I always thought C9/coffeehouse was the place for Microsofties to listen to public opinion creating the level of transparency I thought channel 9 was about? Okay the videos are great but I always wished for Microsoft developers to post in the coffeehouse, people are busy I suppose. When somebody is ranting on about Microsoft its only official defense is you Charles, I feel bad for you...you'd think the people that write the code, make the decisions would be here posting on the only official Microsoft community site?
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Was it heavy?
I recently purchased an Ipad 3 and I think its great, note taker HD, kindle books and pdfs(novels and textbooks), games, Pepper Pig for the baby plus a chess app.
I really disliked the Apple movement for a long time, the marketing strategy, the end users etc but you have to admit IT isnt for geeks anymore. We're living in a world where average joe uses a cheap laptop just to check his/her facebook. Apple have the human IT market, if their prices were lower then they'd have the whole market.
I cant stand to hold my breath much longer for a solution, an eco-system from Microsoft. I waited for a Windows phone and although it is good I still use the Facebook app rather than the integrated features. There are apps missing for the market place why will they suddenly appear for the Windows 8?
I actually thought that we were getting a new full Desktop OS and Metro OS loosely based on the same thing with a chance to install either depending on your hardware. People wont budge from XP and definitely not Windows 7.
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22 minutes ago, Minh wrote
Still not able to "buy" the book... server still borked
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I use Opera full time (Dev) right now I have 45 tabs open. At my worst I have triple that, this is partly due to the save feature when you close re-open the browser, never had a problem.
When Opera cant handle a something like Silverlight I will open IE instead....the time it takes just to open, copy a url and go is atrocious.
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I always thought Sky+ was acceptable apart from the kiosk music on an irritating loop. BTVision is slow garbage with too may levels to its hierarchy.
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Thanks mate, that cleared that up.
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I thought there was mention of being able to make your WP7 apps work on Win8 Metro. Im not so naive as to think there is a button click (wizard) to accomplish this but I thought it might be a feature/marketing tool to increase the app count for both OS to attract developers?
Fine, Ill stick with MVVM. Thanks!
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@Blue Ink:Nobody mentioned RealPlayer!
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So Ive had an idea for an app I was going to write for the WP7. It was on the back burner till news of the Win8 came about.
If I was going to start from scratch, should I write it for the phone and convert it later?
Whats involved in converting it from WP7 to Win8?
Should I be applying certain models, patterns & practice for the transition?
Any advice, useful links?
Thanks
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Yeah, I clicked the link to send it to my phone but nothing happening yet. Cant see it at all on the marketplace app, the search is atrocious.
EDIT: It just installs it without any announcement, fair enough.
