Windows 10: Microsoft's real problem with mobile isn't (just) devices

Brink · Dec 4, 2016

The future of secure, modern Windows apps needs to go beyond Surface.

At the Microsoft shareholders' meeting last week, some unhappy Windows phone fans who also happen to be shareholders asked CEO Satya Nadella what Microsoft was doing for the consumer market on its own platform, not just on iOS and Android.

Nadella's answer was that consumer and enterprise users are still just people who use the same device at home and at work, whatever platform they're on.

"I don't think of these as separate markets. I think about users, people, and their devices. The basic construct that we think about architecturally and technically is that it's not about just one device, it's about all the devices for the person. In other words, whether it's the app or the operating system, we want to build it for the person across their devices," he said.

In other words, the shareholders didn't need to worry about not finding Outlook or Pix in the Windows phone Store because they already have them. "Outlook, interestingly enough in the context of the Windows Phone, is the mail client, you don't need to go look for another client because it's built into the phone, whereas, in your own operating systems, the camera will have the smarts, you don't need a separate application. You will not need another separate mail program. When we control things silicon up, that's how we will integrate those experiences."

It certainly makes sense for Office and plenty of other Microsoft apps to be cross platform -- what Nadella calls the mobility of the experience rather than the device. Wherever you go, there's Office and you need Office 365 to get all the features.

That keeps users who'd otherwise switch to different tools...
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Charley Kline · Dec 4, 2016

Bluetooth Toggle on/off issues.

This doesn't solve the problem. The problem isn't a driver issue. The problem is that Windows 10 needs to ALWAYS provide the sliders to turn on/off Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Airplane Mode, etc. , whether you have a mobile device or not.

Somebody at Microsoft screwed up on this one and didn't realize that you might want to be able to toggle on/off those things even on a desktop.

Putting in the Windows 7 drivers doesn't solve the problem. Yes you need to have working drivers but most of us do. That isn't the problem.

I can turn off those things by going to device manager and disabling the devices. But that is a real pain in the butt.

Those sliders which have already been implemented are just disabled by Windows on non "mobile" devices.

So just get your engineers to fix it!

Or if they want, at my normal consulting rates, they can fly me to Microsoft and I will fix it for them.

-- Charley

Pompie58 · Dec 4, 2016

Unable to connect Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 L2TP VPN through a NAT-T environment configuration

I have the same problem. Put perhaps it isn't a real problem because most people use a real OS like Android and IOS and then it just works out of the box.

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