop can do. The best thing is taking just the Surface to meetings and remoting in to your desktop/laptop for the big applications.
I've used an iPad too and you're right, it's terrible for real work. But with a surface you have a MOUSE and a real KEYBOARD. You basically have all the power of a real laptop.
Actually, with the Remote Desktop app it's very easy on Surface. You can plug in a mouse if you prefer and you'll want to use the touch keyboard (not the screen keyboard), but once you do that it's actually very easy to do. Now I can leave my laptop docked at my desk and just take my Surface tablet to meetings. I can remote into the laptop any time I need to do get some work done in Eclipse/VisualStudio/Netbeans/IntelliJ/etc. It's actually very slick.
I'm very happy with how my Windows money is being spent.
There's no substitute for a large screen when it comes to playing games with a group of friends. I don't care how big your phone is, it's too small for a 4-person Halo session. There will always be a living room experience and that will require some sort of console.
Mark my words. It'll happen someday.