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@Ray7: I have an ingrained save reflex, so I didn't lose any data. None of the apps I was using supported auto-save yet. Presumably the OS can't do much when kernel panics, but I don't know how clever the auto-save logic is. I'm not too worried though: in all the 5 years I've been using Mac OS X, I only had 3 kernel panics.

Also, Lion crashed hard on me the other day (just once so far, mind you) and after reboot it restored all apps as they were open just before the crash.

Regarding 'reverse' scrolling: once I started thinking that I was moving the content directly, instead of moving the viewport into content, it all made sense, and now I actually think the Lion scrolling direction is more natural. Sadly, there is nothing to simulate this effect on Windows  which I have to use during the day, so the first moments of mouse scrolling at work are pretty confusing.

This is a huge win for Ballmer. He's not going anywhere anytime soon.

Symbian is done for.

It could be A/B testing.

@Bebo: Flexwiki is probably the least capable and the buggiest wiki available. You should check out Mediawiki, Twiki, Docuwiki, or Atlassian Confluence. I had bad experience with Sharepoint, it was slow, and document versioning was broken. Having said that, you can use both: Sharepoint for Office document management and a wiki for information and knowledge sharing. Wiki tools in Sharepoint are mediocre, to put it mildly.

4 hours ago, magicalclick wrote

The HTML5 is garbage IMO, just tested those demo using my HP notebook + IE9 Preview6

Oh boy, way to make wrong conclusions.

Some suggestions for the team:

1) Fix blurry fonts in WPF 3.5. Saying "they are fixed in WPF 4" is unacceptable.

2) Make WPF, you know, usable from the developer's point of view. Right now it is bloody PITA.

3) Replace XAML with a DSL that is not XML based and that you can actually use without tearing your hair out.

You can look at Cocoa for a little insight of how to properly design APIs.

This is one of the most impenetrable pieces of reading I've ever stumbled upon. Ozzie's language is so formal and full of marketing bullsh!t my brain started aching 1/3 into the document. He seems to be incapable of expressing his thoughts in the normal human language. PHB-type management like that is Microsoft's biggest problem.