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Installed the Windows 8 RTM last night
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on September 05, 2012, 10:41:39 am ---XP for life
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And by that he really means "I can't run Win7 or 8 on the PCs I pull from dumpsters."
(I still run XP on my main server at home too)
drventure:
--- Quote from: shmokes on September 05, 2012, 08:09:14 am --- I absolutely love Windows Phone, but Microsoft has its work cut out for it against Google in the phone space.
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Yeah, MS has a real uphill battle with the phone, but I personally like my winphone much more than my wife's android.
I haven't bit into the tablet thing yet, but I've played with my dad's Kindle Fire and various iPads. I can see them being extremely handy around the house.
Hoopz:
--- Quote from: drventure on September 05, 2012, 04:57:07 pm ---Yeah, MS has a real uphill battle with the phone, but I personally like my winphone much more than my wife's android.
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Interesting. Which Win phone and which Android phones are you two using? I've had the Incredible and Galaxy Nexus and love it. I've used BB and a few years ago had a Windows Mobile 6 phone. I'd like to play with a Windows phone for more than a few minutes to see what it offers. But I'm sticking with Android for a while.
drventure:
--- Quote from: Hoopz on September 05, 2012, 05:59:05 pm ---Interesting. Which Win phone and which Android phones are you two using? I've had the Incredible and Galaxy Nexus and love it. I've used BB and a few years ago had a Windows Mobile 6 phone. I'd like to play with a Windows phone for more than a few minutes to see what it offers. But I'm sticking with Android for a while.
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Ack, I should have clarified.
Anything WinMO before 7 was utter crap (I had one of those phones too). WinPhone 7 and 7.5 (I have an HTC that originally ran 7 and is now on 7.5) is what I'm talking about.
As for andriod, I really can't speak to them too much. My wife chose the TMobile MyTouch. It's ok, I guess. Haven't played with it much.
shmokes:
My wife's running a Nokia Lumia 900, which is without a doubt the best Windows Phone on the market today. It's by far my favorite phone ever. I'd have got one too last spring, but I was worried it wouldn't be upgradeable to Windows Phone 8 (a fear that proved warranted). I'm glad I waited, though. Nokia revealed the successor to the 900 today, and it looks pretty great.
Admittedly, I haven't used Android for any meaningful amount of time. But Windows 8 is light-years beyond iOS as a UI. It's funny, actually, because the beautiful, typographical Metro interface looks like something that would have come from Apple, and iOS's generic, random scattering of icons on a desktop background looks like something that should have come from Microsoft. But the tables are flipped. Both in terms of beauty and usability, Windows Phone just runs circles around iPhone. And Android is basically just iOS, near as I can tell. Windows Phone, though, doesn't have nearly as many apps available. MS has grown their app store impressively in a short period of time, and most of the important apps are there, but there are still plenty of very glaring gaps in their app portfolio.
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