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Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today
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#302I work on the Start menu. It's just a UWP XAML app with Models and ViewModels written in C++/Cx, as are most of the new Shell features and built-in apps--although some of the newer ones, like Maps and Xbox, are in XAML/C#/.Net Native. Even the UI frame of Edge is in XAML, and the new Office UWP apps are too. I encourage everyone here to give UWP apps a shot; we dogfooded the dev platform to ensure it was stable and f…
Sounds like you’re working in the belly of the beast. If you don't mind me asking what's up with the 'tile' concept that's pasted all over windows UI. I get the fact it makes a cool looking demo, but the usability is terrible. So, who / what’s pushing this internally?
Can you expand on why you say the usability is terrible? I understand people didn't like the Win8 start menu, since it was only accessible in full screen and would hide your desktop entirely, however I never heard any one give a reason why they would think tiles in general are terrible.
I personally love the concept. I spent some time on Windows Phone too and the live tiles were the best thing about the OS. Also, you can unpin all of them on windows 10 and resize the start menu to only keep the app list (but I have no idea would anyone would do that).
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#303Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Dn894631.aspx "Universal Windows Platform". Lets you target every Windows 10 device with a single app, from Raspberry Pi 2 to phone to PC's to Xbox One. Apps are written in C++/C#/VB with XAML markup or JavaScript/HTML/CSS. Also FYI, it takes a minimal amount of work to repackage an existing web app as a UWP.
Does that support Windows 7/8/8.1? If not I won't be able to adopt it for a long time.
No it doesn't. Only works on win10 (phone, PC, tablet & surface hub for the moment, but they are expanding it to hololens and xbox one).
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#304Earlier quoted context omitted.
It may not be hardware hash-based. OEM Windows reads licensing info from the BIOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS#SLIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Locked_Pre-installation
My machine does not have a product key in the BIOS, it is older than that :)
If your machine was OEM preloaded with Windows 7, you can rest assured it has a product key.
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#305I work on the Start menu. It's just a UWP XAML app with Models and ViewModels written in C++/Cx, as are most of the new Shell features and built-in apps--although some of the newer ones, like Maps and Xbox, are in XAML/C#/.Net Native. Even the UI frame of Edge is in XAML, and the new Office UWP apps are too. I encourage everyone here to give UWP apps a shot; we dogfooded the dev platform to ensure it was stable and f…
I'm glad to see that Microsoft is no longer recommending one toolkit to third-party developers (WPF, WinRT) while using another one for Windows itself (DirectUI). With everyone using the same toolkit now, we should expect to see more consistency, especially in areas like accessibility that don't get as much attention.
Edit: I wonder how long it will be until DirectUI is completely gone from the shell, or if that will ever happen.
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#306From the feature deprecation list: If you have a floppy drive, you will need to download the latest driver from Windows Update or from the manufacturer’s website. I really wonder if there are manufacturers of floppy drives without a website.
All floppy drives come with a floppy disk with the driver on it. Problem solved.
You mean like WinRAR installers inside a .rar file?
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#307I work on the Start menu. It's just a UWP XAML app with Models and ViewModels written in C++/Cx, as are most of the new Shell features and built-in apps--although some of the newer ones, like Maps and Xbox, are in XAML/C#/.Net Native. Even the UI frame of Edge is in XAML, and the new Office UWP apps are too. I encourage everyone here to give UWP apps a shot; we dogfooded the dev platform to ensure it was stable and f…
I'm glad to see that Microsoft is no longer recommending one toolkit to third-party developers (WPF, WinRT) while using another one for Windows itself (DirectUI). With everyone using the same toolkit now, we should expect to see more consistency, especially in areas like accessibility that don't get as much attention. Edit: I wonder how long it will be until DirectUI is completely gone from the shell, or if that will…
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#308Earlier quoted context omitted.
It'll start as "better on DirectX 12," there'll be a Crysisesque "DirectX 12 only" game that is the prettiest thing anyone has ever seen, everyone will move and the holdouts can keep playing old games off Steam and GOG if they don't like it.
That was the plan with DX10 and we have seen, how that one went. The thing is, the majority of gamers will update based on the available cash, and so gamedevs will be targeting the expected hw base at the time of release. So it really depends, whether you except the gamers to go on spending spree (nvidia and intel would certainly love that), or not.
Existing DX11 cards will be compatible with DX12.
Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today
#309I work on the Start menu. It's just a UWP XAML app with Models and ViewModels written in C++/Cx, as are most of the new Shell features and built-in apps--although some of the newer ones, like Maps and Xbox, are in XAML/C#/.Net Native. Even the UI frame of Edge is in XAML, and the new Office UWP apps are too. I encourage everyone here to give UWP apps a shot; we dogfooded the dev platform to ensure it was stable and f…
Good! We definitely need a new UI framework that will be abandoned in a few years. Why can't MS improve one of the existing ones like WPF or WinRT (what happened to that anyway?)?
Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today
#310I work on the Start menu. It's just a UWP XAML app with Models and ViewModels written in C++/Cx, as are most of the new Shell features and built-in apps--although some of the newer ones, like Maps and Xbox, are in XAML/C#/.Net Native. Even the UI frame of Edge is in XAML, and the new Office UWP apps are too. I encourage everyone here to give UWP apps a shot; we dogfooded the dev platform to ensure it was stable and f…
Sounds like you’re working in the belly of the beast. If you don't mind me asking what's up with the 'tile' concept that's pasted all over windows UI. I get the fact it makes a cool looking demo, but the usability is terrible. So, who / what’s pushing this internally?
I've found a lot of people are using "the usability is terrible" to mean, "It's different and I don't like it." Do you have an empirical evidence to suggest the usability being good or bad, or better or worse than before?