This article demonstrates the increasing gap between tech reporters and consumers. Announcements and marketing aren't the metrics for the quality of a product. Design, user experience and features will ultimately decide whether the latest line of Microsoft products succeeds.
But he does have a point with bloatware and control over the brand. I commonly associate the Windows brand with garbage software that comes pre-installed on every PC.
I'm impressed with how responsive the author has been in the comments here. It seems like each concern is met with a reply and even some times he creates an issue item for it in Github. Nice work!
The Windows RT version of the Surface is a consumption device. I feel like the primary use cases are reading, movies, web, e-mail and so on. You'll have to wait for the x86 version of the Surface if you're looking to do graphics editing.
I think you'd be surprised at how a color that is SO DIFFERENT could make the device seem unique and individual. Everyone has either a black or a brushed metal laptop. Something this bright could sell well because of its novelty.
There was a lot of buzz around the cyan version of the new Nokia Windows Phone 8.
This seems like a quick hack version where a variable has been changed to pink.. My problem with this is not the pink by itself but mostly how it doesn't fit with the other elements. Try changing the background of HN to pink to have an idea of what I mean.
The Nokia cyan is different as it still fit with the overall design.
I haven't been able to find any credible information about resolutions but the rumors seem to point toward less than retina.
But the flip side of that is most of the Windows 8 interface is rectangles with large type. You don't need very high resolution devices to make that style of interface look crisp and sharp.
Checking out the source code, this isn't going to work in IE8 and earlier without some small tweaks. IE didn't support `document.getElementsByClassName(string)` until IE9. It would be a small rewrite to make it work with IDs instead of classes (or you could use a shim).
[EDIT]: . . . But I like the idea. Might even use it next time I'm working with GA.
Thanks for the warning! I initially developed this with jQuery, and only after seeing how little of it was needed decided to get rid of it - but I forgot to make all the due diligence. Later or this weekend I'll fix this - but if in the meantime anybody wants to send a fix or a pull request, I'll be glad to use it.
LOL, I had forgotten: I already use a custom getElementsByClassName if there isn't one! So the it already works in IE < 9... check out the source code :)
Anecdotally, I have an oddly large population of vistors to my site with Firefox 9. I don't know what changes were made to how Firefox updates around that time. But it seems like the update train has unwittingly left few users behind.
As a reference, Firefox 9 is the version in the packages repo for FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE and it's probably the same for a fair number of other oses that peg versions on release.
But he does have a point with bloatware and control over the brand. I commonly associate the Windows brand with garbage software that comes pre-installed on every PC.