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Oh, and speaking of TV features unique to Europe, Microsoft forgot about the whole "TV is broadcast in 50 Hz there" thing so watching TV was a hot mess of stuttering and frame tearing. They "fixed" it by making it possible to sort-of force 50 Hz output except if you launch a game it reverts to 60 because games aren't designed to work with anything else and then you snap and the problem remains.
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didn't they release a little TV hdmi stick too? anyone review that thing yet?
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univbee posted:Oh, and speaking of TV features unique to Europe, Microsoft forgot about the whole "TV is broadcast in 50 Hz there" thing so watching TV was a hot mess of stuttering and frame tearing. They "fixed" it by making it possible to sort-of force 50 Hz output except if you launch a game it reverts to 60 because games aren't designed to work with anything else and then you snap and the problem remains. lol Europe is so fail
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Nov 7, 2014 22:54
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 wow i totally missed this. looks better than the google one.
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Nov 7, 2014 22:57
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i think it only does miracast wifi streaming or whatever though. i dont think it has anything like netflix built in. haven't seen any reviews or real in depth look at it though
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Nov 7, 2014 23:00
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what is it
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Nov 7, 2014 23:00
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another dying gasp
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Nov 7, 2014 23:01
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http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/p/wireless-display-adapter
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Nov 7, 2014 23:01
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LMAO on the specs page at the bottom: "*Not compatible with Surface RT"
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Nov 7, 2014 23:02
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are they gonna do win 10 for surface rts lol
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Nov 7, 2014 23:03
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Last Chance posted:are they gonna do win 10 for surface rts lol Surfaces Pro run Windows RT, not Windows 8. it's different.
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Nov 7, 2014 23:31
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Luigi Thirty posted:Surfaces Pro run Windows RT, not Windows 8. it's different. think different
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Nov 8, 2014 00:27
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lol if you think windows rt is anything other than dead and abandoned
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univbee posted:Oh, and speaking of TV features unique to Europe, Microsoft forgot about the whole "TV is broadcast in 50 Hz there" thing so watching TV was a hot mess of stuttering and frame tearing. They "fixed" it by making it possible to sort-of force 50 Hz output except if you launch a game it reverts to 60 because games aren't designed to work with anything else and then you snap and the problem remains. so beautiful
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univbee posted:Oh, and speaking of TV features unique to Europe, Microsoft forgot about the whole "TV is broadcast in 50 Hz there" thing so watching TV was a hot mess of stuttering and frame tearing. They "fixed" it by making it possible to sort-of force 50 Hz output except if you launch a game it reverts to 60 because games aren't designed to work with anything else and then you snap and the problem remains. the games work ok though, right?
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Nov 8, 2014 01:08
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:the games work ok though, right? im afraid i have some bad news
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Nov 8, 2014 01:15
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the xbone is like a perfect fractal of failure. every time you look at some aspect of it, you see a half-dozen hilarious fuckups, and when you zoom in on one of those you see another batch of inexplicably dumb decisions, and so on unto infinity
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Nov 8, 2014 01:15
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:the games work ok though, right? 
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Nov 8, 2014 01:22
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PleasureKevin posted:OK, now i've only heard hilarious yet sad things about the Xbox One TV features since announcement (Microsoft project manager dude) "I just don't get it! People were using our old xboxes for TV shows illegally since the xbox one, i mean, the original xbox! Right! That's why we named this new one the xbox one! It's so perfect why isnt it working!?? Why aren't people doing TV things with this like they did before!?? I just. dont. get it!!!!!"
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Sniep posted:(Microsoft project manager dude) "I just don't get it! People were using our old xboxes for TV shows illegally since the xbox one, i mean, the original xbox! Right! That's why we named this new one the xbox one! It's so perfect why isnt it working!?? Why aren't people doing TV things with this like they did before!?? I just. dont. get it!!!!!" *adoption rate remains unchanged*
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FMguru posted:*requests and gets $250 million to run a media campaign to promote xboxone tv* "Money well spent, promotions all around!"
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mod sassinator posted:"Money well spent, promotions all around!" at least their mindshare seeds were planted and that's priceless!!!! right guys?!?!11
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FMguru posted:the xbone is like a perfect fractal of failure. every time you look at some aspect of it, you see a half-dozen hilarious fuckups, and when you zoom in on one of those you see another batch of inexplicably dumb decisions, and so on unto infinity fractal of xboners
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Nov 8, 2014 02:13
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Captain Foo posted:fractal of xboners holy poo poo mods!!
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Binary Badger posted:http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/11/07/microsofts-own-office-apps-much-better-on-iphone-than-windows-phone-8 It is amazing how futile attempting to look at a word document on windows phone is. no scaling, just word wraps like i've taken the document window and shrunk it to like 100 pixels wide (even though smartphone have had 720p+ displays since forever), formatting all hosed up, etc.
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univbee posted:Oh, and speaking of TV features unique to Europe, Microsoft forgot about the whole "TV is broadcast in 50 Hz there" thing so watching TV was a hot mess of stuttering and frame tearing. They "fixed" it by making it possible to sort-of force 50 Hz output except if you launch a game it reverts to 60 because games aren't designed to work with anything else and then you snap and the problem remains. All they need to do is figure out how to send 50hz signal to 1/3rd of the screen. No bigs.
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Granbar posted:literally getting angry irl
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Captain Foo posted:holy poo poo mods!!
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A Yolo Wizard posted:windows phone lol
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Captain Foo posted:poo poo mods!!
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Main Paineframe posted:windows 7 was the last decent ui microsoft did. it wasn't super great or anything, but I've been forced to use windows 8.1 lately and it's just so clunky and ugly by comparison. ballmer probably fired all the good ui people for disagreeing with metro i used a windows 8 laptop on a trip to import photos and video from a camera and that import function in the photos app, uggghh. you insert the sd card and the photos app swoops full screen and automatically selects the files you have not yet imported (this actually owns, i'll give them that) and then you click on "import" and then there is no progress information anywhere. no estimates on how long it will take, and it can take a pretty long time when you have some 10-gigabyte video on the card. they made that new and improved copy dialog full of nerd info, but they can't make even an eta on the photo import function. and of course anything involving network connections is a giant pain in the dick with settings in the sidebar, in the "pc settings" and in the control panel.
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Luigi Thirty posted:Surfaces Pro this is too elegant for microsoft. when i asked branding about pluralization i was met with confusion and told to do "Surface Pro devices" instead of "Surfaces Pro"
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Wheany posted:and of course anything involving network connections is a giant pain in the dick with settings in the sidebar, in the "pc settings" and in the control panel. the sidebar is also completely, uh, ephemeral(?) like when i try to connect to the university's network, it will as for credentials in a pretty basic username and password dialog within the sidebar. i type in my username and then go to keepass to copy my password and when i reopen the sidebar, it will just say "unable to connect to this network" or something. and then i have to go to pc settings to "forget" the network before i can try again. and then i have to copy the password before i open the connection dialog, then type my username and then paste my password immediately for the connection to succeed.
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i had to use a windows 8 tablet for a bit, and in the desktop mode the on-screen keyboard never, ever pops up automatically even if you're in a text entry field. you have to hit the keyboard button in the taskbar every time you want to type something. also, bringing up the on-screen keyboard actually moves/squishes your windows out of the way rather than just coming up on top of them, and doesn't put them back where they were after you dismiss it (which can't be done by hitting the keyboard button again)
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something about that is just so emblematic of microsoft like, every modern feature must have at least one aspect sacrificed at the altar of backwards compatibility
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oh yeah, and the win8 on-screen keyboard is NOT the same as the accessibility tools on-screen keyboard, which still exists completely independently and you can have both of them open at the same time
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Main Paineframe posted:oh yeah, and the win8 on-screen keyboard is NOT the same as the accessibility tools on-screen keyboard, which still exists completely independently and you can have both of them open at the same time lmfao
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Main Paineframe posted:i had to use a windows 8 tablet for a bit, and in the desktop mode the on-screen keyboard never, ever pops up automatically even if you're in a text entry field. you have to hit the keyboard button in the taskbar every time you want to type something. also, bringing up the on-screen keyboard actually moves/squishes your windows out of the way rather than just coming up on top of them, and doesn't put them back where they were after you dismiss it (which can't be done by hitting the keyboard button again) it does sometimes for me (using splashtop) but only in certain apps. chrome is one, ie 11 is not but yeah it squishes your app and doesnt resize it back when it goes away
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Main Paineframe posted:oh yeah, and the win8 on-screen keyboard is NOT the same as the accessibility tools on-screen keyboard, which still exists completely independently and you can have both of them open at the same time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0CyOAO8y0
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