Assuming the failure of Net Neutrality doesn't cripple all of the gaming as a service options out their I still don't see GAAS quickly overtaking PC. The US has really poor high latency connections to a high percentage of homes.
Ask the PC game modding community PC / Linux in 2019 and you will see it is dominated by Windows PC.
The casual gaming market will start adopting the features offered by GAAS, but there are limitations that will slow the mass adoption of true gamers for a number of years still.
Windows will not be gone by 2025.
Windows Virtual Desktop is not going to be as popular as envisioned. What market share is this going to overtake? The Citrix XenDesktop and VMware Horizons remote workstations of business?
Why are they going to switch? Licensing costs?
Certainly not because of ease of manageability to domain resources.
I don't think the author really understands the intricacies of enterprise environments and the gaming world.
Yeahhhhhhh and in 2025 we will all have self driving quadrocopter cars too. okay dumbass.
You are dumb. I guarantee all of the buildings are up to date and even bet the hardware running the legacy code base is within this decade.
The problem is that they have been customizing it to their exact purposes for the past number of decades and moving systems takes countless professional man hours and countless training hours.
The cost to upkeep vs cost to changeover has been ever increasing because of the rising inflation of Cobol tech debt but managers tend to make decisions based on bottom lines and an "If it still works why pull the trigger?" mentality.
Nice sentiment, but you have grossly understated the genesis of ISP monopolies and what it would take to foster competition.
Saying that the monopolies are government granted is misrepresenting the problem.
I agree that there are many anti-competitive laws pushed through by kickbacks that lead to court battles and delays such as the Google Fiber rollout.
But the problem with monopolies is that they can leverage other monetary streams to lean on smaller competition.
Fixing a few regulations isn't going to miraculously solve the ISP open market dilemma that America faces.
This lack of an open market is stifling growth and innovation and we need Net Neutrality to ensure a level field for startups and small business.
What a nice feature . . if this was employed on any other browser besides Edge Mobile or even if this was an on feature.
The people who would have this app installed and be included to enable this in settings represent the smallest market share also are probably the demographic least affected by Fake News.
They already DO charge per streaming.
The $7.99 Basic plan allows streaming on only one screen, the $10.99 Standard allows two active, and the $13.99 Premium offers four active sessions.
They are trying to maximize their profits on the accounts that say, "Hey Mom you can use my Netflix when I'm not using it."
All praise to the Johns. Romero the design rock god that wanted to "make you his b*tch" and Carmack the programming god who could solve any problem in weekend.
Carmack has never stopped trying to bring a virtual experience to the masses, even today at Oculus.
Me and my friends had countless LAN parties when ID brought us LAN play. Staying up all night to heavy metal, mortal Kombat, and DOOM!
Publishing the tools to allow mod making really set ID apart.
The shareware idea of giving part of the game for free coupled with the gore and rock made Doom legendary overnight.
It's a shame the Johns had to split ways and crash. A game needs both design and innovation.
Quake was truly 3D awe-inspiring, but DOOM was ground breaking with such tight optimizations for fast 3D and nutty level designs.
When you beat the first mission and it simply ends in being curb stomped by a horde of demons.
It's on every platform, in every game store, hell I home brewed an ipod with a buddy to play Doom with a scroll wheel.
Download now and play it tonight on your Xbox or Ubuntu. I know I will.
Very true!
There are major problems with A/V using kernel hooks that open vulnerabilities into an Operating System.
For home/personal, use the operating system's built in anti-malware.
3rd party AV is only useful in corporate settings where a higher body needs to know if a machine on the network becomes a risk.
Many people would love 9-5.
In the IT world in the US, the last 3 highly skilled jobs I have had, I have pretty much been expected to be available to work around the clock and put in 50-60 hr work weeks.
This is completely wrong.
There is a plan. The plan for the last few years has been to push the homeless out and make it easier for developers to shrug off section 8.
They intentionally get flawed and filtered census data so it looks like there is less of a problem.
A high percentage of these are local families that can no longer afford the rising cost of living and have nowhere to go.
There ARE people working tirelessly to fix the problem, but we have to change out the City Council for people who want to solve the problem, and not just line the pockets of investors and businesses.
Cost of living increases have been exponential and directly related to the influx of these Seattle Corporations.
The city of Seattle has long tried to trick the census numbers to pretend there is less of a homeless problem, by taking census in the middle of winter and excluding anyone who occasionally has a couch or family's living at hotels.
What is sad is that due to the efforts of these business lobbyists, the city has been cutting homeless funding. They have been rezoning to get rid of section 8 housing and providing outrageous incentives to new construction where Section 8 is strictly forbidden.
Basically these business that contributed to the cost of living changes have been trying to push the homeless out by drying up resources.
A vast number of these homeless are families that can no longer earn enough for housing.
Who in there right mind is saying . . . FINALY!!!
Can I get this as a UWP app so Linux will run on my Windows 10 in S mode?
lolololol.
How about just getting Windows 10 updates not to bork a grub loader so we can dual boot. HUH Microsoft.
I bet the package has been repacked with the new name so the hash is obviously different not just the filename.
I bet there are several methods for App detection.
signature and behavior.
The signature ones can get through if they re-package with minor changes I bet.
I don't know if there are any behavior checks, but there really should be.
What a twat.
There are lots of free business models. Selling a bit of our data to advertisers is how the world works.
That is how their business model works.
Do you want to pay $5 per month for your Gmail account, $50 / year for your Flickr photo stream or for posting to Instragram, or pay for Bing'ing cat pictures.
Yes it would be great for the consumer if there were paid ad-free options that didn't data harvest your every move.
To say that if a program isn't paid for via a store purchase it is malicious, is just plain ignorant. Yes, deceptively data gathering apps are the norm and there should be some better regulation apart from permissions and App store curation; but to say all data gathering is malicious, hurts the consumer, and leads to a police state is ignorant and misleading.
OneNote is great, I mean it's no Notepad++ which is for editing files. Its for keeping searchable books of notes and screenshots.
I use Onenote all day every day, but the UWP onenote version sucks.
I really hope they don't narf one of my favorite tools. I'd hate to have to go back to Evernote.
I get it Microsoft,
You want Windows 10s to be secure and use minimal battery and you can't do that if you allow every Centennial wrapped x86 application into the store, but you need to make allowance for Chrome or you will lose market share.
We hate Edge because it's lack of extension support.
Look at demographics and you see that schools and younger generation prefer Chrome.
My wife is in college and their blackboard school software doesn't even render well on Edge.
I get it that Windows 10s is a low cost, secure and curated environment; a competition to Chromebooks touted as Windows for Education.
Maybe if UWP Apps catered to developers and were actual popular.
But let's be honest.
Windows 10s will NEVER build momentum without Chrome. and sadly as a Microsoft fanboy, I saw: "Let it die."
I can't believe they charge to freeze / unfreeze credit.
This should be free. Americans need a consumer PACT to lobby on their behalf to hold these credit bureaus accountable for their own criminal negligence.
You would think the exact same drivers would work, but they did not. I went to the motherboard manufacturer and tried everything under the sun.
Re-installing windows 7 on the non RAID Operating system drive picked up the RAID 5 drives instantly, no install.
I am telling you there is driver support that is lacking. I have been a system admin for years. This was on the technical preview about 4 months ago.
My experience was completely botched.
I had BIOS level RAID drives for a RAID 5 not as primary hard drive setup that did not come over. No driver download could fix the issue and of course their was no rollback to Windows 7.
Unfortunately my Windows 7 was OEM install so I had to reinstall a pirated version of windows 7 where the driver support was present.
Now thanks to the changes in migration path, I will no longer be able to upgrade to Windows 10 unless I purchase.
That being said everything but the drivers for my RAID migrated beautifully and after stripping out some search the Internet functionality was happy with Windows 10 functionality for the week that I could not access my additional hard drive media RAID.
My fellow medieval enthusiasts who fight in recreational armour with groups such as the SCA.org print plated armour such as laminar plates for under the tunic protection.
Once Amazon Fresh moves their delivery model to Prime Now and this goes main stream at those delivery prices, I will never need to leave the house.
How are they doing this without drones or autonomous delivery minions?
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My Galaxy S8 already says 5G. Way to go Sprint "re-branding" your cellular service so that the average consumer thinks they are already on 5G.
That's not shadily deceptive at all, THATS MARKETING! :)
You are dumb.
Assuming the failure of Net Neutrality doesn't cripple all of the gaming as a service options out their I still don't see GAAS quickly overtaking PC.
The US has really poor high latency connections to a high percentage of homes.
Ask the PC game modding community PC / Linux in 2019 and you will see it is dominated by Windows PC.
The casual gaming market will start adopting the features offered by GAAS, but there are limitations that will slow the mass adoption of true gamers for a number of years still.
Windows will not be gone by 2025.
Windows Virtual Desktop is not going to be as popular as envisioned.
What market share is this going to overtake? The Citrix XenDesktop and VMware Horizons remote workstations of business?
Why are they going to switch? Licensing costs?
Certainly not because of ease of manageability to domain resources.
I don't think the author really understands the intricacies of enterprise environments and the gaming world.
Yeahhhhhhh and in 2025 we will all have self driving quadrocopter cars too.
okay dumbass.
You are dumb.
I guarantee all of the buildings are up to date and even bet the hardware running the legacy code base is within this decade.
The problem is that they have been customizing it to their exact purposes for the past number of decades and moving systems takes countless professional man hours and countless training hours.
The cost to upkeep vs cost to changeover has been ever increasing because of the rising inflation of Cobol tech debt but managers tend to make decisions based on bottom lines and an "If it still works why pull the trigger?" mentality.
Guys, just upgrade your Active Directory forest functional levels.
As long as the oldest controller is new than 2012, not a problem.
I'm certain it's recording every interaction, no not through screenshots.
It is merely logging actions on the site through special events.
Recording the screen inplies the logging extends beyond their app. Which in many case of malicious activity outside of GlassBox holds true.
#yellowjournalism
Ubisoft is full of a bunch of sniveling gutless corporate clowns.
They should have held their ground.
The email marketing strategy was hilariously appropriate for "The Division" franchise and on point.
Nice sentiment, but you have grossly understated the genesis of ISP monopolies and what it would take to foster competition.
Saying that the monopolies are government granted is misrepresenting the problem.
I agree that there are many anti-competitive laws pushed through by kickbacks that lead to court battles and delays such as the Google Fiber rollout.
But the problem with monopolies is that they can leverage other monetary streams to lean on smaller competition.
Fixing a few regulations isn't going to miraculously solve the ISP open market dilemma that America faces.
This lack of an open market is stifling growth and innovation and we need Net Neutrality to ensure a level field for startups and small business.
What a nice feature . . if this was employed on any other browser besides Edge Mobile or even if this was an on feature.
The people who would have this app installed and be included to enable this in settings represent the smallest market share also are probably the demographic least affected by Fake News.
people-older-than-65-share-the-most-fake-news-study-finds
For some hilarity, I would love to see the telemetry data on this. 0.00000000001% of market share.
Thanks for trying Microsoft, but this isn't the feature that is going to win us over. You have lost the mobile browser.
They already DO charge per streaming.
The $7.99 Basic plan allows streaming on only one screen, the $10.99 Standard allows two active, and the $13.99 Premium offers four active sessions.
They are trying to maximize their profits on the accounts that say, "Hey Mom you can use my Netflix when I'm not using it."
All praise to the Johns. Romero the design rock god that wanted to "make you his b*tch" and Carmack the programming god who could solve any problem in weekend.
Carmack has never stopped trying to bring a virtual experience to the masses, even today at Oculus.
Me and my friends had countless LAN parties when ID brought us LAN play. Staying up all night to heavy metal, mortal Kombat, and DOOM!
Publishing the tools to allow mod making really set ID apart.
The shareware idea of giving part of the game for free coupled with the gore and rock made Doom legendary overnight.
It's a shame the Johns had to split ways and crash. A game needs both design and innovation.
Quake was truly 3D awe-inspiring, but DOOM was ground breaking with such tight optimizations for fast 3D and nutty level designs.
When you beat the first mission and it simply ends in being curb stomped by a horde of demons.
It's on every platform, in every game store, hell I home brewed an ipod with a buddy to play Doom with a scroll wheel.
Download now and play it tonight on your Xbox or Ubuntu. I know I will.
Very true! There are major problems with A/V using kernel hooks that open vulnerabilities into an Operating System. For home/personal, use the operating system's built in anti-malware. 3rd party AV is only useful in corporate settings where a higher body needs to know if a machine on the network becomes a risk.
Many people would love 9-5. In the IT world in the US, the last 3 highly skilled jobs I have had, I have pretty much been expected to be available to work around the clock and put in 50-60 hr work weeks.
This is completely wrong. There is a plan. The plan for the last few years has been to push the homeless out and make it easier for developers to shrug off section 8. They intentionally get flawed and filtered census data so it looks like there is less of a problem. A high percentage of these are local families that can no longer afford the rising cost of living and have nowhere to go. There ARE people working tirelessly to fix the problem, but we have to change out the City Council for people who want to solve the problem, and not just line the pockets of investors and businesses.
Cost of living increases have been exponential and directly related to the influx of these Seattle Corporations. The city of Seattle has long tried to trick the census numbers to pretend there is less of a homeless problem, by taking census in the middle of winter and excluding anyone who occasionally has a couch or family's living at hotels. What is sad is that due to the efforts of these business lobbyists, the city has been cutting homeless funding. They have been rezoning to get rid of section 8 housing and providing outrageous incentives to new construction where Section 8 is strictly forbidden. Basically these business that contributed to the cost of living changes have been trying to push the homeless out by drying up resources. A vast number of these homeless are families that can no longer earn enough for housing.
Who in there right mind is saying . . . FINALY!!! Can I get this as a UWP app so Linux will run on my Windows 10 in S mode? lolololol. How about just getting Windows 10 updates not to bork a grub loader so we can dual boot. HUH Microsoft.
I bet the package has been repacked with the new name so the hash is obviously different not just the filename. I bet there are several methods for App detection. signature and behavior. The signature ones can get through if they re-package with minor changes I bet. I don't know if there are any behavior checks, but there really should be.
What a twat. There are lots of free business models. Selling a bit of our data to advertisers is how the world works. That is how their business model works. Do you want to pay $5 per month for your Gmail account, $50 / year for your Flickr photo stream or for posting to Instragram, or pay for Bing'ing cat pictures. Yes it would be great for the consumer if there were paid ad-free options that didn't data harvest your every move. To say that if a program isn't paid for via a store purchase it is malicious, is just plain ignorant. Yes, deceptively data gathering apps are the norm and there should be some better regulation apart from permissions and App store curation; but to say all data gathering is malicious, hurts the consumer, and leads to a police state is ignorant and misleading.
OneNote is great, I mean it's no Notepad++ which is for editing files. Its for keeping searchable books of notes and screenshots. I use Onenote all day every day, but the UWP onenote version sucks. I really hope they don't narf one of my favorite tools. I'd hate to have to go back to Evernote.
I get it Microsoft, You want Windows 10s to be secure and use minimal battery and you can't do that if you allow every Centennial wrapped x86 application into the store, but you need to make allowance for Chrome or you will lose market share. We hate Edge because it's lack of extension support. Look at demographics and you see that schools and younger generation prefer Chrome. My wife is in college and their blackboard school software doesn't even render well on Edge. I get it that Windows 10s is a low cost, secure and curated environment; a competition to Chromebooks touted as Windows for Education. Maybe if UWP Apps catered to developers and were actual popular. But let's be honest. Windows 10s will NEVER build momentum without Chrome. and sadly as a Microsoft fanboy, I saw: "Let it die."
I can't believe they charge to freeze / unfreeze credit. This should be free. Americans need a consumer PACT to lobby on their behalf to hold these credit bureaus accountable for their own criminal negligence.
You would think the exact same drivers would work, but they did not. I went to the motherboard manufacturer and tried everything under the sun. Re-installing windows 7 on the non RAID Operating system drive picked up the RAID 5 drives instantly, no install. I am telling you there is driver support that is lacking. I have been a system admin for years. This was on the technical preview about 4 months ago.
This was a home PC not production. I didn't have a spare 3TB to back it onto. It was just a media box nothing I couldn't get back.
My experience was completely botched. I had BIOS level RAID drives for a RAID 5 not as primary hard drive setup that did not come over. No driver download could fix the issue and of course their was no rollback to Windows 7. Unfortunately my Windows 7 was OEM install so I had to reinstall a pirated version of windows 7 where the driver support was present. Now thanks to the changes in migration path, I will no longer be able to upgrade to Windows 10 unless I purchase. That being said everything but the drivers for my RAID migrated beautifully and after stripping out some search the Internet functionality was happy with Windows 10 functionality for the week that I could not access my additional hard drive media RAID.
My fellow medieval enthusiasts who fight in recreational armour with groups such as the SCA.org print plated armour such as laminar plates for under the tunic protection.
Once Amazon Fresh moves their delivery model to Prime Now and this goes main stream at those delivery prices, I will never need to leave the house. How are they doing this without drones or autonomous delivery minions?