Hololens pre-orders starting tomorrow, ships in 30 days
Hololens really does sound like an absolutely extraordinary and revolutionary product. I'm genuinely excited to try it.<p>...And then I see mention of Skype, which is a product that -- since its acquisition by Microsoft -- has gone steadily downhill in terms of its form, functionality, stability, security, and essentially every other metric. It's hard to find anybody who doesn't loathe it. There's some serious cognitive dissonance in trying to contemplate Hololens and Skype simultaneously.<p>Actually, I had the same reaction when Hololens was first announced. "OMG, the future is here! Thank you Microsoft!" I thought, and then immediately spent the next 6 hours tracking down an idiotic standards-compliance bug which existed in every version of Internet Explorer up until IE 11.[1]<p>I could go on at some length, but suffice to say that I am routinely <i>astonished</i> by Microsoft's R&D capabilities, yet virtually every interaction I have with their actual software leaves me with a dire impression. (Except for Excel, which for some reason Just Works for me). So as much as I want to have high hopes for Hololens, I fear that crappy software will let it down.<p>Please, Microsoft -- prove me wrong!<p>1: window.location.origin, if you really want to know.