New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft • Hacker News Board

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by Guvante » Tue, Oct 06, 2015, 5:53 PM UTC

superdude wrote: post #296

mtgx wrote: post #236

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Or they're just misleading about how they measure the battery life. We used to have "8h of battery life" 10 years ago, when in fact they lasted 3h. Apple has done this, too, more and more lately unfortunately. Their "12h" battery life is more like 8h for moderate usage.

Apple products consistently get their advertised battery life (or beyond).

The discussion thread is about battery life under heavy usage which never meets the advertised battery life since no one would buy a laptop that only advertised its minimum battery life. "Will last at least 3 hours after full charging" isn't catchy.

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by exelius » Tue, Oct 06, 2015, 5:53 PM UTC

0xFFC wrote: post #323

exelius wrote: post #301

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Microsoft's server software is actually top-notch and has been for years. Server 2003 was rough, but after that MS really started improving the management tools and allowing a lot more command line via powershell, etc. And in corporate America, Microsoft's Server products are near-ubiquitous. Consider that most of the in-house workflow tools at any company are built in Sharepoint -- and Sharepoint is actually a great…

I wish I had down voting ability , You would be my best candidate for down voting.

And this is why most people on HN can't down vote comments.

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by gcb0 » Tue, Oct 06, 2015, 5:55 PM UTC

untilHellbanned wrote: post #176

how does their website not work on Chrome? http://imgur.com/a/egqSU

someone screwed up. here it hangs before loading any image waiting for accounts.microsoft-int.com or something.

network capacity issue, not browser.

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by gcb0 » Tue, Oct 06, 2015, 5:55 PM UTC

untilHellbanned wrote: post #176

how does their website not work on Chrome? http://imgur.com/a/egqSU

someone screwed up. here it hangs before loading any image waiting for accounts.microsoft-int.com or something.

network capacity issue, not browser.

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by rcconf » Tue, Oct 06, 2015, 5:56 PM UTC

bndw wrote: post #143

Looks terrible on Chrome https://imgur.com/H75ejZN

Resizing the window and trying to scroll causes a lot of scrolling bugs as well.

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by pizza234 » Tue, Oct 06, 2015, 5:57 PM UTC

pizza234 wrote: post #225

codeulike wrote: post #40

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I'm not sure you could call the Surface Book a hybrid form factor. It just looks like a laptop until you lop the screen off.

That's the definition of hybrid :-) Academic definitions aside, there hybrids have to choose a very serious compromise due to the balance: if you make the base light (surface pro case), you won't really have a laptop, instead a tablet which sits on your legs. if you make the base heavy, you're making a relatively heavy laptop. now, there is of course a spectrum of choice, but practically speaking, even they make a ve…

Update: they've just published the spec, and it weighs, as I was suspecting, 1.5kg, which is not bad for a sturdy (I assume it's going to be robustly built) hybrid.

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by dang » Tue, Oct 06, 2015, 5:57 PM UTC

We merged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10340117 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10340022 hither, since there shouldn't be three stories about this on the front page.

Since the live event looks done now, we've picked (what I think is?) the most significant product URL to change to from http://www.microsoft.com/october2015event/en-us/live-event. If anyone suggests a better URL we can change it again.

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by dang » Tue, Oct 06, 2015, 5:58 PM UTC

squeakynick wrote: post #95

At the end of the day it's balls in the back of the net that count. I'm pleased for everyone, so let's see if this translates into sales. It's a hybrid mix of things to get to success; and all about execution. http://datagenetics.com/blog/september52015/index.html

You're crossing the line into spam here. HN is for intellectually interesting discussion, not site promotion.

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by 0xFFC » Tue, Oct 06, 2015, 5:58 PM UTC

dugmartin wrote: post #305

WorldWideWayne wrote: post #214

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I'm running Windows 10 with multiple Linux server distros in the background. Hyper-V shuts them down and brings them up with Windows. WinSCP is my file manager and Putty is my terminal. I prefer this over OS X on Apple hardware because I can get the exact Unix experience that I want without having to fight with Apple about who is in control of the machine. Perhaps more importantly, I get the desktop experience that I…

If you haven't tried it out I'd suggest checking out SuperPutty ( https://github.com/jimradford/superputty ) - it allows for multiple Putty windows in a tabbed interface.

I use exact same configuration , ARCH and DEBIAN cli in background and putty in windows 10 for my C development , and btsync for syncing file between two . I hate tabbed interface , especially in command line.

One good reason is window managers , with windows 10 window manager I get almost perfect tiling window manager functionality , but with tabs ?

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by fencepost » Tue, Oct 06, 2015, 5:58 PM UTC

cdnsteve wrote: post #140

Could be a MBP replacement for developers. The only thing is those of us running on OS X, how is Windows 10? I love my command line and linux like commands and tools. - Homebrew - Bash scripts - Docker (Windows 10 currently not supported) - Vagrant I just feel the tooling for MS isn't in the direction I am. I still have a Windows 7 desktop and it's just not the same.

You might be interested in the most recent episode of Shop Talk Show (http://shoptalkshow.com/episodes/186-dave-goes-windows/) and associated blog posts.

One notable thing from the blog side was significant issues with RoR, but otherwise I think there's a lot of good.