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[Glaucus]

Faethor, you may get a kick out of this:


Mozilla Sends Cake to Microsoft IE Team for IE10 Congrats

That's actually really cool, it would be nice if we saw more of that sort of thing, after all, we're all techies at heart. Although if I was a Google employee and saw a cake from Apple, I'd consider re-gifting to Microsoft.

 

[faethor]

Saw that. I think Microsoft sent theirs to Mozilla a couple of years ago.

 

[Glaucus]

Ok, totally off topic but kinda fits:

Microsoft Office Coming to iOS and Android

Is that shocking? Not really. Both Google and MS have always ported some of their high profile apps to other platforms so this is kinda normal. Office however is a major undertaking. Still, with iOS's complete lack of trackpad/touchpad/mouse support, I can't imagine office being pleasent to use on iOS.

Anyway, now this leaves Apple to return the favor and port some of their key apps to Android/WP8. And no, please no more QuickTime players! Something useful please!

 

[faethor]

WinRT has a slimed down/chopped up/mini (whatever one wants to call it) version of Office. It's got most of the MS Office functionality but not all. This is often sufficent on Tablets. (And let's face it MS Office is overkill for most people even at work.) I'd suspect iOS and Android get similar configurations of a mini-MS Office. Afterall one wants a bit lighter application that doesn't demand as much out of hardware. This helps performance and space while giving users the options they come to expect. Office 2013 one can use the screen to touch any option you want. No need for a trackpad/mouse.

 

[faethor]

@Galucus

I wanted to get back on my statement " I do notice on flip it's not as smooth as the iPad. I rarely flip either so I don't consider that to overly bad but something Microsoft should improve upon".

I was able to play with a Samsung Series 7 tablet with the full Windows 8 Pro install. It flips 'slow' too. The reason I put 'slow' in quotes is this compares to the iPad flip speed. I'm thinking Microsoft made a conscious decision to flip the screen slower. Why? The iPad now is seeming a bit touchy to me. Any slight movement flips the screen. If one slows the flip down just a bit it allows the user to move the screen around more without flipping the image. I now notice that the iPad screen flips and then flips back as I move around. The sensitivity on the Tablet w/ 8Pro and the Surface RT appear to be lower. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.

 

[Glaucus]

I thought the issue with the flip was that the screen didn't animate the flip elegantly. Like with Android, when you rotate the screen, your app appears to rotate nicely (even though behind the scenes Android destroys and then recreates your app's activity, taking the new layout into account). Apparently the Surface does what older versions of Android did and just cut instantly to the new layout without any transition animation in between.