No, upto Windows 7, the logo was a flag, so smashed panes couldn't have happened there. Windows 8 was where MS made the decision to replace the flag w/ a trapezoidal window, and that's where you might have seen it, since the Metro interface (as it was then called) was an UI disaster, being so radically different from Windows 7
There have been women who've come to power in Muslim countries, such as Benazir Bhutto, Hasina Wajed, Khalida Zia & Megawati Sukarnoputri. All of them were daughters or wives of former presidents/prime ministers. Only Muslim country I can think of where a woman came to power on her own merit was Turkey's Tansu Ciller: however, that was when Turkey was still under a Kemalist regime. Otherwise none of the above examples refutes the fact that in Islamic countries, women are little more than doormats
More precisely, Windows Phone/Mobile is fine for work: it has Office, OneNote & Outlook coming w/ it, and along w/ Calendar & Maps, it's ideal for use as a business/work phone. Yeah, you're out of luck if you want Snapchat or Pokemon Go: however, there are a few other apps that still work, such as Fandango, which is still supported. The calculator is awesome: features not just a calculator w/ different modes, but also unit conversions. Toss in a currency converter, and they'd be all set.
However, lately, devs have been pulling some supported apps from the store, such as Yelp! Which makes it tough to maintain for the long haul
Remember Postscript - as opposed to Microsoft's TrueType? Do things like LibreOffice or Calligra use that font system, or did TrueType win beyond Windows? Don't even know what iOS uses, despite having it. Or Android
I don't think there would have been any monopoly, and besides, Microsoft no longer has even a desktop monopoly. Apple has quite a viable alternative, and if they introduced a few Macs in the $500 range, they'd be good to go. Chromebooks too - if they dropped the requirement that everything has to be on 'the cloud' and provided some w/ adequate storage, they'd be pretty good as well.
Yeah, that OS might have been more successful had it remained in Nokia's hands. Microsoft could have bought off RIM and integrated their features into Windows 10 Mobile, which incidentally is what Windows Phone should have been like.
Had Nokia kept it, there could have been 2 stores - one Microsoft's, one Nokia's, and there would have been more of an incentive to buy those
All phones are not upgradeable to Windows 10 Mobile. I tried it w/ a Lumia 520 I once had, but the system requirements clearly stated that it was not possible.
Microsoft should make Windows 10 Mobile something like Android Marshmallow, so that people can swap the definitions of primary & secondary storage, then pop a 128GB SD card into any old Windows phone, define that as the main memory, and then install Windows 10 Mobile on that, and re-define the 8/16/32GB internal memory as external storage.
...will detect what kind of system you're using and block access if it isn't Windows, Windows Phone, or Xbox.
Says somebody w/ no clue about Microsoft's recent marketing on Windows Phone. It's pretty much disappeared from the Microsoft Store. While they do sell an HP Icon as a Windows phone, the other phones they have on display are Galaxies. The main thing they now promote is Office on Android, which anybody can download from the Play store. And their apps - like OneNote, OneDrive, Office - are all there both on iOS & Android.
Actually it would be a good idea if Microsoft drops the idea of a Windows subscription, and instead entered the broadband business. Unlike in the 90s, it's not difficult to live w/o Windows today: one could use a Mac or Chromebook for things that they can't already do on phones or tablets. Forcing people to pay something annually for their OS would just turn people away towards those alternatives. Better idea is Microsoft stop using Google's model of revenue through ads, and instead revert to what they used to do up to the Windows 7 era. And then toss in Microsoft Broadband, pre-built in the OS as an option, and let it get self-configured during installation if the user wants it and it's available in the place in question
Fully second this. I recently bought an iPod Nano - the tiniest iPod that comes w/ a screen, knowing that it doesn't have iTunes on it. So any music transfer has to be done from a laptop. iTunes on Windows had a tough time recognizing the iPod 2nd time around, when I wanted to add a couple of songs. In fact, that makes a Mac a must have if iTunes is needed.
Normally, I just buy my favorites on iTunes on my iPad, and then it's there in my library. Reason I bought the iPod - in my car console, there is an USB slot that connects w/ the dashboard iPod player, which wouldn't play songs from, say, my Lumia. I don't always have my iPhone w/ me, so got the iPod to have all the songs handy. Other issue w/ the iPod - its Bluetooth hardly seems to recognize or connect to anything - all it's good for is either the car, or if I were to listen w/ a headphone.
So you sell something like 26(!) iToys, and then are amazed that someone paid you several times the price of a brand new iPhone 7? Boy, do you depreciate your property quickly!
I had a perfectly good 5s, but I wanted something w/ Apple Pay, and when my chance to upgrade arrived, iPhone 7 was just a couple of months away, so I waited. I then passed on the 5s to my niece, and got the 7. Originally, when I bought the 5s, I wasn't mindful that the 6 was just months away: had I been, I'd have waited then itself and not upgraded to 7.
The iPhone SE is there for people w/ that need. And in Asian countries, where they use tablets as phablets, even an iPad Mini 4 could be used that way (since there, they don't provide data-only SIMs like they do here)
No. I'm guessing one rational behind that is so that iPhone 7 prices don't drop. Or that John Grubber has nothing better to do w/ his money
All I need for the iPhone is FaceTime, which is very adequate in iPhone 7 thanks to the camera, and Apple Pay. All my games are now on the iPad, and music on the iPod. So I hardly need anything bigger. The day my iPhone 7 dies, I'll go for whatever is the SE equivalent then.
So run Windows in a VM under Ubuntu which is itself a VM under Windows, since the Microsoft Store doesn't replace Windows or even create a separate partition, but just runs Ubuntu in a VM. That too, probably w/o X11 or Mir or Wayland.
What exactly does this mean? That if I download Ubuntu, I'll have Unity or whatever DE I want, and can download the Steam player and play Steam games on it? Or does it just mean that I can now run a bash shell? I thought that I could do that from PowerShell by just typing 'bash' at the command prompt. So if it's the latter, in what way is it different?
So the dead startup owners... what do they do? Take the cash & pay off their debts? Or take the cash & blow it on something, & tell the VCs after the fact that the cash is gone?
Actually, no. The Charms bar remains, and I don't think Classic Shell then had an easy way to disable Metro altogether. Windows 8 would have been fine for some applications like ATMs had they disabled the desktop altogether. 10 is certainly better in having 2 pure environments - either desktop or tablet - but it's fucked up in other ways, such as telemetry, and in its first few months, the way it would automatically force daily updates even if your computer was on standby b'cos an application you were working on was and had to be still open
The headline seems to suggest that the introduction of that visa is being delayed. Reading the very next sentence, it states that following the suspension of that rule, it will be rescinded i.e. revoked altogether. In other words, the headline suggests that startup companies will get that visa, but somewhat later. Which is quite contrary to the article, which states that the visa, which they were getting until now, will be revoked and they'll have to make other arrangements
I have Office 365, but won't have Windows 365. Already, a lot of my work, like checking my accounts, making my payments - I do from my Android tablet. Only thing I really do on my laptop now is Steam games, but once I can get that running on this laptop using PlayonBSD, that too is done. Then the only thing I'll need Windows for would be whenever I need to edit my resume or some document, but for that, I'll simply go to FedEx or a library.
If I'm forced to start an annual subscription for Windows, I'll bite the bullet & buy a Mac, probably a low end one.
The funniest thing about this story is that the girlfriend neither called the cops herself, nor did she ask Google Home to do it. The boyfriend asked 'Did you call the police', and Google Home heard the last part, took it as his directive, and called the cops.
He should be allowed to take Google Home w/ him to jail, so that he can train it better.
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No, upto Windows 7, the logo was a flag, so smashed panes couldn't have happened there. Windows 8 was where MS made the decision to replace the flag w/ a trapezoidal window, and that's where you might have seen it, since the Metro interface (as it was then called) was an UI disaster, being so radically different from Windows 7
There have been women who've come to power in Muslim countries, such as Benazir Bhutto, Hasina Wajed, Khalida Zia & Megawati Sukarnoputri. All of them were daughters or wives of former presidents/prime ministers. Only Muslim country I can think of where a woman came to power on her own merit was Turkey's Tansu Ciller: however, that was when Turkey was still under a Kemalist regime. Otherwise none of the above examples refutes the fact that in Islamic countries, women are little more than doormats
More precisely, Windows Phone/Mobile is fine for work: it has Office, OneNote & Outlook coming w/ it, and along w/ Calendar & Maps, it's ideal for use as a business/work phone. Yeah, you're out of luck if you want Snapchat or Pokemon Go: however, there are a few other apps that still work, such as Fandango, which is still supported. The calculator is awesome: features not just a calculator w/ different modes, but also unit conversions. Toss in a currency converter, and they'd be all set.
However, lately, devs have been pulling some supported apps from the store, such as Yelp! Which makes it tough to maintain for the long haul
They could replace the Bill borg w/ either a Windows window logo, or a Windows flag logo, if the latter is about anything before & including Windows 7
On my kindle app, I've flipped it to white text on black background, which is a lot more soothing on the eye
Remember Postscript - as opposed to Microsoft's TrueType? Do things like LibreOffice or Calligra use that font system, or did TrueType win beyond Windows? Don't even know what iOS uses, despite having it. Or Android
And his humorous cousin Comic Sans Sharif
I don't think there would have been any monopoly, and besides, Microsoft no longer has even a desktop monopoly. Apple has quite a viable alternative, and if they introduced a few Macs in the $500 range, they'd be good to go. Chromebooks too - if they dropped the requirement that everything has to be on 'the cloud' and provided some w/ adequate storage, they'd be pretty good as well.
Yeah, that OS might have been more successful had it remained in Nokia's hands. Microsoft could have bought off RIM and integrated their features into Windows 10 Mobile, which incidentally is what Windows Phone should have been like.
Had Nokia kept it, there could have been 2 stores - one Microsoft's, one Nokia's, and there would have been more of an incentive to buy those
All phones are not upgradeable to Windows 10 Mobile. I tried it w/ a Lumia 520 I once had, but the system requirements clearly stated that it was not possible.
Microsoft should make Windows 10 Mobile something like Android Marshmallow, so that people can swap the definitions of primary & secondary storage, then pop a 128GB SD card into any old Windows phone, define that as the main memory, and then install Windows 10 Mobile on that, and re-define the 8/16/32GB internal memory as external storage.
Yeah, they should have used a Windows icon.
...will detect what kind of system you're using and block access if it isn't Windows, Windows Phone, or Xbox.
Says somebody w/ no clue about Microsoft's recent marketing on Windows Phone. It's pretty much disappeared from the Microsoft Store. While they do sell an HP Icon as a Windows phone, the other phones they have on display are Galaxies. The main thing they now promote is Office on Android, which anybody can download from the Play store. And their apps - like OneNote, OneDrive, Office - are all there both on iOS & Android.
Actually it would be a good idea if Microsoft drops the idea of a Windows subscription, and instead entered the broadband business. Unlike in the 90s, it's not difficult to live w/o Windows today: one could use a Mac or Chromebook for things that they can't already do on phones or tablets. Forcing people to pay something annually for their OS would just turn people away towards those alternatives. Better idea is Microsoft stop using Google's model of revenue through ads, and instead revert to what they used to do up to the Windows 7 era. And then toss in Microsoft Broadband, pre-built in the OS as an option, and let it get self-configured during installation if the user wants it and it's available in the place in question
Fully second this. I recently bought an iPod Nano - the tiniest iPod that comes w/ a screen, knowing that it doesn't have iTunes on it. So any music transfer has to be done from a laptop. iTunes on Windows had a tough time recognizing the iPod 2nd time around, when I wanted to add a couple of songs. In fact, that makes a Mac a must have if iTunes is needed.
Normally, I just buy my favorites on iTunes on my iPad, and then it's there in my library. Reason I bought the iPod - in my car console, there is an USB slot that connects w/ the dashboard iPod player, which wouldn't play songs from, say, my Lumia. I don't always have my iPhone w/ me, so got the iPod to have all the songs handy. Other issue w/ the iPod - its Bluetooth hardly seems to recognize or connect to anything - all it's good for is either the car, or if I were to listen w/ a headphone.
So you sell something like 26(!) iToys, and then are amazed that someone paid you several times the price of a brand new iPhone 7? Boy, do you depreciate your property quickly!
I had a perfectly good 5s, but I wanted something w/ Apple Pay, and when my chance to upgrade arrived, iPhone 7 was just a couple of months away, so I waited. I then passed on the 5s to my niece, and got the 7. Originally, when I bought the 5s, I wasn't mindful that the 6 was just months away: had I been, I'd have waited then itself and not upgraded to 7.
The iPhone SE is there for people w/ that need. And in Asian countries, where they use tablets as phablets, even an iPad Mini 4 could be used that way (since there, they don't provide data-only SIMs like they do here)
No. I'm guessing one rational behind that is so that iPhone 7 prices don't drop. Or that John Grubber has nothing better to do w/ his money
All I need for the iPhone is FaceTime, which is very adequate in iPhone 7 thanks to the camera, and Apple Pay. All my games are now on the iPad, and music on the iPod. So I hardly need anything bigger. The day my iPhone 7 dies, I'll go for whatever is the SE equivalent then.
So run Windows in a VM under Ubuntu which is itself a VM under Windows, since the Microsoft Store doesn't replace Windows or even create a separate partition, but just runs Ubuntu in a VM. That too, probably w/o X11 or Mir or Wayland.
What exactly does this mean? That if I download Ubuntu, I'll have Unity or whatever DE I want, and can download the Steam player and play Steam games on it? Or does it just mean that I can now run a bash shell? I thought that I could do that from PowerShell by just typing 'bash' at the command prompt. So if it's the latter, in what way is it different?
So the dead startup owners... what do they do? Take the cash & pay off their debts? Or take the cash & blow it on something, & tell the VCs after the fact that the cash is gone?
Shouldn't the person who posts it read what it says, and make his/her summary the headline?
Actually, no. The Charms bar remains, and I don't think Classic Shell then had an easy way to disable Metro altogether. Windows 8 would have been fine for some applications like ATMs had they disabled the desktop altogether. 10 is certainly better in having 2 pure environments - either desktop or tablet - but it's fucked up in other ways, such as telemetry, and in its first few months, the way it would automatically force daily updates even if your computer was on standby b'cos an application you were working on was and had to be still open
The headline seems to suggest that the introduction of that visa is being delayed. Reading the very next sentence, it states that following the suspension of that rule, it will be rescinded i.e. revoked altogether. In other words, the headline suggests that startup companies will get that visa, but somewhat later. Which is quite contrary to the article, which states that the visa, which they were getting until now, will be revoked and they'll have to make other arrangements
Only reason to get a Mac anything is to run OS X. If you're running Ubuntu, you could get a more heavily configured PC for the same money
I have Office 365, but won't have Windows 365. Already, a lot of my work, like checking my accounts, making my payments - I do from my Android tablet. Only thing I really do on my laptop now is Steam games, but once I can get that running on this laptop using PlayonBSD, that too is done. Then the only thing I'll need Windows for would be whenever I need to edit my resume or some document, but for that, I'll simply go to FedEx or a library.
If I'm forced to start an annual subscription for Windows, I'll bite the bullet & buy a Mac, probably a low end one.
The funniest thing about this story is that the girlfriend neither called the cops herself, nor did she ask Google Home to do it. The boyfriend asked 'Did you call the police', and Google Home heard the last part, took it as his directive, and called the cops.
He should be allowed to take Google Home w/ him to jail, so that he can train it better.