Win7 does not support certain older hardware. Your fax, your trusty scanner, ye olde printer...

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Ruemere

Mhm. This is probably the point where we should draw our lightsabers and beat each other with our experiences.
Would you accept a conciliatory truism of "sometimes life ain't perfect" instead?

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Ruemere

Untrue for hybrid corporate environment. You get some kind of UAC related prompt almost every time you want to access resources on the network (and don't, please don't get me started on Enable Editing dialog of Office 2010...). It used to drive me crazy until I have decided to live with this - I just click it away (and hope that my antivirus will deal with a wrong click - if I ever do one).

Once upon a time, a golden rule was that - if you need more than two clicks to get to the goal, the interface is a failure. I wish Microsoft designers heeded this lesson.

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Ruemere

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Disclaimer: I may be biased since I really wanted to like and to use Google+ service. Since they could not accept my preference to use a well-established nick instead of my real name, I've quit. Almost a year later, my profile is still suspended. I still cannot set my status in GoogleTalk.
I wish I could raise this with some support service, but... it's not really there. Google's motto should probably change to something like Don't be evil -- disclaimer: we don't give a damn.

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Precisely... as in "precisely why I do not need to use their service". If you do not care about customers of your service, be it free or paid, they will wander away.

Disclaimer: I may be biased I really wanted to like and use Google+ service. Since they could accept my preference to use a well-established nick instead of my real name, I've quit. Almost a year later, my profile is still suspended. I still cannot set my status in GoogleTalk.
I wish I could raise this with some support service, but... it's not really there. Google's motto should probably change to something like Don't be evil -- disclaimer: we don't give a damn .

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Ruemere

Read it and hated it for what he did to Pirx... also, the collective bout of intense stupidity at the end of the novel also left somewhat cold.

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Ruemere

I beg to disagree. While PowerShell does appear to be quite crippled (no support for scripts out of the box, access rights issues thanks to UAC), it still allows to do a lot of things previous scripting shells (VBS, WMI, DOS-like CLI) for Windows struggled to achieve. It is also actively supported by several third party vendors (VMware's PowerCLI) and actually well documented for several major applications (Exchange 2010).

It's still quite painful to wrap one's mind around its ungainly logic. But it works (in some important cases).

And for automation of tasks you need a shell. No GUI is going to provide enterprise-wide solutions on the same level as good old shell and command line.

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Ruemere

The icon, if designed properly, may be stylish, bring some atmosphere/feeling/emotion to the interface. The tiles are static, empty... about as exciting as bricks.

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Ruemere

PS. User of Lumia 700. Fortunately, my personal phone is HTC Desire.

Human sense of sight is attuned to following motion. When you look at the calm, immobile surface of an interface, you are free to proceed at leisure, but when something moves, you usually skip immediately to moving part. And so, when I look at Metro interface, and I see animations in People tile, I have this urge to check it out instead... whereas the animations are just there to prettify the effect. And the truly important content, like missed calls are reported by static number.

This inconsistency made me move People tile outside of visible area, even though it is second most used tile in the phone.

Sure. On my Android phone I have a small group of toggle buttons - WiFi, AutoSync, Mobile Data (called Cellular Data on my Nokia), Flight Profile, Silent. The best I can achieve for the Nokia is to get a shortcut tile to an actual interface. So instead of "touch, wait for effect" I need to "touch, slide to ON position, wait for effect". That's just for WiFi toggle. It gets worse for the Nokia - there are simply no equivalents to achieve one-touch change into Flight or specific profile. To up the ante consider starting the service in bright sunlight - I can do it on my HTC Desire by tapping certain part of my screen (to increase brightness or to turn on the services), while on the Nokia I need to slide and slide.

Apparently, there hasn't been an update distributed for my area (Poland). The phone quit on me suddenly with 3/4 battery left - it happened just once, but still it hurt. Through trial and error, me and my colleagues, found out that charging through USB connection leads to erratic behaviors. Also: traveling by train or using data services, like maps. I have the battery saver on, but the most irksome part is the sheer unpredictability of the experience. Unused, the phone survives 4-5 days (guess why it was left in unused state).

Come on, this is 12 GB of wasted space waiting to be used for DVD images, install files, running live distributions. This is a personal computer one can use to actually do stuff. Limiting it to syncing with social networks and playing media is akin to castration. Why would I use a smartphone for braindead activities only?

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Ruemere

This.
I've been using Nokia Lumia 800 for some time now, and while some aspects of the product are very polished, my overall opinion is negative.

Sample problems:
- some tiles are animated, some not - pretty distracting experience.
- while the interface is responsive, you still need to do several taps and slides to get a result you can set a single tap under an Android or iPhone.
- 50k apps in the market if neither can do stuff I need.
- no Google apps I need - sorry, Nokia, your phone needs to be able to join existing ecosystem.
- battery - ye gods, hopefully those of you who purchase Nokia Lumia 900 do not experience the issues we have in EU with Nokia Lumia 800. In short, it's buggy, unpredictable, goes haywire in areas with worse coverage and generally tends to suddenly expire on you quickly. A show stopper.
- no easy way to access file system.
- display which simply fails in sunlight.
- limited customization.

Apart from battery issues, it's a fine phone, but compared to my HTC Desire with MildWild... it just does not come close. Yes, my HTC Desire may not perform as quick in 'Smoked' tests, but it does what I need, including playing Angry Birds for free.

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Ruemere

Read this:
http://www.slideshare.net/eduruiz8/death-by-power-point-presentation

This is a short and sweet classic on how to make an engaging presentation. It will not help you if you're a boring, antisocial and mumbling clerk, though.

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Ruemere

Sorry, with ACTA signed I may be sued for slander. And these particular guys love to litigate. :)

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Ruemere

What!?

Dude, we're not THAT conservative. Actually, given that we're part of the Old World, you'd probably hard pressed to find anyone but the most closed-minded people, who would care about who is sleeping with whom.
We have a party leader who's brought a dildo to press conference, we have another who is apparently married to a cat in everything but official capacity, and we've had a share of convicted criminals, low-level swindlers and so on. At the least we've avoided a Berlusconi-level con guy, though.

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Ruemere

You may want to check out bonch and Overly Critical Guy.
You'll see several interesting issues.

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Ruemere

There is a difference between posting something, and posting something again and again, and then some more. The former paves way to dialogue, the latter is just a bit more polite than outright spamming.

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Ruemere