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Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

:calls u at 4am from mt kilimanjaro:

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Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

cheese-cube posted:

my buddy was 100% on the winphone bandwagon but then they started delaying updates and he was running dev preview software which owned him and now i don't know what he has.

billyg you broke my friends heart

your friend is an idiot hth

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Nov 22, 2006

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infernal machines posted:

oh, and the part where they killed their own platform twice with mutually three incompatible os revisions in three years

yeah lol

qirex posted:

metro was like 1/4 of a good idea that went viral internally and ruined their entire enterprise ui, it's impressive what can happen when executives get a little bit of design knowlege

the guy who invented it quit in frustration

link?

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Nov 22, 2006

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qirex posted:

one of my favorite windows phone facts is for years people had screamed that iphones were only popular because of marketing so microsoft went on an unprecedented advertising and product placement blitz, spending at least 5 billion dollars and still got nowhere

dub step

qirex posted:

no link, just scuttlebutt from other designers I know who worked there

ah word

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Nov 22, 2006

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infernal machines posted:

there was an article out somewhere around the windows 8 launch that talked about some poo poo going down in the design department at ms over the use/direction of metro.

i remember hearing that they had something like 200 UX folks in a dozen groups working on it at the same time

lol

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