And that is why the libertarian mechanism does not always work. Oh, you lied about having 10 DWIs and now you just killed your passenger and yourself? Well, that's it! You are blacklisted and can never drive for Uber again. Take that.
Where is the evidence of any SSL/TLS certificates showing errors? Seems like total conjecture based on poor reading of this audit data request made by Microsoft.
This is AUDIT data, not the actual cert info. Read the details of the audit requirements here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/31635.microsoft-trusted-root-certificate-program-audit-requirements.aspx
This just means that Microsoft lost the documentation showing that the Certificate Authorities had performed their annual audit. Under normal circumstances, this might mean that those certs would be invalidated but seeing as how this was just a bookkeeping problem on Microsoft's end, they obviously won't invalidate anything.
This is an embarrassment for Microsoft but nothing else.
App stores are popular because iOS and Android mobile browsers suck and a typical rich web app/site (like your average bank or Google Docs / Microsoft Office) won't run correctly. Maybe phones with 3GB+ RAM will change this.
I agree that the OS is not the problem. Windows Phone and Windows 10 Mobile are the smoothest and least resource intensive phone OSes I've used (and I've used iOS 3+, Android Cupcake+, Windows Mobile 6+ (ugh), Windows Phone 7/8/8.1, and Windows 10 Mobile. When a $50 off-contract Windows phone feels as fast as a $400 Android phone, you know your underlying OS has issues.
And copying iPhone tile styles is not going to make any difference as the article author states. Take an iPhone and Android user and ask them to launch a particular app on Windows 10 Mobile and they will be able to do it in a few seconds with no training. Multiple pages of icons in a grid vs one big scrolling list of icons is a non-issue. So launching the apps is not the problem, and now that Microsoft has adopted the hamburger menu, most of the apps look the same between iOS, Android, and Windows 10 Mobile anyway.
No upgrade path from Windows Phone 7 did hurt any good will Microsoft had.
It is just a chicken and egg problem. Maybe Windows 10 universal apps will help but too soon to tell at this point.
iOS and Android are decent, so is there really a need for a 3rd mobile ecosystem? The desktop ecosystem has been essentially 1 choice for 20 years and most people get along fine with that even though there may be better options.
Microsoft revenue has grown every single year since 1995 except for one 4% dip in 2009. They have also paid a dividend for the last 13 years including their highest dividend earlier this year.
Maybe Microsoft should flip things and make an Android phone (with 100% Android compatibility) but possibly with Windows style tiled home screen (optional for users) but also have a Windows 10 Mobile native programming interface (to give Windows 10 developers easy access).
The development model of Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform is pretty cool (phone to tablet to laptop to desktop to tv). The ui tools are there to make this not too difficult to take advantage of.
Microsoft did include decent Cordova (Phonegap) integration into Visual Studio 2015 including native Windows and Android build process with connected device deployment, and remote build on networked Mac for iOS builds and deployment.
Younger people working longer hours is only true for so many years.
I think the optimal age for people willing to put in lots of hours is under 28 and over 45. In between people are raising their kids which takes a tremendous amount of time and attention (school functions, doctor's appts, etc).
Once the kids are in college, the older employee can focus more on work again.
That entire response was about their little plastic tube that stores the collected blood and the fact that they are working with the FDA on approving the little plastic tube. What does that have to do with actually analyzing the blood? I realize the collection method is part of it but that should be the easiest part of this process.
This only applies to books read through the Kindle lending program where the author's all receive a part of the monthly pooled money based on the lending behavior. It is true of course that a 200 page book can provide as much value as a 500 page book to a particular reader. But let's assume that the author's effort is more for the 500 pages versus 200 pages (not always the case but probably true much of the time). This seems like a fairer way of distributing the Kindle lending money to me. I don't know anything about the lending program but hopefully authors have control over whether they participate or not.
I would hardly call Silverlight crap (on the technology front anyway), especially when compared to Flash. If the goal was to give Microsoft desktop developers (.NET/C#/WPF XAML) a way to make very rich browser based apps, then it succeeded. Don't forget that many more vertical market apps are built and used within a company, rather than the public facing internet. I don't think I've ever seen a public facing use of Silverlight besides Netflix (and they have now moved away from it only very recently because finally HTML5 has caught up on the media side). I'm sure Microsoft was hoping Silverlight would be adopted as widely as Flash but right when Silverlight finally became decent (v3+) was when iOS took off and all plugin based web add-ons started to tank.
.NET was designed before mobile became such a big deal. WinRT is supposed to be the energy efficient answer to iOS and Android. If MS allowed the use of full.NET framework, apps might do things in a very energy inefficient way. For example, everything in WinRT is async. If thread is waiting on i/o, the thread will give up its cpu. Of course you can still write a "while true { }" loop in WinRT and depend on the os to switch threads when the timeslice ends but in general, WinRT makes it a lot harder to make energy inefficient apps.
That is fresh news to me. Can you post some references? Microsoft's recent Build conference had many sessions on XAML as used in Universal Apps (win 10, win 10 mobile, win 10 on xboxone). Xamarian supports cross platform (iOS, android, win) ui using XAML. I greatly prefer XAML over html for building universal apps.
"17 years old" is only a damnation of the C++ Standards Committee and the slow pace of standards bodies in general. C++ has been used in commercial applications since before 1990 putting it at 25+ years old.
Microsoft is providing the full.NET server stack in open source, including ASP.NET, the.NET compiler, the.NET Core Runtime, Framework and Libraries, enabling developers to build with.NET across Windows, Mac or Linux. The biggest hole is client side.NET (WinForms, WPF). But for the target audience of building web apps, where their Java competitor is strong, it is a good start.
Visual Studio Community Edition can be used by any one-to-five person developer shop (unless the company has more than 250 PCs or $1 million in annual sales). Can also be used by anyone, regardless of company size, if creating open source code.
Yes, it is good to be a Software Engineer. Are you a "proper" engineer that is ticked off at software developers co-opting your glorious title? Words sometimes take on additional meaning over time.
Unless someone claims to to be a Professional/Licensed/Registered Engineer, then there is nothing wrong with saying Software Engineer.
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I would assume that "regular work hours" could vary for each employee.
It was the telemetry that told them this future was not used much hence the reason for it being removed.
Not sure if this is a joke or not but Microsoft does have a DropBox competitor with OneDrive (aka SkyDrive) which is pretty good.
DropBox was earlier to market and has managed to hang on even in the face of "free" OneDrive and Google Drive.
And that is why the libertarian mechanism does not always work. Oh, you lied about having 10 DWIs and now you just killed your passenger and yourself? Well, that's it! You are blacklisted and can never drive for Uber again. Take that.
The best part of SharePoint for document storage is its document versioning, indexed search of content, and searchable customizable metadata tags.
Where is the evidence of any SSL/TLS certificates showing errors? Seems like total conjecture based on poor reading of this audit data request made by Microsoft.
This is AUDIT data, not the actual cert info. Read the details of the audit requirements here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/31635.microsoft-trusted-root-certificate-program-audit-requirements.aspx
This just means that Microsoft lost the documentation showing that the Certificate Authorities had performed their annual audit. Under normal circumstances, this might mean that those certs would be invalidated but seeing as how this was just a bookkeeping problem on Microsoft's end, they obviously won't invalidate anything.
This is an embarrassment for Microsoft but nothing else.
App stores are popular because iOS and Android mobile browsers suck and a typical rich web app/site (like your average bank or Google Docs / Microsoft Office) won't run correctly. Maybe phones with 3GB+ RAM will change this.
I agree that the OS is not the problem. Windows Phone and Windows 10 Mobile are the smoothest and least resource intensive phone OSes I've used (and I've used iOS 3+, Android Cupcake+, Windows Mobile 6+ (ugh), Windows Phone 7/8/8.1, and Windows 10 Mobile. When a $50 off-contract Windows phone feels as fast as a $400 Android phone, you know your underlying OS has issues.
And copying iPhone tile styles is not going to make any difference as the article author states. Take an iPhone and Android user and ask them to launch a particular app on Windows 10 Mobile and they will be able to do it in a few seconds with no training. Multiple pages of icons in a grid vs one big scrolling list of icons is a non-issue. So launching the apps is not the problem, and now that Microsoft has adopted the hamburger menu, most of the apps look the same between iOS, Android, and Windows 10 Mobile anyway.
No upgrade path from Windows Phone 7 did hurt any good will Microsoft had.
It is just a chicken and egg problem. Maybe Windows 10 universal apps will help but too soon to tell at this point.
iOS and Android are decent, so is there really a need for a 3rd mobile ecosystem? The desktop ecosystem has been essentially 1 choice for 20 years and most people get along fine with that even though there may be better options.
Microsoft revenue has grown every single year since 1995 except for one 4% dip in 2009. They have also paid a dividend for the last 13 years including their highest dividend earlier this year.
PowerShell has been available for 9+ years.
Maybe Microsoft should flip things and make an Android phone (with 100% Android compatibility) but possibly with Windows style tiled home screen (optional for users) but also have a Windows 10 Mobile native programming interface (to give Windows 10 developers easy access).
The development model of Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform is pretty cool (phone to tablet to laptop to desktop to tv). The ui tools are there to make this not too difficult to take advantage of.
Microsoft did include decent Cordova (Phonegap) integration into Visual Studio 2015 including native Windows and Android build process with connected device deployment, and remote build on networked Mac for iOS builds and deployment.
You reference an article from 2004. In 2004 Microsoft had $36.8 billion in revenue. In 2015 it was $93.5 billion.
Is Microsoft really "done"?
Younger people working longer hours is only true for so many years.
I think the optimal age for people willing to put in lots of hours is under 28 and over 45. In between people are raising their kids which takes a tremendous amount of time and attention (school functions, doctor's appts, etc).
Once the kids are in college, the older employee can focus more on work again.
That entire response was about their little plastic tube that stores the collected blood and the fact that they are working with the FDA on approving the little plastic tube. What does that have to do with actually analyzing the blood? I realize the collection method is part of it but that should be the easiest part of this process.
Here is my favorite.
As if being sucked into a jet engine the first time wasn't bad enough.
http://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/V00-Y99/V95-V97/V97-/V97.33XD
This only applies to books read through the Kindle lending program where the author's all receive a part of the monthly pooled money based on the lending behavior. It is true of course that a 200 page book can provide as much value as a 500 page book to a particular reader. But let's assume that the author's effort is more for the 500 pages versus 200 pages (not always the case but probably true much of the time). This seems like a fairer way of distributing the Kindle lending money to me. I don't know anything about the lending program but hopefully authors have control over whether they participate or not.
I would hardly call Silverlight crap (on the technology front anyway), especially when compared to Flash. If the goal was to give Microsoft desktop developers (.NET/C#/WPF XAML) a way to make very rich browser based apps, then it succeeded. Don't forget that many more vertical market apps are built and used within a company, rather than the public facing internet. I don't think I've ever seen a public facing use of Silverlight besides Netflix (and they have now moved away from it only very recently because finally HTML5 has caught up on the media side). I'm sure Microsoft was hoping Silverlight would be adopted as widely as Flash but right when Silverlight finally became decent (v3+) was when iOS took off and all plugin based web add-ons started to tank.
.NET was designed before mobile became such a big deal. WinRT is supposed to be the energy efficient answer to iOS and Android. If MS allowed the use of full .NET framework, apps might do things in a very energy inefficient way. For example, everything in WinRT is async. If thread is waiting on i/o, the thread will give up its cpu. Of course you can still write a "while true { }" loop in WinRT and depend on the os to switch threads when the timeslice ends but in general, WinRT makes it a lot harder to make energy inefficient apps.
That is fresh news to me. Can you post some references? Microsoft's recent Build conference had many sessions on XAML as used in Universal Apps (win 10, win 10 mobile, win 10 on xboxone). Xamarian supports cross platform (iOS, android, win) ui using XAML. I greatly prefer XAML over html for building universal apps.
"17 years old" is only a damnation of the C++ Standards Committee and the slow pace of standards bodies in general. C++ has been used in commercial applications since before 1990 putting it at 25+ years old.
Microsoft says that 20% of their running VMs are Linux (so I guess that "1 linux image" must be a pretty good one :-)).
But who cares about IaaS? There is nothing too special about spinning up VMs with different resource allocation. Lots of competitors.
Azure's real appeal is PaaS.
A few bits of .NET?
Microsoft is providing the full .NET server stack in open source, including ASP.NET, the .NET compiler, the .NET Core Runtime, Framework and Libraries, enabling developers to build with .NET across Windows, Mac or Linux. The biggest hole is client side .NET (WinForms, WPF). But for the target audience of building web apps, where their Java competitor is strong, it is a good start.
Visual Studio Community Edition can be used by any one-to-five person developer shop (unless the company has more than 250 PCs or $1 million in annual sales). Can also be used by anyone, regardless of company size, if creating open source code.
Based on October 2014 financial results, Microsoft is the #2 cloud provider behind Amazon.
http://talkincloud.com/iaas/103014/synergy-microsoft-azure-q3-revenue-136
Yes, it is good to be a Software Engineer. Are you a "proper" engineer that is ticked off at software developers co-opting your glorious title? Words sometimes take on additional meaning over time.
Unless someone claims to to be a Professional/Licensed/Registered Engineer, then there is nothing wrong with saying Software Engineer.