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"Fastest Windows adoption ever"
Yeah, I know a bunch of people that had the 10 upgrade forced upon them. Making it a default "Windows Update" is certainly one way to get your adoption stats up!
It's more likely that they accidentally opted in, various stories about this sort of thing have been debunked to accidental opt-ins.
It's standard operating procedure to cherry-pick a number that looks good.
https://news.microsoft.com/2007/03/26/windows-vista-debuts-w...
> Initial sales figures from Microsoft show its new operating system Windows Vista made a splash in its debut. In the first month of Windows Vista’s general availability, sales exceeded 20 million licenses, more than doubling the initial pace of sales for its predecessor, Windows XP.
https://news.microsoft.com/2013/01/21/net-applications-windo...
https://news.microsoft.com/2012/12/04/windows-8-touch-pc-dem...
It's fun to see how they spin things like an Iraqi defense minister. No matter what's happening, it's the best X ever! (X=december, absolute sales, relative sales, adoption rate, market share change...)
Mine got updated through a specific application and never heard of Windows 10 update through Windows Update, let alone a forced one. The only forced thing was that the update application came to tray automatically and stayed there until I opt-in.
"The bash shell is coming to Windows"
Whoa.
Some choice quotes from: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.htm...
"Nope! This isn't a container either. It's native Ubuntu binaries running directly in Windows."
"Oh, and it's totally shit hot! The sysbench utility is showing nearly equivalent cpu, memory, and io performance."
Full access to all of Ubuntu user space inc. apt, ssh, rsync, find, grep, awk, sed, sort, xargs, md5sum, gpg, curl, wget, apache, mysql, python, perl, ruby, php, gcc, tar, vim, emacs, diff, patch...
And most of the tens of thousands binary packages available in the Ubuntu archives.
Now the question is how well will it work.
This subject is covered in much more detail elsewhere on Hacker News:
Not a lot of details given. Just that its not cross compilation or vm
So long Cygwin I guess.
On friday? ;)
After seeing some really impressive stuff, I cannot wait to test this stuff on my own! I mean seriously, a retail Xbox One as a devkit? That is so amazing I can't even comprehend it!
It's almost like a computer that you can write programs on and even run those programs on.
Is that finally ready to go (I haven't been able to check out the links)? That's been basically known to people who follow game dev news that it was an upcoming feature since a little before the console launched, it's just been nothing but a promise up to this point.
If it's finally released, awesome. That's a major reason why I decided to get an Xbox One over PS4. I made games with XNA on the previous system, so I'm excited to finally get to start developing on the Xbox One.
Only UWP Apps, acces to only 1gb ram.
Any retail Xbox one as a devkit, yikes that's awesome.
I remember the days of the tens-of-thousands-of-$ devkits. Probably won't have the extra memory but that only really matters if you're building something right up against the memory size barrier.
Only UWP Apps, access to just 1GB of ram.
Is any media site doing a "live blog" of this? Similar to what Mac Rumours do for Apple?
edit: Looks like The Verge has something here:
Which is handy because the build keynote usually goes on, with brakes, for such a long time and so much stuff is discussed.
Siri, Cortana, Google Now and others..Software agents are finally here. When I got my first notifications from Google Now some years ago it was the first time my phone actually felt smart.
If Microsoft and others can figure out good ways to open these to the developers I bet this will be pretty big thing.
Don’t forget Tay:
http://uk.businessinsider.com/microsoft-deletes-racist-genoc...
So what's the benefit of converting Win32 to UWP other than publishing to Windows store?
You can run your app on xbox one and windows phone. Access to some new APIs.
In addition to what doikor said, you get sandboxing aka "trust".
If you can distribute through the Windows store only, hopefully it will be the end of the hideously unpleasant task of creating Windows installers.
Microsoft gets 30% of your revenue.
You get all the new WinRT APIs.
The guy in the Fedora is trying way too hard.
All of his presentations are like that, it's his personality.
Turn any Xbox One into a dev kit O.o
"...Age of Empires 2 running as a modern desktop app..."
I could not care less. If I'm a developer who has a game in Steam, why would I want to do this? To divide my user base?
Really interested in modern desktop apps and the desktop app converter. Are these actually available yet?
Win32 to UWP converter
Facebook, Instagram and messenger apps coming
I think hololens is quite mind blowing though. I can totally see myself exporting class dependency graphs and exploring them in 3D.
Any updates on Xamarin? Are they going to make it more affordable?
facebook advertisement and customer metric integration as if the native telemetry wasn't enough now you can add more to your apps.
Will Cortana come with a thorough uninstaller?
Aww yiss... I'm loving it!
"Windows is a fully open ecosystem". Uhhhhh right :S
Hey MS - next time please stream on YT - got big lags
SUA lives again!
What about the horrible performance issues with Universal Windows Apps?
http://www.howtogeek.com/243012/why-you-shouldnt-buy-rise-of...
In a nutshell...
No SLI or CrossFire
VSync is Always On
Always Borderless Fullscreen Mode
No Modding
No .exe File (and No Steam Controller)
No Overlays
Mouse Macros Won’t Work
No Clear Refund Policy
Only for Windows 10
Edit: Really now? Some of those issues were addressed during the video(still no transcript), yet many others still stand. So one takes a karma hit for asking tough questions?