I've not checked but I believe all of these are first party games meaning they've got the licensing matters settled. Licensing other companies' games might prove hard, expensive or even impossible
Yeah well, we all know you can play all the old consoles' games for free if you pirate the roms. Parent was obviously only discussing the legal options.
I'm not an expert but I believe flash memory in phones isn't used for paging. The reason in precisely that it would severly impact on the lifetime of the device's internal memory.
When the OS runs out of RAM it just starts killing apps.
Not a nice thing but since it's free to play it's not as bad as if you had to pay 60 bucks upfront. If you don't like it just stop playing and you haven't lost any money just a bit of time.
Exactly. An OS is supposed to be stable. Please stop making changes to it all the freaking time.
The agile development process doesn't belong in an OS. Alas, at this point a change in direction for Windows seems very unlikely so it will have to be use something else or put up with this stupidity
Yeah, well, have you thought of the scale of the effort required to wire up 597,464 villages? It's comparatively simpler to develop some rockets. Also politician probably prioritised the weapons since they probably guessed it would be more politically profitable
So, as every other politician in the world this PM just promised something that was about to happen regardless of his intervention and got credit for it
You're using the wrong point of view: That of a rational computer-oriented used not that of Microsoft. For them, the crap like Candy Crush and others are useful since they make them money, the registry editor and other useful thing do not.
While modern consoles are pretty much identical to an x86/IBM pc this argument has never made much sense for me: Traditionally consoles have used CPUs and other chips not common on "office" PCs but most of the time that didn't really give them much of an advantage over the PCs of the era so what difference does it make? They've always been turing complete von neumann computers so nothing radically different from a common PC
Yeah, SSD prices have been flat for a time that's true but I read some articles a while ago that actually predicted this: They claimed the end to "easy" size reductions in flash memory were near and thus SSD prices would stop falling. It looks that's just what is happening so maybe prices will not go down for a while.
Looks like HDDs will be best for price per byte for the foresable future
While it's certainly much better than Windows 8, 10's start menu is IMO worse than the one on 7.
Also, they've changed some parts of the UI (of the OS itself and many default apps) to be touch optimized which makes poor use of real estate when using mice.
Yep. These days smartphones are really powerful so I believe everything but the UI can be shared. It shouldn't be THAT hard. Instead of that Microsoft seems to be set on forcing deskop users use touch optimized UIs.
Anyway, I'm wary of the "responsive" label. It's commonly used to define UIs that auto resize but usually make a poor use of whitespace on desktops
Yeah, It will probably never be near finished. To clone Windows it's a huge undertaking. Anyway I wanted to remark that they really have few developers not imply that if they had an "average amount" (whatever that is for an open source project) they would complete the job
Nope. NT5 support is not finished. ReactOS has very few developers. I believe it's because the intersection of people capable of developing an OS and willing to commit their time to learning Windows internals and actually develop such an OS is pretty small.
I think the only real possibility of it reaching maturity in the short term is to somehow get some company to pay for development (as it's done for Linux (multiple compnanies) and Wine (Codeweavers make a commercial product out of it)).
That said, I would love it reached to point of being an alternative to Windows, not because I don't want to pay, but because the current version of Windows (10) has many drawbacks. I gladly paid for Windows 7
Color me surprised. I supposed that, at least developed countries, would have specialised services for their important personnel to comunicate through.
This isn't very interesting at this point IMO but if they could opensource the whole Windows 7 UI so that it could run in Win 10 that would be something else:P
Because if Windows keep being the dominant OS for PC gaming then Valve's business depends too much on Microsoft and one doesn't need to be too bright to know that's not a position you want to be in.
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Yep, machines can just talk fine using protocols and channels designed for that like SOAP
Yes, I didn't read TFA
I've not checked but I believe all of these are first party games meaning they've got the licensing matters settled. Licensing other companies' games might prove hard, expensive or even impossible
Yeah well, we all know you can play all the old consoles' games for free if you pirate the roms. Parent was obviously only discussing the legal options.
Thanks for the comment. I give it more credibility coming from someone who's been involved in a mobile OS :).
I'm not an expert but I believe flash memory in phones isn't used for paging. The reason in precisely that it would severly impact on the lifetime of the device's internal memory.
When the OS runs out of RAM it just starts killing apps.
Not a nice thing but since it's free to play it's not as bad as if you had to pay 60 bucks upfront. If you don't like it just stop playing and you haven't lost any money just a bit of time.
Exactly. An OS is supposed to be stable. Please stop making changes to it all the freaking time.
The agile development process doesn't belong in an OS. Alas, at this point a change in direction for Windows seems very unlikely so it will have to be use something else or put up with this stupidity
Yeah, well, have you thought of the scale of the effort required to wire up 597,464 villages? It's comparatively simpler to develop some rockets. Also politician probably prioritised the weapons since they probably guessed it would be more politically profitable
So, as every other politician in the world this PM just promised something that was about to happen regardless of his intervention and got credit for it
Nah. The real goal is to make a more limited, mobile-like OS. The user must be prevented from controlling the system
You're using the wrong point of view: That of a rational computer-oriented used not that of Microsoft. For them, the crap like Candy Crush and others are useful since they make them money, the registry editor and other useful thing do not.
While modern consoles are pretty much identical to an x86/IBM pc this argument has never made much sense for me: Traditionally consoles have used CPUs and other chips not common on "office" PCs but most of the time that didn't really give them much of an advantage over the PCs of the era so what difference does it make? They've always been turing complete von neumann computers so nothing radically different from a common PC
Yeah, SSD prices have been flat for a time that's true but I read some articles a while ago that actually predicted this: They claimed the end to "easy" size reductions in flash memory were near and thus SSD prices would stop falling. It looks that's just what is happening so maybe prices will not go down for a while.
Looks like HDDs will be best for price per byte for the foresable future
While it's certainly much better than Windows 8, 10's start menu is IMO worse than the one on 7.
Also, they've changed some parts of the UI (of the OS itself and many default apps) to be touch optimized which makes poor use of real estate when using mice.
Yep. These days smartphones are really powerful so I believe everything but the UI can be shared. It shouldn't be THAT hard. Instead of that Microsoft seems to be set on forcing deskop users use touch optimized UIs.
Anyway, I'm wary of the "responsive" label. It's commonly used to define UIs that auto resize but usually make a poor use of whitespace on desktops
Am I the only one who thinks "agile" is a stupid metodology to use on an OS?
It's supposed to be stable. How does this benefit Microsoft?
Yeah, It will probably never be near finished. To clone Windows it's a huge undertaking. Anyway I wanted to remark that they really have few developers not imply that if they had an "average amount" (whatever that is for an open source project) they would complete the job
Nope. NT5 support is not finished. ReactOS has very few developers. I believe it's because the intersection of people capable of developing an OS and willing to commit their time to learning Windows internals and actually develop such an OS is pretty small.
I think the only real possibility of it reaching maturity in the short term is to somehow get some company to pay for development (as it's done for Linux (multiple compnanies) and Wine (Codeweavers make a commercial product out of it)).
That said, I would love it reached to point of being an alternative to Windows, not because I don't want to pay, but because the current version of Windows (10) has many drawbacks. I gladly paid for Windows 7
Nope, no 64 bit support yet
Color me surprised. I supposed that, at least developed countries, would have specialised services for their important personnel to comunicate through.
Ever since I first learnt of Fuchsia I thought Google wanted control about the Android kernel. I still think the same.
This isn't very interesting at this point IMO but if they could opensource the whole Windows 7 UI so that it could run in Win 10 that would be something else :P
What do you do in your job if I can ask?
Because if Windows keep being the dominant OS for PC gaming then Valve's business depends too much on Microsoft and one doesn't need to be too bright to know that's not a position you want to be in.