See here. Look back further and that curve looks yet uglier. No wonder MSFT trades chronically just over 10 P/E. The reason for the erosion of MSFT's gross margin is, it's getting harder to compete with the likes of Apple and Linux. Couldn't happen to a nicer criminal.
If Apple has such great customer satisfaction then why are people activating a million Android phones a day? Looking forward to next quarters sales figures.
No, Apple sued first. The fact that Apple sued a different Android vendor than Motorola is immaterial, it was still a direct troll patent attack on Android.
You have a rather wide eyed take on Google's abilities. Hint: if you have a PhD and you're that smart, you're more than smart enough to avoid being assigned such a menial task.
Since I felt a need to protect my aging mother from the cesspool that is Hotmail, I removed every trace of the Windows Live suite from her computer (which took some doing) and replaced them with non-evil alternatives with interfaces she knows. For email Thunderbird turned out to be the winner.
if you want to run an application you haven't downloaded yet, or forgot to download, you're out of luck.
You could say that about any laptop or iPod touch or iPad.
You could but it would just be blather. I don't know about you, but I have upwards of 2,000 applications on this desktop and not a lot fewer on my portables. And for the most part they don't suffer from crappy html rendering.
Unlike you, I actually know what I am talking about. I have in fact measured the latency of X transactions (input, screen update, primitive drawing etc) and I know that it is less than the latency of graphics transactions on Android phones, which have to go through Dalvik. Look, I know you make this Unix stuff up as you go and it plays well to some who don't know any better, but spare me please.
Take Sharepoint for example. It is mainly a big rambling SOAP specification with at least one key gotcha: its semantics depend on OOXML, which is imprecisely documented. And with respect to your theorizing about Asus, frankly you are full of crap. As is sufficiently proved by the fact that Linux phones sell like hotcakes. Same OS, just out of Microsoft's reach.
Why would you *want* that? One well-crafted malicious PDF coupled with a flawed PDF reader, and you're SOL.
Firstly, I run Linux, not Windows. On Linux the pdf opens in Okular, which uses libpoppler, which has not had a vulnerability in quite some time, unlike the secret binary crap from Adobe. Secondly, there is no difference in security between immediately opening a malicious appllication versus first saving the malicious application to disk then opening it. If you want to slowly compromise your Windows machine with an extra few clicks, be my guest. I will stick with Linux, which doesn't have these issues thanks. And so I can actually use the computer in the way it was meant to be used, not the way the spammers force you to.
Think about this: any new vulnerability in Linux is headline news because it happens so rarely. Usually the fix is within a few hours and new binaries are available for update *at my convenience* a few hours later. With Windows, new vulnerabilities are so commonplace that they are hardly worth mentioning, and good luck getting an update from Microsoft in any timely way.
By removing Outlook Express, they did the world a favor. What a gigantic piece of crap that was. Getting double mails for no good reason? Remove and reinstall the offending account. Lost all your mail? Well, don't clear your recycle bin any time soon, or its probably gone forever. Just quit working altogether? That's normal for OE.
In what way are all those not just bugs that should have been fixed instead of being used to justify removing common functionality to push users in a direction beneficial to Microsoft. Don't get me wrong, I am glad that Microsoft did this user hostile thing, it is just one more shovelful of dirt for the grave they are digging themselves. But the point is, now that Microsoft has created the opening, Mozilla.org should be relentless about filling it.
Firefox OS works fine when there's no connection. Apps are cached for off-line use. When they get another connection, they sync.
You mean it kinda sorta works when there's no connection. For example, if you want to run an application you haven't downloaded yet, or forgot to download, you're out of luck. Just one of an endless list of common examples of why the concept suffers from serious braindamage.
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if the issue is simply glue verses tabs or screws, it seems there might be some middle ground that can be worked out
You're right. Buy an Android. Just stating the obvious.
Any self respecting geek who buys Apple today with Apple's record has to turn in their geek card.
See here. Look back further and that curve looks yet uglier. No wonder MSFT trades chronically just over 10 P/E. The reason for the erosion of MSFT's gross margin is, it's getting harder to compete with the likes of Apple and Linux. Couldn't happen to a nicer criminal.
Nice summary. It is apparent that Microsoft has been cutting its expenses (read: employee benefits) to hide its diminishing margin.
Former holders of the "most valuable" title were IBM and Microsoft. Just thought I would mention that.
If Apple has such great customer satisfaction then why are people activating a million Android phones a day? Looking forward to next quarters sales figures.
Shakespeare, Kipling, whoever. All dead white guys, fully interchangeable!
Steve Jobs is a dead white guy, irreplacable. Maybe the Apple board should take some of those billions and attempt to revive him.
Steve Jobs, in his own words said: "We have always been shameless at stealing good ideas"
He equally have said "we have always been shameless" and stopped right there.
No, Apple sued first. The fact that Apple sued a different Android vendor than Motorola is immaterial, it was still a direct troll patent attack on Android.
2010, Mar 02: Apple sues HTC over 10 patents and files an ITC complaint against HTC over 10 other patents.
I can't defend Apple's actions but then I don't need to. What they do is legal.
It is also legal to be greedy and avaricious, and in some cases, immoral and unethical. Though legal, such behavior still needs defending.
Apple is already dead, it is a zombie of its former self. When Steve Jobs died, Apple's engineering prowess died with him.
A futile attempt to make Android worse than Apple. But a successful attempt to leave Apple's engineering reputation in tatters.
You have a rather wide eyed take on Google's abilities. Hint: if you have a PhD and you're that smart, you're more than smart enough to avoid being assigned such a menial task.
I know, they told me that too. And they did.
Since I felt a need to protect my aging mother from the cesspool that is Hotmail, I removed every trace of the Windows Live suite from her computer (which took some doing) and replaced them with non-evil alternatives with interfaces she knows. For email Thunderbird turned out to be the winner.
if you want to run an application you haven't downloaded yet, or forgot to download, you're out of luck.
You could say that about any laptop or iPod touch or iPad.
You could but it would just be blather. I don't know about you, but I have upwards of 2,000 applications on this desktop and not a lot fewer on my portables. And for the most part they don't suffer from crappy html rendering.
Unlike you, I actually know what I am talking about. I have in fact measured the latency of X transactions (input, screen update, primitive drawing etc) and I know that it is less than the latency of graphics transactions on Android phones, which have to go through Dalvik. Look, I know you make this Unix stuff up as you go and it plays well to some who don't know any better, but spare me please.
It is apparent that you have never hired a lawyer.
Forensic data analysis is a specialized niche, not something you want to throw an intern at.
Google needs the money, otherwise Larry might be forced to switch one of the campus sushi bars over to fried chicken.
Take Sharepoint for example. It is mainly a big rambling SOAP specification with at least one key gotcha: its semantics depend on OOXML, which is imprecisely documented. And with respect to your theorizing about Asus, frankly you are full of crap. As is sufficiently proved by the fact that Linux phones sell like hotcakes. Same OS, just out of Microsoft's reach.
Why would you *want* that? One well-crafted malicious PDF coupled with a flawed PDF reader, and you're SOL.
Firstly, I run Linux, not Windows. On Linux the pdf opens in Okular, which uses libpoppler, which has not had a vulnerability in quite some time, unlike the secret binary crap from Adobe. Secondly, there is no difference in security between immediately opening a malicious appllication versus first saving the malicious application to disk then opening it. If you want to slowly compromise your Windows machine with an extra few clicks, be my guest. I will stick with Linux, which doesn't have these issues thanks. And so I can actually use the computer in the way it was meant to be used, not the way the spammers force you to.
Think about this: any new vulnerability in Linux is headline news because it happens so rarely. Usually the fix is within a few hours and new binaries are available for update *at my convenience* a few hours later. With Windows, new vulnerabilities are so commonplace that they are hardly worth mentioning, and good luck getting an update from Microsoft in any timely way.
By removing Outlook Express, they did the world a favor. What a gigantic piece of crap that was. Getting double mails for no good reason? Remove and reinstall the offending account. Lost all your mail? Well, don't clear your recycle bin any time soon, or its probably gone forever. Just quit working altogether? That's normal for OE.
In what way are all those not just bugs that should have been fixed instead of being used to justify removing common functionality to push users in a direction beneficial to Microsoft. Don't get me wrong, I am glad that Microsoft did this user hostile thing, it is just one more shovelful of dirt for the grave they are digging themselves. But the point is, now that Microsoft has created the opening, Mozilla.org should be relentless about filling it.
Microsoft only documented the protocols they were specifically ordered to. That leaves many more besides SMB/SMB2.
Now tell me this: do you *really* think that Asus voluntarily stopped shipping Linux on netbooks?
Firefox OS works fine when there's no connection. Apps are cached for off-line use. When they get another connection, they sync.
You mean it kinda sorta works when there's no connection. For example, if you want to run an application you haven't downloaded yet, or forgot to download, you're out of luck. Just one of an endless list of common examples of why the concept suffers from serious braindamage.