The whole concept of running a text processor on a remote server when you have a super computer from 20 years ago inside your pocket is just so stupid it prompts for decapitation. Also well deserved slavery.
WTF are you talking about? Office 365 is subscription office for individuals (with other perks like some cloud storage and Skype credits) as well as hosted server products for businesses.
Spoken like a true shill. In that you completely blew off the GP's point about the entire concept of running a text processor on a remote server being patently absurd and instead just drove straight on forward with the marketing spiel. Well-done, EvilSS! Your bonus will be signed by Mr. Nadella himself this month!
And again I find myself asking: WTF are you talking about? In what way does "running a text processor on a remote server" have ANYTHING to do with Office 365?
Hasn't that been the strategy at most companies for the last decade? Other than a few sensations like Apple, most companies have been successful at slashing costs through outsourcing and downsizing, rather than spectacular innovations.
I would say Apple and Google have both been innovating quite a bit, and they are Microsoft's two biggest rivals. Compared to them MS has been standing still.
An indication on Nadella's "rating" from a business perspective will be reflected by the MS share quotation tomorrow.
The market really didn't react much, but then again Nadella has been the rumored front runner for a few weeks now so it's really no surprise to anyone. I think everyone is going to wait until he starts making some announcements on direction before they react.
For an immediate uptick in profits they could just kill off unprofitable ventures that don't show any promise going forward. Microsoft makes mountains of money from OS, server (SQL, Exchange, etc), and Office products. That is not going to change anytime soon. Even with the downturn in PC buying their bread and butter is still their business products, and those lucrative enterprise agreements. Drop the crap that's not working, then start working on new products that actually make sense. They have plenty of working capital right now to make such a transition possible and without a ton of risk.
If you are an individual, just don't store it on Skydrive (or whatever it's called now). It's not mandatory for you to do so with 365. If you are a business, well, that same PATRIOT act (or other similar act from whatever country you reside in, as the NSA leaks have shown most countries are very "cooperative") will allow them to come to your datacenter and demand the same data. Again, you don't have to store the data on MS servers if you are just using Office products and not also hosting with them for email, CRM, etc.
The whole concept of running a text processor on a remote server when you have a super computer from 20 years ago inside your pocket is just so stupid it prompts for decapitation. Also well deserved slavery.
WTF are you talking about? Office 365 is subscription office for individuals (with other perks like some cloud storage and Skype credits) as well as hosted server products for businesses. You get the full Office suite, the same binaries you get if you buy the boxed version. They have been playing around with a web based version to allow editing when you are on the road or on a guest PC, but that is not the focus of the product at all.
No doubt, but he didn't know how to innovate or even keep up with new technologies and markets. Microsoft has been floundering for the past decade, riding the momentum they built up in the 80's and 90's but never successfully adding to it. Their strategy lately is almost monkey throwing darts. Let's try this! No, this! No, that!
At the same time they poisoned their own corporate environment and created a ton of churn in their lower ranks, bleeding young new talent to rivals and startups.
So what's wrong with Office 365? I know lots of small-mid sized businesses that love it. Even for individuals, if you are going to use Office products is a decent way to go, especially if you have multiple PCs.
IBM just sold off its x86 server business for $2.3 billion!
Looks like Mr. Dell and Silver Lake maybe overpaid by just a little...? Of course, they have some other stuff like Oracle utility software... I'm sure that makes up the difference.
Yes, because that's totally apples to apples in this case.
Then you would have to long-haul the refined products to their markets, increasing the environmental impact (more CO2) and potential danger of an accident during transport (refined products tend to be more volatile than crude oil).
October 2015. At least the Chip part. The PIN part will be optional (unfortunately). The national retailer association wants it to be mandatory but MasterCard and Visa don't for some reason.
No, at least according to Occam's browser plugin which states that any scientific theory first proposed in the comment section of a website is probably complete crap.
One word: Digital. With cable companies going all digital they are freeing up tons of bandwidth. This would work just like on demand does: The stream only runs when the customer tunes to that channel, so they would not need to feed every customer all four OTA nets at the same time.
PCI compliance is involved, so no lawsuit is required. The PCI fines (levied by the PCI Scurity Standards Council, and Target is contractually obligated to pay) are $90 per account. Do the math on that for a second.
Now I'm sure there will be some negotiating going on but still, it's probably going to be a really big check they end up writing.
If Aereo and the others prevail, they will usher in a new era of content that no longer needs as many middlemen to deliver it, and old broadcast media will wither and die.
No middle men except for the networks, who buy the shows from the producers? Or the broadcasters they are picking the signal up from? Or Aereo themselves (or other companies that follow their model), who you are paying to relay that broadcast (from the local broadcaster) to your device?
Seems to me the Aereo model adds a middle man to the equation. They (Aereo) literally can't exist without the old broadcast media.
These lawsuits against Aereo are about money, and really not even about getting money from Aereo but from cable operators. Networks and their affiliate stations pull in huge amounts of cash from rebroadcast deals. The Aereo model threatens to cut that cash flow off. Several cable companies are already looking to copy Aereo and do a one-antenna-per-customer model to provide local stations, and avoid paying carriage fees. That's billions of dollars the networks could lose. That is why they want to kill this model dead and quickly.
But, joking aside, I believe it should be illegal to use my name or image to endorse a product without me being explicitly asked, and compensated.
It usually is. It's one of the few times you do have some control over your own image. There may be something hidden in their TOS that you are signing away that right as a user though.
Given that X is nearly 30 years old... it sounds more like a number of issues were not considered way back when (trust boundaries for one), and that those same mistakes/assumptions have been carried forward for much of this time.
God I hate that word. If there is one word that I wish I could beat out of every developer, it's "assumption". I know they are necessary to an extent, but man do they come back to bite you in the ass every time...
I'm really surprised someone hasn't started selling "faraday" hats to idiots yet. Just line it with a flexible metal mesh. Sell it for 1000% markup... er.. never mind. Ignore this post. And excuse me, I need to make some phone calls...
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The whole concept of running a text processor on a remote server when you have a super computer from 20 years ago inside your pocket is just so stupid it prompts for decapitation. Also well deserved slavery.
WTF are you talking about? Office 365 is subscription office for individuals (with other perks like some cloud storage and Skype credits) as well as hosted server products for businesses.
Spoken like a true shill. In that you completely blew off the GP's point about the entire concept of running a text processor on a remote server being patently absurd and instead just drove straight on forward with the marketing spiel. Well-done, EvilSS! Your bonus will be signed by Mr. Nadella himself this month!
And again I find myself asking: WTF are you talking about? In what way does "running a text processor on a remote server" have ANYTHING to do with Office 365?
Hasn't that been the strategy at most companies for the last decade? Other than a few sensations like Apple, most companies have been successful at slashing costs through outsourcing and downsizing, rather than spectacular innovations.
I would say Apple and Google have both been innovating quite a bit, and they are Microsoft's two biggest rivals. Compared to them MS has been standing still.
An indication on Nadella's "rating" from a business perspective will be reflected by the MS share quotation tomorrow.
The market really didn't react much, but then again Nadella has been the rumored front runner for a few weeks now so it's really no surprise to anyone. I think everyone is going to wait until he starts making some announcements on direction before they react.
For an immediate uptick in profits they could just kill off unprofitable ventures that don't show any promise going forward. Microsoft makes mountains of money from OS, server (SQL, Exchange, etc), and Office products. That is not going to change anytime soon. Even with the downturn in PC buying their bread and butter is still their business products, and those lucrative enterprise agreements. Drop the crap that's not working, then start working on new products that actually make sense. They have plenty of working capital right now to make such a transition possible and without a ton of risk.
If you are an individual, just don't store it on Skydrive (or whatever it's called now). It's not mandatory for you to do so with 365. If you are a business, well, that same PATRIOT act (or other similar act from whatever country you reside in, as the NSA leaks have shown most countries are very "cooperative") will allow them to come to your datacenter and demand the same data. Again, you don't have to store the data on MS servers if you are just using Office products and not also hosting with them for email, CRM, etc.
The whole concept of running a text processor on a remote server when you have a super computer from 20 years ago inside your pocket is just so stupid it prompts for decapitation. Also well deserved slavery.
WTF are you talking about? Office 365 is subscription office for individuals (with other perks like some cloud storage and Skype credits) as well as hosted server products for businesses. You get the full Office suite, the same binaries you get if you buy the boxed version. They have been playing around with a web based version to allow editing when you are on the road or on a guest PC, but that is not the focus of the product at all.
No doubt, but he didn't know how to innovate or even keep up with new technologies and markets. Microsoft has been floundering for the past decade, riding the momentum they built up in the 80's and 90's but never successfully adding to it. Their strategy lately is almost monkey throwing darts. Let's try this! No, this! No, that!
At the same time they poisoned their own corporate environment and created a ton of churn in their lower ranks, bleeding young new talent to rivals and startups.
So what's wrong with Office 365? I know lots of small-mid sized businesses that love it. Even for individuals, if you are going to use Office products is a decent way to go, especially if you have multiple PCs.
And you would not be wrong.
IBM just sold off its x86 server business for $2.3 billion!
Looks like Mr. Dell and Silver Lake maybe overpaid by just a little...? Of course, they have some other stuff like Oracle utility software... I'm sure that makes up the difference.
Yes, because that's totally apples to apples in this case.
This sounds like a feature.
Then you would have to long-haul the refined products to their markets, increasing the environmental impact (more CO2) and potential danger of an accident during transport (refined products tend to be more volatile than crude oil).
October 2015. At least the Chip part. The PIN part will be optional (unfortunately). The national retailer association wants it to be mandatory but MasterCard and Visa don't for some reason.
I think you'll have to share your Nobel with the band Dead or Alive...
No, at least according to Occam's browser plugin which states that any scientific theory first proposed in the comment section of a website is probably complete crap.
One word: Digital. With cable companies going all digital they are freeing up tons of bandwidth. This would work just like on demand does: The stream only runs when the customer tunes to that channel, so they would not need to feed every customer all four OTA nets at the same time.
PCI compliance is involved, so no lawsuit is required. The PCI fines (levied by the PCI Scurity Standards Council, and Target is contractually obligated to pay) are $90 per account. Do the math on that for a second.
Now I'm sure there will be some negotiating going on but still, it's probably going to be a really big check they end up writing.
If Aereo and the others prevail, they will usher in a new era of content that no longer needs as many middlemen to deliver it, and old broadcast media will wither and die.
No middle men except for the networks, who buy the shows from the producers? Or the broadcasters they are picking the signal up from? Or Aereo themselves (or other companies that follow their model), who you are paying to relay that broadcast (from the local broadcaster) to your device?
Seems to me the Aereo model adds a middle man to the equation. They (Aereo) literally can't exist without the old broadcast media.
These lawsuits against Aereo are about money, and really not even about getting money from Aereo but from cable operators. Networks and their affiliate stations pull in huge amounts of cash from rebroadcast deals. The Aereo model threatens to cut that cash flow off. Several cable companies are already looking to copy Aereo and do a one-antenna-per-customer model to provide local stations, and avoid paying carriage fees. That's billions of dollars the networks could lose. That is why they want to kill this model dead and quickly.
But, joking aside, I believe it should be illegal to use my name or image to endorse a product without me being explicitly asked, and compensated.
It usually is. It's one of the few times you do have some control over your own image. There may be something hidden in their TOS that you are signing away that right as a user though.
So... the flyover states that produce our food would be wiped out, but NYC, DC, and LA would be spared. Great.
But in ubuntu you can (and i do) turn it off!
You can turn it off in Windows as well, which is what I always recommend when we are brought it to do Windows projects.
Given that X is nearly 30 years old... it sounds more like a number of issues were not considered way back when (trust boundaries for one), and that those same mistakes/assumptions have been carried forward for much of this time.
God I hate that word. If there is one word that I wish I could beat out of every developer, it's "assumption". I know they are necessary to an extent, but man do they come back to bite you in the ass every time...
You should do standup
I'm really surprised someone hasn't started selling "faraday" hats to idiots yet. Just line it with a flexible metal mesh. Sell it for 1000% markup... er.. never mind. Ignore this post. And excuse me, I need to make some phone calls...