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Windows 8: Messy.

26. April 2012 by Marcel Weiß Leave a Comment

Ars Technica: Windows 8 on the desktop—an awkward hybrid:

The Windows 8 desktop experience is best summed up with one word: frustrating. It takes the already solid Windows 7 experience and makes some valuable, desirable improvements. The Start screen is an effective Start menu replacement. As I’ve written previously, the Metro apps themselves work well with the mouse and a keyboard: writing applications that are equally comfortable with touch and mouse seems possible. All the different pieces that you need for a good desktop operating system are there.

They just don’t fit together well. For tablet users, the whole is probably greater than the sum of the parts, and the individual decisions add up to a slick touch environment. But they’re problematic for dedicated desktop users, and mixed Metro/desktop usage looks like a real mess.

Facedroid: Facebook arbeitet mit HTC an eigenem Mobiltelefon auf Androidbasis

22. November 2011 by Marcel Weiß 2 Comments

Facebook wird laut AllThings D, der Techpublikation des Wall Street Journals, innerhalb der nächsten 12 bis möglicherweise 18 Monate ein eigenes Mobiltelefon herausbringen.

Leider heißt das Projekt nicht Facedroid sondern ‚Buffy‘.

AllThingsD:

Code-named “Buffy,” after the television vampire slayer, the phone is planned to run on a modified version of Android that Facebook has tweaked heavily to deeply integrate its services, as well as to support HTML5 as a platform for applications, according to sources familiar with the project. Facebook only recently chose HTC, after also considering at least one other potential hardware partner — Korea’s Samsung. That means the products themselves are still a ways from hitting the market, potentially as long as 12 to 18 months.

Interessanterweise geht Facebook, das bereits 350 Millionen aktive mobile Nutzer verzeichnet, den gleichen Weg wie Amazon: Es benutzt ein modifiziertes Android.… Weiterlesen