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Looks like you were right! Quite pleased so far although having to sign in the first time to every single app is a tad annoying, they should have made it easy to add one set of credentials out of the box at least for Microsoft apps.
My Surface for Windows RT Review
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Looks like you were right! Quite pleased so far although having to sign in the first time to every single app is a tad annoying, they should have made it easy to add one set of credentials out of the box at least for Microsoft apps.
If you log in (to Windows) with a Microsoft account you shouldn't have to sign in on a per-app basis.
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It doesn't feel slow but neither does it fly through everything (shame it can't load web pages faster), so far I'm glad I picked one up but there's a ton more work Microsoft needs to do.
Should keep things interesting while they get on with it.
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Can you try this?
http://microsoft-news.com/cloud-gaming-service-agawi-releases-gamezen-app-in-windows-store/
Probably needs a subscription though, so probably not.
http://microsoft-news.com/cloud-gaming-service-agawi-releases-gamezen-app-in-windows-store/
Probably needs a subscription though, so probably not.
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Doesn't appear in the app store for me, also if I follow the link it just takes me to the home page of the app store. Might just be on the US app store at the moment?
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It's not on the UK store, and only supports x86 & x64 not ARM.
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Thanks for the good review. 
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One thing that's annoying me as both a skype and live messenger user. It merged my skype and windows live account (which is fine in itself) However now when I get a windows live message I get two notifications for the same message! One from skype and one from messaging.
This is slightly annoying so I have requested my skype and windows live account be un-merged.
EDIT Seems I'm not the only one. http://community.skype.com/t5/Windows-8/Annoying-Duplicate-notifications-on-Windows-8/td-p/1156828
This is slightly annoying so I have requested my skype and windows live account be un-merged.
EDIT Seems I'm not the only one. http://community.skype.com/t5/Windows-8/Annoying-Duplicate-notifications-on-Windows-8/td-p/1156828
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Just a quick note to say I've been doing more testing today with HDMI output, and also Micro SD cards. I expect to have part two up by Sunday night (give or take) and a couple of additions to the hardware side of things (battery life for example)
Cheers for the positive feedback so far.
Cheers for the positive feedback so far.
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I have the same problem on my desktop using Win 8 Pro. I ended up uninstalling Skype. Not a massive user anyway.
Updated the hardware section with battery life info.
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Do you like how Word and Excel work on Windows? You'll probably like how they work on RT then. I'm not a huge fan of Office so I prefer to use it as little as possible but it feels the same as if I were working on a desktop machine. Right now the touch keyboard is fine for taking notes but if I were trying to write a really long document I'd want a full sized keyboard (I don't consider that a weakness of Surface, I'd want the same on any device).
The processor in the Surface doesn't lend itself well to firing up programs the first time (although Word/Excel seem to launch pretty quickly) but once you're there multitasking is a surprisingly smooth experience from the little I've tested.
As said, Office is pretty much the same as the desktop version. Unless you rely on any particular macros or add-ins that is. The only other thing worth mentioning is that it's a non commercial license.
I'm not going to have time to update the review tonight like I wanted, but I'll bump it when I do.
I'm not going to have time to update the review tonight like I wanted, but I'll bump it when I do.
can you advise,if 1080p videos on youtube play smooth ?
as you said speakers are loud so thats good. if it plays smooth then I could get it for my other half as she spends most of the time listening to youtube and watching videos and other time on www and facebook
as you said speakers are loud so thats good. if it plays smooth then I could get it for my other half as she spends most of the time listening to youtube and watching videos and other time on www and facebook
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can you advise,if 1080p videos on youtube play smooth ?
as you said speakers are loud so thats good. if it plays smooth then I could get it for my other half as she spends most of the time listening to youtube and watching videos and other time on www and facebook
Video plays fine on YouTube. The only time I really notice Surface isn't an amazing performer is when starting up new tasks:
Start a new video in YouTube, while the animations occur around it (i.e. the menu which controls quality, full screen etc) there might be a few dropped frames but it plays back flawlessly afterwards.
Open Xbox music, wait for it to log in, wait for it to queue up the last song and then play, this actually takes quite a while but it works OK after that.
The most glaring one so far is audio stutters when the screen is switched off, it shows you just how rubbish the reviews are on a lot of the big gadget sites they miss these kind of basic details.
Now presumably the audio stuttering is just down to how Xbox music is written and will hopefully be fixed when they update apps (there's plenty of other small bugs which need fixing anyway). Given that apps are small self contained pieces of software I was hoping Microsoft would be more prolific in how quickly they update them.