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@GoddersUK: I agree with you but proper nous are "special." So "Apple refer" or "Apple refers?"

1 hour ago, Dr Herbie wrote

As long as people understand what you mean, there isn't a problem except with the occasional grammar-*.

Herbie

Thnak you. I like to use proper grammar when I can

I have a grammar question for the English native speakers on this forum.

Because Microsoft is a company, instictively I would write "Microsoft is doing this..." just like I would write "comany X is doing this..." However I keep reading "Microsoft are doing this..." (the same seems to be true for all tech companies).

Does this imply "People at Microsoft are doing..."? Which is the most correct form?

8 hours ago, fabian wrote

Can't figure out how to grant permissions on a folder using the windows app. Easy enough through the web interface ... am i missing something?

I think you need to do it from the Web interface, otherwise you will share the local folder...

9 hours ago, magicalclick wrote

@Sven Groot:

Mesh is about to be discontinued if I remember correctly.

To  tc, thanks for the info, almost lost my GBs.

How about the synching of Favorites, Outlook signature, etc? Currently they are part of Live Mesh. Are they going to be included in Office 15 and IE10 then?

Otherwise a combination os SkyDrive and Libraries are working very well for me

17 hours ago, Minh wrote

I'd say Courier works hella better as a piece of software than hardware.

I'm sure that's no secrets, and why Courier got killed as a hardware project. Can you imagine MS sinking millions into a uni-tasker like the Courier, when a small software company can copy the concept and put it on a tablet?

People got so POd cuz it got killed, but that's absolutely the right call 100%

I agree with you, I think the courrier project is a good software one and I don't think I would want to have yet another piece of harware with me all day. Nevertheless, I think that good software needs good hardware to run smoothly and I think there is no good hardware for Windows slates at the moment.

18 hours ago, DeathByVisualStudio wrote

I hope OneNote incorporates a lot of this stuff.  It would be a shame if Microsoft was bested by some of its own ideas.

OneNote would not be too bad as it is today if it only ran on half decent hardware with a good stylus (I still don't know how one can take notes with a keyboard or with fingers input).

@davewill: Given how blurry the difference between an app and a site can ben, it could be true

I just read this article on the NY Times about the difficulty for some websites to adapt to ultra high resolution monitors. Given than most of the web depends heavily on raster images, how much will this be an obstacle to high resolution monitors?

@1001011: That is extremely sad, because if no one is capable of pushing his ideas forward, the company will quickly loose that something special that makes it outdo the competition.