Why would anyone who purchased a Microsoft operating system bother with a 3rd party implementation of a Microsoft product? Unless Microsoft make Silverlight bloated beyond belief Moonlight ain't going to stand a chance on the Windows platform so it would be a waste of time. However as with most Flash functionality new functionality won't come into common usage until sometime after it's release which gives Moonlight ample time to catch up.
No, a carefully used and administrated Windows XP powered PC is stable and can remain so. The problem is when people start installing incompatible software, browsing porn, and generally dicking around. From an enterprise perspective if you just use your pc to do your job and install supported compatible software you'll be fine, the biggest problem users of XP are those who use their work machine as their personal machine have admin rights but don't really know what they are doing.
From an Enterprise stand point it's going to be hard to dislodge because it can do the job, in the home however there are a lot of compelling reasons to change to Linux because it is far more flexible and inherently more secure as a standalone platform. Enterprise users don't need flexible they need consistent and although Linux is more secure as an individual platform it is hard to dislodge the Microsoft eco-system that protects Windows but not Linux.
I'd make millions of dollars even if I just sat on my arse each year and did nothing to improve the product aside from the odd security patch or coding out patent offending features. But you know what I don't need the money I'll give the software away.
What a business strategy! I'm suprised Bill hasn't hired you already.
The best openoffice could hope for is adoption of ODF as Microsoft's default format even then the strangle hold of the Microsoft computer ecology on many corporate networks would mean Open Office's market share increase by a pittance.
The BBC needs to control it's content so it is available for UK viewers only, if it charges for the content aboard but not in the UK with no DRM then the BBC will never make any money aboard. But on the other hand what they really need to do is create players, codecs, and drm that is open and cross platform.
In a perfect world the DRM should not inhibit the license fee payers from sharing with other license fee payers but should stop people who don't pay a license fee or overseas subscription from viewing the content. We're not in the perfect world but with the dirac codec the bbc appears to be laying the foundations for cross platform viewing, just because DRM has been the domain of Windows and Mac OS doesn't mean it can't work on Linux as well.
It's a cross patent protection deal, just like the same deal Apple has with Microsoft. It is in no way as significant as the Novell or Xandros deals. If LG didn't ship Linux products this wouldn't be news but would still have the exact same affect on the consumer: zero.
Both companies are simply saying we could sue each other but we won't.
Channel4 still make dispatches and it is still very good but the BBC are ripping the heart and soul out of their factual content. Horizon has lost it scientific rigor to the extent that the cover anti-ageing products and seem to include a great deal of phoney science. Panorama is a scaremongering issue skimming shell of what it was since it moved to a 'Prime time' slot. And every show they commission for BBC1 and 2 about natural history and space exploration as characters and a plot, half the time I expect them the next show to be a remake of Dinosaurs and just be done with it. You can still find some good stuff on BBC4 but the viewing figures are lower than the BBC1 and 2 flagship series ever were.
Patrick Moore recently blamed women in middle management at the various UK channels for the banality of television, and he's right of course but it doesn't matter they're women they just insist on winning the ratings war forgetting of course that they are a public broadcaster and should the Dinosaur themed soaps to Five and the scaremongering to ITV.
I'm sure I'm not alone in that I learn by breaking and then fixing things it increases by depth of knowledge of the program for instance I know how to use the command line in Linix because I broke Gnome and had to fix it by breaking out the command line. If a program chooses to babysit me because I don't know how to use the program then that program either isn't going to get used or I'm only going to use half the features.
Reading the entire article it seems to me that the British example is entirely flawed, it is given to students during their first year to weed out students with remedial problems, they are hardly likely to be hard questions now are they? The tests for the Chinese students will be to find the Elite students, since most UK universities don't do entrance exams and they rely entirely on the UCAS / A Level system you can't make a valid comparison. Perhaps the UK Universities should not rely on a system that is flawed in a way to prejudice against their subjects.
If you aren't using IE the OWA client is horrible, for me this would be a deal breaker on the iPhone. With IMAP services enabled on Exchange you can get around because if the email client doesn't have IMAP it isn't really an email client. The calendar feature of Exchange might be a problem but on the other hand a number of the people who I provide exchange and phones to have never actually had calendar syncronisation on their (admittedly old & brick shaped) phones and they've never asked for it they are far more interested in the form and function, something that the iPhone will provide in spades.
It's surely worse than ME, Vista is the flagship product that will define Microsoft's play on the Desktop OS for at least 3 years. While ME was quickly replaced in less than a year.
Admittedly the Vista interface is different to XP or 2000 but the "pretty" effects on the desktop are entirely optional and besides it's now really that part of the OS that is broken, it's the driver and application compatibility. Stick a 3D theme over XP and we wouldn't have a problem...
This is one of the reasons they have a live cd for the default installer it'll auto-detect your hardware, you may find it just works(tm) but on the other hand if it doesn't work straight off the bat then you you won't have lost anything.
There's a difference between having a domain TLD based on the purpose of the website (.bank) than one that actually promises something of worth such as.safe, no software company can gurantee that by entering a text string into your browser ending in.safe you are absolutely safe. By simply creating the domain names that are.safe you are giving the public a reason to let their guard down and promising something that you cannot keep.
Driving simulators aren't really in the Wii's target market (Nintendo are trying to expand the market rather than suck it dry like Sony and Microsoft) so unless the Wii really establishes itself as by far and away the number one console you're going to be better off with a Playstation or Xbox. Even if the Wii did establish itself as the undisputed number 1 the Xbox and Playstation would probably still cater for your tastes better.
They'll have racing games like F-Zero, Excite Truck, and whatever other sequels they push out but simulators aren't 'fun' and accessible which is what the Wii is supposedly all about.
You aren't looking hard enough Dell (for example) will still sell XP to business and if your chosen vendor doesn't then you can still buy XP OEM from the most online retailers. The business I work for currently is still insisting on XP installs until the tech guys get up to speed for Vista support.
Google don't sell PCs or servers but they have one of the most strongest technology brands in the world today. They make money from providing people with information and there is no reason why Google can't provide information to people on their mobile phones in the same way do on their PCs. Actually building a hardware device will be a far higher investment than simply adapting their existing applications for mobile devices. With the significant mindspace they already occupy when searching the internet from your PC or laptop you'd it won't matter that Vodafone and Orange have their brands plastered all over their phones, it never made any difference when they established themselves as the dominant search engine provider or changed the webmail market overnight.
It's not just like Windows, it's even easier than Windows you don't even have to go out and find the programs you want, they're right there. With Click and Run in the next release they appear to be trying to make it even easier.
or perhaps they've actually got quite good at kicking out security patches now, I guess they have dedicated teams of professionals going hell for leather on it.
shame about the development in the first place though eh?
The purpose of a PDA or mobile phone should be to keep a mobile worker or someone on call in touch. I'm currently tied to my desk and despite vague attempts to get me a mobile I have all my calls routed through the reception (there's no direct dials). Partly to get them to install a decent phone system but also so that people will only get in touch if they actually need to get in touch. Sure I can VPN in and check my emails and do some work from home but I'm in control then.
If ODF takes off, Microsoft would simply adopt it as the primary format for their documents. An office suite of software is far more than a document standard, it's an interface and functionality both of which appear absent from Open Office and other Microsoft competitors. If Microsoft simply adopted the format now they'd extinguish any advantage ODF gives their competitors.
Check out bleep.com it's 1GBP per track and then there's also eMusic which is a subscription service. Both are DRM free and offer good quality music, you can't offer the prices AllofMP3 offer but you can offer the quality and freedom it offers at a similar price to iTunes and Napster given a bit of economies of scale there's no reason with Major Label backing you couldn't offer the product. The majors will just not accept it, unfortunately.
Not a troll, you have a valid point, but I'm curious which of the two would you rather we support?
You don't have to support anyone this ain't football, just laugh at the ineptitude of it all and hope that they both spend ridiculous amounts of money suing and counter suing each other.
I've absolutely no idea how good the code in exchange is or if indeed it is value for money for companies but I know one thing it keeps everyone locked into Windows. Go through the conversion from Windows to Linux and people can accept the change of GUI, a bit of retraining and most users could probably live with Open Office but the question remains how do you replace Exchange? For all the advantages of Linux and all problems of Windows; Exchange remains an unmovable object, you could use a 3rd party client but that would be at best feeble and at worst unsupportable. Crack the market for Exchange with a scalable solution which goes above and beyond the features in MS Exchange and you take away many techies excuse to stay Microsoft
Previously I'd have said IBM with Notes and Novell with Groupware (or whatever it's called) should get together with some old fashioned Open Source enthusiasm and take Exchange on but with Novell's recent agreement with Microsoft this looks further realisation than ever before. For shame.
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Why would anyone who purchased a Microsoft operating system bother with a 3rd party implementation of a Microsoft product? Unless Microsoft make Silverlight bloated beyond belief Moonlight ain't going to stand a chance on the Windows platform so it would be a waste of time. However as with most Flash functionality new functionality won't come into common usage until sometime after it's release which gives Moonlight ample time to catch up.
No, a carefully used and administrated Windows XP powered PC is stable and can remain so. The problem is when people start installing incompatible software, browsing porn, and generally dicking around. From an enterprise perspective if you just use your pc to do your job and install supported compatible software you'll be fine, the biggest problem users of XP are those who use their work machine as their personal machine have admin rights but don't really know what they are doing. From an Enterprise stand point it's going to be hard to dislodge because it can do the job, in the home however there are a lot of compelling reasons to change to Linux because it is far more flexible and inherently more secure as a standalone platform. Enterprise users don't need flexible they need consistent and although Linux is more secure as an individual platform it is hard to dislodge the Microsoft eco-system that protects Windows but not Linux.
I'd make millions of dollars even if I just sat on my arse each year and did nothing to improve the product aside from the odd security patch or coding out patent offending features. But you know what I don't need the money I'll give the software away.
What a business strategy! I'm suprised Bill hasn't hired you already.
The best openoffice could hope for is adoption of ODF as Microsoft's default format even then the strangle hold of the Microsoft computer ecology on many corporate networks would mean Open Office's market share increase by a pittance.
The BBC needs to control it's content so it is available for UK viewers only, if it charges for the content aboard but not in the UK with no DRM then the BBC will never make any money aboard. But on the other hand what they really need to do is create players, codecs, and drm that is open and cross platform. In a perfect world the DRM should not inhibit the license fee payers from sharing with other license fee payers but should stop people who don't pay a license fee or overseas subscription from viewing the content. We're not in the perfect world but with the dirac codec the bbc appears to be laying the foundations for cross platform viewing, just because DRM has been the domain of Windows and Mac OS doesn't mean it can't work on Linux as well.
Both companies are simply saying we could sue each other but we won't.
Channel4 still make dispatches and it is still very good but the BBC are ripping the heart and soul out of their factual content. Horizon has lost it scientific rigor to the extent that the cover anti-ageing products and seem to include a great deal of phoney science. Panorama is a scaremongering issue skimming shell of what it was since it moved to a 'Prime time' slot. And every show they commission for BBC1 and 2 about natural history and space exploration as characters and a plot, half the time I expect them the next show to be a remake of Dinosaurs and just be done with it. You can still find some good stuff on BBC4 but the viewing figures are lower than the BBC1 and 2 flagship series ever were. Patrick Moore recently blamed women in middle management at the various UK channels for the banality of television, and he's right of course but it doesn't matter they're women they just insist on winning the ratings war forgetting of course that they are a public broadcaster and should the Dinosaur themed soaps to Five and the scaremongering to ITV.
I'm sure I'm not alone in that I learn by breaking and then fixing things it increases by depth of knowledge of the program for instance I know how to use the command line in Linix because I broke Gnome and had to fix it by breaking out the command line. If a program chooses to babysit me because I don't know how to use the program then that program either isn't going to get used or I'm only going to use half the features.
Reading the entire article it seems to me that the British example is entirely flawed, it is given to students during their first year to weed out students with remedial problems, they are hardly likely to be hard questions now are they? The tests for the Chinese students will be to find the Elite students, since most UK universities don't do entrance exams and they rely entirely on the UCAS / A Level system you can't make a valid comparison. Perhaps the UK Universities should not rely on a system that is flawed in a way to prejudice against their subjects.
If you aren't using IE the OWA client is horrible, for me this would be a deal breaker on the iPhone. With IMAP services enabled on Exchange you can get around because if the email client doesn't have IMAP it isn't really an email client. The calendar feature of Exchange might be a problem but on the other hand a number of the people who I provide exchange and phones to have never actually had calendar syncronisation on their (admittedly old & brick shaped) phones and they've never asked for it they are far more interested in the form and function, something that the iPhone will provide in spades.
last time I check on the Dell business website Vista was £10 cheaper
It's surely worse than ME, Vista is the flagship product that will define Microsoft's play on the Desktop OS for at least 3 years. While ME was quickly replaced in less than a year.
Admittedly the Vista interface is different to XP or 2000 but the "pretty" effects on the desktop are entirely optional and besides it's now really that part of the OS that is broken, it's the driver and application compatibility. Stick a 3D theme over XP and we wouldn't have a problem...
This is one of the reasons they have a live cd for the default installer it'll auto-detect your hardware, you may find it just works(tm) but on the other hand if it doesn't work straight off the bat then you you won't have lost anything.
There's a difference between having a domain TLD based on the purpose of the website (.bank) than one that actually promises something of worth such as .safe, no software company can gurantee that by entering a text string into your browser ending in .safe you are absolutely safe. By simply creating the domain names that are .safe you are giving the public a reason to let their guard down and promising something that you cannot keep.
Driving simulators aren't really in the Wii's target market (Nintendo are trying to expand the market rather than suck it dry like Sony and Microsoft) so unless the Wii really establishes itself as by far and away the number one console you're going to be better off with a Playstation or Xbox. Even if the Wii did establish itself as the undisputed number 1 the Xbox and Playstation would probably still cater for your tastes better.
They'll have racing games like F-Zero, Excite Truck, and whatever other sequels they push out but simulators aren't 'fun' and accessible which is what the Wii is supposedly all about.
You aren't looking hard enough Dell (for example) will still sell XP to business and if your chosen vendor doesn't then you can still buy XP OEM from the most online retailers. The business I work for currently is still insisting on XP installs until the tech guys get up to speed for Vista support.
Google don't sell PCs or servers but they have one of the most strongest technology brands in the world today. They make money from providing people with information and there is no reason why Google can't provide information to people on their mobile phones in the same way do on their PCs. Actually building a hardware device will be a far higher investment than simply adapting their existing applications for mobile devices. With the significant mindspace they already occupy when searching the internet from your PC or laptop you'd it won't matter that Vodafone and Orange have their brands plastered all over their phones, it never made any difference when they established themselves as the dominant search engine provider or changed the webmail market overnight.
It's not just like Windows, it's even easier than Windows you don't even have to go out and find the programs you want, they're right there. With Click and Run in the next release they appear to be trying to make it even easier.
or perhaps they've actually got quite good at kicking out security patches now, I guess they have dedicated teams of professionals going hell for leather on it. shame about the development in the first place though eh?
The purpose of a PDA or mobile phone should be to keep a mobile worker or someone on call in touch. I'm currently tied to my desk and despite vague attempts to get me a mobile I have all my calls routed through the reception (there's no direct dials). Partly to get them to install a decent phone system but also so that people will only get in touch if they actually need to get in touch. Sure I can VPN in and check my emails and do some work from home but I'm in control then.
If ODF takes off, Microsoft would simply adopt it as the primary format for their documents. An office suite of software is far more than a document standard, it's an interface and functionality both of which appear absent from Open Office and other Microsoft competitors. If Microsoft simply adopted the format now they'd extinguish any advantage ODF gives their competitors.
Visa already cut off the supply.
Check out bleep.com it's 1GBP per track and then there's also eMusic which is a subscription service. Both are DRM free and offer good quality music, you can't offer the prices AllofMP3 offer but you can offer the quality and freedom it offers at a similar price to iTunes and Napster given a bit of economies of scale there's no reason with Major Label backing you couldn't offer the product. The majors will just not accept it, unfortunately.
Not a troll, you have a valid point, but I'm curious which of the two would you rather we support? You don't have to support anyone this ain't football, just laugh at the ineptitude of it all and hope that they both spend ridiculous amounts of money suing and counter suing each other.
I've absolutely no idea how good the code in exchange is or if indeed it is value for money for companies but I know one thing it keeps everyone locked into Windows. Go through the conversion from Windows to Linux and people can accept the change of GUI, a bit of retraining and most users could probably live with Open Office but the question remains how do you replace Exchange? For all the advantages of Linux and all problems of Windows; Exchange remains an unmovable object, you could use a 3rd party client but that would be at best feeble and at worst unsupportable. Crack the market for Exchange with a scalable solution which goes above and beyond the features in MS Exchange and you take away many techies excuse to stay Microsoft Previously I'd have said IBM with Notes and Novell with Groupware (or whatever it's called) should get together with some old fashioned Open Source enthusiasm and take Exchange on but with Novell's recent agreement with Microsoft this looks further realisation than ever before. For shame.