Windows Weekly 525: Token Ring’s Back

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• nbplopes

  06 July, 2017 - 11:40 am

  <p>Hi. I really don't understand why people think that this practice founded in "vaporware" as anything positive to the consumer, to the people that pay and use these tools or services.</p><p>Can you guys explain the advantages of these practices to anyone but Microsoft &amp; Control?</p><p>Imagine this practice in anything you pay for to have. Say, buying a house, a car, medical surgery tools, medication, say buying a painting, a book, what about schools / teaching ….? Not saying that there is not entrainment value, but for people that just want it to work …</p><p>The common person, should I say even most companies, do not care much for roadmaps updates of new features or not. Yes, in case of problems we want to know when it will be solved for certain. In terms of new stuff, until its here, only really for the fun of it we may want to know. But no one can in their sane mind make a concrete action plan with it given how volatile it has become.</p><p>I understand that people are excited about Windows 10 and Hybrid PCs, I was for quite a while to the point I own 2. But lets get real … it took them 15 years, a repeat 15 years to get the software ok to cope with the hybrid form factor and still people feel it not close to perfection for today's standards.</p><p>The hybrids we have today are not much different than what we have now from the outside except that today they are much slimmer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Tablet_PC#/media/File:HP_Tablet_PC_running_Windows_XP_(Tablet_PC_edition)_(2006).jpg</p><p>Why this did not took off back than? </p><p>Yes there are advancements in the hardware allowing for this, that is the responsibility of device builder and related hardware companies and the Surface line is a positive indication that software companies need to know more about hardware to build effective systems. But there no doubt that probably more than half of advancements today are in the software and that is the responsibility of software developers such as MS, Apple, Google, so on and so forth. Why did we not had something like Windows 10 in 2007? Why only after 15 years? Is this fast?</p><p>So Paul I personally disagree with you when you say that MS is much faster than a company like Apple. Totally disagree.</p><p>Take for instance the Stylus or Pencil. Since when is MS playing with that? Well since 15 years ago. The first iteration of the Apple Pencil blew the MS approach out of the water, but for me was still not ok. The second iteration, I can say o "s*" they have done it. Who ever own one of this iPad Pro's like I do and the Pencil and used Tablets PC's since ever, knows that this that Apple in just a second iteration "killed it". The responsiveness is really like writing on paper. I understand you may not be a target user for this but don't dismiss what this reveals at any level if you love tech.</p><ul><li>Remember the old days where we needed to calibrate the pen? Well that is totally gone with Apple approach. No calibration, solved.</li><li>Remember where we seamed to experienced a displacement between the tip of the pen and the dot on the screen no matter how much calibration we did? That is gone, precision solved.</li><li>Remember the old days where precision varied as it we moved the pen to the edges of the screen? Well that is gone. Edge to edge precision, solved.</li><li>Lag, totally gone for all intents and purposes.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>The good old days … were just a year ago or so, you see. What is missing?</p><ul><li>The glass the morph into a rugged surface providing a tad but more friction when the pen is in action. Believe me this is possible through some interesting properties.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Take project Roaming of MS, it looks a lot like Apple Continuity on steroids. Would it be amazing if we had it now, Multiplatform so on and so forth? Oh yes, I feel super excited but … The "but" is that they did not even got the basics right like Continuity does in excess. Why than people with technical knowledge believe that MS just realizes all the things "pitched" in this context out of thin air? Its simply not what they do, they don't do this. From a rational engineering point of view it makes no sense in believing that will happen considering the company history. Even if it comes painted as such once something is released in this context it will come full of holes in it like a Swiss Cheese from an experience stance. Feature list … checked and people are entertained for awhile.</p><p>So I digress when you say Apple moves slowly. The impression I have is that they move so fast that people don't see it, including myself. But once I start thinking about it …. Bringing touch to OS X was not their intention since the start, never was. This is not being slow, this is being honest about what they believe and deliver on what they do believe really fast, hard problems. I appreciate that, even if I disagree. But the truth is that they came up quite often with out of the limb approaches that somehow prove to be better, sometimes it is not like anything.</p><p>Just warn, that there seams to be a impression of speed that is not seen in reality, Its mostly based on intention and technical hype. I'm really happy that MS is back into not only thinking about the future but actually sorting out approaches to it, tackling hard problems not just seeing whats on around and bake it Office or whatever. But let's not get overboard with what is happening in the field … otherwise it will be a incredibly frustrating journey to whoever cares about MS, at least as much as I do and get blind sided once again.</p><p><br></p>

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