It is more precise to describe Yammer as a service that lets you create private social network for your company. Just like with Facebook IM is just small part of it. Enterprises of course have different needs for their social network than regular Facebook folks. For example Sharepoint integration, SSO solution, etc.
Exactly! The summary makes it sound as if corporations are buying Windows/Office because it is the only thing that works on desktop hardware while in reallity they are buying desktop hardware because it is the only thing that runs Windows/Office.
This is how they get patent deals but not how they sue. You can't possibly sue someone without showing what you've got in court. After all how will the jury decide if you don't show your patents? That's the whole point of a lawsuit. The patents MS holds against Motorola are well known and you can easily Google for them. Something with syncrhonizing e-mails, battery power blah blah blah.
Microsoft is suing Motorola (now Google) directly. Why the hell would they hide if they already do it openly and even if they do hide behind other companies how is this illegal? Can't a company pay another company to take care of patent fights?
And this demonstrates the problem with the HTML standard - 99% of the developers have NEVER read a single sentence out of it (having read several pages it is hard to blame them). They just assume what firefox/chrome/opera or whatever their browser of choice is IS the standard. After all we all know only IE does not follow the standard. When IE8 came out people were screaming left and right why their alt text is not shown as title. All other browsers support alt text on hover so obviously IE is not following the standard. Funny thing in this case IE8 fixed a bug in all previous IEs because alt text should NOT be displayed as title even if no title is available. But people don't read the standard:)
No, it's some IE specific issue that cuts longer comments in the middle and hides the reply link. I sometimes log in with Opera to post comments but most often decide to skip commenting. While/. may not care for this in particular I have dropped several sites I intended to spend money on for not supporting my browser of choice. For example playhem.com . I make sure to tell them they suck though ( http://feedback.playhem.com/forums/130623-ideas-improvements/suggestions/2577693-internet-explorer-support )
The other day I decided to test the c9.io and to my surprise it did not work not only in IE but in Opera as well. I don't have any other browsers on my laptop so the test kind of failed.
I'd like to complain that/. does not work well (hides part of comments) in IE./. will probably claim that no one is complaining but here I am. So are you going to fix it now?
I find the decision very strange. The software that matters will still be developed for the desktop because big companies just buy Visual Studio (or more precisely have subscriptions). Trying to push Metro-style apps via students and hobbyists is in my opinion ridiculous. Also you get all the devs' rage and all the bad P.R. of Internet articles. If I saw any reason for them to do something evil, enslave the devs with their tools or push metro down our throats I would understand but this decision makes no sense to me in any way.
I see. Because some of these people + Scott Hanselman actually form all of my G+ feed (and I have like 80 more people in circles). My experience with G+ is exacty what the article describes. If we take out several geek figures who post a lot of public content I would see like 1 post a day.
So the people you listed as producers of G+ content have added you to their circles and post non-public statuses and this is why the study did not notice them?
How do you know this? I read an article (dedicated to 10 years of Xbox recently) that claim Xbox (original + 360) repaid the investment. Obviously it is hard to know if Xbox repaid but the division is making a huge profit for a while now and let me remind you that this division is paying for the next gen Xbox development and Windows Phone development right this moment. I am not saying that you are wrong I just want to know if you have any numbers or at least sources to support your claim.
Strange... you would think that the fact that Microsoft makes a huge profit (in fact record profits) would stop them from declaring Ballmer the worse CEO... but it didn't.
The US judge cannot overturn the German judge decision. He can however fine Motorola in the US if they enforced the ban in Germany. This is exactly what he needed to do to prevent Motorola's strategy of "get products banned in a big market and force them to settle for the whole world despite the fact that we would ultimately lose if they wait it out"
What a silly question. Microsoft can afford to wait until October ANY YEAR. Remember that Xbx thing that took 20 billion and 7+ years to become a success.
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It is more precise to describe Yammer as a service that lets you create private social network for your company. Just like with Facebook IM is just small part of it. Enterprises of course have different needs for their social network than regular Facebook folks. For example Sharepoint integration, SSO solution, etc.
They have experience in supporting end users - Xbox. Also they do sell retail Windows.
Exactly! The summary makes it sound as if corporations are buying Windows/Office because it is the only thing that works on desktop hardware while in reallity they are buying desktop hardware because it is the only thing that runs Windows/Office.
That's good point but aren't the expenses for the attacker also going up if they have to file multiple lawsuits?
This is how they get patent deals but not how they sue. You can't possibly sue someone without showing what you've got in court. After all how will the jury decide if you don't show your patents? That's the whole point of a lawsuit. The patents MS holds against Motorola are well known and you can easily Google for them. Something with syncrhonizing e-mails, battery power blah blah blah.
Microsoft is suing Motorola (now Google) directly. Why the hell would they hide if they already do it openly and even if they do hide behind other companies how is this illegal? Can't a company pay another company to take care of patent fights?
And this demonstrates the problem with the HTML standard - 99% of the developers have NEVER read a single sentence out of it (having read several pages it is hard to blame them). They just assume what firefox/chrome/opera or whatever their browser of choice is IS the standard. After all we all know only IE does not follow the standard. When IE8 came out people were screaming left and right why their alt text is not shown as title. All other browsers support alt text on hover so obviously IE is not following the standard. Funny thing in this case IE8 fixed a bug in all previous IEs because alt text should NOT be displayed as title even if no title is available. But people don't read the standard :)
No, it's some IE specific issue that cuts longer comments in the middle and hides the reply link. I sometimes log in with Opera to post comments but most often decide to skip commenting. While /. may not care for this in particular I have dropped several sites I intended to spend money on for not supporting my browser of choice. For example playhem.com . I make sure to tell them they suck though ( http://feedback.playhem.com/forums/130623-ideas-improvements/suggestions/2577693-internet-explorer-support )
The other day I decided to test the c9.io and to my surprise it did not work not only in IE but in Opera as well. I don't have any other browsers on my laptop so the test kind of failed.
I have yet to see front end dev look at rendering engine code. I will be really impressed if I ever do see such a sight.
I'd like to complain that /. does not work well (hides part of comments) in IE. /. will probably claim that no one is complaining but here I am. So are you going to fix it now?
I find the decision very strange. The software that matters will still be developed for the desktop because big companies just buy Visual Studio (or more precisely have subscriptions). Trying to push Metro-style apps via students and hobbyists is in my opinion ridiculous. Also you get all the devs' rage and all the bad P.R. of Internet articles. If I saw any reason for them to do something evil, enslave the devs with their tools or push metro down our throats I would understand but this decision makes no sense to me in any way.
Why tags? How about Chrome Native Client the equivallent to ActiveX?
I see. Because some of these people + Scott Hanselman actually form all of my G+ feed (and I have like 80 more people in circles). My experience with G+ is exacty what the article describes. If we take out several geek figures who post a lot of public content I would see like 1 post a day.
So the people you listed as producers of G+ content have added you to their circles and post non-public statuses and this is why the study did not notice them?
Still in the last couple of years the division makes profits in the billions while paying for the next Xbox development and Windows Phone.
So you suggest that now he's going to kick out Sinofsky? Good joke! :)
How do you know this? I read an article (dedicated to 10 years of Xbox recently) that claim Xbox (original + 360) repaid the investment. Obviously it is hard to know if Xbox repaid but the division is making a huge profit for a while now and let me remind you that this division is paying for the next gen Xbox development and Windows Phone development right this moment. I am not saying that you are wrong I just want to know if you have any numbers or at least sources to support your claim.
Strange... you would think that the fact that Microsoft makes a huge profit (in fact record profits) would stop them from declaring Ballmer the worse CEO... but it didn't.
They are but their position is weak (using FRAND patents)
The US judge cannot overturn the German judge decision. He can however fine Motorola in the US if they enforced the ban in Germany. This is exactly what he needed to do to prevent Motorola's strategy of "get products banned in a big market and force them to settle for the whole world despite the fact that we would ultimately lose if they wait it out"
iPad can join domains? (real question)
I read so in some article but can't be 100% sure.
I do like it. I really don't get it why people are so upset with it. Now the hot corners in the new Windows 8 desktop - that sux.
What a silly question. Microsoft can afford to wait until October ANY YEAR. Remember that Xbx thing that took 20 billion and 7+ years to become a success.
Link or didn't happen. What's the feature in Sharepoint 2010 SP1 that does not work on Firefox?