I love it when people think the private industry is what's best for public utilities and services. You've learnt nothing from the internet, you'll learn nothing after you mail gets delivered once every 2 weeks and you get charged not only for sending it but also for receiving it. Go capitalism.
MS senior leadership has seen the writing on the wall and PC sales growth is done for
You make it sound as if this is visionary. More accurate would be to say MS senior leadership is madly adjusting for year on year falling sales from OEMs.
The writing isn't on the wall anymore, that was 5 years ago.
Is Terry responsible for the idiotic strategy that made Windows 10 the most hated version of windows ever?
You should read a Microsoft Annual report some time. You may notice that consumer's feelings are not mentioned at all. What is meantioned is that Windows revenue was down 16%, and that was driven by a 16% decline in OEM computer sales.
So they produced a shitshow that spies on all users, harvesting an awesome amount of data with no negative effect on the bottom line what so ever. If this was about what Terry did to Windows then he would be given a medal, bonus and a huge promotion all at once.
Business rules have to be set up and workflows have to be defined
Again you and the GP talked about two different things. The GP talked about pre-defined software based workflows to suit the business. You're talking about designing a business workflow then custom making software to suit.
It may sound like splitting hairs, but it will be precisely that hair which fundamentally changes the procurement process. Also many industries in general are overwhelmingly moving to the process described by the GP as they learn that their own defined business workflows are often either not the most efficient, or require so much bespoke software that it costs them a lot of money to maintain that workflow.
I have spent the best part of last year in exactly this kind of discussion.... *wasted*. I have *wasted* the best part of last year in that kind of discussion. It's amazing that everyone thinks they are special.
Let's see if you're still rolling your eyes when Microsoft manages to lock out any OS from booting other than Windows and has managed to annex the entire Linux community by infiltrating it with it's own people, making anyone who tries to circumvent Secure Boot into a cyber-criminal. The groundwork for this is already being laid, are you really so oblivious?
What are you smoking? Waiter! I'll take 2 of whatever this man has.
You would do well to remember your history and just how well far lesser crimes have worked for Microsoft. Get some perspective man, and realise that WSL has nothing at all the fuck to do with anything you just wrote.
If I search for books on dinosaurs, I don't really want to see a "romance" title about a guy and a t-rex having sex.
So if you search for *something* you thinkg *someone else* should decide precisely what part of *something* you should see, and you're happy with that because you may see a title you don't like?
Maybe you should move to North Korea where the censors can keep you safe from seeing things that may cause your brain to hurt.
Read this for what it is. Tim is just kicking Facebook in the teeth while hey are down.
Not kicking them in the teeth. This isn't about Facebook, this is about Apple. This is an MBA douchebag smelling a marketing opportunity to come out and say in the most generic way possible that they don't do what their legalese and privacy policy say they do.
Hey everyone, look at me! I'm a good guy! *fingers crossed behind back*
But that is exactly how a company removes temptation to misuse data
You bought the marketing quite well didn't you. Good consumer. Trust the soundbyte from the CEO while ignoring the legal privacy policy the company is held to. Ignore their advertisement network. Ignore the data they admit they collect for those purposes. Only the CEO soundbyte matters.
The point is, is it does look like their usual modus operandi...
And every slashdot user will say that every time MS does anything that doesn't involve them making something 100% proprietary. They are evil for being incompatible, and they are EEEing when they are compatible. It's a wonderful double standard.
After 3 failures to boot to the desktop windows will automatically trigger the startup repair program where among other options you can attempt to boot into various forms of safe mode.
If you for some reason can't get there (i.e. your computer boots to desktop and then somehow cleanly reboots preventing Windows from triggering the startup repair) you can do it manually from the recovery partition, USB or Windows 10 install media, or just go all out brute force and hit the reset button 3 times while the windows logo comes up to trigger 3 boot failures.
As to why they don't do it, that much is obvious. Windows no longer goes through a proper boot process anymore unless you either a) manually reboot using the start menu, or b) install a windows update. After all booting is a big waste of time in the eyes of MS, as is giving the user 3 seconds to hit F8. On my desktop those 3 seconds make up the vast majority of the boot time.
And no shutting down windows and then turning the power on is not a proper reboot anymore. That puts windows into some kind of half state which is how they dramatically cut down the boot time.
. Do you think there is even a small chance that he won't end up extradited to US
Nope, I assume there's a large chance he won't be extradited. The USA doesn't have an extradition warrant out on him. Sweden no longer has an extradition warrant out on him. The only thing anyone wants him for is skipping bail in the UK, which usually carries a fine of 500% of weekly income. I suspect if he left he would spend a whole day in jail before being fined for his crime and then left to walk.
Probably very little given TFA said it took them half a day to contain and caused zero production loss as a result. Frankly that is quite a phenomenal IT response given how many companies were cut off at the knees for a whole week at a time.
This is why my back-up drives aren't connected to my computer 24-7. When I finish backing up stuff, I disconnect the drive(s).
Come on people, you gotta be smarter than this by now.
No where do they say they lost data. Just that they were worried about being crippled. You're crippled too while you're slowly recovering your backups rather than getting actual work done.
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does not mean that Congress should do so
I love it when people think the private industry is what's best for public utilities and services. You've learnt nothing from the internet, you'll learn nothing after you mail gets delivered once every 2 weeks and you get charged not only for sending it but also for receiving it. Go capitalism.
I do not see this as a positive indication
Indication of what? Given the insane amount of money Microsoft currently makes from cloud services it really only makes sense.
MS senior leadership has seen the writing on the wall and PC sales growth is done for
You make it sound as if this is visionary. More accurate would be to say MS senior leadership is madly adjusting for year on year falling sales from OEMs.
The writing isn't on the wall anymore, that was 5 years ago.
Is Terry responsible for the idiotic strategy that made Windows 10 the most hated version of windows ever?
You should read a Microsoft Annual report some time. You may notice that consumer's feelings are not mentioned at all. What is meantioned is that Windows revenue was down 16%, and that was driven by a 16% decline in OEM computer sales.
So they produced a shitshow that spies on all users, harvesting an awesome amount of data with no negative effect on the bottom line what so ever. If this was about what Terry did to Windows then he would be given a medal, bonus and a huge promotion all at once.
Their software is just such horrific shitshows that tons of money can be made from offering consulting and maintenance services.
I know, anyone with any sense has migrated to wordpress already.
Business rules have to be set up and workflows have to be defined
Again you and the GP talked about two different things. The GP talked about pre-defined software based workflows to suit the business. You're talking about designing a business workflow then custom making software to suit.
It may sound like splitting hairs, but it will be precisely that hair which fundamentally changes the procurement process. Also many industries in general are overwhelmingly moving to the process described by the GP as they learn that their own defined business workflows are often either not the most efficient, or require so much bespoke software that it costs them a lot of money to maintain that workflow.
I have spent the best part of last year in exactly this kind of discussion. ... *wasted*. I have *wasted* the best part of last year in that kind of discussion. It's amazing that everyone thinks they are special.
Let's see if you're still rolling your eyes when Microsoft manages to lock out any OS from booting other than Windows and has managed to annex the entire Linux community by infiltrating it with it's own people, making anyone who tries to circumvent Secure Boot into a cyber-criminal. The groundwork for this is already being laid, are you really so oblivious?
What are you smoking? Waiter! I'll take 2 of whatever this man has.
You would do well to remember your history and just how well far lesser crimes have worked for Microsoft. Get some perspective man, and realise that WSL has nothing at all the fuck to do with anything you just wrote.
People seem to forget that Amazon is a private business. They can do whatever they want.
Actually no they can't. They stop being allowed to do whatever they want when they reach the status of monopoly, which they have.
If I search for books on dinosaurs, I don't really want to see a "romance" title about a guy and a t-rex having sex.
So if you search for *something* you thinkg *someone else* should decide precisely what part of *something* you should see, and you're happy with that because you may see a title you don't like?
Maybe you should move to North Korea where the censors can keep you safe from seeing things that may cause your brain to hurt.
Apple believes privacy is a fundamental human right
If they believe it they should have no problem updating their legally binding privacy policy to state that fact.
Actions not words Mr Cook, actions, not words. ... err or at least legally binding words rather than marketing soundbites.
Read this for what it is. Tim is just kicking Facebook in the teeth while hey are down.
Not kicking them in the teeth. This isn't about Facebook, this is about Apple. This is an MBA douchebag smelling a marketing opportunity to come out and say in the most generic way possible that they don't do what their legalese and privacy policy say they do.
Hey everyone, look at me! I'm a good guy! *fingers crossed behind back*
However, if Apple wants to make money selling their user's data, then they have to make it public knowledge.
Like their privacy policy which states they collect data and reserve the right to do with it whatever the hell they want? That public knowledge?
But that is exactly how a company removes temptation to misuse data
You bought the marketing quite well didn't you. Good consumer. Trust the soundbyte from the CEO while ignoring the legal privacy policy the company is held to. Ignore their advertisement network. Ignore the data they admit they collect for those purposes. Only the CEO soundbyte matters.
Good consumer.
The point is, is it does look like their usual modus operandi...
And every slashdot user will say that every time MS does anything that doesn't involve them making something 100% proprietary. They are evil for being incompatible, and they are EEEing when they are compatible. It's a wonderful double standard.
Because it was the 'efficient workflow features' that we had to build
So you built something yourself? You and the GP are talking about two different things.
What if your install is fucked and won't boot?
After 3 failures to boot to the desktop windows will automatically trigger the startup repair program where among other options you can attempt to boot into various forms of safe mode.
If you for some reason can't get there (i.e. your computer boots to desktop and then somehow cleanly reboots preventing Windows from triggering the startup repair) you can do it manually from the recovery partition, USB or Windows 10 install media, or just go all out brute force and hit the reset button 3 times while the windows logo comes up to trigger 3 boot failures.
As to why they don't do it, that much is obvious. Windows no longer goes through a proper boot process anymore unless you either a) manually reboot using the start menu, or b) install a windows update. After all booting is a big waste of time in the eyes of MS, as is giving the user 3 seconds to hit F8. On my desktop those 3 seconds make up the vast majority of the boot time.
And no shutting down windows and then turning the power on is not a proper reboot anymore. That puts windows into some kind of half state which is how they dramatically cut down the boot time.
Serve what time? Breaching bail without indictment is normally nothing other than a fine.
Bahahahahah You clearly haven't seen people talk about systemd
. Do you think there is even a small chance that he won't end up extradited to US
Nope, I assume there's a large chance he won't be extradited. The USA doesn't have an extradition warrant out on him. Sweden no longer has an extradition warrant out on him. The only thing anyone wants him for is skipping bail in the UK, which usually carries a fine of 500% of weekly income. I suspect if he left he would spend a whole day in jail before being fined for his crime and then left to walk.
The "concept" of bail does not exist in Europe.
Ease up, Brexit isn't until 2019.
They WERE optional from the start. All the added features of the patch can be disabled via a registry entry.
Where I can read a book, made of paper
Tree murderer
Probably very little given TFA said it took them half a day to contain and caused zero production loss as a result. Frankly that is quite a phenomenal IT response given how many companies were cut off at the knees for a whole week at a time.
This is why my back-up drives aren't connected to my computer 24-7. When I finish backing up stuff, I disconnect the drive(s).
Come on people, you gotta be smarter than this by now.
No where do they say they lost data. Just that they were worried about being crippled. You're crippled too while you're slowly recovering your backups rather than getting actual work done.
who moan about not enough time to test updates
There's not enough time, and then there's this. It was over 6 months already.