Microsoft bet the farm on the cloud and Office 365. If either of these failes so will Microsoft. But the writing was on the wall when we say all the "XP IS GOD" comments here on Slashdot back in 2014 during EOL. Good lord.... it showed us that MS can no longer expect people to always upgrade and wait in line at 12am at CompUSA for the latest version of Windows anymore.
They had to re-invent themselves and they are friendly to Linux as they want you to pay them to use it on Azure and buy their development tools. This is the new model as operating systems are good enough and so is productivity software hence why they are making Planner and Dynamics and tying it to a monthly bill.
WindowsCE SUCKED and Apple and Blackberry already killed it.
WindowsPhone was actually good and stable and delightful to use as METRO was well tuned for a phone UI and had better cut and paste support than Android. It didn't have the strange quirks that WinCE had.
Microsoft already started losing it with IE 6 in the early 2000's when Palm Pilot was defeated. Blackberry was so much better and of course we know Steve Jobs finally created the modern era of smart phones with IOS. Android barely won as a late comer back when WIndows Phone was still in development. WinCE was already 10 years old by then and obsolete.
Windows Phone 8 has support for both c+ and c# by the way.
Windows is only a tiny part of who Microsoft is today. Back in 1998 it was the glue and foundation of the MS stack.
Microsoft wants to keep making money doing what they did before DOS. Make great software development tools and business software. This is one area you have to admit MS does well. Their browsers and operating systems... meh. But MS is good with things like inventing AJAX javascript and CSS development standards and making Visual Studio. PowerPoint and Excel won as they were just better than the competition.
So MS lost WIndows. So they want to make the hipsters writing mobile apps stay with Visual Studio and they even forked ATOM to create Visual Studio Code complete with Linux support that runs on Chromium and Google's v8 node.js over their own standards. No you did not misread that.
I was shocked to see Android emulators and Python included in VS 2017 that is now free in the community edition! To me the plan is make money from the cloud whether you use Linux docker images or WIndows with Azure and also sell more copies of Visual Studio for cross platform development.
This would be batshit crazy back in 1999 with Visual Studio 6.0 where you had Visual Basic and SourceSafe. GitvFS which is a Git based virtual filesystem is cool and can scale to petabytes. Office source code even uses Git with GitvFS from what I read. So radically different and it makes sense.
No I want them to be an IBM and not the old company from 20 years ago!
Come on guys who wants to go back to 1999 and have MSN, IE, Exchange, Office, Win32, MFC, and innovation like USB support being stunned due to what is best for Microsoft? Microsoft set the pace. Microsoft set the standards. Microsoft made life difficult for portability and tied everything into their stack.
Guess what? IE and Edge actually follow W3C standards now and work like every other browser?! We have options like Google Docs and Libreoffice if 100% compability are not too critical. We can use Java, Python, and C++ on all platforms EVEN WINDOWS with Visual Studio support. Hell, Microsoft even includes Android emulators and virtualization free if you have Windows 10 pro. They include Ubuntu if you have the home version.
If they fall behind Linux and MacOSX will kick them in the rear end... look up USB and EFI support as an example? The USB with the iMAC finally made USB keyboards.
I like this new Microsoft. If you don't? Well who cares do not use it. We are finally breaking free and when competition kicks in we all benefit. I will even say I like Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code now.
IBM was good but is fading away.
I see Microsoft returning to it's pre-DOS roots. As a unique software development tool and business software shop. Microsoft has always made great development tools and business software. Their operating systems and web browsers have not been so great, but they did give us web 2.0 AJAX and CSS.
Exactly. Servers, Linux still has no answer for the reasons people run a Microsoft server.
Huh?
It's hard to nail down precise numbers (for obvious reasons), but all of the various statistics I could find say roughly the same thing -- there are more Linux servers than Windows servers.
Some studies give Linux a 10% edge over Windows, and some put Linux and Windows at about parity. So it's not an overwhelming edge, but it's pretty clear that Windows is not more popular than Linux in that space.
I keep seeing this repeated here over and over like it's a fact?
Yeah great you work in Silicon Valley as a mobile programmer and therefore use Linux solutions in our MDF. Meanwhile in the real worlkd 90% of every fortune 1000 company and 2 smaller businesses I worked with all use Windows on their servers. Windows has Exchange. Windows has SQL Server. Windows has Active Directory. Windows has the file shares. Windows is the default server OS for every company unless they can't find support for a product that only runs on Linux.
Blame it on PHB and CIOs who feel nobody ever gets fired for choosing Microsoft and want to use a standard platform OS to save money on integration straight from the 1990s but this is what I see. Oracle occasionally runs on Solaris but more than likely the app that accesses is Windows Server based on anyway.
I would say Linux has about 10% of the real server usage from what I see. I am not trying to be a troll but just what I have witnesses. Microsoft has infected everything up the OSI model outside of the routers and switches in the enterprise outside of some geeky San Francisco engineering and hipster mobile shops.
I was pissed when they removed Windows Media Center. I LOVED it for years on Windows 7 as I used my older PC as a TV to watch movies and thought the player and built in functions were very easy to use.
FreeBSD also has KMS support but an earlier version. FreeBSD does run great as guest with Microsoft Hyper-V and Azure oddly as I use Pfsense on Hyper-V with Windows 10.
The various BSD forks are generally worked on by real operating system developers who care about the conceptual integrity of the system as a whole, not only the kernel itself. There are Linux distributions with a similar philosophy, but most Linux development now is done by either large commercial interests who are adopting an MS-like attitude or random incompetent people who only want to leave their mark on something, whether it's a good idea or not.
BSD is more elitist, and that's a good thing for the quality of the system.
The BSD guys are interesting. Not more elitist.. hell go look at the forums of ARCLinux MY GOD but rather conservative. The BSD guys are really good at documentation and creating teams like the ones making/usr/share/docs and the FreeBSD handbook and great manpages which also include Unix history.
The BSD guys want something done well with great input from experts rather than just throw yet a another million userspace daemon when problem solving. BSDs are also a full OS and not just a kernel, a distro, and a few user apps are thrown in and grown and linked together with a hope it will work.
My take is read the manual is added because they trust their own manual. If a newbie say well that doc SUCKs and they will examine it and quickly email the documentation guy to fix it etc. There is a real documentation effort as the kernel guys don't want to answer noobie questions and many are at all skill levels and needs. What is cool about FreeBSD at least is they have examples you can uncomment out to do things and hacks like CVSUP. It encourages you to play.
I love watching stuff on youtube on my spare time like this which shows in America at least how gullible religious people are? My point is not anti religion and offtpic but my faith in mankind in general when it comes to thinking and driving safely vs a superior computer that can do trillions of operations per second.
That is why I got into computers in the 1990s. True computers only do what a programmer tells it to do but a machine is far more rational, logical, and can do things in milliseconds rather than tens of seconds and doesn't get road rage or distracted.
I would LOVE self driving cars as a nerd, but also we could cut down on commute time, nap on our way to work or work, and it would reduce fatalities and accidents as humans are not as good as these kinds of things.
I disagree. Microsoft provides a courtesy with patches for free. XP is HELL of alot of horrible nasty work due to the bugs and layers and complexities no one understands as the world has moved on. Linux is less complex with just the kernel but more due to the million apps on it and the dependencies to get them to work.
An operating system is the second most if not the most complex pieces of software ever written. It ties the cloud as a platform. I think a poorly written XP is worse to maintain than a more modular Linux as the later might be easier to read and debug but I dunno as I do not write kernels and C libraries all day.
Regardless, your 3 year old Android tablet is out of support. Why is it so hard to expect vendors to support 17 year old platforms with dwindling users and denying new features for the vast majority today?
The good news is if you have ancient crud you can use a VM today as multicore cpus, ssds, and large amounts of ram are cheap and in quantity today at even a consumer level.
We have Virtual Machines for that. No one is breaking into your MDF and taking your servers away. But hardware and software won't get support anymore which I think is reasonable. Slashdot LOVES Google but hates Microsoft.
I don't see any bitching about their 2007 era phones getting the latest Android or have a tablet more than 3 years old not getting Android updates, but it is the devil when Microsoft only supports their OS for 10 years. Even Ubuntu only has 5 years LTS.
Technical debt is bad and it's time to move forward. Vms are good for this purpose.
You but kind of sucks when your friends want to do stuff and you are at work or you chill on a Monday and places close earlier and you feel guilty for not being in the office etc
I don't have bad Mondays, in general. I love my job - not ever moment of it; people and situations will occasionally annoy, but in general I'm a happy camper at work. If you don't love your job, then you should either find something else or find a way to love it. There's no extra reward for going through life miserable.
I would also add try not having one for a few months and let me know how well that goes for ya? Monday will be the very best day of the week fast when have a job again. People take so many things for granted today. Guess what? Your stuff aint free.
Because it was in with the cool buzzwords just like Ruby on Rails and node.js are ubercool in the slashdot crowd.
Also it creates fear and gives an excuse to fire somone they don't like for no reason at all without liability. Oh wait? You think they get stacked? HA! That is for the COG peasants like YOU. Many feel if you are not a VP you are lazy and have issues and need to have an eye on in case you are incompetent etc.
Nadala is just rationalizing the current trend of sacking older workers to replace them with cheap graduates who will do whatever they are told because they have no idea whether the command is possible. The cult of the cult leader has to be protected so that they can justify their unjustifiable salaries. Hey ho, every few years we get a new paradigm to excuse bad behavior. It has been going on since at least the early 80's in my direct experience.
That wasn[t my context. But I was making a point when people scream agile/scrum they mean save money and the clueless MBAs who read about it somewhere in a post on LinkedIN want everyone at it and do not know what it means or how to do it and make decisions for things they are not qualified for because they are the big bad boss and want to kiss up to the senior vice presidents for their bonuses.
I am not defending Nadala but he was a programmer and worked his way up. I think as a CEO he is a better fit than the usual MBA accountants who Wall Street brings to cut costs and boost the shareprice while destroying the value of their company for short term gains. Nadala is the old school MBA who were trained in other fields and knew the company well but got the masters degree to learn the business side so they can manage. Now it is whiz bang Wall Street financial gurus to come in and boss people around who know the company and products more than they do. It is frustrating.
The MBAs said... so you really let the clowns run the circus?
I don't but the directors and VPs do at my organization.
Especially at my past job which I left for this very reason. Nothing like making IT decisions with no input with IT other than hey I need a website made in 1 week or we need 200 computers imaged by Monday on a Friday where the regular thing. If we didn't do it they would fire us and replace us with Indians.
If we did then they assume this is normal and we like coming in every weekend because we just LOVE IT so much etc while they were at home.
Part of me feels the MBAs didn't invite IT to the meetings about IT where because they kept putting up roadblocks and refused to be yes man to the mighty MBA. I guess as you gain experience what I am taught is to make sure the MBAs have a history of good management and doing ample research at GlassDoor.com first.
Microsoft doesn't support certain specific processors that Intel has moved into an "End of Interactive Support" phase. Either you're being disingenuous in order to make a point, in which case there is absolutely no reason to entertain your particular viewpoint since you're a fucking liar, or you don't know the difference, in which case there is absolutely no reason to entertain your particular viewpoint since you're incompetent.
Maybe you should look for work in something more in line with abilities, like ditch digging, and leave the technical work to people with technical skills.
Coming from someone who has no real work experience in an enterprise where 10 year old hardware is still common as long as it still works. When you leave college and get a real job you will see things more clear
Do you mean designing Windows 10 specs to be nearly identical to the Specs of Windows 7? So older PC's and newer lower powered portable devices can use it? Adding enhanced touch screen displays as this is the current trend.
What Microsoft is seeming to really miss is the change of the PC market to the Workstation market. The Personal Computer is now a Phone or Tablet. However systems built with Desktop Based technologies, are now used for either High End Gaming or Real work. It needs much more focus on Making Windows 10 a productive OS, that really gets out of the way on what you are trying to accomplish.
Yeah like how the latest Windows 10 creators edition is incompatible with very ancient Ivory bridge i5s with Intel graphics and NICs?!! (Sarcasm for ancient).
It wouldn't be a problem if freaking MS wasn't ended support for Windows 10 build 1503.
Now we have to order 2,000 nice and Nvidia 210 video cards to protect my bosses boss image/ego because he wanted to go cool upgraded to 10 over the superior and we'll tested 7 which doesn't have these insane changes every 6 months!
No weekends off until December putting shitty GPUs and NICs on 2000 PCs. Gee thanks Microsoft
First off, I hate fucking Java. Second, the data may be correct, but the conclusion is out of reality. The reason this is an issue and the up votes go for the easiest not most secure answer, is 1. Human nature, 2. Companies don't give a flying fuck about security. If a "business" leader in a ecom org can't even be bothered to learn a single thing about how a web page even works, then they certainly don't really understand the impact of a few coding side steps and no budget will be allocated DAY TO DAY, to deal with it. After the fact security reviews are doomed to fail, because there is just to much rot after a while.
Dude any clueless CIO can order a myspace/facebook/youtube for a single programmer to be done in a single 3 weeks complete with learning Ruby in one evening. Emailing the VP ordering the project asking for information may have your contract revoked?
When meeting the new CIO he called everyone in the web development group (comprised of project managers, developers, graphic artists, etc) a bunch of interchangeable cogs and meant it as a compliment. He couldn't see why everyone was upset by the remark.
Come on man all it takes is $500 and a week to make a myspace/facebook look alike and beat google on google.com with SEO complete with a professional photographer. I mean how hard can it be if your best friends boyfriend can make the default template in Microsoft Word?
Construction is economically bad. That is less money that could be spent on other things. For a middle income family a $25,000 repair bill means no new cars, toys, investments, etc for 2 years.
Construction jobs pay shit and the money goes to Mexico mostly anyway. I am not racist but live in Texas. Construction is no longer a middle class job here.
FYI these replaced workers are the ones who voted for Trump for obvious reasons
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Microsoft bet the farm on the cloud and Office 365. If either of these failes so will Microsoft. But the writing was on the wall when we say all the "XP IS GOD" comments here on Slashdot back in 2014 during EOL. Good lord. ... it showed us that MS can no longer expect people to always upgrade and wait in line at 12am at CompUSA for the latest version of Windows anymore.
They had to re-invent themselves and they are friendly to Linux as they want you to pay them to use it on Azure and buy their development tools. This is the new model as operating systems are good enough and so is productivity software hence why they are making Planner and Dynamics and tying it to a monthly bill.
WindowsCE SUCKED and Apple and Blackberry already killed it.
WindowsPhone was actually good and stable and delightful to use as METRO was well tuned for a phone UI and had better cut and paste support than Android. It didn't have the strange quirks that WinCE had.
Microsoft already started losing it with IE 6 in the early 2000's when Palm Pilot was defeated. Blackberry was so much better and of course we know Steve Jobs finally created the modern era of smart phones with IOS. Android barely won as a late comer back when WIndows Phone was still in development. WinCE was already 10 years old by then and obsolete.
Windows Phone 8 has support for both c+ and c# by the way.
Windows is only a tiny part of who Microsoft is today. Back in 1998 it was the glue and foundation of the MS stack.
Microsoft wants to keep making money doing what they did before DOS. Make great software development tools and business software. This is one area you have to admit MS does well. Their browsers and operating systems ... meh. But MS is good with things like inventing AJAX javascript and CSS development standards and making Visual Studio. PowerPoint and Excel won as they were just better than the competition.
So MS lost WIndows. So they want to make the hipsters writing mobile apps stay with Visual Studio and they even forked ATOM to create Visual Studio Code complete with Linux support that runs on Chromium and Google's v8 node.js over their own standards. No you did not misread that.
I was shocked to see Android emulators and Python included in VS 2017 that is now free in the community edition! To me the plan is make money from the cloud whether you use Linux docker images or WIndows with Azure and also sell more copies of Visual Studio for cross platform development.
This would be batshit crazy back in 1999 with Visual Studio 6.0 where you had Visual Basic and SourceSafe. GitvFS which is a Git based virtual filesystem is cool and can scale to petabytes. Office source code even uses Git with GitvFS from what I read. So radically different and it makes sense.
No I want them to be an IBM and not the old company from 20 years ago!
Come on guys who wants to go back to 1999 and have MSN, IE, Exchange, Office, Win32, MFC, and innovation like USB support being stunned due to what is best for Microsoft? Microsoft set the pace. Microsoft set the standards. Microsoft made life difficult for portability and tied everything into their stack.
Guess what? IE and Edge actually follow W3C standards now and work like every other browser?! We have options like Google Docs and Libreoffice if 100% compability are not too critical. We can use Java, Python, and C++ on all platforms EVEN WINDOWS with Visual Studio support. Hell, Microsoft even includes Android emulators and virtualization free if you have Windows 10 pro. They include Ubuntu if you have the home version.
If they fall behind Linux and MacOSX will kick them in the rear end ... look up USB and EFI support as an example? The USB with the iMAC finally made USB keyboards.
I like this new Microsoft. If you don't? Well who cares do not use it. We are finally breaking free and when competition kicks in we all benefit. I will even say I like Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code now.
IBM was good but is fading away.
I see Microsoft returning to it's pre-DOS roots. As a unique software development tool and business software shop. Microsoft has always made great development tools and business software. Their operating systems and web browsers have not been so great, but they did give us web 2.0 AJAX and CSS.
Exactly. Servers, Linux still has no answer for the reasons people run a Microsoft server.
Huh?
It's hard to nail down precise numbers (for obvious reasons), but all of the various statistics I could find say roughly the same thing -- there are more Linux servers than Windows servers.
Some studies give Linux a 10% edge over Windows, and some put Linux and Windows at about parity. So it's not an overwhelming edge, but it's pretty clear that Windows is not more popular than Linux in that space.
I keep seeing this repeated here over and over like it's a fact?
Yeah great you work in Silicon Valley as a mobile programmer and therefore use Linux solutions in our MDF. Meanwhile in the real worlkd 90% of every fortune 1000 company and 2 smaller businesses I worked with all use Windows on their servers. Windows has Exchange. Windows has SQL Server. Windows has Active Directory. Windows has the file shares. Windows is the default server OS for every company unless they can't find support for a product that only runs on Linux.
Blame it on PHB and CIOs who feel nobody ever gets fired for choosing Microsoft and want to use a standard platform OS to save money on integration straight from the 1990s but this is what I see. Oracle occasionally runs on Solaris but more than likely the app that accesses is Windows Server based on anyway.
I would say Linux has about 10% of the real server usage from what I see. I am not trying to be a troll but just what I have witnesses. Microsoft has infected everything up the OSI model outside of the routers and switches in the enterprise outside of some geeky San Francisco engineering and hipster mobile shops.
Citation?
I was pissed when they removed Windows Media Center. I LOVED it for years on Windows 7 as I used my older PC as a TV to watch movies and thought the player and built in functions were very easy to use.
FreeBSD also has KMS support but an earlier version. FreeBSD does run great as guest with Microsoft Hyper-V and Azure oddly as I use Pfsense on Hyper-V with Windows 10.
The various BSD forks are generally worked on by real operating system developers who care about the conceptual integrity of the system as a whole, not only the kernel itself. There are Linux distributions with a similar philosophy, but most Linux development now is done by either large commercial interests who are adopting an MS-like attitude or random incompetent people who only want to leave their mark on something, whether it's a good idea or not.
BSD is more elitist, and that's a good thing for the quality of the system.
The BSD guys are interesting. Not more elitist .. hell go look at the forums of ARCLinux MY GOD but rather conservative. The BSD guys are really good at documentation and creating teams like the ones making /usr/share/docs and the FreeBSD handbook and great manpages which also include Unix history.
The BSD guys want something done well with great input from experts rather than just throw yet a another million userspace daemon when problem solving. BSDs are also a full OS and not just a kernel, a distro, and a few user apps are thrown in and grown and linked together with a hope it will work.
My take is read the manual is added because they trust their own manual. If a newbie say well that doc SUCKs and they will examine it and quickly email the documentation guy to fix it etc. There is a real documentation effort as the kernel guys don't want to answer noobie questions and many are at all skill levels and needs. What is cool about FreeBSD at least is they have examples you can uncomment out to do things and hacks like CVSUP. It encourages you to play.
I love watching stuff on youtube on my spare time like this which shows in America at least how gullible religious people are? My point is not anti religion and offtpic but my faith in mankind in general when it comes to thinking and driving safely vs a superior computer that can do trillions of operations per second.
That is why I got into computers in the 1990s. True computers only do what a programmer tells it to do but a machine is far more rational, logical, and can do things in milliseconds rather than tens of seconds and doesn't get road rage or distracted.
I would LOVE self driving cars as a nerd, but also we could cut down on commute time, nap on our way to work or work, and it would reduce fatalities and accidents as humans are not as good as these kinds of things.
I disagree. Microsoft provides a courtesy with patches for free. XP is HELL of alot of horrible nasty work due to the bugs and layers and complexities no one understands as the world has moved on. Linux is less complex with just the kernel but more due to the million apps on it and the dependencies to get them to work.
An operating system is the second most if not the most complex pieces of software ever written. It ties the cloud as a platform. I think a poorly written XP is worse to maintain than a more modular Linux as the later might be easier to read and debug but I dunno as I do not write kernels and C libraries all day.
Regardless, your 3 year old Android tablet is out of support. Why is it so hard to expect vendors to support 17 year old platforms with dwindling users and denying new features for the vast majority today?
The good news is if you have ancient crud you can use a VM today as multicore cpus, ssds, and large amounts of ram are cheap and in quantity today at even a consumer level.
We have Virtual Machines for that. No one is breaking into your MDF and taking your servers away. But hardware and software won't get support anymore which I think is reasonable. Slashdot LOVES Google but hates Microsoft.
I don't see any bitching about their 2007 era phones getting the latest Android or have a tablet more than 3 years old not getting Android updates, but it is the devil when Microsoft only supports their OS for 10 years. Even Ubuntu only has 5 years LTS.
Technical debt is bad and it's time to move forward. Vms are good for this purpose.
You but kind of sucks when your friends want to do stuff and you are at work or you chill on a Monday and places close earlier and you feel guilty for not being in the office etc
I don't have bad Mondays, in general. I love my job - not ever moment of it; people and situations will occasionally annoy, but in general I'm a happy camper at work. If you don't love your job, then you should either find something else or find a way to love it. There's no extra reward for going through life miserable.
I would also add try not having one for a few months and let me know how well that goes for ya? Monday will be the very best day of the week fast when have a job again. People take so many things for granted today. Guess what? Your stuff aint free.
Because it was in with the cool buzzwords just like Ruby on Rails and node.js are ubercool in the slashdot crowd.
Also it creates fear and gives an excuse to fire somone they don't like for no reason at all without liability. Oh wait? You think they get stacked? HA! That is for the COG peasants like YOU. Many feel if you are not a VP you are lazy and have issues and need to have an eye on in case you are incompetent etc.
Nadala is just rationalizing the current trend of sacking older workers to replace them with cheap graduates who will do whatever they are told because they have no idea whether the command is possible. The cult of the cult leader has to be protected so that they can justify their unjustifiable salaries. Hey ho, every few years we get a new paradigm to excuse bad behavior. It has been going on since at least the early 80's in my direct experience.
That wasn[t my context. But I was making a point when people scream agile/scrum they mean save money and the clueless MBAs who read about it somewhere in a post on LinkedIN want everyone at it and do not know what it means or how to do it and make decisions for things they are not qualified for because they are the big bad boss and want to kiss up to the senior vice presidents for their bonuses.
I am not defending Nadala but he was a programmer and worked his way up. I think as a CEO he is a better fit than the usual MBA accountants who Wall Street brings to cut costs and boost the shareprice while destroying the value of their company for short term gains. Nadala is the old school MBA who were trained in other fields and knew the company well but got the masters degree to learn the business side so they can manage. Now it is whiz bang Wall Street financial gurus to come in and boss people around who know the company and products more than they do. It is frustrating.
Do you work for Microsoft at all?
The MBAs said... so you really let the clowns run the circus?
I don't but the directors and VPs do at my organization.
Especially at my past job which I left for this very reason. Nothing like making IT decisions with no input with IT other than hey I need a website made in 1 week or we need 200 computers imaged by Monday on a Friday where the regular thing. If we didn't do it they would fire us and replace us with Indians.
If we did then they assume this is normal and we like coming in every weekend because we just LOVE IT so much etc while they were at home.
Part of me feels the MBAs didn't invite IT to the meetings about IT where because they kept putting up roadblocks and refused to be yes man to the mighty MBA. I guess as you gain experience what I am taught is to make sure the MBAs have a history of good management and doing ample research at GlassDoor.com first.
Microsoft doesn't support certain specific processors that Intel has moved into an "End of Interactive Support" phase. Either you're being disingenuous in order to make a point, in which case there is absolutely no reason to entertain your particular viewpoint since you're a fucking liar, or you don't know the difference, in which case there is absolutely no reason to entertain your particular viewpoint since you're incompetent.
Maybe you should look for work in something more in line with abilities, like ditch digging, and leave the technical work to people with technical skills.
Coming from someone who has no real work experience in an enterprise where 10 year old hardware is still common as long as it still works. When you leave college and get a real job you will see things more clear
But but it's agile! That can't be true? The MBAs said a happy or friends face and a good story is the answer to every problem
Do you mean designing Windows 10 specs to be nearly identical to the Specs of Windows 7? So older PC's and newer lower powered portable devices can use it?
Adding enhanced touch screen displays as this is the current trend.
What Microsoft is seeming to really miss is the change of the PC market to the Workstation market. The Personal Computer is now a Phone or Tablet. However systems built with Desktop Based technologies, are now used for either High End Gaming or Real work. It needs much more focus on Making Windows 10 a productive OS, that really gets out of the way on what you are trying to accomplish.
Yeah like how the latest Windows 10 creators edition is incompatible with very ancient Ivory bridge i5s with Intel graphics and NICs?!! (Sarcasm for ancient).
It wouldn't be a problem if freaking MS wasn't ended support for Windows 10 build 1503.
Now we have to order 2,000 nice and Nvidia 210 video cards to protect my bosses boss image/ego because he wanted to go cool upgraded to 10 over the superior and we'll tested 7 which doesn't have these insane changes every 6 months!
No weekends off until December putting shitty GPUs and NICs on 2000 PCs. Gee thanks Microsoft
If people simply hired web developers, most web hacking shit would be gone over fucking night.
Thanks for the chuckle.
Sure it can be done one week with a single programmer. Ask the marketing manager who is the only one allowed to scope the requirements.
First off, I hate fucking Java. Second, the data may be correct, but the conclusion is out of reality. The reason this is an issue and the up votes go for the easiest not most secure answer, is 1. Human nature, 2. Companies don't give a flying fuck about security. If a "business" leader in a ecom org can't even be bothered to learn a single thing about how a web page even works, then they certainly don't really understand the impact of a few coding side steps and no budget will be allocated DAY TO DAY, to deal with it. After the fact security reviews are doomed to fail, because there is just to much rot after a while.
Dude any clueless CIO can order a myspace/facebook/youtube for a single programmer to be done in a single 3 weeks complete with learning Ruby in one evening. Emailing the VP ordering the project asking for information may have your contract revoked?
When meeting the new CIO he called everyone in the web development group (comprised of project managers, developers, graphic artists, etc) a bunch of interchangeable cogs and meant it as a compliment. He couldn't see why everyone was upset by the remark.
Come on man all it takes is $500 and a week to make a myspace/facebook look alike and beat google on google.com with SEO complete with a professional photographer. I mean how hard can it be if your best friends boyfriend can make the default template in Microsoft Word?
Construction is economically bad. That is less money that could be spent on other things. For a middle income family a $25,000 repair bill means no new cars, toys, investments, etc for 2 years.
Construction jobs pay shit and the money goes to Mexico mostly anyway. I am not racist but live in Texas. Construction is no longer a middle class job here.
FYI these replaced workers are the ones who voted for Trump for obvious reasons
We are finally finally seeing rising wages after the sevre Great Recession eliminated so many jobs.
33,000 lost is no biggie in the grand scheme. Now if we loose more next month then I will worry as it shows a trend of contraction