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Microsoft Set to Demonstrate Windows Mobile 7 Next Week
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Microsoft's dancing monkey believes in keyboards, so you can count on there being one on every device.
I really don't think Microsoft "get's it" when it comes to non-traditional mobile equipment. The devices need to be responsive; not sit there for an awkward moment while you ponder whether you pushed the key hard enough before responding.
They will make a tiny windows Vista computer thingy that you will need to poke at with a stylus like a watchmaker trying to fix a Swiss watch. Their idea of a good UI is a boatload of pop-up screens that you have to read and step through to get anywhere. UGH!
I really don't think Microsoft "get's it" when it comes to non-traditional mobile equipment. The devices need to be responsive; not sit there for an awkward moment while you ponder whether you pushed the key hard enough before responding.
They will make a tiny windows Vista computer thingy that you will need to poke at with a stylus like a watchmaker trying to fix a Swiss watch. Their idea of a good UI is a boatload of pop-up screens that you have to read and step through to get anywhere. UGH!
It's so intuitive, windows switchers often can't figure it out. Seriously. Saving a jpeg off a web page to your desktop for example. Yes, on a mac you can right click and save it. But the more intuitive thing I always did, because the whole os seems to just do what I think it will, is just drag the pic from the page onto the desktop. Or to an application icon. Or to a hard drive that opens for me, etc. Windows- right click and save to somewhere. Usually some arcane place like my documents somewhere you'll never seetot is the default. Then you can open your app and import the file or place the file etc. Whereas I just drag it onto the app window.
There's lots of stuff like that that after years of getting used to searching for the hidden command, windows switchers just keep looking for the hidden command on a mac, when often the answer is as simple as drag it there. Windows has killed off their intuitive gene or something.
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You've lost me here. Drag and drop works the same in Windows.
Drag a pic from a browser to the desktop, it saves a copy there.
Drag a picture to a folder, it moves it there.
Drag a picture into a shortcut, it opens the file...
Am I missing something with your complaint?
You've lost me here. Drag and drop works the same in Windows.
Drag a pic from a browser to the desktop, it saves a copy there.
Drag a picture to a folder, it moves it there.
Drag a picture into a shortcut, it opens the file...
Am I missing something with your complaint?
I remember being thrilled to discover that image drag-and-drop works in Firefox on Windows like that, but then brought back to reality when I noticed that it will create an Internet shortcut on your desktop if you try this with an image that's linked to something. Why the different behavior, I have no idea, but that's totally in line with the unpredictable and unintuitive nature of Windows.
What on earth are you on about? That is down to the browser. Chrome on OSX does just that:
See the url file on the right where I have tried to drag a linked image in Chrome?
I guess this is "totally in line with the unpredictable and unintuitive nature of Mac OS X"?
Let me get this straight.
Peoples beef with Windows is that Firefox doesn't act the same as Safari on OS X and that is somehow the fault of Windows?
I guess you have a 100% credible complaint right there.
Have you ever used Windows? This is going to be another example that I use of a Mac user who have virtually no experience with Windows who make ridiculous statements that come from their imagination of what they think Windows is like. I bought my 1st computer in the year 2000, and I've always saved jpegs by dragging them to the desktop, or whatever folder I wanted.
This is good. Hopefully they'll finally deliver on their marketing promises. Apple is in sore need of some serious competition.
I am pretty sure Apple has nothing to be afraid of when it comes to Microsoft.
These guys are hacks.
I just opened WordPad on Windows 95, and I'm dragging and dropping images into and out of it. Wow, Windows 95 must be so intuitive. (I'm being sarcastic there with the wow, since sometimes people here don't realize it.) On my second test I dragged a jpeg from the desktop, on to Internet Explorer 5, and who would have thought, it displayed it. Now I just dragged the image to the desktop, and amazingly it worked.
I know, isn't it?
I just tried to see I could do it one Windows 3.11, but it doesn't have Internet Explorer. But since dragging and dropping has pretty much everything to do with the browser, I'm sure it's possible.
haha you MS fanboys are funny too. You can add functionality to anything but its how you implement that functionality. What apple does it does VERY WELL and with ease..If windows mobile is so great and amazing why is everyone all over the iphone and ipodtouches if windows mobile is better.. simple answer its not.. just like the palm pre . it has multitasking and other stuff but its not even making a mark in the iphone biz....whats funny is MS has been in the phone making and Phone software biz for much longer than apple and apple comes along with one ***** phone and software and BLOWS everyone out of the water..THAT my friend is INNOVATION something MS is not familiar with. and apple didnt stop then they created the appstore which KILLED MS apps and blackberry apps .. companies that have been doing this much longer and apple kills them again... so if you thing MS has anything on apple you are mistakin.. you can stick to your crappy windows mobile phone and i will be enjoying soon enough a new iphone and OS 4.0 which will blow everyone away again.. why? cause apple does it everytime and You cannot deny the facts
Looks like we will be seeing "Windows Phone 7 Series" whatever that means.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/13/windows-phone-7-series-thats-the-name/
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/13/windows-phone-7-series-thats-the-name/
Quite honestly, I hope Windows Mobile 7 is amazing. Truly. Competition is good, and I feel Apple need to step up a notch with iPhone OS 4. Maybe increased challenge from Microsoft (if the can make Mobile 7 as much of a positive change for their phone offerings as 7 did for their computer market) could be a good thing.
