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Windows 8: Messy.

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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.

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Facedroid: Facebook arbeitet mit HTC an eigenem Mobiltelefon auf Androidbasis

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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

Google Chrome OS: Nichts als das Web

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Google hat heute Chrome OS vorgestellt:

After today’s Chrome event, it became clear that Chrome OS is Google’s true operating system and Android is just a placeholder. Google says that web apps are the native apps in Chrome OS and there are a lot of cool applications in the Chrome Web Store, which is now available.

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Chrome OS is „nothing but the web“. It may seem limited, but it’s actually open ended. It’s a platform that lets you access the web instantly, that’s always connected and always in sync, it’s built for sharing with other people, it’s up-to-date and it’s constantly improving.

Chrome OS, Google’s True Operating System.

Google verfolg mit Chrome OS hochgesteckte (aber nachvollziehbare und vor allem erreichbare) Ziele, die man auch bereits beim Erscheinen des Google-Browsers Chrome erahnen konnte.… Weiterlesen