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Re: Microsoft Pix

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Post by bmaupin »

addedlovely wrote: post #52
drinchev wrote: post #27

I'm amazed how low-quality this MS landing page is. - The "How it works" tab is just a huge image. - The search box ( top right ) has some problems with the border. Both in Chrome & Safari. - It uses `font-family: 'Segoe UI';`, which makes all elements with that font on my Mac "serif"

Also running on WordPress and exposing version number - which is out of date: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/readme.html

The version number's in every Wordpress page source:

Re: Microsoft Pix

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Post by gambiting »

Uhmmmm, is Microsoft unaware, that they already have a product call PIX? It's profiler used for DX programming and for X1. So now when you look for some PIX debugging tips on google, you will get results about the photo app.

Re: Microsoft Pix

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Post by soylentcola »

rplnt wrote: post #159

Slightly off-topic, but this reminds me of Google Camera with the Lens Blur (IIRC) feature. I can't find it on the play store now, was it discontinued? I wouldn't be surprised given it's Google, but why don't just leave the old version there with some sort of warning?

As far as I can tell, the Google Camera app still has this option. Not sure about an iOS version but if they made one I wasn't aware of it. It was actually what I thought of when they mentioned similar functionality in the new iOS camera app.

Re: Microsoft Pix

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Post by SquareWheel »

yitchelle wrote: post #174
SquareWheel wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The linked landing page is nearly 40MB. What's the deal? http://i.imgur.com/70wES9O.png On a 56K modem that would take 1.5 hours to download...

How many are still using a 56K modem? serious question.

Probably not many, but it's a useful metric for showing just how far page bloat has gone in the last 10 years.

The average internet speed in India is 2.5mb/s, which is still 128 seconds. Just to download a webpage that's pretty extreme.

Re: Microsoft Pix

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Post by SquareWheel »

yread wrote: post #168
SquareWheel wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The linked landing page is nearly 40MB. What's the deal? http://i.imgur.com/70wES9O.png On a 56K modem that would take 1.5 hours to download...

How long would it take over 1200 baud modem? Who cares? It's a page about a camera app it probably needs to have images. And it creates animations so it's useful to include samples of that, right? I like to moan about website sizes as well but here it's sort of justified.

>It's a page about a camera app it probably needs to have images.

See http://www.bing.com as a counter example. They load in a beautiful animated background, far larger and higher resolution than any image on the Pix site. Total page size? 364KB. Yes, it's over 100 times smaller.

You can still have images and animations without it using absurd amounts of data. This is just sloppy optimization, especially for a mobile app where data usage is most important.

Re: Microsoft Pix

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

aluhut wrote: post #158
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft's not heavily devoting resources to Windows Phone at the moment. They're phasing out Lumias, and focusing on getting the enterprise experience right on their mobile devices with the HP Elite x3. Windows Phone isn't really dead, but until Microsoft is ready, they're focusing on winning over iOS and Android users with their apps.

So why not stop it altogether? I'm forced to use one of those Windows Phones. The App Store is terrible. Few apps for the simplest things and god are they terrible...

I honestly can't fathom being forced over to another platform right now. Years of having to support them later, I still don't understand how anyone makes sense of the UI of iOS (it seems intuitive to non-tech people?) and the terrible colossal trainwreck that is where Google has brought Android in the last few years rules out... almost every other phone out there. (I carried an Android for seven years, I've finally had enough, I can't stand that trash anymore.)

We need a third option. If it's not Microsoft, it's gotta come from somewhere else.

Re: Microsoft Pix

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Post by iraldir »

Very cool. Just did a few shots to try it out and the results are definetely nice. Love the smart live picture, and I don't know if it's in my head are real but it feels like it is doing a field of depth if the situation call for one, which is really nice

Re: Microsoft Pix

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Post by robbies »

trzeci wrote: post #39

I thought that they released new version of DirectX SDK and PIX for debugging :( https://tomtech999.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/pix_intro.png

Yeah, I'm not sure...why they just let the name get cannabilized. Looks like they moved over to "Visual Studio Graphics Debugger".

Re: Microsoft Pix

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Post by jimboj »

SquareWheel wrote: post #185
yread wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How long would it take over 1200 baud modem? Who cares? It's a page about a camera app it probably needs to have images. And it creates animations so it's useful to include samples of that, right? I like to moan about website sizes as well but here it's sort of justified.

>It's a page about a camera app it probably needs to have images. See http://www.bing.com as a counter example. They load in a beautiful animated background, far larger and higher resolution than any image on the Pix site. Total page size? 364KB. Yes, it's over 100 times smaller. You can still have images and animations without it using absurd amounts of data. This is just sloppy optimization, especially for a mobile…

Really? I can only see a heavily compressed jpg that uses 345kb, the page has nothing else on it. High compression is probably a bad idea if you're trying to show off the superior quality of your photos and videos.
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