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  1. Re:Here goes ... by gmuslera · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Service-Heavy FOSS Hosting?

    And thats pretty worthy, taking into account that 9.999999% of its uptime, hey, is like 7 9s!

  2. Re:How many more? by Mr_DW · · Score: 1 · on The Three Pillars of Nokia Strategy Have All Failed

    And your WP7 apps don't get to come along.... So there is ABSOLUTELY no reason to buy a WP7 device, or develop WP7 apps, because it won't gain you anything.

    What are you talking about? WP7 apps DO carry over to WP8. from: http://www.liveside.net/2012/09/26/will-windows-phone-7-apps-just-work-in-windows-phone-8/

    Microsoft said that Windows Phone 7 apps would run in Windows Phone 8

  3. Re:Monumental failure. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Wozniak Praises 'Beautiful' Windows Phone

    There are developers compiling their C++ to dlls and writing an interface layer in Silverlight. In addition, this.

  4. No version == No power to blacklist lemons by vlueboy · · Score: 1 · on Mozilla To Remove User-Facing Firefox Version Numbers

    I understand your concern in expressing this lazy coding up to versions rather than using reflexive APIs. That thinking only helps in ideal conditions where everything is perfect. Since we all know and expect bugs in any software release, then deleting version numbers means that now we have absolutely no "legal" and simple way of BLACKLISTING a release of firefox when a bug is found.

    Tomorrow this functional equivalent to having a risky firefox nightly at your corporate desks grows a logic bomb affecting all ssl or e-commerce transactions. So we'll all end up using hacks to steal the internal version number, (which we ALL know is never going away for dev sanity's sake). Then IT tries to trigger a downgrade to yesterday's version. But, how does IT do that if OFFICIAL download links no longer show any trackable version number? For the average multi-PC joe at home, how do they know which copies to uninstall, and what installer to replace their bombed version with?

    How do you even look it up on the official website when the only other option is going to oldversion.com if your corporation won't laugh at you for using those unofficial builds? Pray that you're NOT downloading some trojan to deploy to hundreds of machines. Anyone disagreeing with those use cases, fails to understand why the corporate world has clung so hard to IE6: even if it's bad for all of us, the identifiability and usability of version number 6 provides a powerful witness about the corporate AND user-land power of the blacklist/whitelist story. IE6 is still number 1 in China. http://www.liveside.net/2011/03/16/as-microsoft-releases-ie9-ie6-still-dominates-in-china-heres-why/

  5. Re:Google Analytics by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 1 · on Apple Adding "Do-Not-Track" To Safari

    I never understood why Microsoft didn't release IE9 with massive ad blocking capabilities.

    It's there, it's just not advertised as such. But in practice it's the same idea as AdBlock, subscribe to a blacklist maintained by someone out there and see the ads vanish.

    They aren't in the ad-based revenue world

    Microsoft's online advertising services are, of course, not as big as Google, but they're fairly big. Read this for the official take on how it stacks up vis-a-vis the aforementioned IE9 feature.

  6. Re:The guy lost me at the require username@gmail.c by FurryWhale · · Score: 1 · on What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?

    99% percent of the users of hotmail.com will use hotmail.

    Hotmail has 380 million users. 1% of that is still 3.8 million people. Also remember that in addition to hotmail.com, Hotmail supports 28 other domains such as live.dk and live.jp. And users can use Live Admin Center (can the name get any more generic?) to use their own domains with Hotmail, which effectively gives Hotmail an infinite number of domains to support. I actually use this. Given all that, I think it's easier to require that users type in the domain to avoid problems where the non-hotmail.com people forget and try to login to someone else's account.

  7. Official, Slashdot has become insane. by TheNetAvenger · · Score: 1, Informative · on Photosynth Demo

    PhotoSynth was previewed and available months and months ago, like a year almost.

    The real news story today is about using Silverlight technology in a new Live project.

    Today's MS story was about "Windows Live PhotoZoom". A set of features managing photos using Silverlight using some of the original PhotoSynth technologies.

    http://www.liveside.net/blogs/main/archive/2007/06 /06/windows-live-photodoom-alpha-silverlight-power s-new-microsoft-live-labs-project.aspx

    Ya, PhotoSynth is a cool technology, but not exactly new, at least not today.

    We know that SlashDot as the 'Faux' news of technology, but at least get the article at least '1%' correct, and skip the links with insane ads not related. People on here actually think they are MS ads.