Tiles on a server
... mentalism. Aside from anything else, all the graphical wazoo is like watching a slideshow over slow RDP connections. Powershell? Yeah. Very powerful, but also insanely wordy.
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Who thought the Metro UI on servers was a good idea. This looks like a Touch UI where appropriate, or where the user wants to use it, and a traditional desktop alternative as an equal citizen, and hopefully all the startup speed and other benefits of Windows 8. Lovely.
Nice to see the prompt getting some love too, although I think I'll still be using Cmder.
"Ironically, most "native" applications would be useless without a web to connect to and share data through"
I often wonder whether people who write that sort of thing are actually aware of the reality of what people who use computers in the business and productivity world actually *do* from day to day.
"“Executives and #GenMobile employees alike prefer an increasingly mobile style of working and IT organizations are feeling the pressure to adapt existing technology investments to meet their requirements,” said Ben Gibson, chief marketing officer for Aruba Networks. "
#GenMobile ... fuck OFF
... from one of Microsoft's two facilities in leafy Sandyford, Dublin. Both of which are pretty big, neither of which strike me as big enough to be a European physical media distribution centre. If I remember, when I used to get physical media for MSDN developer stuff, it came from Germany.
> That explains why even strong pro-Windows websites like TheRegister
El Reg is strongly pro-Windows in the sense that the Tea Party thinks the BBC is strongly pre-left, i.e. it only looks like that from way over in the other direction.