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selnor on 24 October 2012
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dahuman said:
selnor said:
Being able to control IE via Smartglass is gonna be great. Like having a mouse and keyboard in your lap.

Wont be long now till my Surface RT arrives.


Just use your Surface! Why did you buy a Surface if it's not for the convience and portability? If it's just for the novelty then it's just beyond reason, tablets and smart phones are for "on the move" and "low power consumption," not so you turn on multiple other things to browse the web and watch TVs with when you already have your 360 controller and Kinect. I really hope you didn't buy the Surface for the wrong reasons Selnor, because if you want a stationary web browsing experience that's actually good on a monitor or HDTV, you'd use Google Chrome, not something like IE on the 360 for heaven's sake.


Web Browsing is becoming quite an easy standard now HTML5 is taking over. Sites like VGC still stuck with lots of fiddly code struggle on Chrome. Fox and IE. But something Im glad at is IE and Windows 8 is optimized for HTML5. So by this time next year as most sites including Youtube shimmy over from Flash fully ( As Adobe no longer supports or updates flash ) IE is in a great position. 

I bought a Surface for 

1. It does actual computing tasks unlike Ipad or Nexus 7.

2. It talks to my Windows Pone and Xbox for ALL my media needs.

3. I dont want a desktop experience anymore, I dont even make use of my desktop version of Windows 8 Pro. Only use the Metro side.

4. No way would I ever hook up a PC or Laptop to my 42 " HDTV to use Chrome or Firefox when IE on 360 does exactly what I want. Buy goods, check email and VGChartz. etc.

 

I dont care for owning and fiddling with different OS, different wires, different browsers etc. 

Smartglass is fantastic not just from a browser point of view. I just signed a 1 year Xbox Music pass and have 8000 Microsoft points so I can buy ( purchase ) Tv series and HD movies via Xbox video. All can be used across all 3 devices I'll own in less tan 1 month for the 1 time cost. 

Genius. No fuss it just works.

 

Of course I bought Surface for the wrong reasons. I should have got a Nexus 7 or Ipad where I cant do everyday PC tasks.