Intel and Asus were at least smart enough to discontinue the ATOM and Android for x86.
People do not run Windows to run Windows. People do not use Android to use Android. People use Windows/x86 to run their desktop apps. People run Android/ARM to run their Android apps.
The only way I can see a Microsoft OS on ARM is on the server for a low power blade in a cloud somewhere. Maybe an IIS or Domain controller or file share server where I/O and latency are the bottlenecks where no x86 apps are required are the only situation I can see this taking off.
They seriously need to check their prices too. I just retired an I3 machine taking only the vid and p/s to the new one, and had a thought about keeping the old one going with a slightly upgraded cpu. Seeing I5's going for only slightly less than the Ryzen 1700X I just went with for my main, I changed my mind quickly. Utterly ridiculous.
Intel commands a premium with it's brand name. Especially among gamers where an i5 is faster than a Ryzen
No. Only workarounds in microcode that reduce performance.
Neither. Branch prediction is so Central to the CPU architecture that it can't be disabled. MS is working on it's compiler to see if can do special assembly tricks to hide the cache.
Linux has kernel hacks which attempt to hide the data from the cache which hackers can still overide with skill
Bahahah! That's a good one. The managers will simply fire their IT and give themselves bonuses for doing so now that the troublemakers are gone. Problem solved.
We all have seen Office Space right? The bobs seem to LOVE management everytime and they seem to think they are invaluable unlike I.T. Sadly they are right as HR won't touch them as they have too much power over HR's job.
Some organizations even have a rule that only good ideas come from management and lowly employees need to shut up and take notes in the meetings not to piss them off etc.
You're in I.T. and it is kind of expected. Last place I worked you were not allowed to eat in the cafeteria or go to the gym. If people saw you there then that meant you are lazy as you should be working at your desk eating etc. Only the non I.T. people get to eat lunch as they work hard everyday.
If you don't some guy in India will and will show initiative to get the job.
Yes some folks out of a job do just this including volunteering for doctors without borders if they are a surgeon to show HR they really are competent in their field.
I think personally too many wusses and yes sir men allowed this to happen but since IT pays so well many are willing to use github to get their feet wet in the field.
Well, you could choose Houston or Austin, if you don't like the cold! Houses in both cities are very affordable compared to Silicon Valley standards, and there are plenty of tech jobs.
HOLD that thought there cowboy.
I came to Humble (suburb of Houston) in 2014 because of jobs jobs jobs and my previous employer offered me a position with a tick up in responsibility if I moved from Florida (Tampa area). Tampa back then had a HUGE unemployment rate over 10% and was still suffering in the Great Recession.
Housing prices back in 2014 were cheap. I suffering from the Great Recession lost my savings so I was planning to rebuild and buy a home in Houston by now.
Texas had the lowest unemployment rate, cheap housing, mild sub tropical climate, lots and lots of jobs, never entered the recession..... Fast forward to 2018
Oil and gas prices have tumbled!! I have been laid off 3 times now. All my coworkers who used to make money hands over fist are making $25/hr with no benefits as contractors. I was laid off again as cheap Indians are going to fly in and take our department jobs away thanks to the Gartners Group efficiency experts. Housing prices have gone up 30%!
The job market in Texas is terrible now thanks to the energy industry race to the bottom as the price of oil is still down 70% from 2014. If you are in tech you are not employed in Exxon, Shell, etc. Unless of course you are an H1B1 visa holder.
Meanwhile my phone is ringing off the hook from Florida recreuiters. Tampa is NOW HOT and they are struggling to find competent I.T. workers. Pent up demand from the last recession hit my former place.
My point is in 2018 things have flipped. Once was hot is cold and vice versa.
WSL is not Linux on Windows. It's GNU/Windows, nothing more.
You know there is more to FOSS than Gnu? It is popular on Debian circles and in groups here but Apache, LibreOffice, clang, and others use more free MIT/BSD style licenses.
How Microsoft made Linux run on Windows was by adding hooks through an abstract layer. Unfortunately, Windows was designed with a HAL (hardware abstract layer) from the beggining when David Cutler wanted to make it portable across hardware. Win64 and wow32 (win32onwin64) are really layers on top of the kernel for runtimes. Linux is another one.
Linux is a macro-kernel so this would be messy (reminds me of the old Linux is obsolete it isn't a micro kernel debate from Andy Tannabum) but could be I guess possible if someone wanted to a winapi including NDIS and lord knows what else hooks into the linux kernel itself.
Then a daemon could use those hooks and launch the inverse of WSL that is on Windows 10 to run binaries.
Also keep in mind at this time only console linux apps work on Windows. This is because the OpenGL and device driver API and ABI's have not been ported yet. On Windows everything is gui based:-(
So this would not be easy or possible unless one wants to just run win32 powershell scripts and dos commands.
Perhaps this is what's going on in the computing paradigm for K -12 education in the US. Google's efforts in this area with the Chrome OS and very inexpensive laptops and now Apple's iPad initiative. At least Chrome machines have a keyboard attached. Both efforts have or will have the support back end with Web based servers, software tools for content generation and other management requirements. Some folks with minimal computing and communication needs have also adopted the Chrome OS paradigm. It's not a short leap to imagine this jumping to much more powerful systems for heavy duty sophisticated business and home computing. Computing as a service is on its way.
The argument from how I see it is not that hey I am a home user as I don't need this complexity. The early PCs were a form of this in the office where someone just needed work done on Lotus 123.
The problem is both the data and software is scattered and is complex. Google Docs made collaboration and stored information from Google a reality. Office 2016 and then Office 365 followed suit. True not everyone needs sharepoint or exchange online. But you use data off someone elses box anyway is how I see it.
So MS is saying you can have that too and can manage more if you pay us rather than charging for Windows which know one pays for anymore. Even k - 12 LOVE Chromebooks for collaboration.
LOL. It has been going back to this since 1997 with the start of the early web and Novel Netware and ethernet.
Yes the Mainframe is the computer. The difference is Amazon and MS are the new mainframe gods you use to connect to your systems. People baulked at the cost of the IBM mainframe and switched to VAX or even mainframe-less environments to cut costs for simple things like spreadsheets, email, and word processing.
Funny is the needs of a large centralized system never went away. These simple tools and files became essential and managers needed a way to manage them viola a netware and later NT file mapped drive. Active directory, and last now this to manage.
What goes around comes around. What is interesting is the cloud was a way to manage websites originally. Not PC programs or operating systems. It grown into that.
I lost count how many websites were written with broken --webkit CSS extensions instead of W3C. Why?? Easy the cost to upgrade to a post 2011 version of Adobe Dreamweaver is like $75 a month!! That adds up fast.
Office 365 is like $9.99 a month per user in comparison. MS at least throws you a bone with their cloud subscription. 1 TB of cloud OneDrive storage, Exchange, SharePoint, Skype, free upgrades, etc that you do not get if you buy the boxed version of Office. They offer more if you throw more money to them but it is a choice on which is more important.
I am in the minority here of favoring the cloud for business users and ditching Windows and it's horrible monopoly. If MS wants to give an OS that just works for free and you and I are free to pay more for services we don't need than what is the problem? It seems to be a consensus here that cloud == a ransomware syle lock screen asking for a credit card to use Windows.
It is not like that at all as MS would be sued and prosecuted into an oblivion and commit suicide if they were that dumb.
Seriously, how freaking stupid can companies be to think that the "cloud" is the answer? I genuinely don't get it. Do all of these companies think that everyone has fiber to the house with 1gb/s upload speed? Do they not understand that most home connections have between 5 and 10mb upload speed and that they data caps? How the fuck should a cloud based system work under such conditions? I assume this would be a comcast wetdream. Think of the overage charges! Now that NN is dead, they can say.... oh... we see you are using a cloud system.. yeah, you need to pay extra if you want more than 1.5mb/s.
Even here in Europe, where the internet has massively cheaper than what you pay in the states, I still have only a 400mb DL and 20mb UL. Faster isnt even available where I live. It feels like am waiting forever to put a large file on my onedrive. I usually never use because it is so slow. If the file is like 7 or 8 GB, I would use my works wesendit account and just email myself the DL link to DL from my offsite machine. That is WAY faster than onedrive.
First off there are several benefits. 1. Tax code gives huge incentives and returns on leasing vs buying 2. Quarterly spending/revenue ratios that the idiots at Wall Street. A bump in spending a software upgrade DEVALUES a stock brutally! The computer program flags the stock as a company dying and assumes its sales must be down?! So to pay more over time without bumps keeps the stock price higher and consistent . This is why humans not trading algorithms should value stocks. So the company spends more to look like it's saving money each quarter. 3. They can lay off and fire alot of their IT infrastructure team to cut costs. Exchange and SharePoint admins? Nope MS takes care of this etc. 4. It gives smaller companies access to Exchange Online and Sharepoint Online which previously only the big boys with servers and an IT could set up and manage 5. The cloud versions of Office also have LOTs of features such as Dynamics, Planner, Flow, MS Teams, PBX support, mobile device management 6. The customer is a lumber, marketing, grocer, hospital, or whatever company... not an I.T. company. Outsourcing gives a comparative advantage in that MS can run their IT better than they can and they can focus on whichever products or services they use as that is their specialty. 7. It is cheaper for companies that are not bigger to use the add ons for Office 365 or Amazon than to pay project manager and consultant and then support staff. Especially if they are clueless in managing I.T.... see #6
I am not saying it is better in every scenario. But for a business these 7 things make sense. For Microsoft it makes sense for revenue as people do not upgrade computers every 3 to 5 years anymore and want latest software. Windows XP scared them and was alive for waaay to long. 1998 is over.
Windows has been a thorn in mine and many other IT professionals and users for decades. It was the glue that tied everything in.
While Windows has certainly improved and should have been this stable back in the late 1990s when Unix already was the lack of innovation was killing the technology market.
With mobile, web, open standards, and free software both Gnu, Apache, MIT, and others (I am not just referring to gcc and Linux) we see a different Microsoft and market. Visual Studio is no longer the crappy blob that everyone has to use and is years behind. The C compiler has caught up thanks to Clang and GCC and Visual Studio now supports clang. Free editors based on node.js such as ATOM.io, Microsoft Code, Adobe's Brackets and ide's that are low cost like XCode and JetBrains have further eroded dependence on unupdated Visual Studio. Ironically MS joined the bandwaggon too with MS Code which like Atom.io is also electron based.
We see Office online and also much better Mac support with versions now for Android and IOS. Visual Studio also has a mac port. It still is a stranglehold but it is at least moving due to competition from Google Docs..NET core is open sourced and runs well on Linux (not Mono but the real deal) and will be in the next version of Redhat.
IE is now dead for all but legacy apps. MS is moving forward with trying to embrace standards with Edge which surprisingly has an Android version.
Ubuntu, Debian, SuSE, and Kali are available on Windows 10 and soon Windows Server if you need to run some apps which is shocking.
Last, Amazon with it's cloud OS scared MS and the office 365 and MS 365 have some bones and extra things like Dynamics, Planner, SharePoint, Teams and other things which improved MS office and gave access to smaller businesses some of the tools the big boys have with dedicated I.T. departments.
This is not the same Microsoft of 2008 10 years ago.
I am not saying they are an angel, but like IBM and Digital before it once they no longer dictate the market and rather play by it or get beat by it things change rapidly. Apple and Oracle to me all far more evil even though they are not monopolies. It makes me glad the ugly inferior IBM PC and not the Mac won the PC wars. Too bad we had crappy operating systems for several decades though.
WindowsXP showed MS that people HATE change and consumers won't pay for Windows. The world is moving on and even business users will simply not upgrade and keep old versions of products otherwise. So Windows will be here like IBM's zOS but will have less and less of a focus and more of something that comes on a PC. MS will make money for services and consumers will simply not care about the OS and run what they want.
around minimum wage and overtime laws. There's no other purpose. If you're a worker then you should be deeply opposed to this. Unless you're in a strong union they _will_ eventually come for you too. And the only strong union left I know of is the AMA. Lord knows us tech workers don't have anything of the sort.
The only potential good that might come out of all this is America might wise up and vote single payer healthcare in. But right now the party in charge is completely opposed to it and I don't see them getting kicked out anytime soon. We're still arguing over assault rifles and abortion for Pete's sake (hurray for wedge issues!).
It is more than this. Businesses LOVE temp work!
They can fire them. Replace them. Use them as needed and throw them out to make room for coffee in the budget ( my brother's words who is a senior director in a fortune 100 company which I will not mention here).
I know. I was just laid off yesterday. I am 41 and screwed in the contract trap. I was doing ok until I lost my job in February 2017. I took a contact job which I was promised was long term but asked around found out only 2/3rs are still employed after metrics within 6 months. I had bills to pay. So I took it. I was let go when my metrics didn't match.
5 months later employers decided I was "unhirable". I took a temp job which I was promised was only 6 weeks. I took it as my savings were near empty. Now that is done and I had another only contract job but I was told I would always be hired and htis was a contract until December. I took it.... 2nd day I was reprimanded when for giving advice to my boss when he asked for suggestions. I was told I was a contactor and a nobody to him! Do what I what I say and keep your mouth shut until you are hired. I immediately called the company I wanted to work for to see if the job was sitll open as I didn't trust my new employer. I do not want to hear about you etc. 4 weeks later the Gartner Group came in and mentioned a company called TATA India and how we waste money on I.T. when competitiors outsource to cut costs etc.
Funny I was let go again due to organization structural changes. The permanent employees had to be protected but the share price was down and the CIO wanted to justify his job.
The other employer I wanted is now hesitant as the client is wondering why I fucking can't hold onto a job!!
This is BS! I never had such job hopping or bad experiences until I started contracting. Once you are in and your resume lists so many employers over years you are stuck as HR assumes you are incompetent. Once contracting things end all the damn time for any reason which reconfirms you are unhirable and this is not the true me by a long shot.
I am telling you from experience it is because companies want to fire all their employees after each project ends. It has nothing to do with healthcare and I have been lied to so many times and another commenter mentioning being let go 1 day before benefits kick in is just the kicker.
I saved projects twice and got let go for being too good at what I do as I am no longer needed.
Difference is when you do gig you do so because you are screwed. When you start a business you have lots of capital, customers, and other things that prepare you.
Other than not having to recompile and relink binaries with cygwin, or Ming, how is this very different?
We can already run pretty much everything of importance on Windows, using Cygwin.
1. Cygwin is an implementation of posix on win32 which translates the apis back and forth psuedo emulation. Pro: great Windows integration - Unix network sockets for running real daemons like Apache Cons: Buggy and not 100% app compatible as a result. Consider it an inverse of Wine? - no native package manager or OS tools
2. WSL is a full 100% Linux hooks and layer on Windows kernel directly Pro: 100% Linux compabitle with no hacks - you can apt-get X or Yum install X!! You get up to date Sure, Debian, or Ubuntu - it works and is less buggy with broader app support - fast
Cons: No network sockets yet means no replacement for real hosted apps - device driver hooks have not been added. This means no Xorg or opengl - None existant host integration or path conversion tools in it's current form.
So if you want to grep your win32 files use cygwin. If you want to run openssh or node.js use WSL as they can install and work no problem.
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Intel and Asus were at least smart enough to discontinue the ATOM and Android for x86.
People do not run Windows to run Windows. People do not use Android to use Android. People use Windows/x86 to run their desktop apps. People run Android/ARM to run their Android apps.
The only way I can see a Microsoft OS on ARM is on the server for a low power blade in a cloud somewhere. Maybe an IIS or Domain controller or file share server where I/O and latency are the bottlenecks where no x86 apps are required are the only situation I can see this taking off.
Give up
It like Windows XP. It will never go away
Like Ubuntu there are spinoffs with Mate and I think Cinnamon.
They seriously need to check their prices too. I just retired an I3 machine taking only the vid and p/s to the new one, and had a thought about keeping the old one going with a slightly upgraded cpu. Seeing I5's going for only slightly less than the Ryzen 1700X I just went with for my main, I changed my mind quickly. Utterly ridiculous.
Intel commands a premium with it's brand name. Especially among gamers where an i5 is faster than a Ryzen
Funny I swear I had a 56 core Xeon running Windows server in our MDF
No. Only workarounds in microcode that reduce performance.
Neither. Branch prediction is so Central to the CPU architecture that it can't be disabled. MS is working on it's compiler to see if can do special assembly tricks to hide the cache.
Linux has kernel hacks which attempt to hide the data from the cache which hackers can still overide with skill
If I r00t your b0x the last thing I am going to do is leave evidence in /var/logs.
Binary logs are a feature for this reason
Bahahah! That's a good one. The managers will simply fire their IT and give themselves bonuses for doing so now that the troublemakers are gone. Problem solved.
We all have seen Office Space right? The bobs seem to LOVE management everytime and they seem to think they are invaluable unlike I.T. Sadly they are right as HR won't touch them as they have too much power over HR's job.
Some organizations even have a rule that only good ideas come from management and lowly employees need to shut up and take notes in the meetings not to piss them off etc.
You're in I.T. and it is kind of expected. Last place I worked you were not allowed to eat in the cafeteria or go to the gym. If people saw you there then that meant you are lazy as you should be working at your desk eating etc. Only the non I.T. people get to eat lunch as they work hard everyday.
If you don't some guy in India will and will show initiative to get the job.
Yes some folks out of a job do just this including volunteering for doctors without borders if they are a surgeon to show HR they really are competent in their field.
I think personally too many wusses and yes sir men allowed this to happen but since IT pays so well many are willing to use github to get their feet wet in the field.
I heard you need these annoying things called customers first before you start a business
Well, you could choose Houston or Austin, if you don't like the cold! Houses in both cities are very affordable compared to Silicon Valley standards, and there are plenty of tech jobs.
HOLD that thought there cowboy.
I came to Humble (suburb of Houston) in 2014 because of jobs jobs jobs and my previous employer offered me a position with a tick up in responsibility if I moved from Florida (Tampa area). Tampa back then had a HUGE unemployment rate over 10% and was still suffering in the Great Recession.
Housing prices back in 2014 were cheap. I suffering from the Great Recession lost my savings so I was planning to rebuild and buy a home in Houston by now.
Texas had the lowest unemployment rate, cheap housing, mild sub tropical climate, lots and lots of jobs, never entered the recession. .... Fast forward to 2018
Oil and gas prices have tumbled!! I have been laid off 3 times now. All my coworkers who used to make money hands over fist are making $25/hr with no benefits as contractors. I was laid off again as cheap Indians are going to fly in and take our department jobs away thanks to the Gartners Group efficiency experts. Housing prices have gone up 30%!
The job market in Texas is terrible now thanks to the energy industry race to the bottom as the price of oil is still down 70% from 2014. If you are in tech you are not employed in Exxon, Shell, etc. Unless of course you are an H1B1 visa holder.
Meanwhile my phone is ringing off the hook from Florida recreuiters. Tampa is NOW HOT and they are struggling to find competent I.T. workers. Pent up demand from the last recession hit my former place.
My point is in 2018 things have flipped. Once was hot is cold and vice versa.
WSL is not Linux on Windows. It's GNU/Windows, nothing more.
You know there is more to FOSS than Gnu? It is popular on Debian circles and in groups here but Apache, LibreOffice, clang, and others use more free MIT/BSD style licenses.
SystemD is a great OS. It just has a crappy startup daemon.
When?
How Microsoft made Linux run on Windows was by adding hooks through an abstract layer. Unfortunately, Windows was designed with a HAL (hardware abstract layer) from the beggining when David Cutler wanted to make it portable across hardware. Win64 and wow32 (win32onwin64) are really layers on top of the kernel for runtimes. Linux is another one.
Linux is a macro-kernel so this would be messy (reminds me of the old Linux is obsolete it isn't a micro kernel debate from Andy Tannabum) but could be I guess possible if someone wanted to a winapi including NDIS and lord knows what else hooks into the linux kernel itself.
Then a daemon could use those hooks and launch the inverse of WSL that is on Windows 10 to run binaries.
Also keep in mind at this time only console linux apps work on Windows. This is because the OpenGL and device driver API and ABI's have not been ported yet. On Windows everything is gui based :-(
So this would not be easy or possible unless one wants to just run win32 powershell scripts and dos commands.
That is intentional. Cloudflare has their own commercial DNS service and do not want businesses to piggyback of their services
Hopefully it's bettern than NortonDNS which I stopped using for performance reasons.
Thanks for your comment.
Perhaps this is what's going on in the computing paradigm for K -12 education in the US. Google's efforts in this area with the Chrome OS and very inexpensive laptops and now Apple's iPad initiative. At least Chrome machines have a keyboard attached. Both efforts have or will have the support back end with Web based servers, software tools for content generation and other management requirements. Some folks with minimal computing and communication needs have also adopted the Chrome OS paradigm. It's not a short leap to imagine this jumping to much more powerful systems for heavy duty sophisticated business and home computing. Computing as a service is on its way.
The argument from how I see it is not that hey I am a home user as I don't need this complexity. The early PCs were a form of this in the office where someone just needed work done on Lotus 123.
The problem is both the data and software is scattered and is complex. Google Docs made collaboration and stored information from Google a reality. Office 2016 and then Office 365 followed suit. True not everyone needs sharepoint or exchange online. But you use data off someone elses box anyway is how I see it.
So MS is saying you can have that too and can manage more if you pay us rather than charging for Windows which know one pays for anymore. Even k - 12 LOVE Chromebooks for collaboration.
LOL. It has been going back to this since 1997 with the start of the early web and Novel Netware and ethernet.
Yes the Mainframe is the computer. The difference is Amazon and MS are the new mainframe gods you use to connect to your systems. People baulked at the cost of the IBM mainframe and switched to VAX or even mainframe-less environments to cut costs for simple things like spreadsheets, email, and word processing.
Funny is the needs of a large centralized system never went away. These simple tools and files became essential and managers needed a way to manage them viola a netware and later NT file mapped drive. Active directory, and last now this to manage.
What goes around comes around. What is interesting is the cloud was a way to manage websites originally. Not PC programs or operating systems. It grown into that.
Is it Concur? That program uses some VBA glue that talks to their servers to populate the data.
Adobe is how NOT to move to a cloud.
I lost count how many websites were written with broken --webkit CSS extensions instead of W3C. Why?? Easy the cost to upgrade to a post 2011 version of Adobe Dreamweaver is like $75 a month!! That adds up fast.
Office 365 is like $9.99 a month per user in comparison. MS at least throws you a bone with their cloud subscription. 1 TB of cloud OneDrive storage, Exchange, SharePoint, Skype, free upgrades, etc that you do not get if you buy the boxed version of Office. They offer more if you throw more money to them but it is a choice on which is more important.
I am in the minority here of favoring the cloud for business users and ditching Windows and it's horrible monopoly. If MS wants to give an OS that just works for free and you and I are free to pay more for services we don't need than what is the problem? It seems to be a consensus here that cloud == a ransomware syle lock screen asking for a credit card to use Windows.
It is not like that at all as MS would be sued and prosecuted into an oblivion and commit suicide if they were that dumb.
Seriously, how freaking stupid can companies be to think that the "cloud" is the answer? I genuinely don't get it.
Do all of these companies think that everyone has fiber to the house with 1gb/s upload speed?
Do they not understand that most home connections have between 5 and 10mb upload speed and that they data caps? How the fuck should a cloud based system work under such conditions? I assume this would be a comcast wetdream. Think of the overage charges!
Now that NN is dead, they can say.... oh... we see you are using a cloud system.. yeah, you need to pay extra if you want more than 1.5mb/s.
Even here in Europe, where the internet has massively cheaper than what you pay in the states, I still have only a 400mb DL and 20mb UL. Faster isnt even available where I live.
It feels like am waiting forever to put a large file on my onedrive. I usually never use because it is so slow. If the file is like 7 or 8 GB, I would use my works wesendit account and just email myself the DL link to DL from my offsite machine. That is WAY faster than onedrive.
First off there are several benefits. ... not an I.T. company. Outsourcing gives a comparative advantage in that MS can run their IT better than they can and they can focus on whichever products or services they use as that is their specialty. ... see #6
1. Tax code gives huge incentives and returns on leasing vs buying
2. Quarterly spending/revenue ratios that the idiots at Wall Street. A bump in spending a software upgrade DEVALUES a stock brutally! The computer program flags the stock as a company dying and assumes its sales must be down?! So to pay more over time without bumps keeps the stock price higher and consistent . This is why humans not trading algorithms should value stocks. So the company spends more to look like it's saving money each quarter.
3. They can lay off and fire alot of their IT infrastructure team to cut costs. Exchange and SharePoint admins? Nope MS takes care of this etc.
4. It gives smaller companies access to Exchange Online and Sharepoint Online which previously only the big boys with servers and an IT could set up and manage
5. The cloud versions of Office also have LOTs of features such as Dynamics, Planner, Flow, MS Teams, PBX support, mobile device management
6. The customer is a lumber, marketing, grocer, hospital, or whatever company
7. It is cheaper for companies that are not bigger to use the add ons for Office 365 or Amazon than to pay project manager and consultant and then support staff. Especially if they are clueless in managing I.T.
I am not saying it is better in every scenario. But for a business these 7 things make sense. For Microsoft it makes sense for revenue as people do not upgrade computers every 3 to 5 years anymore and want latest software. Windows XP scared them and was alive for waaay to long. 1998 is over.
This is great news.
Windows has been a thorn in mine and many other IT professionals and users for decades. It was the glue that tied everything in.
While Windows has certainly improved and should have been this stable back in the late 1990s when Unix already was the lack of innovation was killing the technology market.
With mobile, web, open standards, and free software both Gnu, Apache, MIT, and others (I am not just referring to gcc and Linux) we see a different Microsoft and market. Visual Studio is no longer the crappy blob that everyone has to use and is years behind. The C compiler has caught up thanks to Clang and GCC and Visual Studio now supports clang. Free editors based on node.js such as ATOM.io, Microsoft Code, Adobe's Brackets and ide's that are low cost like XCode and JetBrains have further eroded dependence on unupdated Visual Studio. Ironically MS joined the bandwaggon too with MS Code which like Atom.io is also electron based.
We see Office online and also much better Mac support with versions now for Android and IOS. Visual Studio also has a mac port. It still is a stranglehold but it is at least moving due to competition from Google Docs. .NET core is open sourced and runs well on Linux (not Mono but the real deal) and will be in the next version of Redhat.
IE is now dead for all but legacy apps. MS is moving forward with trying to embrace standards with Edge which surprisingly has an Android version.
Ubuntu, Debian, SuSE, and Kali are available on Windows 10 and soon Windows Server if you need to run some apps which is shocking.
Last, Amazon with it's cloud OS scared MS and the office 365 and MS 365 have some bones and extra things like Dynamics, Planner, SharePoint, Teams and other things which improved MS office and gave access to smaller businesses some of the tools the big boys have with dedicated I.T. departments.
This is not the same Microsoft of 2008 10 years ago.
I am not saying they are an angel, but like IBM and Digital before it once they no longer dictate the market and rather play by it or get beat by it things change rapidly. Apple and Oracle to me all far more evil even though they are not monopolies. It makes me glad the ugly inferior IBM PC and not the Mac won the PC wars. Too bad we had crappy operating systems for several decades though.
WindowsXP showed MS that people HATE change and consumers won't pay for Windows. The world is moving on and even business users will simply not upgrade and keep old versions of products otherwise. So Windows will be here like IBM's zOS but will have less and less of a focus and more of something that comes on a PC. MS will make money for services and consumers will simply not care about the OS and run what they want.
around minimum wage and overtime laws. There's no other purpose. If you're a worker then you should be deeply opposed to this. Unless you're in a strong union they _will_ eventually come for you too. And the only strong union left I know of is the AMA. Lord knows us tech workers don't have anything of the sort.
The only potential good that might come out of all this is America might wise up and vote single payer healthcare in. But right now the party in charge is completely opposed to it and I don't see them getting kicked out anytime soon. We're still arguing over assault rifles and abortion for Pete's sake (hurray for wedge issues!).
It is more than this. Businesses LOVE temp work!
They can fire them. Replace them. Use them as needed and throw them out to make room for coffee in the budget ( my brother's words who is a senior director in a fortune 100 company which I will not mention here).
I know. I was just laid off yesterday. I am 41 and screwed in the contract trap. I was doing ok until I lost my job in February 2017. I took a contact job which I was promised was long term but asked around found out only 2/3rs are still employed after metrics within 6 months. I had bills to pay. So I took it. I was let go when my metrics didn't match.
5 months later employers decided I was "unhirable". I took a temp job which I was promised was only 6 weeks. I took it as my savings were near empty. Now that is done and I had another only contract job but I was told I would always be hired and htis was a contract until December. I took it. ... 2nd day I was reprimanded when for giving advice to my boss when he asked for suggestions. I was told I was a contactor and a nobody to him! Do what I what I say and keep your mouth shut until you are hired. I immediately called the company I wanted to work for to see if the job was sitll open as I didn't trust my new employer. I do not want to hear about you etc. 4 weeks later the Gartner Group came in and mentioned a company called TATA India and how we waste money on I.T. when competitiors outsource to cut costs etc.
Funny I was let go again due to organization structural changes. The permanent employees had to be protected but the share price was down and the CIO wanted to justify his job.
The other employer I wanted is now hesitant as the client is wondering why I fucking can't hold onto a job!!
This is BS! I never had such job hopping or bad experiences until I started contracting. Once you are in and your resume lists so many employers over years you are stuck as HR assumes you are incompetent. Once contracting things end all the damn time for any reason which reconfirms you are unhirable and this is not the true me by a long shot.
I am telling you from experience it is because companies want to fire all their employees after each project ends. It has nothing to do with healthcare and I have been lied to so many times and another commenter mentioning being let go 1 day before benefits kick in is just the kicker.
I saved projects twice and got let go for being too good at what I do as I am no longer needed.
Difference is when you do gig you do so because you are screwed. When you start a business you have lots of capital, customers, and other things that prepare you.
Raw sockets and having daemons run after being closed is coming in spring update redstone 3 next month.
It's not an emulator
Other than not having to recompile and relink binaries with cygwin, or Ming, how is this very different?
We can already run pretty much everything of importance on Windows, using Cygwin.
1. Cygwin is an implementation of posix on win32 which translates the apis back and forth psuedo emulation.
Pro: great Windows integration
- Unix network sockets for running real daemons like Apache
Cons: Buggy and not 100% app compatible as a result. Consider it an inverse of Wine?
- no native package manager or OS tools
2. WSL is a full 100% Linux hooks and layer on Windows kernel directly
Pro: 100% Linux compabitle with no hacks
- you can apt-get X or Yum install X!! You get up to date Sure, Debian, or Ubuntu
- it works and is less buggy with broader app support
- fast
Cons: No network sockets yet means no replacement for real hosted apps
- device driver hooks have not been added. This means no Xorg or opengl
- None existant host integration or path conversion tools in it's current form.
So if you want to grep your win32 files use cygwin. If you want to run openssh or node.js use WSL as they can install and work no problem.