You imply NSA is innocent and only Windows can be hacked. A false belief. Where do you think the term ROOTkit came from? Unix security was a joke before WindowsNT came into the scene as VMS was more secure because it was not written in C. I have seen hackers take over a SuSE enterprise server to host a phishing website. Just because it's opensource doesn'tean it's secure.
Can you say in a serious face that the NSA HAS 0 backdoors on Linux? No really. It's not like the NSA didn't have a role in developing Redhats apoarmor or anything.
The echo chamber of anti MS hate is strong here as always but put the crackpipe down.
The NSA has keys to juniper and even a backdoor of old Nortel now Avaya routers. The NSA logs on and does what it likes
Actually, the Chavez regimes policies amount to attempting to make Venezuela more like Germany, i.e. social democratic. In case you haven't heard, US political reporting is somewhat biased and poorly informed.
Not even close buddy. Germany favors free enterprise and is the most powerful and wealthiest country in Europe. Venezuala is more communistic and little non-subsidized enterprise has price ceilings.
You need to learn to surrender with more grace. But I'll accept this much... Good luck!
Fine if you want to play that. Then GOP USA=Sudan & Somalia. They have no government at all and anarchy, warlords, and pirates are the result. Therefore that is the alternative to big government if you want to go deep end with analogies.
So if you live in a city with higher income and job opportunities you live longer. Live in a poor rural area and you deserve to die. Nice system
Ironic is these bozos who live in these regions are the most adamant on making sure they do not have healthcare so they can get healthcare in their mind as them having it is communism so give it to others who are rich and it will trickle back???!
They are not ISPs. They do not exist in America. They are information services and advertising companies. They just happen to deliver data. Go look up the charters? Obama forced them to re-register as ISPs and now it is going back so net neutralities do not apply as no ISP exists in the US.
There is a benefit. Compatibility. Not even Intel who tried the impossible to kill the x86 with HP failed when AMD made 64 bit standard. Funny pentium IV's mysteriously started being 64 bit compabile. Hmm my hunch is Intel disabled it to make Itanium look better and with a simple patch enabled the other bits
But x86 today translates the instructions to risc internally anyway. But powermacs used more ram in the 1990s than WIndows because risc cpus created more code to bloat it in disk and ram
FreeBSD is alot more mature and well supported and is also server oriented. Sadly, Duvuan is what Debian should be. You can use SystemD if you want in Duvuan. You can also use OpenRC or Ubuntus event driven startup I think called startupd, or old school Unix init. Use whatever you want man. But it has no support except for a few angry exdebian users.
With FreeBSD you also get jails,dtrace, ports, pkg-add, award winning TCP/IP stack that invented the world wide web, stability which Juniper, pfense, and even Cisco once used, and better documentation with the FreeBSD handbook and better manpages and cool stuff in/usr/share/doc. Only downside is java support and it's virtualization servers are weaker than KMS (which FreeBSD does support an older version as a host). It really feels like a Unix that doesn't try to pretend to be anything else. Getting a gui going is a little more work but in the pkg-add and ports.
I use FreeBSD's pfsense for all my virtual routers on my virtual machine collection at home which is another cool thing if you do not want to fiddle awhile getting a cisco environment up. You can buy pfsense hardware racks too which are great for small to medium sized offices that do not need or want to pay the Cisco tax.
Large supported and mature code base used by large amounts of people. Closest to Debian in it's community and server oriented features. No SystemD, jails, ZFS, dtrace, ports, pkg-add, and the award winning FreeBSD handbook and better manpages.
In my universe you would be out of a job if the boss asked why his freebusy function in Outlook wasn't working to set meetings up. Sucks, but there is no standard and Helix decided to use Exchanges protocol last decade and never took off with the gnome guys before they did a dumb cell phone interface.
Google Docs decided not to create another open standard and neither does LibreOffice which makes it unsuitable for the real world. So of course a university who developed IMAP will abandon it. The college president wants his Outlook calendar and Skype to work from the cloud. Simple.
Want to change this then go make a new standard that everyone can use that does more than just email.
It's an Intel machine, it runs Win32 apps packaged with project Centennial, and buyers can upgrade to Windows 10 Pro for free until 2018 if they find themselves limited by Windows 10 S.
What's RT about this?
Besides education consumers love the fact that students can't install software and is a feature to them. THe appstore ensures a malware free educational experience. Of course regular 10 can be configured the same through group policy.
IE 6 is the best! It does websites the right way. Go ask any PHB? IE 6 teaches the Zen of patience, virtues, minimalism. Can Chrome teach life lessons? No
RMS of course would say this is why we call it GNU/Linux, not Linux:-)
Meego was Linux based but in the end the apps is why Windows is on the PC and Android on the phone. When I dropped my Nokia 830 I decided to go back to a crappy Android. Why? I do not want to invest money in a dead platform.
My mother has a unlocked $45 Nokia 640 which is great for her 68 year old eyes with the big tiles and ease of use. Outside of a simple feature phone it is useless these days as I remember using IE mobile to make up for the lack of apps.
Windows Phone like Meego died because it was too little too late and the damage done from the WindowsCE brandname. People asssume here it must suck because it is Microsoft without trying or they had a Compaq Ipaq and remembered calandar synchronizations, missed alarms, dropped calls, and a tiny start menu on a 4 inch inch screen and a crippled OS.
Sure Linux you laugh as not being usable but the real reason is peoiple do not care about Windows anymore since Windows95 came out. They turn on their PC to do spreadsheets and type things for the boss. That is it. Linux has no apps outside of a server room.
I laughed at mobile development and was shocked people didn't care about bought these locked down devices?? But that is reality. May Windows Phone rest in peace and let it see Blackberry, OS/2, and Palm Pilot waiting for it on the otherside at the light at the end of the tunnel. $500,000 in sales is quite the drop from tens of millions.
This is the mobile equivalent of the mid 1990s. Unix dying, commodore dead, Apple II dead, Apple dying, OS/2 dying. Windows was the answer and won. Companies only wrote software for Windows as it was the winner because consumers only wanted what companies wrote software for in a cycle. Why blow $2000 on a dead platform when Windows was what everyone was using and was a sure bet etc.
Funny thing is same is killing WIndows Phone in reverse. Meego was too late. If you were not in by 2009 you were out. 2010/2011 is when mobile developers hit apps on smartphones and consumers knew if they wanted apps they had to make a choice. Apple or Google. MeeGo didn't ahve a playstore and was expected to have mobile carriers be the appstore. Remember the shitty $3.00 midi file ring tones back then? Vommit. Apple gave the carrier the finger. Google followed and rest is history.
WebOS was pretty cool too and so was QNX by Blackberry. All failed as people wanted companeis to set the standards like what MS did on the desktop.
I think in 2017 it is done. Move on. Even Steve Jobs admitted Windows won which is why he refused to hire corporate account executives. Same is true here. UWP apis came 8 years too late. Meego never caught on and was a late commer.
I use that forum too and if it says it is dead that means alot.
I was hoping it would take around 20% marketshare just for healthy competition even if I do not use it anymore as this would benefit everyone.:-(
It is not WindowsCE (which sucked) and was a much different and better OS. It usess the same kernel as Windows Server 2012 R2! I loved the UI. Windows 8 rocked on a phone and the back and forward feels more natural than Android. It was stable and very lightweight and ran easier on slower but battery saving cpus. The tiles give you the notifications for news events perfect at a quick glance.
MS got it backwards with a start menu on WindowsCE and a phone UI on the desktop. Windows Phone should have come out in 2009 if it were to survive. Also WIndows Universal Apps or UWP was not mature until last year! If this was there in 2009/2010 it could have had significant marketshare and be a much needed 3rd player and kept IT and programmers jobs and not made --webkit CSS extensions standard.
My mom who is 68 years old and has dying eye sight and is techno illerate loves her $50 Windows Phone Nokia 640 unlocked. No way could Android run as good for that cheap for $50. The big tiles make it easier for her to see and understand what each tile does.
But it makes no sense to buy one as I did not want to invest $500 into a dead platform so I went back to Android 18 months ago. Even if Neowin of all places admits it now it is time to move forward. Ironically this is what killed Unix for Windows. People wanted standards and no one wanted to pay lots of money for Unix or a Commode as everyone was using Windows. Now MS got hit in reverse by the same logic.
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Here is a list right now of Linux
You imply NSA is innocent and only Windows can be hacked. A false belief. Where do you think the term ROOTkit came from? Unix security was a joke before WindowsNT came into the scene as VMS was more secure because it was not written in C. I have seen hackers take over a SuSE enterprise server to host a phishing website. Just because it's opensource doesn'tean it's secure.
Can you say in a serious face that the NSA HAS 0 backdoors on Linux? No really. It's not like the NSA didn't have a role in developing Redhats apoarmor or anything.
The echo chamber of anti MS hate is strong here as always but put the crackpipe down.
The NSA has keys to juniper and even a backdoor of old Nortel now Avaya routers. The NSA logs on and does what it likes
Arm also has a secret CPU underneath it's main CPU and uses firmware just like Intel.
Actually, the Chavez regimes policies amount to attempting to make Venezuela more like Germany, i.e. social democratic. In case you haven't heard, US political reporting is somewhat biased and poorly informed.
Not even close buddy. Germany favors free enterprise and is the most powerful and wealthiest country in Europe. Venezuala is more communistic and little non-subsidized enterprise has price ceilings.
You need to learn to surrender with more grace. But I'll accept this much... Good luck!
Fine if you want to play that. Then GOP USA=Sudan & Somalia. They have no government at all and anarchy, warlords, and pirates are the result. Therefore that is the alternative to big government if you want to go deep end with analogies.
Both countries are a libertarian paradise.
So if you live in a city with higher income and job opportunities you live longer. Live in a poor rural area and you deserve to die. Nice system
Ironic is these bozos who live in these regions are the most adamant on making sure they do not have healthcare so they can get healthcare in their mind as them having it is communism so give it to others who are rich and it will trickle back???!
I don't get the thought process
They are not ISPs. They do not exist in America. They are information services and advertising companies. They just happen to deliver data. Go look up the charters? Obama forced them to re-register as ISPs and now it is going back so net neutralities do not apply as no ISP exists in the US.
No problem your ISP has their own video on demand service that works much better.
What? You expect your own services you paid for to work well??! Pfft communist stay out of the free market.
ICMP is designed to be high priority less chatty for broadcasts as well as video by default as errors are less important over packet prioritization.
There is. It is called c#.
Unfortunately is heavily tied to win32 but MS is starting to move core .NET to opensource and Mono already has some cloned opensource wise.
C# is what java should have been or would have turned into if it were not for Sun mismanagement last decade.
There is a benefit. Compatibility. Not even Intel who tried the impossible to kill the x86 with HP failed when AMD made 64 bit standard. Funny pentium IV's mysteriously started being 64 bit compabile. Hmm my hunch is Intel disabled it to make Itanium look better and with a simple patch enabled the other bits
But x86 today translates the instructions to risc internally anyway. But powermacs used more ram in the 1990s than WIndows because risc cpus created more code to bloat it in disk and ram
FreeBSD is alot more mature and well supported and is also server oriented. Sadly, Duvuan is what Debian should be. You can use SystemD if you want in Duvuan. You can also use OpenRC or Ubuntus event driven startup I think called startupd, or old school Unix init. Use whatever you want man. But it has no support except for a few angry exdebian users.
With FreeBSD you also get jails,dtrace, ports, pkg-add, award winning TCP/IP stack that invented the world wide web, stability which Juniper, pfense, and even Cisco once used, and better documentation with the FreeBSD handbook and better manpages and cool stuff in /usr/share/doc. Only downside is java support and it's virtualization servers are weaker than KMS (which FreeBSD does support an older version as a host). It really feels like a Unix that doesn't try to pretend to be anything else. Getting a gui going is a little more work but in the pkg-add and ports.
I use FreeBSD's pfsense for all my virtual routers on my virtual machine collection at home which is another cool thing if you do not want to fiddle awhile getting a cisco environment up. You can buy pfsense hardware racks too which are great for small to medium sized offices that do not need or want to pay the Cisco tax.
Large supported and mature code base used by large amounts of people. Closest to Debian in it's community and server oriented features. No SystemD, jails, ZFS, dtrace, ports, pkg-add, and the award winning FreeBSD handbook and better manpages.
I'm glad you don't live in my universe.
In my universe you would be out of a job if the boss asked why his freebusy function in Outlook wasn't working to set meetings up. Sucks, but there is no standard and Helix decided to use Exchanges protocol last decade and never took off with the gnome guys before they did a dumb cell phone interface.
Google Docs decided not to create another open standard and neither does LibreOffice which makes it unsuitable for the real world. So of course a university who developed IMAP will abandon it. The college president wants his Outlook calendar and Skype to work from the cloud. Simple.
Want to change this then go make a new standard that everyone can use that does more than just email.
Today people need more than email and calendar, Skype, and meeting options.
Unfortunately, the community defined the imap standard IEEE but no calendar and meeting and freebusy functionality so MS defined the standard instead.
Email might be fine for student uses but is incompatible for the needs of staff.
In the spirit of Saint Reagan
It's an Intel machine, it runs Win32 apps packaged with project Centennial, and buyers can upgrade to Windows 10 Pro for free until 2018 if they find themselves limited by Windows 10 S.
What's RT about this?
Besides education consumers love the fact that students can't install software and is a feature to them. THe appstore ensures a malware free educational experience. Of course regular 10 can be configured the same through group policy.
Cries NOOOO!
IE 6 is the best! It does websites the right way. Go ask any PHB? IE 6 teaches the Zen of patience, virtues, minimalism. Can Chrome teach life lessons? No
RMS of course would say this is why we call it GNU/Linux, not Linux :-)
Meego was Linux based but in the end the apps is why Windows is on the PC and Android on the phone. When I dropped my Nokia 830 I decided to go back to a crappy Android. Why? I do not want to invest money in a dead platform.
My mother has a unlocked $45 Nokia 640 which is great for her 68 year old eyes with the big tiles and ease of use. Outside of a simple feature phone it is useless these days as I remember using IE mobile to make up for the lack of apps.
Windows Phone like Meego died because it was too little too late and the damage done from the WindowsCE brandname. People asssume here it must suck because it is Microsoft without trying or they had a Compaq Ipaq and remembered calandar synchronizations, missed alarms, dropped calls, and a tiny start menu on a 4 inch inch screen and a crippled OS.
Sure Linux you laugh as not being usable but the real reason is peoiple do not care about Windows anymore since Windows95 came out. They turn on their PC to do spreadsheets and type things for the boss. That is it. Linux has no apps outside of a server room.
I laughed at mobile development and was shocked people didn't care about bought these locked down devices?? But that is reality. May Windows Phone rest in peace and let it see Blackberry, OS/2, and Palm Pilot waiting for it on the otherside at the light at the end of the tunnel. $500,000 in sales is quite the drop from tens of millions.
Or the top 2% will own the means of production therefore ensuring monopolies with high prices.
You think a Mom and Pop shop can buy $90,000 worth of robots to start a business?
MeeGo would have failed too.
This is the mobile equivalent of the mid 1990s. Unix dying, commodore dead, Apple II dead, Apple dying, OS/2 dying. Windows was the answer and won. Companies only wrote software for Windows as it was the winner because consumers only wanted what companies wrote software for in a cycle. Why blow $2000 on a dead platform when Windows was what everyone was using and was a sure bet etc.
Funny thing is same is killing WIndows Phone in reverse. Meego was too late. If you were not in by 2009 you were out. 2010/2011 is when mobile developers hit apps on smartphones and consumers knew if they wanted apps they had to make a choice. Apple or Google. MeeGo didn't ahve a playstore and was expected to have mobile carriers be the appstore. Remember the shitty $3.00 midi file ring tones back then? Vommit. Apple gave the carrier the finger. Google followed and rest is history.
WebOS was pretty cool too and so was QNX by Blackberry. All failed as people wanted companeis to set the standards like what MS did on the desktop.
I think in 2017 it is done. Move on. Even Steve Jobs admitted Windows won which is why he refused to hire corporate account executives. Same is true here. UWP apis came 8 years too late. Meego never caught on and was a late commer.
I use that forum too and if it says it is dead that means alot.
I was hoping it would take around 20% marketshare just for healthy competition even if I do not use it anymore as this would benefit everyone. :-(
It is not WindowsCE (which sucked) and was a much different and better OS. It usess the same kernel as Windows Server 2012 R2! I loved the UI. Windows 8 rocked on a phone and the back and forward feels more natural than Android. It was stable and very lightweight and ran easier on slower but battery saving cpus. The tiles give you the notifications for news events perfect at a quick glance.
MS got it backwards with a start menu on WindowsCE and a phone UI on the desktop. Windows Phone should have come out in 2009 if it were to survive. Also WIndows Universal Apps or UWP was not mature until last year! If this was there in 2009/2010 it could have had significant marketshare and be a much needed 3rd player and kept IT and programmers jobs and not made --webkit CSS extensions standard.
My mom who is 68 years old and has dying eye sight and is techno illerate loves her $50 Windows Phone Nokia 640 unlocked. No way could Android run as good for that cheap for $50. The big tiles make it easier for her to see and understand what each tile does.
But it makes no sense to buy one as I did not want to invest $500 into a dead platform so I went back to Android 18 months ago. Even if Neowin of all places admits it now it is time to move forward. Ironically this is what killed Unix for Windows. People wanted standards and no one wanted to pay lots of money for Unix or a Commode as everyone was using Windows. Now MS got hit in reverse by the same logic.
You are soo right. He should have written it in JavaScript instead
All completely true.
Trouble is, the Surface sells at a loss. Microsoft loses money on each one sold. It's basically a very expensive windows brand promotion.
Not true. Surface made billions for Microsoft and was a hot seller.