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  1. Not really a browser on CERN's World-First Browser Reborn: Now You Can Browse Like It's 1990 · · Score: 1

    Just another web app.

  2. Re:Buttons on Android Q May Change the Back Button To a Gesture (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The OS makers and the devs that follow them.

  3. Re:Buttons on Android Q May Change the Back Button To a Gesture (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    They can shove the screen space argument up their collective asses until the remove a lot of the extra padding, margins, and whitespace from their apps first.

  4. Re:Buttons on Android Q May Change the Back Button To a Gesture (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    takes a lot more room than a swipe gesture (which takes no room at all)

    This is wrong. I need my whole screen to make a gesture. The software button is a lot smaller than that.

  5. Fuck gestures on Android Q May Change the Back Button To a Gesture (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Gestures have to be the most opaque way to interact with anything.

  6. Re:iOS is already most people's desktops on Ask Slashdot: Could Android and iOS Become Popular Desktop Operating Systems? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget gaming.
    Unless you like terrible flash games.

  7. Re:Sounds great! on Ask Slashdot: Could Android and iOS Become Popular Desktop Operating Systems? · · Score: 1

    That, and their are no mobile equivalents to the apps I use on my desktop.

  8. Re:Does it run Microsoft Office? on Ask Slashdot: Could Android and iOS Become Popular Desktop Operating Systems? · · Score: 1

    If you want apps with a lot less features then that would work.

  9. Re:Microsoft fails to stop porn and gambling apps on Apple Fails To Block Porn and Gambling 'Enterprise' Apps (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    M$ can do this thou.
    At least thru their own store. Prolly in Windows in general if they wanted to.

  10. Huh? WHy is Safari installed on Apple Fails To Block Porn and Gambling 'Enterprise' Apps (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...designed to keep iOS family friendly.

    Safari come installed by default yes? You can get to porn and gambling really easy on that.

  11. Cool. Another reason not to use it on Spotify Bans Ad Blockers In Updated ToS (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Beyond the terrible interface, the stupid social stuff, and the lack of anything by my favorite band (tool).

  12. Office 2016 is 800MB before install and 1.24GB after

  13. Fuck that thing
    At least with the tabs I can set them up the way I want.

  14. This is good. I never used anything before Word 2007 so the tab grouping are a lot more familiar to me.

  15. Re:What is even the appeal of "the cloud"? on Microsoft Really Doesn't Want You To Buy Office 2019 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Not until it can play games.

  16. The US isn't much better.

  17. Re:What is even the appeal of "the cloud"? on Microsoft Really Doesn't Want You To Buy Office 2019 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Their products make it seem otherwise
    Also, how much of that $15,000,000,000 was the cloud. I would guess only $160,000,000 went into Windows and Office.

  18. Re:What is even the appeal of "the cloud"? on Microsoft Really Doesn't Want You To Buy Office 2019 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    NextCloud and rpi FTW

  19. Re:Well duh. on Microsoft Really Doesn't Want You To Buy Office 2019 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, but their service goes down more often than my PC does, and if you miss one payment you are going to lose access to them and anything else on the cloud.

  20. Re:cost vs tco on Microsoft Really Doesn't Want You To Buy Office 2019 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Them changing the UI is to cover there incompetence and the fact they are not adding anything meaningful to their products.
    What else can you stuff into the various programs.

  21. Re:Alternatives on Microsoft Really Doesn't Want You To Buy Office 2019 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    BOO!
    Couldn't you link to the products directly.

  22. Re:What is even the appeal of "the cloud"? on Microsoft Really Doesn't Want You To Buy Office 2019 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No one should want it, but Microsoft's marketing budget is at least 10 times their programming budget at this point.

  23. Well I guess we can count out 2022 on Microsoft Really Doesn't Want You To Buy Office 2019 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt they will release it.
    Just force you to use the shitty 365.
    And people will eat it up. They already have enough idiots that have bought. Now that will get the rest.

  24. Re:here's an idea on Adobe is Considering Whether it Wants To Design Its Own Chips (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I am with you there.

  25. Dear Microsoft. on Internet is Getting More Civil, a Study by Microsoft Says (fortune.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Fuck you.