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I 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.
I like a lot of what I'm seeing and hearing, but unless I can find a good replacement for Media Center on the desktop I might still be using Windows 7 for a few more years.
So, rather than a way to sync with your phone or setup stuff like calendar, contacts, photos or music sharing, they have just made a thing telling you to install Microsoft's cloud apps? Disappointing. Apple has a great iOS/OS X experience because the integration is deeper than just "install Apple's apps on your iPhone".
Not sure about Android, but I doubt Apple provides a way to sync stuff to a desktop app. iTunes is heavily locked down and there have been cases in the past where they deliberately broke compatibility with sync apps.
In Android's case, apps can do virtually anything. They could make a sync app if they wanted to.
I like a lot of what I'm seeing and hearing, but unless I can find a good replacement for Media Center on the desktop I might still be using Windows 7 for a few more years.
I really recommend Kodi (previously XBMC). It's open source, the ecosystem is vibrant, and pretty much everything plugs into it. http://kodi.tv/
Seems OK but it definitely wasn't intuitive (and I'm already running Win 8). The only thing I can think of is they are making it an easier learning curve from Win 7 than from Win 8. It's a step backwards in some respects but I guess that's the idea.
I'll probably upgrade once the first round of patches are out for the stable version. More than I can say for the Raspberry Pi version which I won't be touching again unless it gets a lot better. Sticking with Linux on that for now. At least the mouse is usable.
I like a lot of what I'm seeing and hearing, but unless I can find a good replacement for Media Center on the desktop I might still be using Windows 7 for a few more years.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4074053
(especially the parenthetical)
I just installed the latest Windows 10 build in a VM, and I'm remarkably impressed. Cortana is working much better than expected, and I'm loving the new start menu. I'm planning on switching to Win10 full time for at least 6 months or so after release; been on OS X for many years, but I much prefer the direction MS is going, these days. It looks like they're going to be the first folks to really get a universal ecosy…
wat.
> Cortana is working much better than expected,
wat.
>and I'm loving the new start menu.
waaaaaaat.
> been on OS X for many years
oh. now it makes sense.
So, rather than a way to sync with your phone or setup stuff like calendar, contacts, photos or music sharing, they have just made a thing telling you to install Microsoft's cloud apps? Disappointing. Apple has a great iOS/OS X experience because the integration is deeper than just "install Apple's apps on your iPhone".
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It's slightly tricky because people usually upvote what they are interested in. Therefore if a big bunch of people are interested in Win10, then it is just completely normal if they upvote these topics. Similarly, basically every new Apple hardware ends up on the top of HN. Same applies to many other things -- secure messaging, depression/burnout related articles, all Tesla news, etc. It's very hard to run a news sit…
The web developer community is well known to have a massive Apple bias. I'm not surprised by Apple stuff going to the top quickly, usually. But this post in particular is suspect because it is totally devoid of content. Look at the comments so far, the most discussion has been prompted by the lack of content resulting in wondering how on earth this got to the top so quickly. I'd bet dollars to donuts there was coordi…