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metrop0219

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    Comment #4220690

    Not really, you're only forced to see it when you hit the windows button. Other than that you can live happily ever after in desktop land.

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    Comment #4219733

    Whenever I see posts like this, I always question the small amount of customization an icon allows for. If people are putting this much effort into these tiny little icons, I hope …

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    Comment #4191051

    Except that they also lower the expectation of what an OS upgrade should include.

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    Comment #4178148

    I agree with you completely.

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    Comment #4177909

    Did you see the WP8 Announcement? Lets reevaluate that one in a year

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    Comment #4174433

    Yeah I think it's just a home page preview

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    Comment #4174368

    Looks good to me, digging it.

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    Comment #4169864

    Except that the 3GS isn't getting iOS6. It's lacking features from iOS6, such as Siri. Apple permeates this lie in order to fool you, the consumer, into thinking that they're compl…

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    Comment #4169648

    Surface!

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    Comment #4158882

    Most of this sounds about right to me. I think that they want to try to keep the current model intact but I'm sure that if they see that it's not possible they'll embrace a new one…

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    Comment #4157446

    If this thing wasn't running Android, maybe it would be a viable product. But since it is, and judging by all of the current Android slates, I don't think it'll get anywhere

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    Comment #4143484

    No.... not at all. I just opened this in ie 10 fine. What's the point here?

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    Comment #3995621

    Something tells me that most people don't hate metro lol. Its gotten a lot of praise and awards last I checked

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    Comment #3994116

    Memory is cheap. There's probably better things to focus on then squeezing more bits out of the memory usage.

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    Comment #3994102

    In what way are they screwing developers? I feel that the three avenues for writing apps (C#/xaml, c++, and html5/js) are actually pretty good for us.

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    Comment #3994097

    I think that people here are too pessimistic in general about Windows 8. Look at the current trends in computing. They're using those trends to influence this release. And I think …