Windows 10: Designed for All Your Devices
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Windows 10: Designed for All Your Devices
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Re: Windows 10: Designed for All Your Devices
#2I'm really looking forward to Windows 10, but how come every single marketing page they put out instantly lands on the front page around the top results?
Re: Windows 10: Designed for All Your Devices
#3I'm really looking forward to Windows 10, but how come every single marketing page they put out instantly lands on the front page around the top results?
Internal MS voting circle.
Edit: Not to say they're necessarily doing it on purpose or for marketing: Microsofties would receive these urls internally, and if only 20 or so of them immediately submitted them to HN, it would go to the top of the frontage.
Although personally and knowing the extremes Microsoft goes to with marketing, I'd also not doubt if said Microsofties were 'informally encouraged' to share such links on social media as much as possible.
Re: Windows 10: Designed for All Your Devices
#4I don't trust Windows even though my laptop has windows 8.1 installed. I'm planning on building a custom desktop so I can install a Linux OS and not have to worry about MSFT tracking my every click/keystroke.
Re: Windows 10: Designed for All Your Devices
#5I'm really looking forward to Windows 10, but how come every single marketing page they put out instantly lands on the front page around the top results?
Internal MS voting circle. Edit: Not to say they're necessarily doing it on purpose or for marketing: Microsofties would receive these urls internally, and if only 20 or so of them immediately submitted them to HN, it would go to the top of the frontage. Although personally and knowing the extremes Microsoft goes to with marketing, I'd also not doubt if said Microsofties were 'informally encouraged' to share such lin…
Yep, and the admins should be able to see that. They should get one warning to stop or all accounts involved should be banned.
Re: Windows 10: Designed for All Your Devices
#6I'm really looking forward to Windows 10, but how come every single marketing page they put out instantly lands on the front page around the top results?
Because 1) lots of people are interested in it, and 2) if you submit a link that's been submitted already, it gets upvoted automatically.
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#7I'm really looking forward to Windows 10, but how come every single marketing page they put out instantly lands on the front page around the top results?
Internal MS voting circle. Edit: Not to say they're necessarily doing it on purpose or for marketing: Microsofties would receive these urls internally, and if only 20 or so of them immediately submitted them to HN, it would go to the top of the frontage. Although personally and knowing the extremes Microsoft goes to with marketing, I'd also not doubt if said Microsofties were 'informally encouraged' to share such lin…
Your theory probably explains why my comment got down-voted so much. Within 2 seconds of positing it had 3 upvotes now look at it.
Re: Windows 10: Designed for All Your Devices
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Internal MS voting circle. Edit: Not to say they're necessarily doing it on purpose or for marketing: Microsofties would receive these urls internally, and if only 20 or so of them immediately submitted them to HN, it would go to the top of the frontage. Although personally and knowing the extremes Microsoft goes to with marketing, I'd also not doubt if said Microsofties were 'informally encouraged' to share such lin…
Yep, and the admins should be able to see that. They should get one warning to stop or all accounts involved should be banned.
Won't happen - there's little doubt that each person adding an upvote would be a real person. In order to police something like that you'd be effectively policing people's reasons for upvoting which is impossible.
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#9I don't trust Windows even though my laptop has windows 8.1 installed. I'm planning on building a custom desktop so I can install a Linux OS and not have to worry about MSFT tracking my every click/keystroke.
It doesn't matter since your ISP/Browser/Mobile is tracking you anyway.
Re: Windows 10: Designed for All Your Devices
#10Outside of some stability/compatibility issues that I hope are ironed out before release, I've been pretty impressed with Windows 10 preview so far. I only use Windows for games these days, so I can't really speak to it from a productivity standpoint, but the interface is much more intuitive than Windows 8's while still keeping the handful of things I liked.
Ironically, there were a couple of Windows 8 behaviors I had to unlearn (for example, there's no longer the super strange "hot corners" that were the only way to access the shutdown menu). Definitely didn't take as long as initially learning how to navigate Windows 8, though :)