Metro version of Microsoft Office in development: One major product that will need to be ported to ARM is, of course, Microsoft Office. Microsoft showed a version of Office running on ARM hardware (apparently identical to the x86 version) at CES.
First option is Store (which is not there), then some apps that could possibly be related to it, then an option to select something from your PC, then an option to download something from the web.
Well, the old way you needed to get to the Open With dialog and that stuff, now it directly shows it in a more neat way.
@JourneymanGeek: Ah, the permissions dialog has also been improved, starting to discover new things the whole time even if I installed it two days ago... ^^
@TomWijsman dude, you do know I do more than just reuploading images with my editing right? and one of my main motivations for the image stuff is actually because a lot of image hosting sites are blocked here in China (e.g. imageshack.us) - imgur isn't blocked
and besides, if you exclude @slhck (who does a lot of editing too) and Psy (mentioned above), the average number of edits this week among everyone is 10. so just yesterday alone I'm pretty much on par with everyone else for the entire week for 'normal edits'
the weekly edit statistics. take everyone from Sathya onwards, take an average, and you get around 10 edits. not that ANY OF THIS needs justifying whatsoever
I believe you started this when you said "Well, he is following the footsteps of Gareth. :P Or well, it's indeed a bit less useful than saving images..."
Due to the recent discussion about edit flooding, and one possible counter measure mentioned by @Grace Note ...
You may consider that it is often wiser to perform massive edit jobs during low period hours.
... and @random asking in a comment:
Can we get stats on when a site has its lowe...
Edit flooding is the term I'm using for when a single user (or small group of users) perform a lot of edits in a small space of time and effectively take over the front page - pushing a lot of new content away.
A few minutes ago, the front page was filled end to end with edits by one of our top ...
You are taking the severity of image re-uploads way too high...
@Gareth I left comments there, I don't have a problem with you doing it but I have a problem with it being on the front page.
These are just all workarounds (use /questions, do smaller chunks <10, go outside the peak hours) around the problem of having a front page full of noise.
Breakthrough and Grace Note and KronoS made some nice suggestions there.
And my suggestion would be an Interesting Tab or something along that lines...
Dunno if I said that there, but I have had a question about that on Meta.
I think the reason the developers don't do anything about it is because it only applies to Super User; as Stack Overflow has the Interesting Tab and other sides are too small to have image re-upload edit floods going on.
@Gareth Back to your first reply. I've been on your side of this story with all the title/tag edits and so on, and I often got remarks on that (one or two meta questions I belief); even from the moderators (they asked me about it on chat, random was also really not a fan of it with the stop word stuff, ...), so that and my personal experience with seeing your edits show up in my later (more active) hours made me dislike having those edits show up on the front page.
@Gareth In the first place I would like the front page rewritten to not have this issue, if that's not possible then it indeed comes down to any person doing edit flooding.
anyway, the sheer scale of this means that if I did 10 such edits a day (as well as my normal edits), I'd be at this for years... at least 2 or 3 years. That's infeasible. I've already done about 95% of the images (hard to estimate), and a lot of those weren't just reuploads, but actually replacing source images where they were broken and completely lost
@Gareth: Hmm, I could try and opt to write an user script for the homepage now that I think for it.
The API can give a list of active questions just like the front page, if I make it large enough I can just filter out your edits and take the last X questions and show them. (where X is the amount of questions the front page usually has)
Side problem is that I'm filtering out your answers and more useful edits too... :(
It's handy to filter out future edit flooders though...
Doesn't solve that I can't do a lot edits myself either. :(
@Gareth: Argh, just upset about this whole frontpage edit thing, I'm off now...Sorry for that personal remark, but seeing your name show up so much makes me reflect the problem on you and not on the system; while it's actually the latter one that needs the real fix (whether it is automatizing image re-uploads or a better front page).
Discussing this further is a waste of time anyway, there's nothing one of us can reasonably do about it. 30 minutes on this ought to be more than enough...
Hey @DanielBeck - I'll try harder! My personal aim when making all of these edits is to keep people off the front page for up to three hours, of course. Sad to hear I'm not achieving that!
as said though, it's virtually finished - I think there's probably a few more rounds left but they're much smaller and harder to find. In the time it's taken people to write up meta posts etc and think how to solve this, I've just gone ahead and done it
"Gareth is perhaps best known for his incredible propensity for editing. He’s been on a multi-month crusade to fix all of the broken links and images on Super User, and also contributes many useful answers while he’s at it." blog.superuser.com/2011/09/07/…
While I do (mildly) dislike the churn on the front page, I recognise that it is something that needs doing. The guy earlier that sparked this was just putting in <kbd> tags and seemingly gaming the edit system whereas you're actually doing worthwhile work.
I can see how it might annoy people... perhaps they like to sit on the front page to see newly posted answers, or like moderating any revisions made to Q's/A's
anyway, on a slight tangent, if you wanted to know what will eventually bring down the Communist government in China, it's going to be something like this ;)
@DanielBeck Aye, that's what I'm getting at, Gareth is doing good work with the images and other bits. There was another person earlier who was doing absolutely nothing past inserting <kbd> tags which just seemed pointless and a bit like they were gaming the rep system.
Perhaps I should blog about easily (un)installing Windows 8 without the need of an installation medium or virtualisation.
@JourneymanGeek: Excuse me, there is actually a viewer, but it only works for extensions that end with an x thus are based on the versions of Office past 2003.
@Gareth I've read some rumor-ish Biology article about the EHEC bactery being used in that way.
@GeorgeEdison Unrelated, I've just noticed how I can turn the Fahrenheit in Celcius in the Weather application. Now it makes sense that the Settings thing is per-application... ^^
I don't have anything under Devices and Share yet, though.
At work a few days ago, I had a Windows XP machine BSOD on me. I talked to those around me, showed them that it BSOD'd, it was almost a historic moment.
Everyone agreed that they hadn't seen a BSOD for quite some time...
There was a kind of excitement in the air as we observed it. It's really kind of hard to describe...
I live in Arizona. We had a freak condition where 3 small, but powerful, storms converged on the area around where I live/work. We received almost 3 inches of rain in about 4 hours.
But half of the city I live in didn't even get a drop of rain.
In order to understand the effect of 3 inches of rain in Tucson, you have to realize, it rarely rains more than an inch. As a result, pretty much all cities in the state use the roads as drainage ditches.
Some roads were covered in as much as a foot of water. Driving just 6 miles took a co-worker of mine over an hour...
@GeorgeEdison not yet, but soon. I'm going to do one on how your Windows 7 and Windows 8 installations can co-exist, share files, etc. There'll be all sorts of fun stuff about junction points and libraries and whatnot.
Perhaps I should blog about easily (un)installing Windows 8 without the need of an installation medium or virtualisation.
Hmm, perhaps outline the different options of installing Windows 8?
I'm also using Junction points here to link everything back to Windows 7, it's so awesome...
Played a game of StarCraft II on added an add-on to Firefox in Windows 8? The replay and add-on will be on Windows 7 like if I would have done it on Windows 7. ^^
I don't mind that someone else writes it, just want to help where I can.
@TomWijsman Some guy stating that they want users to launch applications there is weak. There's no underlying reasoning behind that statement. There could well be (and I really think there is, considering this is Microsoft), but I haven't seen it, and you haven't linked to anything either.
@TomWijsman When they presented the ribbon, they had studies on its advantages ready and everything. That's one of the reasons I expected to see more than a line on a slide.
@DanielBeck Then the problem is users that don't report feedback/bugs/..., that won't make Microsoft aware of the need that a significant portion of the consumers have.
In short, I'm just saying: By the looks of WP7 and W8DP as well as the supporting material/presentations/slides, Microsoft probably won't implement this. You can report this but it is more of a "who in their right mind would use the start screen for that when you already have A,B,C,... to do that"; so, you are only left with using secondary tiles (against the checklist / guidelines) or a Metro application that shows your recent / frequent documents in a grid (1 app / column).
The latter application could be "Recent Stuff" or something along that lines, and it would serve as a improvement over the outdated old Recent Documents and Folders we had back in the previous versions of Windows.
I've learned that writing such alternative things is often a waste of time. Such a low cost benefit...
@TomWijsman This is a good statement on the issue. I also noted in the comments that you offering alternatives was quite helpful. But as I said, you will not succeed in telling users they don't actually want that feature, unless you have a real explanation why it works as it does.
@DanielBeck I agree with that, that's why I just drop by that consumer goals sentence. And they can think what they want about it, I've (not explicitly) stopped that discussion anyway...
I can think of a thousand things that you could put their outside the guidelines, but all I would see is a mess. If people start to implement such things, people will end up with unorganized Start Screens sooner or later...
A use case develops: "I want to click Windows and click on recent/frequent/pinned/... files."
Microsoft rejects: "If we built this in the Start Screen it will turn into a mess, it would give the incentive for the user to pin individual documents/websites/videos/songs/mails/... to the Start Screen."
(Hypothetical Software Engineering example)
I kinda agree that this is not directly easy to tell to the user, in most ways it just comes over as "we don't want this because it'll be a mess".
Users indeed don't listen to "you are intended to use X or Y or Z instead".
Completely irrelevant: There are people that complain that the Start Menu doesn't find there files, but that's just because they don't work inside their user folder... ;)
WIN+E goes to there user folder, yet they end up going through the UAC hurdle to have there folders in C: or somewhere along that lines, in most cases it's useless to explain those kind of people that they need to work inside there user folder because they don't have that view and will probably never have unless they can't do their view anymore.
But well, enough on that subject. We can't do the magic, unless there is an interest in it...
Searching in the Windows registry can be ve------ry------ lo----ng.
Is there some tool available that can index the contents of the whole registry, or contents of a single hive, such that fast lookups are available? (for example generating some SQLite database with FTS3 or FTS4 enabled for full ...
@nhinkle: I already stopped, you started of a new discussion. The additional exchange was necessary as I'm not arguing at all, I'm just wondering in the first two and objectively referring to Microsoft intentions in the others, the others are just as a response to Daniel and you. I will not further reply beyond this message because this is going nowhere...
I already went elsewhere with Daniel Beck as you can see above, I would rather have done it in another chat room but Daniel Beck has chosen not too. Well, if someone doesn't like it we'll hear from them and we can ask to get it migrated in that case.
As with removing the comments, you have done the right thing. I've nothing to discuss about with you anymore... :)
And, I will not post any more comments on that thread nor join any discussions about this. (As I said over and over now)
@DanielBeck I agree with that, that's why I just drop by that consumer goals sentence. And they can think what they want about it, I've (not explicitly) stopped that discussion anyway...
@TomWijsman I'm glad you understand. In the future, please try to avoid extended discussion in comments when it's not directly relevant to answering the question.
@nhinkle: Sure, that's what I tried to do here. So, I don't see the problem; but, I'll ask for burninating discussions that others like to extend just to be safe...
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so er, who deleted all the stuff from the shared folder?
Hmm, the Stack Exchange chat makes quite a difference in my Firefox start-up time...
Gonna remove it and come here on-demand/daily, perhaps if I need to be always here I can look into having a separate application or Firefox profile for the chat. (Which makes sense, a tab for each different room isn't a bad idea...)
The room for elite Super Users who realize they know nothing a...
@ThomasMcDonald There's something about removal of Recommended Reading there, dunno if it's related. I've never particpated on Dropbox...
Hmm, next up is Google+ and Facebook, as well as Google Reader. Perhaps I should make a "social" profile too, or look for something to load different sets of tabs with my most frequent tabs as a default...
That doesn't seem to work well, I can store tabs on it and reopen them later, but not switch between different things, perhaps I can try the built-in Tab Groups of Firefox for this though. Such underused feature so far...
Argh, it loads the last opened ones, tricky.
Hmm, kind of stupid that the app tabs reload if you switch tab group, perhaps I can go and do some source edits sooner or later... (on start-up switch to tab group Default if it exists; on tab switch do not reload the app tabs but leave them as is)
