Recent content by tj_moore

Not sure. Possibly not. Certainly doesn't run on the desktop, but the security in it is tightly tied to locked down devices, hence it won't run on jailbroken phones. If it's not UWP I expect it will disappear as non-UWP apps are slowly being pulled, and not being replaced by UWP apps in many...

Possibly coincidence, but I've noticed the same recently. I've checked the Task Scheduler but nothing seems to be scheduled for the times it occurs. Though there are a lot of tasks based on triggers, which is hard to go through and work out. Way more scheduled tasks than I expected but they do...

Oddly I was on pre-Creators Update and kept getting messages from Barclays that the app is broken in Creators update and to wait. Then I found the app kept crashing on entering the PIN, so I gave up and updated to Creators anyway, and now the app works fine even though the last message they sent...

I've liked Windows Phone for being different to iOS/Android, nice to use, nicely integrated into the MS ecosystem, and efficient on low power/memory devices with excellent battery life and tightly controlled data use. However my allegiance is mainly with Nokia. All but two mobiles I've had...

Facebook desktop app works reasonably well and supports many of the newer features, including live video. It makes using FB on a Win 10 tablet a nice experience. Facebook on Win 10 Mobile though is an utter disaster. I should have kept the MS app as I had to uninstall it to try the FB version...

All way too late. It can be technically the best mobile you've ever seen but everyone will have jumped ship and the best mobile will go down with it. I've seen this all to often as someone who often backs the little guy or the alternative rather then the choice of the sheep. Loved the various...

In the UK we've had "chip&pin" cards for years, but it doesn't affect use with NFC terminals. Most of our cards are now "contactless" cards also, which just means an NFC chip in the card. No PIN required as it's limited to small transactions. Though every now and again it will insist on...

All Facebook's attempts are utter garbage. Crash, lag, crash, crash, crash, lag, lag. It's pure unusable. And it's stupidly big. 200mb or something! Oddly their 'desktop' app is actually pretty good. I use it a lot on my Win 10 tablet as it's nicely touch friendly. Instagram on the other hand...

That's what they wanted, but it's not happening. The non MS products are extremely limited in number and get zero publicity. No one wants them. Key thing about Surface is it acts as a reference model. Like Google does with their own devices. But Surface Phone doesn't exist and by the time it...

6Tag I find frustrating because it's very difficult to post a photo from camera roll or an album. Almost every time I pick the photo and it just resets to the camera. One in 50 attempts it actually holds onto the photo. Instagram is similar but it just crashes when trying to post a photo...

I suspect they'll drop development soon, given rumours Surface Phone won't appear for another year or longer and no more lumia phones. No one is going to develop for a platform with no products.

Most fellow devs I've spoken to that work in mobile apps say they're really impressed by Microsoft's tools, and they're the best tool for cross platform work. Problem is though that development has to start with Windows and port to other platforms for the best results. Most start with iOS and...

Critical app from Amazon would be Amazon Now. They were saying it was "coming soon", but with dropping the main app I suspect it will never come. That means I can never use Amazon Now as they insanely insist that to be able to order within a 1 or 2hrs same day (as I can in my area) I can *only*...

Once again to people still saying it's the operator delaying it, many of us have factory fresh unbranded, unlocked SIM free devices from Microsoft and the operator has absolutely nothing to do with the software or even firmware for our devices. We didn't buy them from the operator, we bought...

Mobile has had tile based Start Menu all along with 8.1 through 10. Tile Start Menu was ideal for tablets. It just annoyed luddites who couldn't cope with change on the desktop. Turned out to be a majority. Simple solution was a compromise. Old outdated Win 95 style menu merged in with tiles. A...