GE's core businesses going forward will be power (stagnant, but a global leader); healthcare (steady as long as people keep getting older); and aviation (continuous steady growth and the jewel in the crown)
I think they do OK in train locomotives. I think them vs. EMD are the largest makers for at least the NA market.
What's more, with the previous system, there is no clicking at all. You just hit alt+f or whatever the menu is assigned to and you can then scroll down, you don't have to even remove your hands from the keyboard.
Hotkeys are still there. Hit Alt and they show up. I believe they even tried to keep them as close as possible to the hotkeys from Office 2003.
Contrary to popular belief it doesn't "waste so much space". The vertical space used by the default toolbars and menu in Office 2003 is identical to the space used by the Ribbon
Menu: "Click File, then Save."
Ribbon: To save, click the "Square thing with small square thing."
Ribbon wasn't an attempt to make the UI more usable.
It was an attempt to eliminate the costs associated with internationalization and localization. You don't need to pay people to translate the word "File," or "Save," nor do you need to need to find words (Looking at you, Germany!) that withinfittingofamenuoptionframewidth don't exceed the original developer's expectation for the maximum width of a menu option.
In Office 2007, File menu was replaced with Office orb menu (that user testing confused with a decoration so it was replaced with a "File" menu in 2010). Save has a generous sized icon (good for high res screens) and the word save.
There's still lots of words in Ribbon. The tabs, sections within the tabs, and most icons have text too. So I really don't know what you're talking about.
Plain old text works 95% of the time. Unless you want to link to something else. Then you are screwed.
Plain old text works for links, you just don't need <BR><BR>. That's what I'm using now. From TFS:
HTML Formatted: You determine the formatting, using allowed HTML tags and entities.
Plain Old Text: Same as "HTML Formatted", except that <BR> is automatically inserted for newlines, and other whitespace is converted to non-breaking spaces in a more-or-less intelligent way.
Extrans: Same as "Plain Old Text", except that & and < and > are converted to entities (no HTML markup allowed).
Code: Same as "Extrans", but a monospace font is used, and a best attempt is made at performing proper indentation.
Not everyone who tolerates Windows 10 is a corporate shill. For one thing, for anyone who has suffered through Windows 8.X, Windows 10 seems comparatively like the sound of angels, the taste of an expertly made macchiato and the feeling of deep carpeting beneath your feet.
The parts that sucked about Windows 8.x: -Non-coherent control panel menus that are half "Metro" style, half Standard Desktop style (fixable with Classic shell, though it shouldn't be required) -Full screen start menu with annoying smart tiles, and no tree view of the start menu. Search and completely flat only.
Windows 10: -Same identity crisis control panels -Mini version of the same smart tile start menu, with no tree view
Addition of: -Forced updates with automatic restart. -Forced upgrades that are somewhere between a service pack and a whole new version, that can break shit. -Telemetry.
We've actually seen a devolution when it comes to Linux. Gnome 3 is less usable than Gnome 2. Systemd is more fragile than sysvinit. PulseAudio is more problematic than ALSA. Firefox 57 is worse than Firefox 3. Linux of 2007 was better than Linux of 2017 is.
Funny to see the devolution of communication, 1st there were social media sites like facebook, then twitter came along that limited you to 140 char, then snapchat where conceited twits just swap selfies with maybe a word or two caption. I can't wait to see what the next devolution is, maybe we will start posting grunting sounds?
...who brought you the Ribbon. And Windows 8's "Tablet interface for desktops".
While the latter is an absolute turd, the former has been a fantastic step forward in usability which has seen adoption of computers by non-technical people majorly increase, technical people who actually bother to learn an interface benefit from a large reduction in worthless clicking (and if you were keyboard shortcutting then you shouldn't notice any difference anyway), and an idea that has proven so popular that it has been widely adopted by a wide range of other software.
If you call the ribbon some kind of disaster, then sign me up for more disasters.
I find it interesting that 10 years after it was introduced, the bitching still continues about ribbon. Done correctly it's a good interface. Excel is one such application. Yes it's different, yes it takes some getting used to, but it's so much better:
-Contrary to popular belief it doesn't "waste so much space". The vertical space used by the default toolbars and menu in Office 2003 is identical to the space used by the Ribbon. Plus double clicking the tabs (or pressing Ctrl+F1, or clicking the arrow at the right end of the tab bar) will collapse it to just the tab names and make them act like drop down menus. Plus the Ribbon can cope with narrowing screen width much better.
-The buttons don't randomly move around. Toolbars are great because they are customization. Unfortunately most customizations are accidental. So People end up accidentally dragging toolbars around, so the icons aren't in the same order on any two PCs. Any users will somehow make it so there's one toolbar per line, wasting more vertical space.
-There's far fewer clicks than digging around the menus, or only looking at tiny little icons in the toolbar. Commonly used functions are very prominent.
And he was right. Microsoft overlooked smartphones until it was too late.
Not really. They were one of the first sellers of Smartphones, with Windows CE 3.0 based "Pocket PC 2002" released in 2001. Them and Palm based devices were the first real crack at smart phones.
They just sucked at making them. But they would try, try, try again. Yet Google/Android, and Apple/iPhone were able to go from 0% market-share of smartphones, to basically the entire market-share.
So then they tried again, trying to make Windows 8 an aborted merging of Desktop with touch, even though mobile and desktop couldn't share the same apps without a recompile, and people didn't buy their phones, so they just pissed off their desktop users.
If someone is streaming Netflix or whatever at work, why the fuck would they be stupid and do it ON the work network?
If you do it and want to evade easy detection, you do it over your phone or table with your own wireless connections....hell, pretty much everyone has limitless plans now, don't they?
The mobile data service at my work is very slow and congested because everyone is connected to one repeater pointed at the carrier's tower.
Google is terrible anymore. More than half the time it strikes out the key words I have typed in and brings me common search results. I used those specific words for a reason. So then I have to go back and put quotes around those words so they aren't ignored. Once I was looking for documentation on the Pelco camera RS232 protocol and Google changed "Pelco" to "Arduino".
I remember when Google came out one of the big advantages was it assumed a Boolean "and" for each search term, where Altavista would require a +. Then they started doing Boolean synonyms, but you could correct it with +. Now it searches whatever it wants, and to try and get Boolean and you need to use quotes, so you're using twice as many characters.
Big banks still primarily use DOS software. I'm sure support for DOS was phased out over 20 years ago. If the main financial institutions still trust a 20 year old operating system, i don't think my slightly out-of-date iPhone is really that much of a problem.
Are they actually using 16 bit "DOS", or are they using a "green screen terminal environment", such as: -IBM AS/400, System/390, System z -DEC / Compaq / HP "OpenVMS" running on Alpha / VAX hardware (Open VMS is still actively developed and supported)
Because it's a $1 part, but it takes 3 hours of my time to prep, execute, and clean up the project. The benefit is that I get an old cassette deck back. However, since the vast majority of media I would use with that deck is already available to me on digital media, that isn't much of a benefit. Even once the machine is repaired, it's only going to work until the next piece fails, all of which already have 20 years of time on them since they were last known to meet quality standards. I could do a full rebuild, cleaning, and inspection, but that's also now a full day of effort, if not more.
Then there's the consideration for what else I could do in that time. I could play some games, read a book, go watch some YouTube videos, or a number of other things that I personally would find much more enjoyable than tearing apart a dusty 90's tape deck. That might be someone else's favorite hobby, but it's not really mine.
The decision is a lot more complex than simply saying it's a $1 part.
The GP is talking about "Who sells good quality, new, cassette recorder/players". Plenty of crappy new mono cassette recorders/players can be had for a good price, but it's hard to get a good quality one. At that point repairing an old one for $1, plus 4 weeks waiting for a belt on ebay, plus 3 hours tear down / rebuild starts to make sense. Even if you value your personal time at $50 / hour.
Itanium was a completely new chip design, with limited compatibility with x86. Intel never had plans to make any 64-bit extensions to x86, opting to design a completely different architecture as it's entry into 64-bit processor market. AMD saw this as an unbelievable oversight, and designed it's own 64-bit architecture based heavily on (and fully compatible with) the x86 instruction set. This gave AMD a near-total monopoly on the 64-bit PC market for a year or so, whilst Intel scrambled to design it's own compatible architecture to compete.
Intel was majorly mis-stepping on Itanium, and on x86 they were throwing money away on Netburst (Pentium 4, D, etc) which had terrible performance per clock compared to even a Pentium 3. It also had terrible performance per Watt.
AMD happened to release x86-64, and a fairly decent K8 architecture that kept them as market leaders until Intel threw Netburst wholesale into the garbage, in favor of the Israel developed side project of "Pentium M", which later developed to the Core and Core 2 platforms. Though in 2007 or so, performance per dollar AMD was very attractive. When I built by latest rig 3 years ago I wanted to buy AMD, but couldn't justify it compared to the performance per dollar of an i5.
Sampling the people I know IRL, about 1 in 3 of them have any kind of desktop, including laptop, computer. The rest are mobile-only. That trend accelerates all the time.
I know there's a lot of denial about that, just like the Unix Workstation people denied that Windows PCs were gonna take over and render them irrelevant. Same now. Non-mobile modalities are being rendered irrelevant.
In 5 years you'll log into your bank using biometrics captured on your phone. The concept of a "keyboard" is going away: most people can't even touch type any more.
I've seen this too, more and more people relying on mobile over an actual PC. Two reasons I see:
-Mobile is always on them so it's convenient -Mobile has a more appliance like interface. Most people don't want to fart around managing their computer, they just want to be able to easily check the weather, check their mail, check their bank account balance, check social media.
A lot of "internet usage" is social media and messaging apps, which many very strongly target mobile devices, and people always have them on them so they get and respond to the notifications right away. This keeps feeding itself.
Back in the day "Home Computers" (C64, Apple//, TI-99/4A, etc) were very appliance like, while workstations, mini computers, mainframes, etc were used for complex jobs. With the move to PCs (MS and Mac) for home use, there was a lot more managing complexity that most users really don't care about. The move to mobile is a return to the simpler interface. PCs will remain for workstation type use, at least for a while.
It doesn't matter as regardless of the age the father should not have a) allowed his daughter to access a employee prototype b)allowed his daughter to film on campus with said prototype c) after filming not telling his daughter if you post this online we are fucked.
She is an adult, but even if she was a kid it is still his responsibility to ensure she is doing the right thing. So little kid, teenager, adult, old woman is completely irrelevant.
Checking the video it's obvious she's filming. On one scene the phone is on the front facing camera and you can see the SLR. It's not like she was discretely running a cameraphone without her father's knowledge. In another scene she's talking to the camera in front of her father "This is the new iPhone ten".
My company isn't a "tech company" nor as leading edge as Apple, but when I have visitors I don't let them film anything in the workplace, and people have been fired for posting pictures / videos to social media.
I think Outlook might be the "killer app" which keeps many Windows users from switching to Linux. Aside from the availability of free tech support.
Doubt it. More and more people use webmail and mobile for email. In the workplace O365 and GApps are increasing in marketshare, and while Outlook is (*for the next few years at least) supported, the web interface receives a lot of focus, rather than an afterthought.
As far as "killer app", that's probably not Outlook, but one of many, or several industry, or company specific productivity apps (CAD, etc).
*I remember seeing an article talking about when Microsoft hosted O365 would drop support for certain versions of Outlook client. Right now all I can find is guaranteed support for Outlook versions still in mainstream support. My workplace migrated from another mail product to O365 with Outlook 2010 support a year ago. 2010 went out of mainstream support in 2015, and will drop extended support in 2020. Maybe that's when they will kill all access to MS services with Office 2010.
When they removed the floppy drive I thought it was the right move - same with optical storage drives.
I think they were slightly premature on floppies. The first iMac did not have a CD burner (only a CD-ROM, or DVD-ROM drive), and USB flash drives had yet to be invented, so there was no good option to transport files. Not near as many people had high speed internet, and "cloud storage" wasn't a thing. Even storing an attachment in your inbox wasn't an option, because Hotmail at the time had something like a 2MB mailbox size.
The good news is the iMac did drive the popularity of USB peripherals. Especially people looking to replace the awful hockey puck mouse, and people looking to bring back their floppy drive..
Interestingly, the number of teaspoons to tablespoons is different in in different countries and era of the cookbook.
The standard Australian tablespoon is 20ml, 4 teaspoons, but that we get mostly chinese made stuff now tablespoons are now mostly 15ml. The standard tablespoon in India used by 25ml.
Fucking Imperial system. It's as bad as when people talk about how many miles per gallon their car gets. In Canada gas is sold in litres, and distances measured in kilometers.
So I ask them, "Is that Imperial MPG (~4.5l/Gallon) or US MPG (~3.8l/Gallon)?" And they don't even know what fucking gallon they're talking about! And the two gallons have a different number of ounces in them.
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GE's core businesses going forward will be power (stagnant, but a global leader); healthcare (steady as long as people keep getting older); and aviation (continuous steady growth and the jewel in the crown)
I think they do OK in train locomotives. I think them vs. EMD are the largest makers for at least the NA market.
What's more, with the previous system, there is no clicking at all. You just hit alt+f or whatever the menu is assigned to and you can then scroll down, you don't have to even remove your hands from the keyboard.
Hotkeys are still there. Hit Alt and they show up. I believe they even tried to keep them as close as possible to the hotkeys from Office 2003.
Menu: "Click File, then Save."
Ribbon: To save, click the "Square thing with small square thing."
Ribbon wasn't an attempt to make the UI more usable.
It was an attempt to eliminate the costs associated with internationalization and localization. You don't need to pay people to translate the word "File," or "Save," nor do you need to need to find words (Looking at you, Germany!) that withinfittingofamenuoptionframewidth don't exceed the original developer's expectation for the maximum width of a menu option.
In Office 2007, File menu was replaced with Office orb menu (that user testing confused with a decoration so it was replaced with a "File" menu in 2010).
Save has a generous sized icon (good for high res screens) and the word save.
There's still lots of words in Ribbon. The tabs, sections within the tabs, and most icons have text too. So I really don't know what you're talking about.
Plain old text works 95% of the time. Unless you want to link to something else. Then you are screwed.
Plain old text works for links, you just don't need <BR><BR>. That's what I'm using now.
From TFS:
HTML Formatted: You determine the formatting, using allowed HTML tags and entities.
Plain Old Text: Same as "HTML Formatted", except that <BR> is automatically inserted for newlines, and other whitespace is converted to non-breaking spaces in a more-or-less intelligent way.
Extrans: Same as "Plain Old Text", except that & and < and > are converted to entities (no HTML markup allowed).
Code: Same as "Extrans", but a monospace font is used, and a best attempt is made at performing proper indentation.
Really hate the way /. requires explicit line breaks between lines. I hit CR, isn't that enough of a hint? Do I really need
?
fuckin stupid is what I call it.
-br- -br- -br-
There, you happy now?
Go to: *Username* (in upper right)-Account-Posting-Comment Post Mode: Change to "Plain Old Text"
Not everyone who tolerates Windows 10 is a corporate shill. For one thing, for anyone who has suffered through Windows 8.X, Windows 10 seems comparatively like the sound of angels, the taste of an expertly made macchiato and the feeling of deep carpeting beneath your feet.
The parts that sucked about Windows 8.x:
-Non-coherent control panel menus that are half "Metro" style, half Standard Desktop style (fixable with Classic shell, though it shouldn't be required)
-Full screen start menu with annoying smart tiles, and no tree view of the start menu. Search and completely flat only.
Windows 10:
-Same identity crisis control panels
-Mini version of the same smart tile start menu, with no tree view
Addition of:
-Forced updates with automatic restart.
-Forced upgrades that are somewhere between a service pack and a whole new version, that can break shit.
-Telemetry.
We've actually seen a devolution when it comes to Linux. Gnome 3 is less usable than Gnome 2. Systemd is more fragile than sysvinit. PulseAudio is more problematic than ALSA. Firefox 57 is worse than Firefox 3. Linux of 2007 was better than Linux of 2017 is.
Good to know my username is still accurate.
Unfortunately I rather that weren't the case.
Funny to see the devolution of communication, 1st there were social media sites like facebook, then twitter came along that limited you to 140 char, then snapchat where conceited twits just swap selfies with maybe a word or two caption. I can't wait to see what the next devolution is, maybe we will start posting grunting sounds?
Plus the words are being replaced with emojis.
...who brought you the Ribbon. And Windows 8's "Tablet interface for desktops".
While the latter is an absolute turd, the former has been a fantastic step forward in usability which has seen adoption of computers by non-technical people majorly increase, technical people who actually bother to learn an interface benefit from a large reduction in worthless clicking (and if you were keyboard shortcutting then you shouldn't notice any difference anyway), and an idea that has proven so popular that it has been widely adopted by a wide range of other software.
If you call the ribbon some kind of disaster, then sign me up for more disasters.
I find it interesting that 10 years after it was introduced, the bitching still continues about ribbon. Done correctly it's a good interface. Excel is one such application. Yes it's different, yes it takes some getting used to, but it's so much better:
-Contrary to popular belief it doesn't "waste so much space". The vertical space used by the default toolbars and menu in Office 2003 is identical to the space used by the Ribbon. Plus double clicking the tabs (or pressing Ctrl+F1, or clicking the arrow at the right end of the tab bar) will collapse it to just the tab names and make them act like drop down menus. Plus the Ribbon can cope with narrowing screen width much better.
-The buttons don't randomly move around. Toolbars are great because they are customization. Unfortunately most customizations are accidental. So People end up accidentally dragging toolbars around, so the icons aren't in the same order on any two PCs. Any users will somehow make it so there's one toolbar per line, wasting more vertical space.
-There's far fewer clicks than digging around the menus, or only looking at tiny little icons in the toolbar. Commonly used functions are very prominent.
Remember when a fast-moving scene, a pan, or an explosion on TV didn't momentarily devolve into pixellated crap?
Instead the vertical hold would get lost and the picture would start flipping around.
Linus Torvalds doesn't seem to go by "LBT", and he's definitely a somebody in the open source community, leading one of the most influential projects.
I guess you have to be crazy and not shower, or wear shoes like RMS to get respect in the open source community. . .
And he was right. Microsoft overlooked smartphones until it was too late.
Not really. They were one of the first sellers of Smartphones, with Windows CE 3.0 based "Pocket PC 2002" released in 2001. Them and Palm based devices were the first real crack at smart phones.
They just sucked at making them. But they would try, try, try again. Yet Google/Android, and Apple/iPhone were able to go from 0% market-share of smartphones, to basically the entire market-share.
So then they tried again, trying to make Windows 8 an aborted merging of Desktop with touch, even though mobile and desktop couldn't share the same apps without a recompile, and people didn't buy their phones, so they just pissed off their desktop users.
If someone is streaming Netflix or whatever at work, why the fuck would they be stupid and do it ON the work network?
If you do it and want to evade easy detection, you do it over your phone or table with your own wireless connections....hell, pretty much everyone has limitless plans now, don't they?
The mobile data service at my work is very slow and congested because everyone is connected to one repeater pointed at the carrier's tower.
Netflix's offline mode would work.
Google is terrible anymore. More than half the time it strikes out the key words I have typed in and brings me common search results. I used those specific words for a reason. So then I have to go back and put quotes around those words so they aren't ignored. Once I was looking for documentation on the Pelco camera RS232 protocol and Google changed "Pelco" to "Arduino".
I remember when Google came out one of the big advantages was it assumed a Boolean "and" for each search term, where Altavista would require a +.
Then they started doing Boolean synonyms, but you could correct it with +. Now it searches whatever it wants, and to try and get Boolean and you need to use quotes, so you're using twice as many characters.
Big banks still primarily use DOS software. I'm sure support for DOS was phased out over 20 years ago. If the main financial institutions still trust a 20 year old operating system, i don't think my slightly out-of-date iPhone is really that much of a problem.
Are they actually using 16 bit "DOS", or are they using a "green screen terminal environment", such as:
-IBM AS/400, System/390, System z
-DEC / Compaq / HP "OpenVMS" running on Alpha / VAX hardware (Open VMS is still actively developed and supported)
Because it's a $1 part, but it takes 3 hours of my time to prep, execute, and clean up the project. The benefit is that I get an old cassette deck back. However, since the vast majority of media I would use with that deck is already available to me on digital media, that isn't much of a benefit. Even once the machine is repaired, it's only going to work until the next piece fails, all of which already have 20 years of time on them since they were last known to meet quality standards. I could do a full rebuild, cleaning, and inspection, but that's also now a full day of effort, if not more.
Then there's the consideration for what else I could do in that time. I could play some games, read a book, go watch some YouTube videos, or a number of other things that I personally would find much more enjoyable than tearing apart a dusty 90's tape deck. That might be someone else's favorite hobby, but it's not really mine.
The decision is a lot more complex than simply saying it's a $1 part.
The GP is talking about "Who sells good quality, new, cassette recorder/players". Plenty of crappy new mono cassette recorders/players can be had for a good price, but it's hard to get a good quality one. At that point repairing an old one for $1, plus 4 weeks waiting for a belt on ebay, plus 3 hours tear down / rebuild starts to make sense. Even if you value your personal time at $50 / hour.
Itanium was a completely new chip design, with limited compatibility with x86. Intel never had plans to make any 64-bit extensions to x86, opting to design a completely different architecture as it's entry into 64-bit processor market. AMD saw this as an unbelievable oversight, and designed it's own 64-bit architecture based heavily on (and fully compatible with) the x86 instruction set. This gave AMD a near-total monopoly on the 64-bit PC market for a year or so, whilst Intel scrambled to design it's own compatible architecture to compete.
Intel was majorly mis-stepping on Itanium, and on x86 they were throwing money away on Netburst (Pentium 4, D, etc) which had terrible performance per clock compared to even a Pentium 3. It also had terrible performance per Watt.
AMD happened to release x86-64, and a fairly decent K8 architecture that kept them as market leaders until Intel threw Netburst wholesale into the garbage, in favor of the Israel developed side project of "Pentium M", which later developed to the Core and Core 2 platforms. Though in 2007 or so, performance per dollar AMD was very attractive. When I built by latest rig 3 years ago I wanted to buy AMD, but couldn't justify it compared to the performance per dollar of an i5.
That's why mobile browsers have an option to display the "desktop" version of a site.
But that fails to work on some websites.
The problem isn't mobile sites when viewed from a phone, the problem is when a mobile theme is presented to all users, including desktop users.
Sampling the people I know IRL, about 1 in 3 of them have any kind of desktop, including laptop, computer. The rest are mobile-only. That trend accelerates all the time.
I know there's a lot of denial about that, just like the Unix Workstation people denied that Windows PCs were gonna take over and render them irrelevant. Same now. Non-mobile modalities are being rendered irrelevant.
In 5 years you'll log into your bank using biometrics captured on your phone. The concept of a "keyboard" is going away: most people can't even touch type any more.
I've seen this too, more and more people relying on mobile over an actual PC. Two reasons I see:
-Mobile is always on them so it's convenient
-Mobile has a more appliance like interface. Most people don't want to fart around managing their computer, they just want to be able to easily check the weather, check their mail, check their bank account balance, check social media.
A lot of "internet usage" is social media and messaging apps, which many very strongly target mobile devices, and people always have them on them so they get and respond to the notifications right away. This keeps feeding itself.
Back in the day "Home Computers" (C64, Apple //, TI-99/4A, etc) were very appliance like, while workstations, mini computers, mainframes, etc were used for complex jobs. With the move to PCs (MS and Mac) for home use, there was a lot more managing complexity that most users really don't care about. The move to mobile is a return to the simpler interface. PCs will remain for workstation type use, at least for a while.
Hmm. The first Youtube review I saw of the iPhone X had someone fired right away.
It doesn't matter as regardless of the age the father should not have
a) allowed his daughter to access a employee prototype
b)allowed his daughter to film on campus with said prototype
c) after filming not telling his daughter if you post this online we are fucked.
She is an adult, but even if she was a kid it is still his responsibility to ensure she is doing the right thing. So little kid, teenager, adult, old woman is completely irrelevant.
Checking the video it's obvious she's filming. On one scene the phone is on the front facing camera and you can see the SLR. It's not like she was discretely running a cameraphone without her father's knowledge. In another scene she's talking to the camera in front of her father "This is the new iPhone ten".
My company isn't a "tech company" nor as leading edge as Apple, but when I have visitors I don't let them film anything in the workplace, and people have been fired for posting pictures / videos to social media.
I would if the story was pro-Linux. I hate Linux! ;)
I think Outlook might be the "killer app" which keeps many Windows users from switching to Linux. Aside from the availability of free tech support.
Doubt it. More and more people use webmail and mobile for email. In the workplace O365 and GApps are increasing in marketshare, and while Outlook is (*for the next few years at least) supported, the web interface receives a lot of focus, rather than an afterthought.
As far as "killer app", that's probably not Outlook, but one of many, or several industry, or company specific productivity apps (CAD, etc).
*I remember seeing an article talking about when Microsoft hosted O365 would drop support for certain versions of Outlook client. Right now all I can find is guaranteed support for Outlook versions still in mainstream support. My workplace migrated from another mail product to O365 with Outlook 2010 support a year ago. 2010 went out of mainstream support in 2015, and will drop extended support in 2020. Maybe that's when they will kill all access to MS services with Office 2010.
When they removed the floppy drive I thought it was the right move - same with optical storage drives.
I think they were slightly premature on floppies. The first iMac did not have a CD burner (only a CD-ROM, or DVD-ROM drive), and USB flash drives had yet to be invented, so there was no good option to transport files. Not near as many people had high speed internet, and "cloud storage" wasn't a thing. Even storing an attachment in your inbox wasn't an option, because Hotmail at the time had something like a 2MB mailbox size.
The good news is the iMac did drive the popularity of USB peripherals. Especially people looking to replace the awful hockey puck mouse, and people looking to bring back their floppy drive..
Interestingly, the number of teaspoons to tablespoons is different in in different countries and era of the cookbook.
The standard Australian tablespoon is 20ml, 4 teaspoons, but that we get mostly chinese made stuff now tablespoons are now mostly 15ml.
The standard tablespoon in India used by 25ml.
Just a sample: Beware of the Tablespoon
Fucking Imperial system. It's as bad as when people talk about how many miles per gallon their car gets. In Canada gas is sold in litres, and distances measured in kilometers.
So I ask them, "Is that Imperial MPG (~4.5l/Gallon) or US MPG (~3.8l/Gallon)?" And they don't even know what fucking gallon they're talking about! And the two gallons have a different number of ounces in them.