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Did you see the SkyDrive features at the MS event? No. Actually neither did I. In fact it wasn't in the recent MS events. In fact it was announced with with a blog entry:

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archiv...

Why didn't MS talk about this at their special Mango VIP event? No idea. MS seems to think that getting too much attention for features is a bad thing.

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I agree. It appears that turn by turn navigation (via Bing Maps) is also coming in the Mango update and if so, it would be a really big differentiator (only Android has it thus far) for their platform. Not a peep during their event.

-- John Gruber recently critiqued the Windows 8 preview video that was uploaded to youtube.

It looked like a high school project. I doubt Apple would ever preview their OS with such a poorly produced video.

Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I

>It looked like a high school project. I doubt Apple would ever preview their OS with such a poorly produced video.

I think it's pretty good and clean. The iPad UI looks like a scaled down version of OS X in 2001 compared to that now and I've heard the same sentiment from many other people.

Metro looks like that to new people but is very functional once you start using it. Here is a good primer on it.

http://www.riagenic.com/archives/487

I didn't read the Gruber post, but I think he was refering to the actual production quality of the video, not the UI itself.

Whoever shot that video had no idea what they were doing. Get a lav mike or boom mike, for a start, so that your primary narration track doesn't pick up all the reverb from the room. It was definitely amateurish - not only would Apple not do such a crappy job, I doubt most startups would, either.

You can have an outsourced service make a demo video with proper voiceover for less than $1,000. That video from Microsoft is just sloppy, not frugal or homespun.

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