I'm 42 and I used to work on tiny mainframe terminal screens (and the speccy too what a great machine that was:)). I'm now a.NET developer and I would absolutely hate to go back to using one tiny screen instead of the two large monitors I have now (and I would be a lot less productive). In fact 3 screens would quite often be useful.
If Linux and OSX were an option on every computer like Windows is who knows what the adoption rates would be. In any case your definition of failure must be different to mine considering how hugely profitable Apple's PC division is.
Nokia has something that all those other manufacturers don't have. Massive brand recognition. If Microsoft were working with LG for example they wouldn't have sold any Windows phones at all. The fact that they have any presence in the market at all is primarily because people like and are prepared to buy Nokia phones.
It's always the same few people though, not a general thread throughout the site. People like Alex Betis who will argue black is white when it comes to Linux are not everyone. I criticise everyone personally because they're all not good enough for different reasons.
Instead of spending trillions on pointless wars how about we divert some of that vast waste to employing these people to come up with improvements to society such as getting a working fusion reactor. I can't believe that the deaths of millions and the immense cost is never on the radar but scientists doing work that is unprofitable now catches hell from the commentators for "waste of taxpayer dollars/euros/pounds".
I can't be bothered to forgive it, I've wasted way too much time with stuff that should just work. I don't care who's to blame, I'm just sad that something with such potential to revolutionise the client experience is largely relegated to being a server OS, although perhaps Android will succeed where KDE and GNOME failed.
I completely agree with you here. I have dared to criticise the Linux desktop here in the past and have been met with loads of abuse. I started using Linux in 1998 and around that time it looked like it might bury the joke that was Windows 9x/NT but instead of rallying round a set of common standards and working to ensure Windows users could transition painlessly to Linux all there was was pointless bickering that people called "competition" which would "lead to higher standards". Well 15 years later it most definitely hasn't. If Ubuntu is supposed to be the OS for grandma then grandma will be using Windows (or more likely an iPad) for the foreseeable future.
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And in a great many cases they won't, unless you think that people will be more productive on one 7" screen than two 19" monitors. Tablets are for consumption and simple tasks, they're not for large spreadsheets, graphic design, programming, complex legal documents and the probably hundreds of other tasks that a mini internet terminal is no use for.
Deprecate and remove a metric f***ton of API from Windows, no matter who it breaks.
They did that with Vista and 7 and that led to a much extended lifetime for XP. To do that again would be really really stupid. Their whole business depends on backwards compatibility, that's why it's been so damn hard to dislodge them on the desktop, taking a technological shift in the end to make inroads, and even then the desktop is going to be around for a long time yet.
Because you can buy a Windows PC for a lot less than a Mac perhaps? And don't give me this shit about Macs only being slightly more expensive. We just replaced all the laptops for our field staff at a cost of £600 per laptop. Where can I buy a new Apple laptop for that price?
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Or they could put the Amazon App Store on there.
Go to your own computer and look it up.
I'm 42 and I used to work on tiny mainframe terminal screens (and the speccy too what a great machine that was :)). I'm now a .NET developer and I would absolutely hate to go back to using one tiny screen instead of the two large monitors I have now (and I would be a lot less productive). In fact 3 screens would quite often be useful.
If Linux and OSX were an option on every computer like Windows is who knows what the adoption rates would be. In any case your definition of failure must be different to mine considering how hugely profitable Apple's PC division is.
No no-one would ever want more storage on their phone without having to buy a new phone. That's just crazy talk from Apple haters.
Yes a 2002 phone was worse than a 2007 phone. Wow how insightful of you.
Nokia has something that all those other manufacturers don't have. Massive brand recognition. If Microsoft were working with LG for example they wouldn't have sold any Windows phones at all. The fact that they have any presence in the market at all is primarily because people like and are prepared to buy Nokia phones.
Every developer I've ever worked with has been a multi-screen kind of developer. How does that work on a tiny tablet screen?
They don't fly aeroplanes into buildings without a far better reason than that.
Not invading countries full of religious psychos would probably go a long way to not requiring the NSA in the first place.
It's always the same few people though, not a general thread throughout the site. People like Alex Betis who will argue black is white when it comes to Linux are not everyone. I criticise everyone personally because they're all not good enough for different reasons.
It's an aversion to being sued for not sufficiently managing that risk which leads to massive overreactions on the part of authorities and businesses.
They usually mention a non-existent Slashdot groupthink too.
Instead of spending trillions on pointless wars how about we divert some of that vast waste to employing these people to come up with improvements to society such as getting a working fusion reactor. I can't believe that the deaths of millions and the immense cost is never on the radar but scientists doing work that is unprofitable now catches hell from the commentators for "waste of taxpayer dollars/euros/pounds".
Violent resistance isn't working too well for the Syrians either.
I can't be bothered to forgive it, I've wasted way too much time with stuff that should just work. I don't care who's to blame, I'm just sad that something with such potential to revolutionise the client experience is largely relegated to being a server OS, although perhaps Android will succeed where KDE and GNOME failed.
You're right. No MS update has ever broken anything in the past has it.
I completely agree with you here. I have dared to criticise the Linux desktop here in the past and have been met with loads of abuse. I started using Linux in 1998 and around that time it looked like it might bury the joke that was Windows 9x/NT but instead of rallying round a set of common standards and working to ensure Windows users could transition painlessly to Linux all there was was pointless bickering that people called "competition" which would "lead to higher standards". Well 15 years later it most definitely hasn't. If Ubuntu is supposed to be the OS for grandma then grandma will be using Windows (or more likely an iPad) for the foreseeable future.
And in a great many cases they won't, unless you think that people will be more productive on one 7" screen than two 19" monitors. Tablets are for consumption and simple tasks, they're not for large spreadsheets, graphic design, programming, complex legal documents and the probably hundreds of other tasks that a mini internet terminal is no use for.
They did that with Vista and 7 and that led to a much extended lifetime for XP. To do that again would be really really stupid. Their whole business depends on backwards compatibility, that's why it's been so damn hard to dislodge them on the desktop, taking a technological shift in the end to make inroads, and even then the desktop is going to be around for a long time yet.
Because you can buy a Windows PC for a lot less than a Mac perhaps? And don't give me this shit about Macs only being slightly more expensive. We just replaced all the laptops for our field staff at a cost of £600 per laptop. Where can I buy a new Apple laptop for that price?
It's much harder to compete in pay to win games if you don't pay yourself. That's why I don't play them at all.
What will enterprises be replacing their desktops and laptops with? 7" tablets?
Lie and then learn the language before you get found out.
Because you need their skills perhaps? I don't hire a plumber because he likes my house, I hire him because he can fix my boiler.