They wanted to show that they tried every option, but they didn't actually want to sell Palm.

Why sell it and have someone else potentially give it a heartbeat again? They put it down and kept its assets in the event that they could use the narrowed field to their advantage in deep-diving back into the mobile market in the future.

You are a pure natural born idiot. I D I O T. Please go finish that bottle of glue now.

ok! =)

No, you're right. I mis-used the term; I only remembered that SCI is locked into SCIFs after the fact.

Oh well, point taken.

Actually, I didn't reply to it, but I do readily admit that my callous lack of knowledge for how SCI material is handled caught me off-guard with how many times I was corrected in the thread. I do happen to have a sense of humor, but I didn't originally see the joke.

Right, because rooting a phone you plan on using for handling sensitive compartmented information is such a good idea.

How do you go from generally positive comments to FIRST POSTing like a typical troll? I wonder how many other FIRST POSTers generally provide insightful commentary in other conversations... I guess we'll never know except in rare cases of forgetting to tick the "Post Anonymously" box as demonstrated here.

The whole point of restricting devices is to prevent any conflicts that block productivity, and that's from the network ops side. From the security side, devices are blocked to prevent extrusion attempts as well as to prevent vulnerabilities from being introduced.

It has nothing to do with power tripping; it has everything to do with making sure the network doesn't fall apart. It has everything to do with making sure no one breaks into the organization and runs away with trade secrets or, worse, PII.

So however you want to twist it, you know you are wrong and your logic fails. But you get to think you scored points for your objet de desire so I guess that's what makes you happy. Enjoy.

Right.

Don't knock it 'til you've tried it. I've turned a tablet running Windows 8 (the developer preview) into a production unit at home. In terms of usability, so far it flows quite nicely.

His statement is implying

I wasn't implying that, actually. I was merely stating the trend while later backing it up with the fact that the methodology used for the two platforms is the same. Therefore, since the methodology was successful with one platform, it can be assumed with a reasonable degree of reliability that it will be successful with another similar platform.

This is, after all, how a process is applied. If it works in one place, it is likely to work in other similar circumstances. Therefore, it isn't actually absurd.

You're being trolled hardcore.

Quit replying to him and he'll get bored. Trust me on this. All toddlers act this way.

Right. See the inconsistency?

The same approach was taken to redoing the UI in Office that was taken here with Windows 8, with the exception that a backwards compatibility layer had to be retained on x86. Regardless, some major usability research went into ensuring that users wouldn't be put off by the change and that users could actually be more productive with it.

Microsoft has some of the best user experience research teams in the country. Given the approach with Metro UI (consolidated functions, rather than individual functions that produce their own data), I'm expecting it to help people be more productive in the long run, even if there's some initial apprehension in the short term. The same thing happened with Office 2007 when this exact methodology was followed (consolidating functions, researching user apprehension as well as usability).

That's what you guys said about Office 2007, and that actually turned out well in hindsight.

Like SpryGuy said, you aren't getting it.

In Windows, the desktop is actually an app in and of itself. When explorer.exe is first run, it loads the desktop (all icons that go on it) and the taskbar. If you never run Explorer, you'll never get the desktop. It's the same thing here; a person doesn't actually have to run Explorer, and if they don't, then the desktop will never load. The first UI the user will see will be the Metro UI, not Explorer.

Now, the second a person runs a traditional windowed application, the desktop will load as well for UI consistency, and all applications (graphically) will be contained within that layer. However, not every windowed application has to be paired with the desktop. If you run the task manager, for instance, it will float above everything else even if you switch back to the Metro UI or use a Metro application.