Nope
Actually it's more MSFT are suggesting your software might not be fit for computer consumption, and want to debug it for you. Whether you'd want that or not, is another question!
Posts by Simbu
101 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Apr 2011
It's open season for bug hunting – on Microsoft's Azure cloud
Microsoft to buy LinkedIn
Britain needs more tech immigrants, quango tells UK.gov
Thursday 26th February 2015 14:38 GMT 
They don't all suck
I work for a tech company in Bristol. I get training, visits to dev conferences, lots of brand new, self-chosen hardware, opportunities to learn, an interesting product to work on, use of new technology, chosen by developers. A pretty decent benefits package too.
Occasionally i find frustrations with my job. But then i remember where i used to work and realise how lucky I am. I have to go now. We have some live music in the office this afternoon. There will probably be beer.
Full metal jacket: Nokia launches new Lumia 925
Tuesday 14th May 2013 14:37 GMT
Re: Full Metal Jacket?
What's wrong with 1GB RAM? Comparing compute hardware specifications across platforms is meaningless. I want the best balance of power consumption and a smooth user experience. If the sweet spot for WP8 is 1GB then so be it.
16GB outside of Vodafone is a bigger issue for me, especially given the encouragement to use that awesome camera.
Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 delivers modest improvements
Thursday 4th April 2013 23:13 GMT 
Good stuff
Been using the CTP for a while now. The unit test support for WP8 is good, but interesting. It creates a test app that runs on an emulator or a developer unlocked phone. This is all well and good (it pokes the phone's APIs properly instead of some mocked / artificial APIs).
The downside is if you have a build server that runs your test suite as part of a build process, and that build server lives on a VM which isn't hosted by some very recent VMWare version... you're screwed. This is because Hyper V et al don't support nested VM instances and the phone emulator runs in a Hyper V instance!
Apple files 'iWatch' patent application
RIM ends Reg headline pun filth (and launches two new phones)
Boffins build elastic wires with liquid metal
Nokia uncloaks Lumia 620: A 'budget' $249 Windows 8 mobe
Windows Phone 8 reboot woe causes outpouring of forum misery
Monday 19th November 2012 16:12 GMT
Re: @Simbu It depends....
Actually in my case all of the above, but I think you're concurring with my point - it's a difficult issue to reproduce and on that basis, not many users will be affected.
Nonetheless, MS can't afford the negative publicity, so what might be a fringe-case issue will still get serious attention from MS and the WP8 OEMs.
Monday 19th November 2012 15:55 GMT
Re: Reg Readers these days...
This almost religious attitude to OS platforms is pathetic and quite frankly hilarious. People seem to think that choosing one over another is 'making a statement'. I choose whatever I think will best suit my needs. If you're judging me on something so insubstantial as what phone I'm carrying around then you're not worthy of my time or attention.
Monday 19th November 2012 11:45 GMT
My Lumia 920 has been faultless. I suspect this is going to become a largely over-reported problem that a small minority of users will experience.
On the other hand it doesn't excuse the problem but I don't think MS has that arrogance towards users (especially in mobile) any more - so it might actually get fixed promptly!
WinPhone 8 preview SDK limited to established developers
Fired Toyota coder trashes systems, steals data
Raspberry Pi now comes in Firefox OS flavour
Lenovo: 'Us, buy Nokia? Surely you jest'
Wednesday 1st August 2012 17:04 GMT 
I suspect the market is taking a 'wait and see' approach to Nokia, to see if Windows Phone 8 is the success the company needs it to be. Their Q3 is likely to suck a bit after the "no WP8 for WP7 devices" news.
By the information available so far, it looks to be a very good consumer OS, and has an excellent chance of mopping up all those business customers who are giving up on RIM. WP8 really is going to be the next best thing for enterprise, with excellent Office / Outlook integration, hardware encryption, secure booting and sideloading via Company Hub.
I await the haters who are desperate for WP8 to fail, but can't really give a good reason why. The reasons to not like it are disappearing fast.
Surprise! BT pockets £70m North Yorkshire broadband rollout
Windows Phone beats iOS sales in China
Plastic that SELF-REPAIRS using light unleashed by prof
Nokia, Microsoft bung student mobe devs £7.5m to 'ideate'
Braben sticks knife into secondhand games market
Tuesday 20th March 2012 15:53 GMT
Bollocks and increasingly irrelevant
The argument that second-hand sales kill off new sales is bollocks. This argument doesn't hold water for DVD films, cars, phones, whatever.
The increase inthe use of digital downloads, however makes the argument a moot point. You can't transfer purchases between digital accounts (unfortunately) and when these become the norm, everyone will be ponying up for a new copy of that game.
Facebook goes titsup in Europe
AMD uncloaks (more) next-generation graphics cards
Ten... gaming mice
Apple: We never said Siri would actually work in the UK
Friday 2nd March 2012 11:01 GMT
Besides the point..
UK iPhone users are frustrated because they have a phone that has the technical capability for a feature they cannot use, when other users can. They paid a premium for the device, and yet the most cash-rich company in the world that sold it to them does not care to spend the money to make it work.
Legally, Apple are ok. Morally... draw your own conclusions.
Huawei pitches 'first ever' 10in quad-core tablet
Virgin boss victorious in .xxx Branson pickle
Nvidia suffers as TSMC's 28nm ramp steeper than expected
Thursday 16th February 2012 10:02 GMT
I know TSMC is a huge company with massive manufacturing capacity... but both major players in GPUs hedging all their bets in one supplier has always seemed an odd and unsustainable situation to me.
Considering they're both using the same fabbing process, how do TSMC decide on priority for manufacturing? I imagine both AMD and NVidia are constantly pushing for more output from TSMC.
Overclockers UK swallowed by private equity firm Afinum
Chip sales definitely not down – but almost – in 2011
Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 DNA splice is on - report
Friday 3rd February 2012 15:55 GMT
@Ralph 5
The article suggests the two platforms are similar to use. They are not. Your argument of rebuilding an application for each platform because they use the same developer tools / framework doesn't validate the article's opinion. Without going itnto the minutae of different development kits, If i re-write a C#.NET Winforms app enough, i can make it a Windows Mobile 6.x, WP7 or even ASP.NET app. All use Visual Studio, C#, the .NET framework but they are in no way similar enough to say "UI change and we're done", and the user doesn't interact with them in the same way.
Arguments from a dev's point of view aside, the point being made in the article was that OSX and iOS are similar to use to the same degree as being proposed by Microsoft with Windows 8 / WP8, like MS are playing catch up with Apple's level of integration between two OSes. This just isn't true. Zune and iTunes is a better comparison.
Friday 3rd February 2012 11:32 GMT 
"As far as appearances go, Microsoft would become more like Apple in having its desktop, laptop and tablet software and its phone software look and behave very similarly."
What? How does OSX look like iOS? They don't run the same apps, or look similar. They are seperate platforms. I seriously wonder if el Reg consciously try to cram an Apple mention into as many articles as possible as some half-assed SEO policy.
Five ways Microsoft can rescue Windows Phone
Thursday 2nd February 2012 12:08 GMT
It should succeed
Even if you don't like WP7, you should be encouraging its success. The market needs the competition. iOS is still out of the price range of the majority of consumers. That means your choice will default to Android if you want a smartphone. Blackberry is going to die, and then Android (as good as it is) will own all of the smartphone market where users can't afford or don't want iOS.
It's not about if you like WP7 or not (and it IS a nice OS), it's about encouraging its success because a competitor to Android is good for everyone.
Dim-but-rich buyers targeted with million pound laptop
Ten exabytes wedged into a rather large box by Cleversafe
O2 leaks 3G users' mobile numbers to every website visited
Romanian who hacked NASA spared cooler stint
Skype is coming to Windows Phone - really
Monday 16th January 2012 13:52 GMT 
Yanked from Android, iOS?
<tin hat>
It wouldn't be a massive surprise if Microsoft did this, and instantly gave WP7 an awesome unique selling point. Anyone who wants to call internationally would then be mad not to seriously consider WP7.
The question is, is Skype enough of an emminent presence in the VOIP arena to get away with it?
</tin hat>
Nice to see WP7 continuing it's progress as a serious OS option. Haters aren't obliged to use it, so why hate at all?
Acer intros skinny 15in notebook
Videogame piracy figures show decline
Wednesday 4th January 2012 16:33 GMT
Pirate BF3? Why bother?
I assume you still can't play online with a pirated copy and the single player game is forgettable and not very interesting. The multiplayer action makes BF3 (it's kinda the whole point) so why miss out?
Anyway, things like Steam sales (or pick your discounted content delivery option of choice) makes pirating a game difficult to justify these days. I bought LIMBO for about £3 and it lasted much long than the pint i drank whilst playing it. It's not just short indy games either. OF:RR was about £5 at some point.
Exotic Russian rock CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
Why there's real hope for webOS - if HP is committed
Tuesday 13th December 2011 17:33 GMT
No, consumers aren't allergic to a bargain. A large minorty of those TouchPads will already have Android flashed onto them. The rest just saw an oportunity for "a cheap tablet". There's no market loyalty to WebOS like Android and iOS.
This is the same coconut WinPho 7 is currently trying to crack. Build up enough market interest in what is essentially a very good OS to make it commercially viable. The difference is MS are spending the money, HP are and will be thoroughly half-assed about it and eventually give up. There's lots of 'ifs' 'buts' and 'maybes' in this acticle.
Open source won't work for a consumer device. Users want a well-supported OS with a recognisable face behind it. And open Web OS won't give that. In my experience open source makes things more complicated for the user, not easier. Who wants a gadget that's 'complicated' to use?
Android malware victims offered free WinPhones by MS
Red Cross: 600m videogamers may be war criminals
iOS finally gets Palm compatibility
Does your smartphone run Carrier IQ? Find out here
08 Wizard
Demon Currys iPad showered kids with HARD-CORE smut
Ofcom: ISPs can cripple the web as much as they please
Thursday 24th November 2011 16:12 GMT
Kiss private investment goodbye...
OFCOM fail again shocker!
Now that ISPs have effectively been told they can piss about with their service however they like, what incentive is there to invest in infrastructure? Things getting slow? Lets throttle P2P! It's still slow? Throttle video streaming! Still slow? Throttle gaming! Where does it end?
This is one massive financial incentive to spend as little as possible.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
