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Update on Metro

 

Johnathan Nightingale

Mar 14 2014

 

Earlier this week, I asked our engineering leads and release managers to take the Windows Metro version of Firefox off the trains. The team is solid and did good work, but shipping a 1.0 version, given the broader context we see for the Metro platform, would be a mistake.

In the months since, as the team built and tested and refined the product, we’ve been watching Metro’s adoption. From what we can see, it’s pretty flat. On any given day we have, for instance, millions of people testing pre-release versions of Firefox desktop, but we’ve never seen more than 1000 active daily users in the Metro environment.

 

Source: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/03/14/metro/

 

Time to bring out the Windows 9 and shove over the shitty dumbass Ballmer bullshit Microsoft! So glad that piece of shit got forced out.



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Well, duh. Why would anyone want it on a platform where windows is prevalent, aka desktop/laptop PC?



Xen said:
Well, duh. Why would anyone want it on a platform where windows is prevalent, aka desktop/laptop PC?


I'm still pissed about it because they could have used the resources to build a much better successor to Windows 7 but nope!



dahuman said:
Xen said:
Well, duh. Why would anyone want it on a platform where windows is prevalent, aka desktop/laptop PC?


I'm still pissed about it because they could have used the resources to build a much better successor to Windows 7 but nope!

Well, you know the deal with windows. Good every alternating release

Win7 was good enough for me to ignore win8 completely.



How long can I ignore Windows 8 before I can't play games on 7 anymore? I was thinking of buying a comp with 7.



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Oh no. No Metro version of the 4th best browser? How will I ever manage.



If you demand respect or gratitude for your volunteer work, you're doing volunteering wrong.

NYANKS said:
How long can I ignore Windows 8 before I can't play games on 7 anymore? I was thinking of buying a comp with 7.

For as long as you want, a large portion of the world is still using winxp



vivster said:
Oh no. No Metro version of the 4th best browser? How will I ever manage.


It's still my backup to Chrome when Chrome goes into "fuck you" mode and it's plug-in support is very good.



Maybe no one was using it because it wasn't complete... the Metro version of Firefox was missing a lot of standard features, so I had to switch to Chrome & Internet Explorer's Metro interface when using my tablet.



RavenXtra said:
Maybe no one was using it because it wasn't complete... the Metro version of Firefox was missing a lot of standard features, so I had to switch to Chrome & Internet Explorer's Metro interface when using my tablet.


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