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| Thread ID: 138775 | 2015-01-22 00:52:00 | MS hope that Spartan will recover the market share lost by IE | Webdevguy (17166) | PC World Chat |
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| 1392502 | 2015-01-22 00:52:00 | Or not... www.cio.co.nz |
Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1392503 | 2015-01-22 00:58:00 | Makes me laugh when people make negative comments about somethings performance or features that's not even available or finished yet. Lets say Apple put out a new version of their OS, or new iPhone , full of faults, not finished, things crashing all the time, people would say its crap. Well thats unless the person happens to be an iNutter that thinks Everything Apple is oh so great. ;) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1392504 | 2015-01-22 01:56:00 | Well I kinda figured that was their reason for creating Spartan as IE market share has been on a gradual decline since 2000 and has taken a real hammering since iPhone and Android were released so I would say that it is a pretty accurate assumption to make. MS have always had a habit of over hyping something before they release it and very rarely does that device or bit of software live up to expectations. Apple tends to go the other way - they let little bits of info leak and let media speculation create the hype, which is actually a very cheap way of marketing. Then, when the device is released they add to the hype and so do the media. So far it seems to have worked in their favour, regardless of how many warts the device or software had at the time of release, and yes, all new devices and softwares do have warts. |
Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1392505 | 2015-01-22 02:45:00 | Ah, but Apple have expensive Designer iWarts. (Except for the ones that have iFarts) | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1392506 | 2015-01-22 03:04:00 | I dont think it was 'rendering speed' that drove millions of users to FF & Chrome It was anti-MS sentiment, a blind hate of IE , and fear of security issues (real or imagined) |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1392507 | 2015-01-22 03:18:00 | Or not... www.cio.co.nz You really hate Microsoft don't you? Their recent offerings have actually been very good. Onedrive - fantastic OneNote - ok not the most recent, but they've certainly made some big changes to it - very good Office 365 - fantastic value Windows 8.1 - still a work in progress, but I prefer it to Windows 7. Cortana - very good. So why believe that Spartan would be anything other than a perfectly acceptable web browser? Personally, I'm hoping Microsoft will make it work on all platforms, as they have and are doing with more of their services. Also - Microsoft has been very effective with their leaking. The more enterprise focused elements are generally more leaked and less of a surprise, but for consumer stuff, they've usually been successful at keeping a tight lid on some really juice features! |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1392508 | 2015-01-22 04:59:00 | The first site I visit in it will be acid3.acidtests.org. Then I'll make a judgement ;) | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1392509 | 2015-01-22 08:10:00 | You really hate Microsoft don't you? Their recent offerings have actually been very good. Onedrive - fantastic OneNote - ok not the most recent, but they've certainly made some big changes to it - very good Office 365 - fantastic value Windows 8.1 - still a work in progress, but I prefer it to Windows 7. Cortana - very good. So why believe that Spartan would be anything other than a perfectly acceptable web browser? Personally, I'm hoping Microsoft will make it work on all platforms, as they have and are doing with more of their services. Also - Microsoft has been very effective with their leaking. The more enterprise focused elements are generally more leaked and less of a surprise, but for consumer stuff, they've usually been successful at keeping a tight lid on some really juice features! I don't hate Microsoft, I am just of the opinion that other than their server range of products and Office 360, nothing else that they have released has either lived up to the hype or been profitable for them. Their server range of products and Office 360 are both in their preferred areas and do very well. Every OS since Vista has received mediocre reviews and failed to gain or improve on the market penetration that Windows XP had. Admittedly Windows 7 and 8.1 are pretty good but unfortunately for MS the world has moved onto mobile platforms and MS has missed the boat on this one. |
Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1392510 | 2015-01-22 08:55:00 | Their server range of products and Office 360 are both in their preferred areas and do very well. One thing that didn't go down to well was when server 2012 changed its interface to exactly the same tiled start screen as presented on W8. In case you've never seen it here it is: rorymon.com default interface sportstoday.us |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1392511 | 2015-01-22 09:11:00 | I don't hate Microsoft, I am just of the opinion that other than their server range of products and Office 360, nothing else that they have released has either lived up to the hype or been profitable for them. Their server range of products and Office 360 are both in their preferred areas and do very well. Every OS since Vista has received mediocre reviews and failed to gain or improve on the market penetration that Windows XP had. Admittedly Windows 7 and 8.1 are pretty good but unfortunately for MS the world has moved onto mobile platforms and MS has missed the boat on this one. The Verge gave 8.1 an 8.8, hardly a mediocre review. Also with their mobile efforts, it's really only the third party app support holding them back - the actual OS itself is very nice, and it looks like it's getting even nicer. Don't write them off in the mobile world just yet. For example - I don't use a Windows Phone currently, but my files are on OneDrive, my photos are backed up to OneDrive, my music will soon be on OneDrive, I use Office....it would be an easy switch to make if the third party app support improved. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
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