Charbax

"The Help is OK Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is pretty bad, I hate hearing them speak English with Sweedish accents, go watch the original Sweedish film, it's better.Thor, I skipped watching half way, but maybe I'll retry" - Charbax

"Christoph Waltz is in the Three Musketeers.." - Charbax

"Critics generally love Drive, except for the Oscars, it's gotten 32 awards and 51 nominations thus far.." - Charbax

"You're putting Woody Allen and Lars Von Trier in the same category?" - Charbax

"Only morons don't like Drive" - Charbax

"Drive's the best film of the year I think he meant.." - Charbax

"Yeah Microsoft will build the Dalvik Virtual Machine themselves for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, like RIM did. They'd be ridiculous not to do it." - Charbax

"Cross-platform sounds great! I expect Windows 8 support Android apps, Android support Metro apps, all platforms support each other, the apps have to be re-thought for touch, cloud, set-top-box, e-readers, smartphone sizes etc anyway." - Charbax

"Wow awesome! Congratulations!" - Charbax

"There'll be native video editors too. This thread isn't under the Premiere/Ulead video suggestion" - Charbax

"Very well, that is exactly what Microsoft needs to do. Re-think the desktop, ban bloatware for ever, demand fully optimized apps that hook into the deepest hardware acceleration, GPU used to the max. That is exactly what they need." - Charbax

"The best video editing will be cloud assisted. You upload the raw files to web editor and you just get thumbnails streamed down to your laptop. Rendering and encoding is near-instant done by thousands of grid servers, publishing is instant and worldwide in HD. Also it's the only way to enable collaborative (and "user generated") cloud based video editing which I think is going to be one of the biggest innovations in video editing. Basically the future of video editing is http://youtube.com/editor and with a bit more HTML5 offline caching and a few more of the advanced features all the professionals need." - Charbax

"Are you trying to tell me that there won't be an FTP client, there won't be third party photo editors similar to GIMP (or simpler) on Windows 8 for ARM? Are you trying to tell me there won't be any third party open office like alternative to MS Office? I don't care if this or that open source projects wants to whine about it. It's normal that VLC does not work on ARM devices, VLC on x86 uses the CPU while video playback on ARM usually is not done on the CPU. I don't care if the FTP software is named Filezilla or some other project, as long as there is an app that does FTP function. And I don't care if my net meter is based on the old Net Meter source code or some other way to monitor bandwidth usage. And I don't actually care much if the open Office alternative to MS Office looks like the slow OpenOffice or like the snappier AbiWord of some type, most consumers tend to prefer web based Office alternatives by now like Google Docs." - Charbax

"Is it a surprise to anyone that it isn't easy to port from Windows x86 to ARM? No it's not. It doesn't change from the fact Windows ARM is going to have most of the Desktop apps, first party and third party that most consumers need. Most of the rest can still function just fine over remote desktopping." - Charbax

"There'll be third party desktop apps in Windows store. That is the core of it. If it requires more or less work for the few app developers like Google, Adobe, Filezilla, NetMeter, Open-source app developers etc, that is not the issue. I am quite sure this text by Microsoft on Windows 8 on ARM does not say Google can't provide a full Desktop version of Chrome for WOA, that Adobe cannot provide some full Desktop versions of Photoshop/Illustrator/Premiere on WOA, that small apps like Filezilla, Net Meter etc can't be made to work as Desktop apps on WOA, that most of the most popular open source free Windows software can't be ported for WOA in Desktop mode. I am sure we will see it. And yes, everything will have to be installed through the Windows App Store. That only makes sense, that has always been the promise, that is what any analyst and Microsoft has been saying since the beginning. If it's harder to recompile x86 apps to ARM on Windows than it is on Ubuntu, that is because of the..." - Charbax

"anandtech is quite the Intel x86 fanboy website. Don't believe everything they write." - Charbax

"ZDnet is the site that spread the false rumor that Windows 8 on ARM would not have any desktop mode at all, those people don't know what they are talking about. The paragraph is clearly about Metro being the format that works on all Windows 8 devices, it's not a paragraph about third party Windows 8 Desktop apps availability or not." - Charbax

"Don't leave out stuff from the quote that doesn't suit your interpretation of what is said: "Code that uses only system or OS services from WinRT can be used within an app and distributed through the Windows Store for both WOA and x86/64." That sentence confirms Metro apps are distributed in Windows store and work on both ARM and x86. That does in no way talk about Desktop apps availability." - Charbax

"It absolutely does not say what you say. The paragraph is about "Metro style apps in the Windows Store can support both WOA and Windows 8 on x86/64." It's not about Windows Desktop ARM vs x86. It's about Metro being the format for apps to make them work on both. It does not talk about Desktop apps in the Windows store and does not say the Windows store only has Metro apps." - Charbax

"Intel and Logitech broke Revue." - Charbax

"Microsoft has not said you can't monetize your apps without Windows taking a cut. They just say the apps need to be verified through the Windows store. They likely also will do this for x86 because x86 security/bloatware also needs to be looked at. Something Microsoft should have done since 20 years ago, and that would have prevented all the bloatware and all the virus infested windows apps of the past 2 decades, which produce only hundreds of millions of backdoor infested zombie spammer pcs on the global network." - Charbax

"All those "technical blogs" have understood it wrong several times already. Just two months ago they were all saying Windows 8 on ARM wouldn't even have any Desktop mode at all. They don't know what they are talking about. What this is saying is that the same Metro style app works on both ARM and x86. That does not say anything about ARM Desktop apps vs x86 Desktop apps, except that you can't run an x86 Desktop app on ARM, which makes sense." - Charbax