All of this is pedantic. MS phones came with A STYLUS, until 2006! They made shit phone software for 4 years, with no market success and had to be SCHOOLED by Apple.
The Zune 2nd Gen would have been a beautiful "catch-up" point for MS. They could have used their finally elegant iPod knock-off to build the iPhone knock-off. But they screwed that pooch in the kennel. The Zune IP was ditched and users abandoned, in the mindless pursuit to keep "Windows" relevant, and build anew for the tablet "strategy" they'd also gotten TOTALLY WRONG since 2004.
After spending over 12 Billion on R&D labs between 1999-2010, you think they'd come up with something other than wannabe OS's, devices and me-too cloud services.
As you increase the general-purpose utility of any piece of technology, you open corresponding opportunity for abuse or exploitation.
Security comes through ongoing practice. This includes implementation specifics, ongoing management operations and individual initiative/decision capacity of users.
To believe there is a technology solution that - correctly implemented at the correct point of design and lifecycle - would automatically solve the security "problem"? This is a naive point of view, which ignores the wealth of research and understanding acquired in the field of systems security, over the past 20 years.
This is not to argue that nothing can be done. But assuming that security can be "solved" with just the right design and development is cruelly untrue.
And I have yet to see this security-conscientious, aware development community to which the article makes reference.
Decade? How about 4 years. CE was around, but not for phones. When they stuck these together, as Windows Mobile, the integration of the radio stack and network controls were at LANman / Win 3.1 levels of sophistication. Really. The phones were life safety hazards, where stalled applications could keep you from answering or starting calls.
Trust me. I had every one one of these turds, 2003-2010. Starting with the TMobile HTC Wallaby and Himalaya XDA, which opened the market - a couple of the unusable HPs and then the Palm 700w and back to the HTC Vogue. Finished off the pile of misery with the Samsung Omnia.
Look, I have had my computers supplied by IT. I don't pick 'em - I just take what they give to Consultants and Architects at top global software companies.
And Toughbook (Panasonic BTW) or Alienware are not the line machines that go out.
I miss the TP 600X and T20. Last of a breed of PC laptops. The Toshiba that followed these was replaced 4 times in the same lifespan of these.
Fanboy? No. But a 5 year old MacBook Pro is now beating the pants off the last-years Latitude E6400. Or, as I call it - the Dell Lassitude.
Yeah, they sure did go out n their own with Zune. And with the WinPhone7. And with Windows, itself. Boy! That Window imaging model introduced with Vista, what a brilliant departure from Quartz!
I think the use of touch and gestures that was an original in MS labs really schooled Apple on how to make a human interface work - after years of "struggling in the dark" over at Infinite Loop.
Microsoft's pioneering work on App stores is also not to be overlooked.
Will you direct me to the STURDY Dell? HP? Toshiba? Sony?
All of these have breaking hinges, cracking plastic, marred finishes - at least the models I'd been force-fed since 07-08.
And the 4-core, 4GB and 72000 RPM Hyperthreaded Dell with Intel VT cannot run ONE instance of Linux on either VMware WS or Virtualbox. Inspiron? Insipidon: The world's FASTEST Powerpoint machine...
This is the CIO's only strategy to win. He's accountable for a desktop that needs to remain compatible with apps that he has no responsibility over. That's why XP is still there.
BYOD moves IT out of the loop - and plays to new devices.
I still remember: "Who will support these "PC computers" that departments are buying, behing the back of MIS?"
And: "These LANs that you claim are so successful in a handful of special cases, will never scale to the needs of Corporate IT. "
I was at 2 major industry tech conferences last month.
In every keynote and all-hands session, Apple hardware was center and present. Nothing special was made of this - just every damn computer used to demo solutions or held by a GM, VP or C-Level was a MacBook. Desktops were non-existant. Every time an iPad could be used, it was. There were a couple of minor Android appearances - demonstrating multi-platform support, or what not.
There were a few odds: The HP guys had their own gear, and the IBMers had Lenovos. Some brilliant man from SAP was sadly dragging a 'book of non-descript, perhaps Dell sourced, black plastic...
Overwhelmingly, if you wanted to look like you knew why-the-fuck you ought to be on stage, in front of 8,000 people, you went Mac.
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And now, they've "Sub-standardized".
Thatcherite!
That's a vendor doing their own integration on PoketPC.
Microsoft didn't offer RIL for radio stack integration until 2002:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile
All of this is pedantic. MS phones came with A STYLUS, until 2006! They made shit phone software for 4 years, with no market success and had to be SCHOOLED by Apple.
The Zune 2nd Gen would have been a beautiful "catch-up" point for MS. They could have used their finally elegant iPod knock-off to build the iPhone knock-off. But they screwed that pooch in the kennel. The Zune IP was ditched and users abandoned, in the mindless pursuit to keep "Windows" relevant, and build anew for the tablet "strategy" they'd also gotten TOTALLY WRONG since 2004.
After spending over 12 Billion on R&D labs between 1999-2010, you think they'd come up with something other than wannabe OS's, devices and me-too cloud services.
Agree.
As you increase the general-purpose utility of any piece of technology, you open corresponding opportunity for abuse or exploitation.
Security comes through ongoing practice. This includes implementation specifics, ongoing management operations and individual initiative/decision capacity of users.
To believe there is a technology solution that - correctly implemented at the correct point of design and lifecycle - would automatically solve the security "problem"? This is a naive point of view, which ignores the wealth of research and understanding acquired in the field of systems security, over the past 20 years.
This is not to argue that nothing can be done. But assuming that security can be "solved" with just the right design and development is cruelly untrue.
And I have yet to see this security-conscientious, aware development community to which the article makes reference.
Decade? How about 4 years. CE was around, but not for phones. When they stuck these together, as Windows Mobile, the integration of the radio stack and network controls were at LANman / Win 3.1 levels of sophistication. Really. The phones were life safety hazards, where stalled applications could keep you from answering or starting calls.
Trust me. I had every one one of these turds, 2003-2010. Starting with the TMobile HTC Wallaby and Himalaya XDA, which opened the market - a couple of the unusable HPs and then the Palm 700w and back to the HTC Vogue. Finished off the pile of misery with the Samsung Omnia.
Well, just in time to warn our Great^12 Grandchildren.
Maybe we could embed the message in some giant, black humming monolith, or something...
Look, I have had my computers supplied by IT. I don't pick 'em - I just take what they give to Consultants and Architects at top global software companies.
And Toughbook (Panasonic BTW) or Alienware are not the line machines that go out.
I miss the TP 600X and T20. Last of a breed of PC laptops. The Toshiba that followed these was replaced 4 times in the same lifespan of these.
Fanboy? No. But a 5 year old MacBook Pro is now beating the pants off the last-years Latitude E6400. Or, as I call it - the Dell Lassitude.
I recognise that! It's for XP Business.
Yeah, they sure did go out n their own with Zune. And with the WinPhone7. And with Windows, itself. Boy! That Window imaging model introduced with Vista, what a brilliant departure from Quartz!
I think the use of touch and gestures that was an original in MS labs really schooled Apple on how to make a human interface work - after years of "struggling in the dark" over at Infinite Loop.
Microsoft's pioneering work on App stores is also not to be overlooked.
Nope.
Terminal equipment.
Here's a working activation key:
TK8TP-9JN6P-7X7WW-RFFTV-B7QPF
I installed Win 8, and have the World's BIGGEST Kin - without touch!
KINNING!
Which name will predominate?
I think we just go with KINdows, for now.
Will you direct me to the STURDY Dell? HP? Toshiba? Sony?
All of these have breaking hinges, cracking plastic, marred finishes - at least the models I'd been force-fed since 07-08.
And the 4-core, 4GB and 72000 RPM Hyperthreaded Dell with Intel VT cannot run ONE instance of Linux on either VMware WS or Virtualbox. Inspiron? Insipidon: The world's FASTEST Powerpoint machine...
I'm just analytical and hyper-observant.
It's a bias, I admit.
An elegant explanation of Fiat currency and the credit problem, as I also understand it.
Thank you for explaining the "cashless" push as a ploy to escape one of the Bank's few remaining constraints.
FOUR LETTERS:
BYOD
This is the CIO's only strategy to win. He's accountable for a desktop that needs to remain compatible with apps that he has no responsibility over. That's why XP is still there.
BYOD moves IT out of the loop - and plays to new devices.
I still remember: "Who will support these "PC computers" that departments are buying, behing the back of MIS?"
And: "These LANs that you claim are so successful in a handful of special cases, will never scale to the needs of Corporate IT. "
I was at 2 major industry tech conferences last month.
In every keynote and all-hands session, Apple hardware was center and present. Nothing special was made of this - just every damn computer used to demo solutions or held by a GM, VP or C-Level was a MacBook. Desktops were non-existant. Every time an iPad could be used, it was. There were a couple of minor Android appearances - demonstrating multi-platform support, or what not.
There were a few odds: The HP guys had their own gear, and the IBMers had Lenovos. Some brilliant man from SAP was sadly dragging a 'book of non-descript, perhaps Dell sourced, black plastic...
Overwhelmingly, if you wanted to look like you knew why-the-fuck you ought to be on stage, in front of 8,000 people, you went Mac.
Look, Mr Dell. It'd be a pity if only Lenovo and HP got to run the new Windows.
Look here, Mr. Lenovo...
I literally flew off my chair, steam coming out of my ears, when I read this!
Jubilee.
We even have very nice looking RBKC covers on the bins, thank you.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/airport-lounge/3067336668/?q=rbkc%20bins
They were designed by William Morris. Take your Land Rover cabinets back to Shepherd's Bush and Hammersmith...
Tokenization is not the problem.
Fractional Reserve Banking, with compound interest is.
Excellent.