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We merged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10340117 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10340022 hither, since there shouldn't be three stories about this on the front page.

Since the live event looks done now, we've picked (what I think is?) the most significant product URL to change to from http://www.microsoft.com/october2015event/en-us/live-event. If anyone suggests a better URL we can change it again.

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Consider changing the title to mention Surface Pro 4, Lumia 950, Surface Book, and Band 2.

The event was about more than the Surface Book.

Happy to, but won't people complain about the URL then?

Would this link work better?

http://blogs.windows.com/devices/2015/10/06/a-new-era-of-win...

Blog post with links to all the new devices.

Ok, let's try that. We changed the URL from http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/devices/surface-book and the title from "Surface Book".

Actually that link doesn't even link properly to the Surface Bookj page now, which means anyone new reading these comments won't get the context, seeing as all they'll find via the link is Surface Pro devices.

The merger of these threads really takes away the scope of the announcements made and the different discussions being had. The editorializing and changing of URL really alters the environment for conversation in a way that's not healthy and hurts the scope of these things. Then the second highest comment on the thread becomes about the design layout on the page.

So be it if Microsoft/Apple/Google/Android/Amazon/Uber is on the front page multiple times...

I'm not going to claim we execute it correctly every time but the general approach seems fair to me: have a distinct thread on each distinct major story.

It's true that merging threads sometimes eliminates some context (hopefully not too much) but duplicate or near-duplicate threads on the front page are arguably worse. If there were a way of pleasing everybody we would jump at it. Unfortunately, people disagree about this.

Found prices and specs here (redirected from surface.com): http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us

Page's not looking too good on Mac Safari, though.

Not looking too good on Chrome either right now.

There's a resource on the page (https://controls.account.microsoft-int.com/me?partner=surfac...) precluding other resources from loading. Just wait it out.

on firefox, just press ESC when the status bar shows that.

I really like how this site does that, while other sites flood the front page with 8 threads of the same thing.

like when steve jobs died there was only one top story? i hope this is a new standard and not special treatment for microsoft - it's super helpful to merge the topics and other important threads should be also handled this way.

Not new, and definitely not just about Microsoft.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&date...

Of all the things to complain about this isnt it.

I'm starting to suspect he faked it and went to work for Microsoft

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