Windows 10 Anniversary Update Will Bring Android Notifications To Your PC (winbeta.org) 35
An anonymous reader writes: In an Anniversary Update scheduled to launch this summer, Microsoft is bringing a new Action Center UI to Windows 10 PCs and Windows 10 Mobile. [According to WinBeta.org,] the new Action Center will sync up to to the cloud, allowing users to dismiss a notification on more than one device. For example, users will be able to dismiss a text message on their PC, and have that same notification be dismissed on their phone. Android users will be happy to know that this functionality is coming to Android via the Cortana app. Android users will be able to see and dismiss notifications that appear on their PC, and vice-versa. Developers will be able to create widgets and tiles for the new Action Center as well.
give Microsoft more information about me (Score:1)
Won't this give Microsoft more information about me? No thanks! They don't need to know each and every text message I get, and every notification from Android...Google already knows them, thank you very much, and that's quite enough. I trust Google more than Microsoft.
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I trust Google more than Microsoft.
I'm not about to defend microsoft... but ~why~ ?
Re: give Microsoft more information about me (Score:2)
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googles motives are clear and up front.
we want to know everything about you so we can show you perfect ads.
microsofts motives however.... ooo whats that! i want that! we're doing that too! meeeetoo! lets do that! that looks neat! hey we got one of those!
they are far too unstable to be trusted with your data.
Re: give Microsoft more information about me (Score:2)
Yeah, if it requires a Microsoft account, thanks but no thanks. Since bypassing 8 from 7 and going to 10,it's been an "ok" experience with some improvement under the hood, but the win 10 "skin" has been flakey for me (some shell extensions cause the start menu to disappear) and USB drivers can cause random bizarre behaviour such as power cycling back on after shutting down. I can live with these, though, with hopeful improvements over time, but local root for me, please. *No* chance I'm wiring myself into t
I didn't even know MS renamed WP (Score:2)
I still own a Windows Mobile phone although I don't really use it anymore. Calling their new mobile OS Windows 10 Mobile just adds another layer of confusion beside skipping the 9.
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Thank goodness because every time I saw WP I always thought WordPerfect. :)
I still miss using it. The reveal codes feature was great as it made finding out formatting problems so easy to fix.
Phase 1: Embrace (Score:1)
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I long for the days when Anti-MS trolls put a lot more effort into their posts.
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Not even close. The strategy involves taking over the target device and then eliminating compatibility with 3rd parties. Unless they can make Cortana into an OS that takes over Android it's not going to work. People attribute Embrace, Extend, Extinguish to everything MS does but in reality this has been only a part of their past strategy.
In this case it looks more like a cry for help: "Look at us we're still relevant in the mobile world, honest!"
No, this is Phase 2 (Score:2)
MS is positioning themselves to manage all devices and be a defacto superset
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Companies like Sun, Google, Facebook wanted to get people off the desktop because it helped Microsoft and Linux. Get everyone onto smartphones, that helps push Java, kills off the desktop (X-windows/Windows along with C++ development and those horrible pointers), Once applications are on the browser, they are cross-platform on everything.
Now, Microsoft wants to push a development environment that allows cross-platform applications development (Xamarin) using the desktop. That's their way of fighting back.
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kills off the desktop (X-windows/Windows along with C++ development and those horrible pointers)
Except you can develop for Windows 10 UWP and Android in C++. Soooo.... you're full of it.
Re: MS beat Google to it! (Score:2)
More likely MS realized they were no longer the cool mid on the block anymore with it's visual studio and OS being the defacto standard for 90% of users.
VS is now for legacy and so is their OS and soon office!
What government can not do competition does. Visual studio and Windows 10 is a different direction as old farts are retiring and millennials who like tablets and phones and want a good office suite and development environment.
VS 2015 is a very different and almost strange beast with Android emulators i
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Even the greybeards in my office don't want to use Windows 10 - they don't trust why Microsoft is do determined and hell-bent on getting Windows 10 on every computer system and then install updates willy-nilly along with calling home all the time. Now, there is this incredible pressure to have everything integrated into a network based system accessible from a smartphone or tablet. Even the little gadgets that cyclists or hanglglider pilots use. Everything can be recorded, saved, logged and played back.
Visu
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Even the greybeards in my office don't want to use Windows 10 - they don't trust why Microsoft is do determined and hell-bent on getting Windows 10 on every computer system and then install updates willy-nilly along with calling home all the time. Now, there is this incredible pressure to have everything integrated into a network based system accessible from a smartphone or tablet. Even the little gadgets that cyclists or hanglglider pilots use. Everything can be recorded, saved, logged and played back.
Visual Studio is still used for console game development (PS4 and XBox). But that was VS 2012. I've used all the different versions and it is "mutating". It used to be a simple code and compile environment like Turbo C++. Now, there is all the enterprise level code development, cross-compilation. There were always options to use third party compilers, so it has become more of a framework GUI than a compiler.
I am not a MS fanboy but need to keep up to earn a living in the corporate technology field.
Those kneckbeards probably cried like babies with XP EOL and fight tooth and nail to keep 7 off their systems in 2012, and are now doing the same with 7.
Your greybeards are retiring is my point. The new 20 something hipsters out of school can work without a PC fine and prefer flat UI, hamburger menus, and web apps on a cloud. Yes we hate MS and even I hated MS so much when I was younger that I threatned to quit IT fo
Late to the party (Score:1, Insightful)
I've been doing this for a long time now using KDE Connect [kde.org].
More Parties More External Access (Score:3, Insightful)
Alternatives for Linux and Mac users? (Score:2)
Am I right to assume this is already possible on Linux desktops and on OS X? If so, how?
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How North Korea could really screw the world.... (Score:1)
Forget Nuclear. Wise people know the best way to hurt a person is through their bank account and not through mortal violence.
They can launch a missile into the right orbit where it explodes with enough small space junk that it takes down most satellites. If they launch only one they can pretend it was an accident or claim that the US actually intercepted it and blew it up causing all the damage. If they want all out war they can launch more than one and pollute the orbits of earth with enough small space ju
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Kim, buddy, you've missed the target, just like your missile.
According to this day trend (Score:2)
Windows 10 anniversary
is actually Windows 2
Notifications (Score:5, Funny)
A windows update has been applied
*dismiss*
A windows update has been applied
"I know"
A windows update has been applied
"STOP"
A windows update has been applied
Have you tried Office365?
"AHHHH!"
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The notifications also block the "extended" tray icons when present.
prior art: pushbullet (Score:1)
the pushbullet app does this exactly and more.
Copycat (Score:2)
of kde connect. Nice integration with KDE, working on some other DEs as well.