"Boot straight to XP" mode.... with the memory and disk requirements of Windows 8; better thing would've been to bundle an XP inside of Windows 8; and provide an option to Boot Straight To XP mode; there's still metric tons worth software that will run only on XP; not even Vista nor 7.
People who truly need or want the Metro stuff can boot to that junk if they want to; and they'd probably get what they deserve.
That way MS can keep legacy code and legacy depending customers happy; and still provide them a path to run so-called modern apps which are a pain in the desktop.
is a person who can tell everyone else to get lost; and release all MS software on a truly FOSS license model. Not the shared source license model, nor the Microsoft Permissive License model.
If RedHat can make a billion dollars on Free Sotware that is used less than Windows; Microsoft can exponentially increase the use of their software with a FOSS compliant license that puts the onus of innovation on the developers and producers; rather than on itself. The community is thousands of times more powerful than a corporation.
Intel miserably failed by not licensing its technology to others; unlike ARM which has been a roaring success. So much so, IBM is now licensing the Power architecture to others. And Intel is taking down Microsoft and Apple along with them down the death spiral.
Lesser control leads to greater adoption, greater innovation and greater profits in the medium and long term. Microsoft's future CEO has to decide which one is more important - ideology or profits - he can't choose both.
Support for Office, including Outlook, meanwhile means the device could be useful not only for content consumption but also as a BYOD companion device.
If a tablet must have a keyboard, due to a lousy operating system interface; why not build a proper 10" netbook with all accesories for $400?
Atleast then, the Windows OS would run all Windows applications, including legacy applications. Now the only 'apps' or applications on a Windows RT would be those on the Windows Store; which are largely useless and unusable.
Microsoft and its partners seem totally confused on what constitutes a tablet, what is a notebook and what is a desktop. Why would anyone want to run a full fledged Office package on a 10" tablet? What else could be the reason for investing more than $400 on a smallish computing device?
None of these tactics are expected to work against the current cause for Microsoft mistrust.
However, Microsoft keep trying hard, nevertheless. Until last month, every ad on opening Slashdot was how AccuWeather was generating better weather on Windows Phones compared to Android phones. About how some news agency was able to generate better news on Windows phones.
If the Slashdot crowd were deemed gullible enough to buy into such meaningless ads; what about poor stockholders?
Click: "Next". Next,Next....I Agree, and Finish; until the damn thing stops.
Blindly download Service Pack, and pray everything works out okay.
Be very terrified of the Command Prompt.
With Windows 8, it's gotten even dumber. I hear that to get a programming job at Microsoft, you preferably need skills programming on Linux environments. Delicious irony.
will pay researchers $100,000 for a new exploit technique that is capable of bypassing the latest existing mitigations in the newest version of Windows."
Not swords, Jobs talked of ThermoNuclear warfare. By definition both parties are destroyed in such a warfare. Jobs foolishness is tanking Apple big time. He deserved to be alive to see his warfare panning out like this.
how obvious was it that there would be a huge negative reaction
With Chair-Man in charge of things, MicroSoft's arrogance knows no bounds. They are past caring any more; and seem intent on bringing down as many competitors on their way down to ir-relevance.
In the new markets such as smartphones and tablet devices Microsoft is not even 5% as relevant as in desktops. So now instead of competing on merit on desktops, they are trying to force desktop makers to ensure competing OSes are very difficult if not impossible to install.
Supercop Oracle: I caught 50 powerful top grade thieves in my neighbourhood!! I am great!!!!
Ordinary cop: Why did you allow 50 scoundrels in the first place?
Atleast it is better than an unfixed Windows bug
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Decade Old KDE Bug Fixed
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After Windows95, the operating system gets in my way, when I try to run application programs on it. Still not resolved - in fact it got progressively worse with Vista; reduced somewhat in Windows 7, and is back in full force in Windows 8. Instead of solving the bug, I think the developers have renamed it to 'feature'. Does that count?
Whose laws? When a country has multiple groups claiming to be the government which set do you follow?
When there is ambiguity on who is in charge, do you think there would be respect for the laws, whomsoever made them?
What about when the government is obviously not legitimate?
Rennard is not a judge, to pass judgment or rule on legitimacy. If he feels threatened operating in a country, legitimate or not, he should pull out his employees. Their security is more important than his desire to make money operating in an obviously illegitimate domain.
if he cannot or is unwilling to operate in a country, as per the laws of said country, it is not his privilege to pass judgment. He can opt to pack all his employees and leave, without risking their lives.
This is just an announcement at CES. Doesn't mean shit. Dell stopped shipping Linux tablets... why? Dell makes Linux laptops pricier and more difficult to get than Windows ones...why?
So Dell is planning to 'reinvent' itself on an Android based Rapberry-Pi kind of form factor device; which it hopes people will buy from Dell despite its name rhyming with Hell? Good. I'll believe it when I see it.
First, it's not scapegoating. Scapegoating implies the victim is innocent, somebody else did the crime, and the scapegoat merely gets the label of a criminal.
So if the focus falls on 2 over-zealous prosecutors, and their motives proved to be wrong, and they are made an example of, it does not mean they were scapegoats. It means they fully deserved the focus brought to bear on them. ----------------- "Making example of" is not a 'cheap trick'. Prosecutors do the same. Judges do the same. RIAA/MPAA do the same. They do not prosecute every allegedly guilty party. They make an example of a few, to make it a sufficient deterrent for the rest.
So if two players are indicted for gaming the system for their personal goals, caring little for justice, they should be made an example of. Countless other prosecutors would think 100 times before following the same path.
If a company misrepresents their product (e.g. made in USA when in fact it's made in China),
Two problems:
1. With so many Chinese living and working in the USA, but still not citizens.... with so many Americans living in China as well... do these "Made in the USA" tags have any significance?
2. If misrepresenting is such a big crime, I am sure Verizon is guilty of it several times in their "unlimited" data plans, bandwidth calculations, etc. etc. This incident is such small fry.
1. Programmers in the US are worth the money corporations spend on them. 2. China and India are full of crappy programmers who can't understand specs, cannot correspond in English, let alone produce quality code. 3. The value of the US currency is a true measure of its worth in global markets. 4. US corporations are killing US jobs despite the fact outsourcing produces lesser quality goods and services.
I know the plural of anecdote is not data, but still...
I can't help but laugh at the infantile levels of thinking and planning which goes into building secure infrastructure systems. Here's how I would do it:
1. First, insulate critical infrastructure systems from the rest of the World. Don't install 'secure' routers or 'secure' firewalls. Simply insulate them. End of.
2. Do not install any software (OS, database or application) that needs to be activated from the outside, or auto-updated from the outside.
3. Do not ALLOW any USB based access to any of the networked machines, ever. If at all, the USB drive needs to be connected to a Linux machine, that does not auto-mount or run any auto-magic stuff. Then, any files that need to be sent to the server need to be quarantined prior to updating.
4. Same goes for WiFi. Only allow mahcines with known, registered MAC addresses, after pre-auditing and authorising them.
Dealing with the aftermath of such insecure architecture, without Solving them once and for all, is a criminal offence by the IT admins and must be prosecuted as such. Irrespective of the outcome or lack of any infections despite insecure architecture.
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"Boot straight to XP" mode.... with the memory and disk requirements of Windows 8; better thing would've been to bundle an XP inside of Windows 8; and provide an option to Boot Straight To XP mode; there's still metric tons worth software that will run only on XP; not even Vista nor 7.
People who truly need or want the Metro stuff can boot to that junk if they want to; and they'd probably get what they deserve.
That way MS can keep legacy code and legacy depending customers happy; and still provide them a path to run so-called modern apps which are a pain in the desktop.
is a person who can tell everyone else to get lost; and release all MS software on a truly FOSS license model. Not the shared source license model, nor the Microsoft Permissive License model.
If RedHat can make a billion dollars on Free Sotware that is used less than Windows; Microsoft can exponentially increase the use of their software with a FOSS compliant license that puts the onus of innovation on the developers and producers; rather than on itself. The community is thousands of times more powerful than a corporation.
Intel miserably failed by not licensing its technology to others; unlike ARM which has been a roaring success. So much so, IBM is now licensing the Power architecture to others. And Intel is taking down Microsoft and Apple along with them down the death spiral.
Lesser control leads to greater adoption, greater innovation and greater profits in the medium and long term. Microsoft's future CEO has to decide which one is more important - ideology or profits - he can't choose both.
If you want to use an "Office" type application (either the free one or the proprietary one) you need a real computer
I know, I know.... but this is indeed the biggest selling point of the Windows tablet family - the ability to run Office and Outlook.
http://www.informationweek.com/hardware/handheld/microsoft-needs-3-surface-tablets-3-reas/240159781
Support for Office, including Outlook, meanwhile means the device could be useful not only for content consumption but also as a BYOD companion device.
"Press F1 to continue"
You must thank God it didn't ask you to insert the boot disk inside your tablet. Or worse, your Windows Phone!!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/15/windows_phone_boot/
Titsup Windows Phone 8 orders user to cram 'boot disc' in mobe
If a tablet must have a keyboard, due to a lousy operating system interface; why not build a proper 10" netbook with all accesories for $400?
Atleast then, the Windows OS would run all Windows applications, including legacy applications. Now the only 'apps' or applications on a Windows RT would be those on the Windows Store; which are largely useless and unusable.
Microsoft and its partners seem totally confused on what constitutes a tablet, what is a notebook and what is a desktop. Why would anyone want to run a full fledged Office package on a 10" tablet? What else could be the reason for investing more than $400 on a smallish computing device?
http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/15/023234/georgia-tech-and-udacity-partner-for-online-ms-in-computer-science
Georgia Tech and Udacity Partner for Online M.S. in Computer Science
Nothing different, except this time an NYT article that references the same?
"Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all"... that is the code for activating the system...
None of these tactics are expected to work against the current cause for Microsoft mistrust.
However, Microsoft keep trying hard, nevertheless. Until last month, every ad on opening Slashdot was how AccuWeather was generating better weather on Windows Phones compared to Android phones. About how some news agency was able to generate better news on Windows phones.
If the Slashdot crowd were deemed gullible enough to buy into such meaningless ads; what about poor stockholders?
A desktop is a large tablet that you often touch.
A tablet is a device that runs an operating system and apps developed with desktops in mind
Windows RT is a Windows operating system that does not run programs built for Windows; even those developed on Windows by Microsoft
On a desktop operating system you can close the desktop and that is the normal mode of operating the desktop computer
As clear and delineated as Ballmer's press mutterings and utterings.
or just F-Drive; C and D are your disk drives; E is the USB drive; so F-Drive is the Cloud storage drive letter.
Click: "Next". Next,Next....I Agree, and Finish; until the damn thing stops.
Blindly download Service Pack, and pray everything works out okay.
Be very terrified of the Command Prompt.
With Windows 8, it's gotten even dumber. I hear that to get a programming job at Microsoft, you preferably need skills programming on Linux environments. Delicious irony.
will pay researchers $100,000 for a new exploit technique that is capable of bypassing the latest existing mitigations in the newest version of Windows."
In this style: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-020
Bug no.: 54321
Severity: Critical
FAQ: Allows privilege escalation
Mitigating factors:
1. There are only 3 genuine users of the latest version of our operating system
2. We care a damn about affected earlier versions since those lousy bastards need to upgrade anyway
So it is a bug yes, latest version affected yes, but Bounty for you? No!!
Not swords, Jobs talked of ThermoNuclear warfare. By definition both parties are destroyed in such a warfare. Jobs foolishness is tanking Apple big time. He deserved to be alive to see his warfare panning out like this.
Now lots of online businesses peddling second hand goods will spring up in no time.
What about pdf books and eBooks? Can they be traded online or offered free by the legitimate purchaser?
how obvious was it that there would be a huge negative reaction
With Chair-Man in charge of things, MicroSoft's arrogance knows no bounds. They are past caring any more; and seem intent on bringing down as many competitors on their way down to ir-relevance.
In the new markets such as smartphones and tablet devices Microsoft is not even 5% as relevant as in desktops. So now instead of competing on merit on desktops, they are trying to force desktop makers to ensure competing OSes are very difficult if not impossible to install.
the worst influence and bully in the tech industry hits the already much abused PC form factor.
Supercop Oracle: I caught 50 powerful top grade thieves in my neighbourhood!! I am great!!!!
Ordinary cop: Why did you allow 50 scoundrels in the first place?
After Windows95, the operating system gets in my way, when I try to run application programs on it. Still not resolved - in fact it got progressively worse with Vista; reduced somewhat in Windows 7, and is back in full force in Windows 8. Instead of solving the bug, I think the developers have renamed it to 'feature'. Does that count?
Whose laws?
When a country has multiple groups claiming to be the government which set do you follow?
When there is ambiguity on who is in charge, do you think there would be respect for the laws, whomsoever made them?
What about when the government is obviously not legitimate?
Rennard is not a judge, to pass judgment or rule on legitimacy. If he feels threatened operating in a country, legitimate or not, he should pull out his employees. Their security is more important than his desire to make money operating in an obviously illegitimate domain.
if he cannot or is unwilling to operate in a country, as per the laws of said country, it is not his privilege to pass judgment. He can opt to pack all his employees and leave, without risking their lives.
Apple selling Android devices.
This is just an announcement at CES. Doesn't mean shit. Dell stopped shipping Linux tablets... why? Dell makes Linux laptops pricier and more difficult to get than Windows ones...why?
So Dell is planning to 'reinvent' itself on an Android based Rapberry-Pi kind of form factor device; which it hopes people will buy from Dell despite its name rhyming with Hell? Good. I'll believe it when I see it.
First, it's not scapegoating. Scapegoating implies the victim is innocent, somebody else did the crime, and the scapegoat merely gets the label of a criminal.
So if the focus falls on 2 over-zealous prosecutors, and their motives proved to be wrong, and they are made an example of, it does not mean they were scapegoats. It means they fully deserved the focus brought to bear on them.
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"Making example of" is not a 'cheap trick'. Prosecutors do the same. Judges do the same. RIAA/MPAA do the same. They do not prosecute every allegedly guilty party. They make an example of a few, to make it a sufficient deterrent for the rest.
So if two players are indicted for gaming the system for their personal goals, caring little for justice, they should be made an example of. Countless other prosecutors would think 100 times before following the same path.
If a company misrepresents their product (e.g. made in USA when in fact it's made in China),
Two problems:
1. With so many Chinese living and working in the USA, but still not citizens.... with so many Americans living in China as well... do these "Made in the USA" tags have any significance?
2. If misrepresenting is such a big crime, I am sure Verizon is guilty of it several times in their "unlimited" data plans, bandwidth calculations, etc. etc. This incident is such small fry.
1. Programmers in the US are worth the money corporations spend on them.
2. China and India are full of crappy programmers who can't understand specs, cannot correspond in English, let alone produce quality code.
3. The value of the US currency is a true measure of its worth in global markets.
4. US corporations are killing US jobs despite the fact outsourcing produces lesser quality goods and services.
I know the plural of anecdote is not data, but still...
I can't help but laugh at the infantile levels of thinking and planning which goes into building secure infrastructure systems. Here's how I would do it:
1. First, insulate critical infrastructure systems from the rest of the World. Don't install 'secure' routers or 'secure' firewalls. Simply insulate them. End of.
2. Do not install any software (OS, database or application) that needs to be activated from the outside, or auto-updated from the outside.
3. Do not ALLOW any USB based access to any of the networked machines, ever. If at all, the USB drive needs to be connected to a Linux machine, that does not auto-mount or run any auto-magic stuff. Then, any files that need to be sent to the server need to be quarantined prior to updating.
4. Same goes for WiFi. Only allow mahcines with known, registered MAC addresses, after pre-auditing and authorising them.
Dealing with the aftermath of such insecure architecture, without Solving them once and for all, is a criminal offence by the IT admins and must be prosecuted as such. Irrespective of the outcome or lack of any infections despite insecure architecture.