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Re: Microsoft thread
« Reply #1026: March 30, 2015, 07:39:10 PM »
My first post using Spartan.

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Re: Microsoft thread
« Reply #1027: March 31, 2015, 01:58:15 PM »
Might cop that new Surface 3 with LTE.

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Re: Microsoft thread
« Reply #1029: April 29, 2015, 01:10:48 PM »
Why would I switch to Visual Studio instead of using Eclipse?

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Re: Microsoft thread
« Reply #1030: April 29, 2015, 01:13:44 PM »
Why would I switch to Visual Studio instead of using Eclipse?

Because it's infinitely better.  Visual Studio is the best development tool available.  I've used Eclipse.  It sucks by comparison.

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Re: Microsoft thread
« Reply #1031: April 29, 2015, 01:52:11 PM »
Spartan is dead!  Long live EDGE!!!


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Re: Microsoft thread
« Reply #1032: April 29, 2015, 01:55:24 PM »
Objective C and all its weirdness comes to Windows.

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Re: Microsoft thread
« Reply #1033: April 29, 2015, 02:35:51 PM »
Because it's infinitely better.  Visual Studio is the best development tool available.  I've used Eclipse.  It sucks by comparison.

Sure, but how?

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Re: Microsoft thread
« Reply #1034: April 29, 2015, 05:39:50 PM »

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Re: Microsoft thread
« Reply #1035: April 30, 2015, 06:57:19 AM »
All of the BUILD attendees got the HP Spectre x360:   :az:



I LOVE this commercial...

...I love the laptop but might love the killer beat more.

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Re: Microsoft thread
« Reply #1036: April 30, 2015, 08:38:19 AM »
How what?

You said it's better, I asked for specific reasons why.

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Re: Microsoft thread
« Reply #1037: April 30, 2015, 11:25:29 AM »
Spartan is dead!  Long live EDGE!!!

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Logo too close to IE, don't understand it from a marketing perspective

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Re: Microsoft thread
« Reply #1038: April 30, 2015, 08:19:56 PM »
Microsoft wants to guess your age.

http://www.how-old.net

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Re: Microsoft thread
« Reply #1039: April 30, 2015, 10:12:28 PM »
What's this about Windows Phone including the android runtime and some sort of easy porting of iOS apps?

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Re: Microsoft thread
« Reply #1041: May 01, 2015, 01:08:31 PM »
Finally hopped to Windows 10. It's okay. Not sure if I like it as much as 8.1, time to go read about the new features

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Re: Microsoft thread
« Reply #1042: May 01, 2015, 01:12:13 PM »
Interestingly enough Edge/Spartan doesn't run SharePoint well yet

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Re: Microsoft thread
« Reply #1043: May 01, 2015, 01:28:26 PM »
Interestingly enough Edge/Spartan doesn't run SharePoint well yet

I feel like most days computers don't run SharePoint well.  Hate that platform from the depths of my heart.

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Re: Microsoft thread
« Reply #1044: May 01, 2015, 02:16:42 PM »
IE runs it perfectly. What do you hate about it?

I hate the file migrations / moves but otherwise it's powerful. The learning curve is awful but once you figure something out it's not that hard.

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« Reply #1045: May 01, 2015, 03:08:42 PM »
IE runs it perfectly. What do you hate about it?

I hate the file migrations / moves but otherwise it's powerful. The learning curve is awful but once you figure something out it's not that hard.

It's painful in my mind because of one specific company. I had to migrate their existing SharePoint ecosystem (about 18Gb of data and sites) into Office 365, prior to the 2013 update.  Even using a 3rd party migration tool (ShareGate) it was a long and tortured process.  Add on 50 users, all remote, and getting them configured...

The final kicker was when something broke in SharePoint. No idea what, but a few months after the Azure/2013 update, any users who were added to the permissions groups for a site collection weren't able to access it.  All users who had access previously could use it. Any new account could not unless it was set as a global admin.  Spent hours working on troubleshooting it with Microsoft and they finally said 'We have determined this is not fixable. Please replicate all sites in a brand new site collection.'

That, plus my boss keeps aggressively pushing it as a way to sync files to the cloud for law firms so lawyers can get them on the go.  Too many headaches from that.


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Re: Microsoft thread
« Reply #1046: May 01, 2015, 03:27:28 PM »
:lmao: sorry, feel your pain.

We've abandoned library sync. The feature is just broken and ruins OneDrive. OneDrive with no synced libraries -> Good. OneDrive with synced SharePoint libraries -> Breaks.

We are actually disabling the feature for our current big migration client.

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Re: Microsoft thread
« Reply #1047: May 01, 2015, 03:33:55 PM »
Yeah, it sounds good on paper but in practice? Ugh.

I attended a webinar on how to properly use SharePoint and it's amazing as a collaboration tool.  If people would use it for what it is intended for it'd be awesome.  But people keep thinking 'Oh, you mean we're going to move our data to the Cloud? Cool!'  I hate the word cloud.   :roll:

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Re: Microsoft thread
« Reply #1048: May 26, 2015, 06:03:39 PM »
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/05/26/powerpoint-should-be-banned-this-powerpoint-presentation-explains-why/?hpid=z2

I cannot stand powerpoint.  Completely agree it is designed to end rather than promote discussion.  Am witnessing it right now in the briefings at my place of work.

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Re: Microsoft thread
« Reply #1049: May 26, 2015, 06:09:53 PM »
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/05/26/powerpoint-should-be-banned-this-powerpoint-presentation-explains-why/?hpid=z2

I cannot stand powerpoint.  Completely agree it is designed to end rather than promote discussion.  Am witnessing it right now in the briefings at my place of work.

Powerpoint is so last century.  Sway is the future!!!

https://sway.com/