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Will HP's $200 Stream 11 Make People Forget About Chromebooks?

How many Microsoft products can you buy for the price of an iPhone?

I was considering a fitness band and went with this one. It is $199 and has more sensors than the iWatch or Fitbit charge. Seemed like a good deal to try out and it works with all the smartphones. http://www.neowin.net/news/spe...

It is pretty cool -- it has GPS, Heart beat monitor, sweat monitor, etc... hopefully it works well.

They are indeed catching up with some of the niceties of Linux world. Windows 8 introduced ISO mounting, Windows 10 introduced MKV support and package management. Then there is of course PowerShell, Git support in Visual Studio, and things like that. Lots of nice geek features.

On the other hand... seeing as Windows is reportedly moving away from a major release model.....

Perhaps in the near future they will announce a Windows 365 subscription. For say $15 a month, you get an Operating system, and some basic productivity applications such as Notepad, Calculator, Wordpad, and Microsoft Word.

For $5 extra a month, you get Windows 365 PLUS edition which might include Outlook and Powerpoint.

Next for another $10 a month.... the above plus Publisher and Visio

Next for an added $15 a month.... the above plus MS Access.

Finally, for $40 more a month.... Visual Studio and basic developer tools.

I donno about you, but I'm not an MSDN subscriber or someone that's beta-tested Microsoft software in any official capacity, so I have no expectation to learn of this anywhere except to, "read about it in a blog."

No need for subscription. :)

A Neowin article happens to have the direct download links for the ISOs (x86-32 and x86-64) if you want to play around with W10TP in a virtual machine or a spare computer.

There's also a $81 tablet coming from PiPO.

"Pipo" means "beanie" in Finnish, by the way, hehheh.

It's a shame that the same ugly style is now being incorporated to the Start Menu too. I think it's a big step backwards from the nice looking Windows 7 Start Menu.

something tells me I've read this before.

http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/p... (viability study from this year)
http://www.neowin.net/news/78-... (MSCI corporate venture to provide 3G backhaul from LEO (news from 2011). To date, I think about 0 have been actually deployed).
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/h... (oh yes, this is one of the more recent ones by Google - again, nothing came of it).

I don't think any of the microsats being launched from ISS are intended for trunking wireless. ICBW.

Windows 8/8.1 and Server 2012 aren't bad operating systems. They are just hobbled with hideous user interfaces.

There's also some new vomit-inducing screenshots of the Start Menu colors of Windows 9. It's still nice that the menu is coming back, but they seem to be going full-kindergarten in terms of appearance.

Note to self: Wait for WindowBlinds to be ported to Windows 9 before upgrading.

Windows 8/8.1 and Server 2012 aren't bad operating systems. They are just hobbled with hideous user interfaces.

There's also some new vomit-inducing screenshots of the Start Menu colors of Windows 9. It's still nice that the menu is coming back, but they seem to be going full-kindergarten in terms of appearance.

Sneak preview of the History Channel's investigation into who's buried in this tomb!

how the heck should i know?

If you have a Fire Phone, you should be able to tell whether its security settings have a checkbox to allow installation of applications from unknown sources. The first-generation Kindle Fire did.

and why do you have such a hard on for apks? do you like HOSTS?

I'm talking APK as in Android package, not APK as in proponent of hosts files as a first line of defense in layered security.

Sneak Preview

Haven't been paying attention lately have ya?

Last Black Tuesday fucked up a lot of users of New modern great Windows systems

Less than 0.01% of Windows users. That may be "a lot of users" in absolute terms - but it is certainly not the big failure you (and Infoworld - the tabloid of tech) make it out to be.

Did MS do a proper jon when testing the updates? no. Did they fail massively? no.

Other than that users of the 12 percent platform spend more money than users of the 85 percent platform?

.Net was a promotional name applied to many products at the time, much like XP before that.

Part of this was to align the current versions, and part of it was to emphasize the network capabilities being introduced. This all happened ~2002, and that was a very big thing (from a marketing perspective) at the time.

This post seems to think the main reason was the latter.
Partial list of .NET product names

Very consistent, it's not like there were a mess of people that couldn't install the mandatory Windows 8.1 update. http://www.neowin.net/news/mic...

Yeah? Well the original Athlon 64 dual core isn't compatible with modern Window's operating systems. The instruction set which prohibits it from being used was around at the time, AMD just didn't put it in.

Look up asm.js?

If you have firefox installed check this out as Unreal 4 engine was ported to Firefox JS.

The link even has a demo you can run? The fact is Google does not want to port this as they want us to use proprietary dart and other technologies optimized for Android. But with Firefox OS you can do a lot with javascript iwth JIT and hardware acceleration.

McDonald's is already doing this. Its old news.

yes, it does, and yes I could just use iptables also, no need for AFWall or anything else.
But, saying it would be PITA would be a euphemism.
What the available "firewall" applications out there do is simplify that task a bit. I would be even better if we had something like this : http://iphonemonsta.com/firewa... or this http://www.neowin.net/forum/to... . baked in the system, so that no rooting is needed.
I'm not asking, I'm just saying. (and in the mean time, I'm thinking about implementing my own solution, using libnetfilter_queue or something similar).

I'd rather have a Bill Gates stamp. This image is way better than whatever piece of crap photo Steve Jobs would get. http://www.neowin.net/forum/up...

I ditched Firefox for Chrome when Firefox went off a cliff. Chrome is not heading in a good direction. Maybe it's time to give IE 11 a shot.

It's now the fastest browser on Windows:

http://blog.newrelic.com/2014/...

"Mozilla Gecko 11" is actually MSIE 11.0. See the small print under the chart, and also:

http://www.neowin.net/news/ie1...

Now is the time to put the javascript from IE6countdown to remind users to upgrade. Modify it so IE 7 displays the same message. Since XP is going EOL it is something their IT departments should be working on anyway.

Here is a link to show your boss about a website that finds it cheaper to pay users to upgrade rather than support IE 7. :-)

I know it is about money and reaching out, but it is time to move on. You should be phasing out IE 8 as well as it is keeping HTML 5 out. Google docs no longer even works with that anymore and many other websites are leaving it out. Corps are being lazy because you enable them.

IE 9, 10, and 11 can run in IE 8 mode too FYI easily with a GPO push for particular site zones. Their IT departments are lazy.l

unfortunately, my citation about this ("Tales from the trenches: how Microsoft is losing the battle for indie developers" by Ben Kuchera, March 2013)

Was this it?
(forum post quoting the article verbatim)

With aero if these screenshots are correct. FYI they are for Windows 8.2 and not Windows 9. But if MS is re-adding it back to the previous it will be in the later.

You may be interested in Neowin's coverage of the story:

http://www.neowin.net/news/teenager-reported-to-police-after-reporting-vulnerability-in-government-website

Some people basically accuse you of hacking (cracking, specifically) the database as opposed to passively noticing the SQL error. Then again a heck of a lot of the commenters there are idiots and enjoy jumping to conclusion, but if you want some cheap humour feel free to read it. :)

It's Microsoft's fault. They won't allow the makers to sell you a PC without a tablet OS.

I'm sure that's a significant factor. I wonder how the makers feel about that.

Look no further

"Samsung is blaming Windows 8 for its poor performance in the PC market and the overall decline of the industry as a whole."

I'm aware of that. I personally think there are multiple factors, but that is a significant one. It may even be the straw that breaks some major companies. (But probably not Samsung.)

It's Microsoft's fault. They won't allow the makers to sell you a PC without a tablet OS.

I'm sure that's a significant factor. I wonder how the makers feel about that.

Look no further "Samsung is blaming Windows 8 for its poor performance in the PC market and the overall decline of the industry as a whole."

The system requirements of Windows 8.1 are identical to those of Windows 8, and they don't even differ noticeably from those of Windows Vista.

This is not entirely true. I have at least one machine that refuses to install because it's missing an instruction set that was made a requirement in Windows 8.1 (CMPXCHG16b) Link: http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-confirms-some-older-amd-processors-do-not-support-windows-81

The processor is almost 10 years old which I guess is a good run, however.

Come 90 days when 30% of all computers gets death by 1,000 fire ants with exploits all at once.

Especially since MSE wont wont save these users either.

Popcorn time, or an oh shit time if the internet potentially goes offline due to 260,000,000 infected bots.

Come 90 days when 30% of all computers gets death by 1,000 fire ants with exploits all at once.

Especially since MSE wont wont save these users either.

Popcorn time, or an oh shit time if the internet potentially goes offline due to 260,000,000 infected bots.

You wont have full screen apps in Windows 9 if rumors are true.

They will have the x button and can be minimized back under the dock just like Windows 7. They will run side by side if you have a mouse and a non touch screen which if MS did at first maybe just maybe people would leave XP and buy a new computer.

Hence why the decline. After seeing them you ask yourself maybe your phone is fine for browsing, facebooking, and checking weather and XP is still good enough when you need to type a resume or sales flyer at home. Why change to that abmoniation?

The rumors are here.

Basically if you plug in a mouse it will revert to a Windows 7 UI with some metro applets behaving just like win32 ones with the familiar taskbar, aero, and start menu. Unplug hte mouse and the this goes away to a metro/modern style tablet UI.

I like this idea. You can have a somewhat familiar UI and teh sliding bars go away or pop up. I do wonder how Windows 8 mobile apps which depend on sliding horizontally will work though? So far I have not seen them in Windows 8 but then again I only use it to test IE 11 and do not do much with it as it is a VM.

Windows 7 meets my needs fine. But if enough apps are modernized by 2020 I can see myself using something like this. For now I will be an XP luddite of this decade with WIndows 7.

Correct: http://www.neowin.net/news/report-windows-phone-exceeds-10-percent-in-europes-smartphone-market

tl;dr: Thanks to phones like the Lumia 520, Windows Phone is breached 10% in the EU5, and is beating or growing faster than iOS in countries like Italy, Spain, and France.

Customers are risk adverse who do not want to change.

THe issue is outlined here.

Grandparent is referring to this bug

XP certainly has no ASLR or sandboxing. Look it up?

While I never claimed XP had sandboxing, I was sort of mistaken about ASLR. Apparently MS never added ASLR to Windows XP, but Wehntrust implements it Also, technically there's sandboxie and other similar programs, but of course there's some question about how just good they are--not that MS's own sandboxing technology exactly has a stellar record.

DEP only a few services use it on XP and the browser is not one of them.

Um, by default yes. But you can enable DEP system wide (although IIRC there's a hardcoded exception for ATI/AMD drivers).

EVen Firefox and Chrome are not sandboxed due to the lack of kernel support on that ancient OS.

*cough*Sandboxie*cough* Seriously, though, the sandbox is meant to be the last line of defense. And too often it's been shown to be no defense.

Dude arguing that XP is not broken is like arguing IE 6 is not broken because it runs your corporate websites fine.

No, IE 6 is broken. Period. This new XP Zero-Day shows XP is broken. Then again, IE11 on Windows 8.1 was very recently broken too.

It most certainly is and there are tons of hacks in that html code to make it even display right that the user does not see. XP has +800 workarounds for tens of thousands of virii each time code executes which is why a 128 meg Pentium III that ran XP fast in 2001 can't run XP SP 3 at all today. You do not see them but they are there and is obvious in performance degradation.

Which aren't in Windows 8.x? Because last I checked, the whole problem with Windows Vista/7/8 incompatibilities with older Windows software (and presumably some virii) had to do with presumptions about Administrator/Power User Access, not the layers of workarounds which are still in Windows--ie, if you use Windows XP as a normal user, you're just as safe from a lot of attacks (and before you say it can't be done, it can be--it's just more annoying than Vista's UAC). But, yea, your argument is precisely why Windows 8.x is even slower because it has even more libraries and hence even more workarounds.

Windows Transfer wizard takes care of moving files over.

"Alas, the one thing that Windows Easy Transfer can't do is reinstall programs for you. Insgtead, it displays this complete list of every program that was installed on your old PC." -- Inside the Windows 7 Easy Transfer Utility. Still, I'd admit that it looks like it takes away some of the pain. But, then I think about reinstalling several games and..bleh. Could be worse, though.

If XP was fine then why have this article? That exploit doesn't hit Windows 7 and later now does it?

Nor users of the latest version of Adobe Reader, so there is that too. Further, it's not really stated why exactly the exploit works in Windows XP and not Windows 7/8, as APSB13-15 Security Bulletin seems to cover most versions of Adobe Reader and the NDProxy.sys bug would presumably be in/patched in all Windows versions? My only wild guess is that it relates to a similar Microsoft Windows Kernel NDProxy Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability from a few years ago and that both may be prevented from being exploited by either further Windows kernel protection or a shatter attack protection.

So, you do have a point to the extent that some more of those software firewalls seem to be working. But, just being up to d

Have you tried to install XP in the last 6 months in VMware

It has the SVCHost.exe taking 100% cpu utilization bug, updates do not work, this is what happens. It took a week to install XP with my host machine running very hot.

I finally found a fix of looking for a KB randomly for an IE update. MS support and googling had no answer to this but someone in a forum mentioned this fix after many many patches and fixits.

100% of all XP versions are impacted regardless of source as I assumed I had a bad .iso. The thing is the hardest OS to install compared to FreeBSD and other harder oses due to the amount of patches, steps, and other workarounds to get IE 6 working for myself.

I accidently lost my iso folder and I wont miss re-installing XP. I have an XP image still backed up and will gladly just upgrade my ram to use Windows 7 images instead when that nasty outdated dinosaur dies off.
 

See this article: http://www.neowin.net/news/foxconn-intern-claims-ps4-was-sabotaged-during-manufacturing Seems the workers were not happy.

Is this the same plant in Yantai where Foxconn essentially forced students to work for free on Apple and/or Sony stuff? If so, the sabotage is understandable, albeit still reprehensible.

See this article: http://www.neowin.net/news/foxconn-intern-claims-ps4-was-sabotaged-during-manufacturing
Seems the workers were not happy.

All my friends live in China, you insensitive clod!

FYI, http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-8-users-have-two-years-to-update-to-windows-81-before-support-ends ... MS will support original W8 for a couple years.

Not annualized profits, where years have been profitable. Division lifetime profit. like this

When I see graphs like that I always wonder exactly what goes into them. I'm sure the accounting is complicated and that it would be possible to produce all sorts of different figures depending on what you choose to include or exclude.

Debian was briefly already there, but sadly, that got reverted. Let's wait a bit, if this and similar regressions in newest Gnome3 won't get reverted, this will give us some ammunition for raising this issue again.

I'd personally prefer MATE+Compiz, but XFCE is sane enough.

microsoft has made a ton of money on the xbox(and that is net). with the xbox 360 having the highest software attach rate of any console in history at 7.5(xbox 360), compaired to 3.8(PS3) and 3.5(wii). not to mention they make a ton of money from xbox live membership costs.

Wrong. http://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsofts-xbox-division-has-lost-nearly-3-billion-in-10-years
Microsoft's Gaming Division is in the hole to the tune of $3,000,000,000.00.

And it's pathetic to talk about 360 attach rates when 80% of 360 owners are on their second (or third, or fourth, or worse) console. Regardless, your attach rate numbers are wrong, as is your history (the 8-bit and 16-bit generations had much higher attach rates).

Not annualized profits, where years have been profitable. Division lifetime profit. like this

> You're a software company, stop trying to make
> profit on hardware! Sell the hardware cheap and
> make the money from sales through the app store!
> You make the Xbox, haven't you learned anything
> from how console sales work yet?

All they've learned from the XBox is how not to make a profit in a dozen years so you can see why they'd want to try a different strategy with the Surface.

http://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsofts-xbox-division-has-lost-nearly-3-billion-in-10-years Xbox is a money pit, not a profit center.

Microsoft Windows 8 has mimimum requirements of 4GB of flash, 1GB of RAM, and a dual-core processor. The latest Android requires 340MB of RAM and 0.5MB of flash. Windows Phone is bloated, buggy, and an awful UI that cannot be changed (unlike Android where you can put any launcher, or indeed custom rom, instead).

People are not buying Microsoft Windows phones. The reason is that both the hardware and the software is inferior.

Phillip.