As a single end-user you might not. Try having hundreds to thousands of users, some wanting the latest version and some content to stay on old versions. Then manage the licences at the different versions. Manage the different version deployments as packages. Manage regular security updates and irregular product updates - where only some of your licences are allowed to have the update. Manage licence transfers and PC replacements.
When software scales to larger and larger installations the effort for complex lifecycle management can make a monthly subscription that keeps everyone on the latest released version for all licensed users look very attractive.
and in the process tests and refines running Windows on ARM architecture - which powers a pretty large chunk of the mobile world. Don't think that just because Windows Mobile / Phone OS is dead, that Windows OS on mobile devices is also dead.
They're higher because that's what the market will bear, not because of the additional liability. It makes consumers a lot more confident in their spending knowing that the retailer is responsible for selling faulty goods, and confidence helps drive an economy (too bad the amount of available credit has allowed that confidence to make us one of the most indebted per capita in the world:/)
Enterprises do that already - to the tune of 6, 7, 8 figures annually - for exactly this product.
It's a heck of a lot easier if Microsoft user accounts are tied into payroll, as your managers are going to be on the ball when it comes to making sure people aren't paid if they no longer work there. Easier to manage licences leads directly to less compliance effort, and "lower" costs as you aren't paying for resources that you're not consuming.
Win App-V. This allows us to package and deliver sandboxed Win32 apps (legacy and otherwise) to Win10x64
Enterprise also allows you to manage the start menu - I don't see XBOX, ads, news, the app store - nothing.
Windows Defender app blocker - blacklist applications from running. This is not yet used, but is on the agenda. Non-approved cloud based storage like DropBox for instance would be blacklisted for anyone that somehow managed to get it installed. We are also working on automatic removal of blacklisted software as well, but it's good to have a number of different tactics prepared as some take longer than others to get ahead.
I personally don't see why Windows 10 Pro is so much worse then Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP, 2000, ME, NT4, 98, 95, NT, 3.1....
I think Win10 is the best Windows released so far (ignoring telemetry). I turn off the obnoxious stuff, and who needs the start button nowadays so I don't care about any of the other crap you might see there.
However I never really got why Windows was ever welcomed in the enterprise.
MS DOS was first, then Office on Windows became industry standard for productivity. All other companies followed the bandwagon - you want to sell software, it needed to be MS-DOS then Windows compatible if you wanted any real sales. The server side wasn't that great, which is why there were (and still are) some options where your users don't need to know what's going on behind the scenes.
Needing expensive tools to manage an army of PC, complex profile settings to get a reasonable security defaults, with its application concentric design it creates upgrade challenges.
We used to run a mess of 'best-in-breed' products, which end up needing a lot of high-skilled people babying integrations between Novell, Oracle, SAP, IBM, Lotus (back then), Microsoft, and more.
About a decade ago we had an options analysis which spawned a migration to 'Microsoft first' for platforms, deprecating Lotus, IBM, and Novell products. It was determined that "manufacturer-integrated mediocrity everywhere" would be less costly and disruptive (training especially for both support teams and users) than continuing with our own bespoke integrations.
BTW, you hit it on 'app-centric'. The whole point is that computers let us be more productive, so a computer that supports what a user wants to do is a useful tool.
Now I am a Unix guy, so I never really approach problems with the Windows way, when using a windows system, I will tend to use the Unix approach to the problems.
Probably not the most efficient approach, but if it works it doesn't really matter.
Responding to any audit is expensive in terms of hours wasted. The Ts & Cs for many enterprise products are onerous - besides the normal CPU brand, sockets and cores for each physical server, you might need to report on processer stepping, VM movements between hardware - including to other sites - hot and cold spares, heartbeat DR servers, and concurrent usage where there is no way to prevent overages. You'll also need to have good doco on the commissioning, OS and app install (by who and on what hardware) process, plus hardware decommissions.
They can be a massive amount of hours wasted gathering and defending actions.
Boomer generation - Housing costs are serviceable on 1 income. Mom stayed home and raised the kids while Dad brings home the bacon.
All subsequent generations - Housing costs require both parents to work, maternity leave means going backwards, then after maternity leave is done you're paying for daycare so that you get 2 incomes again to pay your mortgage.
You're right though, we all expect to have a better life than our parents, simply due to the pace of change and advancements in our technologies and civilisation. That is not being borne out in reality as wealth in concentrating too heavily at the top.
We're moving to S4B very soon, however we're not using these things. A normal HDTV, plus special S4B phones (with video conferencing camera and cordless microphones) that can accept and attend calendar invites is working pretty well so far. These might be wanted when we've completed the voice migration, I wouldn't put it past a few people to order them.
Tap and Go is the convenience factor for small transactions, under $100. You can transact up to your limit ($1-2k) by adding your PIN number. That takes care of the vast majority of transactions.
Recently between bank bank transactions have started to go live, so you're no longer waiting overnight or a few days for them to complete.
There's now little reason to carry cash except for a few areas that don't take cards.
With these dwindling, less and less people are carrying cash, so it will eventually become too costly to maintain. That's still a while away yet, but could be here in the next decade or so.
we REALLY don't get much if any long term benefit. YAY US!
Even if somehow the cost to install and maintain equals the savings, there are long tail changes to the grid, generating requirements, and environmental pollution reduction that could save the state - and therefore you - significant dollars.
You can do what you want with newer Samsung phones and their Dex dock - I think the latest iteration might finally support >1080p monitors too.
I would imagine this is why MS is looking to provide their apps everywhere and deprecate the device/OS. Your data is in OneDrive, and whatever you are working on is available immediately in their experience app.
Mothers, pregnant, with children and elderly relatives. They don't have to crouch down to get into a car, limbo dance into the back seats through the narrow shaped gaps.
This, so many times. So much easier to get a baby into a carrier seat when you're not half bent over. I prefer my little sports sedan for actual driving though.
Consider this about dinosaurs:
We find almost no evidence of any single dinosaur. Bits and pieces here or that is about what we expect. When someone finds a nearly complete skeleton (just sixty percent missing!) this is a major find.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-...
There are complete dinosaurs in fossil records, some with feathers, some you can still discern their colours.
I would have no problem supporting taxing environmentally unfriendly stuff like this especially if we offset it by lowering taxes elsewhere.
Surely it would make sense to use these additional funds to clean up environmental problem areas? Developing and building recycling centres for old batteries perhaps? As you mention, as the undesirable products die out this type of infrastructure can eventually be discontinued or re-tasked.
I would have thought thermal noise in a resistor or semiconductor (which is in itself generated by subatomic so quantum, events) would be just as random.
It is, and that's exactly how Intel's hardware-based random number generator in their CPUs works (so, yes, we have used a truly provably random source of RNGs... that is, if Intel is telling the truth about how it works)
If you run the same code on the same CPU under the same conditions, how similar is the thermal noise generated? Is it completely different or will there be any similarities at all? TIA, just curious.
R&D typically attracts tax subsidies or offsets greater than the pure expense of the R&D. Then what you need to do is work out how to classify large chunks of your work as R&D. For a software company everything to do with development of new(er) software (salaries, buildings, hardware, etc) could be classified in this. All the work on new hardware products is R&D. Everyone working on those new products = R&D. All the facilities used ? R&D.
We're moving (slowly) towards managed service delivery where usage is costed direct from the service provider. You want TBs of storage? No problem, its x$/GB/month, you can chose how much to store and pay for. You want PCs? Here's a virtual desktop, just $10/day per instance. Don't forget to logout when you're done! You want software? It's a monthly subscription, put in your cost centre here.
Well, car registration, etc...seems to me to be primarily for taxation and tracking it so they can make you keep paying for it (property tax, etc)....
Car registration is used partly for providing & maintaining infrastructure that supports using a car on public land. Number plates are useful for when a vehicle is used improperly.
However, if you buy a car and do not drive it on public roads (keep to private property, etc), you do not have to register it, you do not have to have a drivers license.
Yup, this is how a fair few people learn how to drive.
One last thing, I don't know of anywhere in the US (at least no state I"ve lived in) that requires any form of training in order to drive a car or get a license.
You most definitely need to pass a test that shows you are capable of handling a vehicle in order to obtain a drivers licence and drive a vehicle on public roads. In many places, you also need to provide a log book with a specified number of hours spent driving under supervision before you can drive by yourself. Training itself - as you say - does not seem to be a specific requirement.
If you can't have the second PC near the first for security reasons (TEMPEST etc), you sure as hell shouldn't be wanting to add a SoC into your 1st PC to solve the problem.
The market met your demand years ago and the products failed.
Everyone with a CAD laptop will have a smartphone, and will browse the net on that. Adding a SoC to your laptop adds weight and complexity - both bad when you're dealing with mobile computers.
Because work will pay for it? I'm also planning on getting a Dex dock and running a virtual desktop session for anything that won't run natively. That saves the cost of a laptop for work - for my organisation, the hardware cost for a new high-end smartphone every 2 years is about the cost of a new laptop every 4. Both have SIM cards for data. Only 1 has the convenience of phone calling and text messages, while the other has a better form factor for meetings. I'd need a phone anyway with a voice/data plan, so this could save on hardware and mobile plan costs too.
SharePoint was used as an example only because the name is recognizable. In no way was referencing it meant to suggest it is actually increases productivity by providing easier collaboration between coworkers, simplification of workflows, or increased efficiency of information sharing.
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When software scales to larger and larger installations the effort for complex lifecycle management can make a monthly subscription that keeps everyone on the latest released version for all licensed users look very attractive.
and in the process tests and refines running Windows on ARM architecture - which powers a pretty large chunk of the mobile world. Don't think that just because Windows Mobile / Phone OS is dead, that Windows OS on mobile devices is also dead.
They're higher because that's what the market will bear, not because of the additional liability. It makes consumers a lot more confident in their spending knowing that the retailer is responsible for selling faulty goods, and confidence helps drive an economy (too bad the amount of available credit has allowed that confidence to make us one of the most indebted per capita in the world :/)
It's a heck of a lot easier if Microsoft user accounts are tied into payroll, as your managers are going to be on the ball when it comes to making sure people aren't paid if they no longer work there. Easier to manage licences leads directly to less compliance effort, and "lower" costs as you aren't paying for resources that you're not consuming.
Win App-V. This allows us to package and deliver sandboxed Win32 apps (legacy and otherwise) to Win10x64
Enterprise also allows you to manage the start menu - I don't see XBOX, ads, news, the app store - nothing.
Windows Defender app blocker - blacklist applications from running. This is not yet used, but is on the agenda. Non-approved cloud based storage like DropBox for instance would be blacklisted for anyone that somehow managed to get it installed. We are also working on automatic removal of blacklisted software as well, but it's good to have a number of different tactics prepared as some take longer than others to get ahead.
I personally don't see why Windows 10 Pro is so much worse then Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP, 2000, ME, NT4, 98, 95, NT, 3.1....
I think Win10 is the best Windows released so far (ignoring telemetry). I turn off the obnoxious stuff, and who needs the start button nowadays so I don't care about any of the other crap you might see there.
However I never really got why Windows was ever welcomed in the enterprise.
MS DOS was first, then Office on Windows became industry standard for productivity. All other companies followed the bandwagon - you want to sell software, it needed to be MS-DOS then Windows compatible if you wanted any real sales. The server side wasn't that great, which is why there were (and still are) some options where your users don't need to know what's going on behind the scenes.
Needing expensive tools to manage an army of PC, complex profile settings to get a reasonable security defaults, with its application concentric design it creates upgrade challenges.
We used to run a mess of 'best-in-breed' products, which end up needing a lot of high-skilled people babying integrations between Novell, Oracle, SAP, IBM, Lotus (back then), Microsoft, and more. About a decade ago we had an options analysis which spawned a migration to 'Microsoft first' for platforms, deprecating Lotus, IBM, and Novell products. It was determined that "manufacturer-integrated mediocrity everywhere" would be less costly and disruptive (training especially for both support teams and users) than continuing with our own bespoke integrations. BTW, you hit it on 'app-centric'. The whole point is that computers let us be more productive, so a computer that supports what a user wants to do is a useful tool.
Now I am a Unix guy, so I never really approach problems with the Windows way, when using a windows system, I will tend to use the Unix approach to the problems.
Probably not the most efficient approach, but if it works it doesn't really matter.
They can be a massive amount of hours wasted gathering and defending actions.
All subsequent generations - Housing costs require both parents to work, maternity leave means going backwards, then after maternity leave is done you're paying for daycare so that you get 2 incomes again to pay your mortgage.
You're right though, we all expect to have a better life than our parents, simply due to the pace of change and advancements in our technologies and civilisation. That is not being borne out in reality as wealth in concentrating too heavily at the top.
We're moving to S4B very soon, however we're not using these things. A normal HDTV, plus special S4B phones (with video conferencing camera and cordless microphones) that can accept and attend calendar invites is working pretty well so far. These might be wanted when we've completed the voice migration, I wouldn't put it past a few people to order them.
Recently between bank bank transactions have started to go live, so you're no longer waiting overnight or a few days for them to complete.
There's now little reason to carry cash except for a few areas that don't take cards.
With these dwindling, less and less people are carrying cash, so it will eventually become too costly to maintain. That's still a while away yet, but could be here in the next decade or so.
we REALLY don't get much if any long term benefit. YAY US!
Even if somehow the cost to install and maintain equals the savings, there are long tail changes to the grid, generating requirements, and environmental pollution reduction that could save the state - and therefore you - significant dollars.
Pretty sure that was the point.
I would imagine this is why MS is looking to provide their apps everywhere and deprecate the device/OS. Your data is in OneDrive, and whatever you are working on is available immediately in their experience app.
Mothers, pregnant, with children and elderly relatives. They don't have to crouch down to get into a car, limbo dance into the back seats through the narrow shaped gaps.
This, so many times. So much easier to get a baby into a carrier seat when you're not half bent over.
I prefer my little sports sedan for actual driving though.
Consider this about dinosaurs: We find almost no evidence of any single dinosaur. Bits and pieces here or that is about what we expect. When someone finds a nearly complete skeleton (just sixty percent missing!) this is a major find.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-... There are complete dinosaurs in fossil records, some with feathers, some you can still discern their colours.
I would have no problem supporting taxing environmentally unfriendly stuff like this especially if we offset it by lowering taxes elsewhere.
Surely it would make sense to use these additional funds to clean up environmental problem areas? Developing and building recycling centres for old batteries perhaps? As you mention, as the undesirable products die out this type of infrastructure can eventually be discontinued or re-tasked.
I would have thought thermal noise in a resistor or semiconductor (which is in itself generated by subatomic so quantum, events) would be just as random.
It is, and that's exactly how Intel's hardware-based random number generator in their CPUs works (so, yes, we have used a truly provably random source of RNGs... that is, if Intel is telling the truth about how it works)
If you run the same code on the same CPU under the same conditions, how similar is the thermal noise generated? Is it completely different or will there be any similarities at all?
TIA, just curious.
R&D typically attracts tax subsidies or offsets greater than the pure expense of the R&D. Then what you need to do is work out how to classify large chunks of your work as R&D. For a software company everything to do with development of new(er) software (salaries, buildings, hardware, etc) could be classified in this. All the work on new hardware products is R&D. Everyone working on those new products = R&D. All the facilities used ? R&D.
I wish I had my mod points from yesterday. Have an updoot I guess.
We're moving (slowly) towards managed service delivery where usage is costed direct from the service provider. You want TBs of storage? No problem, its x$/GB/month, you can chose how much to store and pay for. You want PCs? Here's a virtual desktop, just $10/day per instance. Don't forget to logout when you're done! You want software? It's a monthly subscription, put in your cost centre here.
Well, car registration, etc...seems to me to be primarily for taxation and tracking it so they can make you keep paying for it (property tax, etc)....
Car registration is used partly for providing & maintaining infrastructure that supports using a car on public land. Number plates are useful for when a vehicle is used improperly.
However, if you buy a car and do not drive it on public roads (keep to private property, etc), you do not have to register it, you do not have to have a drivers license.
Yup, this is how a fair few people learn how to drive.
One last thing, I don't know of anywhere in the US (at least no state I"ve lived in) that requires any form of training in order to drive a car or get a license.
You most definitely need to pass a test that shows you are capable of handling a vehicle in order to obtain a drivers licence and drive a vehicle on public roads. In many places, you also need to provide a log book with a specified number of hours spent driving under supervision before you can drive by yourself. Training itself - as you say - does not seem to be a specific requirement.
Way to make something simple so complicated.
If you can't have the second PC near the first for security reasons (TEMPEST etc), you sure as hell shouldn't be wanting to add a SoC into your 1st PC to solve the problem.
Everyone with a CAD laptop will have a smartphone, and will browse the net on that. Adding a SoC to your laptop adds weight and complexity - both bad when you're dealing with mobile computers.
Because work will pay for it? I'm also planning on getting a Dex dock and running a virtual desktop session for anything that won't run natively. That saves the cost of a laptop for work - for my organisation, the hardware cost for a new high-end smartphone every 2 years is about the cost of a new laptop every 4. Both have SIM cards for data. Only 1 has the convenience of phone calling and text messages, while the other has a better form factor for meetings. I'd need a phone anyway with a voice/data plan, so this could save on hardware and mobile plan costs too.
SharePoint was used as an example only because the name is recognizable. In no way was referencing it meant to suggest it is actually increases productivity by providing easier collaboration between coworkers, simplification of workflows, or increased efficiency of information sharing.
Wait what? We're moving our Lotus Notes applications to SharePoint!
Noooooooooooo