Metrop0218

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I am a student currently attending the University of Texas at Austin and pursuing a Bachelor's in Computer Engineering. I have interned with Microsoft in Windows division and Windows Phone and will be returning to work in Windows Phone as a dev full time come fall 2013. On top of this, I am also an entrepreneur pursuing a start up company with some friends.

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Comment · 13 years ago

"especially wrt collaborative editing" - The office web apps got real time collaborative editing a couple of months ago [1]. I've used it and it works quite well.

[1] http://blogs.office.com/b/office365tech/archive/2013/11/06/c...

Comment · 13 years ago

I highly recommend enabling the two factor authentication feature. I got my account targeted by some botnet and was breached several times regardless of how ridiculous my password was. Of course, this all stopped the moment I started using two factor auth.

Comment · 13 years ago

WP8 has been gaining momentum [1]; brushing it aside is a mistake. I also wouldn't count out WinRT. Surface 2 and the Nokia Lumia 2520 have received relatively favorable reviews. I don't expect their sales to double overnight or anything like that, but I expect they'll increase steadily throughout 2014.

Full disclosure: Windows Phone employee

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/29/5041666/nokia-lumia-sales...

Comment · 13 years ago

They didn't 'cave' on the YouTube app. Google wouldn't allow it and was using it as a means to wage ecosystem warfare.

It was a pretty stupid/ugly fight that went back and forth: http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/15/4624706/google-blocks-wind...

Comment · 13 years ago

The 'no image capture' story is not true. Apparently there was some bad information given out by an Instagram public rep. See https://twitter.com/zpower for more info.

Comment · 13 years ago

I think opponents of stack ranking generally overlook this fact. Yes, it's terrible if you have a 5 person team, but the data becomes more normal as you add more people.

Comment · 13 years ago

You need something more quantifiable than that when you're running a giant organization... Your approach would absolutely work in a startup of 20 people or less, but try that in the 10,000+ man Operating Systems Division at Microsoft and you'll run into some crazy logistics problems.

Comment · 13 years ago

It's an MSR publication, not a marketing team pitching a product. I don't think anyone thought hard about the name.

Comment · 13 years ago

IE has Adblock Plus.... https://adblockplus.org/en/internet-explorer

Comment · 13 years ago

But then people won't do it. You have to force security update installs. There's really no better way around it. I think you have 2 days after the updates install to before it forces you to reboot. That should be enough time right?

Comment · 13 years ago

Or better yet, they could stay the course and realize that architectures are going to have to be abstracted over in the decades to come.

Comment · 13 years ago

I think it was the device. If you read the reviews (or better yet, used one) you'll see that it suffered from severe performance issues. That seems to have been resolved in the new one (the demos on stage looked convincing, but you have to take that with a grain of salt).

The marketing/image problem was to be expected considering it was a new product entering a slightly fermented market. It was always going to take time to build a brand.

(full discloser: Windows Phone employee)

Comment · 13 years ago

"least amount of hassle, pain and blind rage" - I find that comical. My short experience doing android development has been nothing short of a headache which I eventually rage quit, but more power to you if you find it easy.

Comment · 13 years ago

I read another post and then responded to the wrong one... Deleted.