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Let the competition begin.  It looks fantastic for fine details.  The ultimate solution is going to combine multiple sensory modalities.  I briefly went through the FAQ and I don't see *how* it works ... is it visual or auditory?  Perhaps it uses both.

Awesome.  There's less and less reason to have a CLR or VM if you have a compiler that can take in various languages and target various architectures just as well - and better.  There's a session on auto vectorization that was just live today ... I only caught a part of it and plan to check it out this weekend.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong here, but if you have deterministic finalization that works with move semantics as you have with C++ 11, which allows you to avoid falling back to raw pointers and having to manage memory outside of destructors etc..., then performant C++ and C# become quite similar.  The compiler can make the C# behave as it would if it were managed code (GC wise ... ignoring CAS or other CLR services), but better since there's true deterministic finalization.  Since older C++ compilers didn't have move semantics for reference types, then trying to get C# code to compile down to native would result in copy semantics and horrible performance. 

The cause of this is the "Windows Live Multi Store Gateway".  Whatever that is, it's installed with Live Essentials, I guess.  I checked if it's a component that can be uninstalled from Live Essentials, but it's not listed anywhere.  What is this thing, and why does it suck so bad?

@Sven Groot:  His point is invalid because they didn't try to have two different UIs for the old tablets at all ... it just had some pen input features, not a whole UI. 

By the way, the tablet pen input did/does work great, consider it was pre-multitouch and you required a special pen.  And it has nothing to do with Metro; Metro is supposed to be UX guidelines, and obviously it hasn't been tried before.

I have an older tablet with an SSD and it still works great, but it's very different from Windows 8 and does not support touch let alone multitouch.  Yeah, I'm disappointed that it's taken so long, but Microsoft doesn't make hardware (usually).

Win8 metro on tablets is apparently really nice ... haven't had a touch monitor to try it out yet. 

WP7.5 on a Lumia 900 is absolutely fantastic, however; that much I know. 

12 minutes ago, cbae wrote

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Replies like this are part of the problem; just throwing fuel on the fire, cbae.

I can't stand bickering in the forums, but the Coffeehouse (and the rest of the forums) are not the focus of C9 to me and never has been.  I see no evidence of any drop in quality of content, either from a transparency point of view or depth or otherwise.  I am still making way through TechDays and C++ conference videos and Erik Meijer's interviews with people from Lang.Next; heck, I just rewatched Steve Sanderson's Mix11 session on Knockoutjs.  There's a ton of content that is focused on the cloud, HTML5, JS, SignalR, new stuff with Rx 2.0 beta all the Kinect and Coding for Fun stuff that I never seem to have time to dedicate to but want to so badly ... and you're complaining about the Coffeehouse, but saying C9.  That's unjustified.

Channel9 needs better threading and a notification system for comments left in video threads.  I know this feature request has been in the pipeline for a while; but the priority for that feature shouldn't be for the forums, because it's all too disconnected from the content.  That feature needs to be with the content and provide or allow for the emergent connections between content.

@Ian2 & PaoloM:  I will be giving them a try soon.

15 hours ago, Maddus Mattus wrote

@Richard.Hein: you only need one app on the phone,.. *hint* *hint* !

I had already downloaded it and was using it.  Very nice.  Needs forums support, that's about it.