Nadella: "Windows is the most open platform there is"
Translation: Windows is the platform most openly hostile to users.
I doubt that Nadella is actually CEO of Microsoft. He seems far too socially inept. I'm guessing he was chosen as a kind of front man because he was less obviously annoying than others who were considered.
I also doubt that the former CEO, Steve Ballmer, was actually CEO. Business Week Magazine called Steve Ballmer "Monkey Boy" on the cover of the magazine. Could someone called Monkey Boy run a technology company?
Quote: '... all forms of outdoor advertising were to be prohibited, including ads on taxis, on buses -- even shopfronts were to be restricted, their signs limited to 1.5 metres for every 10 metres of frontage. "It is hard in a city of 11 million people to find enough equipment and personnel to determine what is and isn't legal," reasoned Kassab, "so we have decided to go all the way." '
Quote: "First it was Sao Paulo, then Chennai. Then Grenoble, Tehran, Paris and now even New York have spawned movements to replace or ban outdoor advertising."
I notice that Noto Serif is a well-designed font. There is an italic and a bold, but no semi-bold. The Google Noto font download web page is a mess. How is NotoSansMandaic-unhinted different from NotoSans? When I look at the font in Windows font preview, I see no difference.
I see many examples of Google management becoming more and more messy.
Google is allowing phone companies to abuse customers, so the phone companies can make more money. Google is also doing its own abuse, as the parent comment says. My opinion.
On April 8, 2014, Microsoft ended support for Windows XP. The day after, Windows XP began having keyboard problems. Keys were stuck; it was not possible to login. That was acknowledged by Microsoft and mostly fixed, although all Windows operating systems seem to have that problem occasionally. I wasn't able to find an article about that, although I saved it somewhere.
"Microsoft was found to have a monopoly in Windows, which isn't a crime. Microsoft used that monopoly to crush Netscape. Microsoft execs stupidly documented every step of the process in emails that ended up in court. None of the Microsoft senior executives came across well on the stand."
"Microsoft got off the hook in 2001 because the new Bush administration's DOJ didn't want to pursue the case." ("didn't want"???)
"With [IE6, Internet Explorer version 6], Microsoft lost an enormous amount of goodwill, as users began to understand that their computer was at risk because of a bad piece of Microsoft software."
"From my point of view, ever since IE6, Microsoft has blatantly put its own financial interests ahead of its customers' security, for about a decade and a half."
"Windows 8 and Windows RT: Killing the Windows brand"
"Why would anyone in their right mind name an operating system "Windows RT," knowing full well that it won't run Windows programs? Beavis, meet Butthead, and a billion-dollar write-off."
Quote from the parent comment, about XP login: "... they made the default account an administrator with full rights to do anything with no further prompts."
Good point. Our experience is that all XP user accounts should be changed to limited user. An XP limited user has very limited rights.
Also, we use Windows XP with a software firewall and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. We have only 16 Windows XP computers, so our experience is limited, but we aren't having problems, even though all those computers are connected to an internal network and the internet. (We have some valuable software that is not compatible with later versions of Windows.)
1) Autopatcher and WSUS Offline Update: Use Autopatcher until Microsoft begins its new system of hiding even more completely what it is doing with its updates. Kvasio said to use WSUS Offline Update, another community driven solution.
2) Windows on an isolated network: Don't allow any Microsoft operating system to have a connection to the internet. Use Linux on a separate computer on a separate network for internet connections. Use Bluetooth to communicate between the Windows OS network and the Linux network.
For Microsoft, convincing people that Windows is buggy is profitable. An article I wrote last year, Microsoft Windows XP "end of life", makes the point that Microsoft fixed 319+828+459=1,606 bugs in Windows XP since Windows XP SP1 was released. Now Microsoft says Windows XP is still too buggy to use. We have 16 computers running Windows XP and haven't had any problems. And software does not have an "end of life", it continues to do what it always did.
Do secret government agencies pay for vulnerabilities? Why do Adobe Flash and the Windows operating system have so many vulnerabilities? Do Adobe Systems and Microsoft sell vulnerabilities to secret government agencies and fix them when they are publicly discovered?
Get serious about recognizing abuse. Quoting this comment, with modifications: We've seen Microsoft's continuous stream of lies and incompetence... including a number of "bugs" and "mistakes" that appear deliberate.
Quoting the parent comment, with modifications: We've seen Microsoft's continuous stream of lies and incompetence... including a number of "bugs" and "mistakes" that appear deliberate.
An article I wrote last year, Microsoft Windows XP "end of life", makes the point that Microsoft fixed 319+828+459=1,606 bugs in Windows XP since Windows XP SP1 was released. Now Microsoft says Windows XP is still too buggy to use. We have 16 computers running Windows XP and haven't had any problems. And software does not have an "end of life", it continues to do what it always did.
Why do Adobe Flash and the Windows operating system have so many vulnerabilities? Do Adobe Systems and Microsoft sell vulnerabilities to secret government agencies and fix them when they are publicly discovered?
Ideas:
1) Use Autopatcher until Microsoft's begins its new system of hiding even more completely what it is doing with its updates.
2) Don't allow any Microsoft operating system to have a connection to the internet. Use Linux on a separate computer on a separate network for internet connections. Use Bluetooth to communicate between the Windows OS network and the Linux network.
Is PowerShell really this bad?. Quote: "... the strangest mashup of Perl and VAX/VMS I've ever seen." Another quote: "... one of the most ass-backwards, lipstick on a pig, polished turd add-ons to the Microsoft stack in recent years."
Why Microsoft doesn't fix the long file name issues in PowerShell: Long Paths in.NET, Part 1 of 3. (Because the problem is in.NET.)
And don't forget the very poor writing quality of the documentation.
Quotes: Cisco is "a maze of barely related tech business"... "Aside from its network core, it has operations in data center management, video hardware and software, "collaboration" products, cloud computing and low-tech WiFi products. All of it together seems too much with too little connection."
Slashdot Mirror
Okay, an attempt at a translation:
Nadella: "Windows is the most open platform there is"
Translation: Windows is the platform most openly hostile to users.
I doubt that Nadella is actually CEO of Microsoft. He seems far too socially inept. I'm guessing he was chosen as a kind of front man because he was less obviously annoying than others who were considered.
I also doubt that the former CEO, Steve Ballmer, was actually CEO. Business Week Magazine called Steve Ballmer "Monkey Boy" on the cover of the magazine. Could someone called Monkey Boy run a technology company?
Network World article: Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. Quote: "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."
"The people who make the decisions to outsource don't know technology..."
Exactly. They make stupid decisions. Today's Dilbert cartoon is relevant.
It says, "... New York have spawned movements...", not actually banned ads.
Yahoo, get a competent CEO!!!
The World's Fourth-Largest City Outlaws Billboards, Calls It 'Visual Pollution' (2007)
Sao Paulo: The City That Said No To Advertising (2007)
Quote: '... all forms of outdoor advertising were to be prohibited, including ads on taxis, on buses -- even shopfronts were to be restricted, their signs limited to 1.5 metres for every 10 metres of frontage. "It is hard in a city of 11 million people to find enough equipment and personnel to determine what is and isn't legal," reasoned Kassab, "so we have decided to go all the way." '
Can cities kick ads? Inside the global movement to ban urban billboards (2015) Quote:
Quote: "First it was Sao Paulo, then Chennai. Then Grenoble, Tehran, Paris and now even New York have spawned movements to replace or ban outdoor advertising."
Thanks for the explanation.
I notice that Noto Serif is a well-designed font. There is an italic and a bold, but no semi-bold. The Google Noto font download web page is a mess. How is NotoSansMandaic-unhinted different from NotoSans? When I look at the font in Windows font preview, I see no difference.
I see many examples of Google management becoming more and more messy.
Apple is building a new campus with Norman Foster that is estimated to cost $5 billion.
It seems to me that Apple is degrading rapidly. It is apparently very difficult to get manager like Steve Jobs.
I appreciate you making more clear why people don't switch away from Microsoft Windows.
"Would you fire your cow orker?"
I don't know what "orking" is, but I'm guessing no one should be doing it to cows.
Wow! I'm amazed that an organization could make the mistake of calling the hadron collider a "hardon collider".
Mod parent up!
Quote: "... 30 useless Google applications which try to get updates every month."
Posted this comment yesterday, to another Slashdot story: Google's management quality is degrading rapidly.
Google is allowing phone companies to abuse customers, so the phone companies can make more money. Google is also doing its own abuse, as the parent comment says. My opinion.
"The truth of the matter is if Google wanted to update the Nexus 5 with the latest Android software, it could have. It just chose not to."
Trying to forcing people to buy new phones, apparently. That's sad. Google's management quality is degrading rapidly.
The highest failure rate component in a smart phone? The battery. And phone makers are making phones with batteries that can't be replaced.
On April 8, 2014, Microsoft ended support for Windows XP. The day after, Windows XP began having keyboard problems. Keys were stuck; it was not possible to login. That was acknowledged by Microsoft and mostly fixed, although all Windows operating systems seem to have that problem occasionally. I wasn't able to find an article about that, although I saved it somewhere.
One article about Microsoft's abuses and mismanagement: Windows at 30: Microsoft's biggest blunders (Nov 25, 2015).
Quotes:
"Microsoft has been its own worst enemy."
"... disastrous Windows ME..."
"Microsoft was found to have a monopoly in Windows, which isn't a crime. Microsoft used that monopoly to crush Netscape. Microsoft execs stupidly documented every step of the process in emails that ended up in court. None of the Microsoft senior executives came across well on the stand."
"Microsoft got off the hook in 2001 because the new Bush administration's DOJ didn't want to pursue the case." ("didn't want"???)
"With [IE6, Internet Explorer version 6], Microsoft lost an enormous amount of goodwill, as users began to understand that their computer was at risk because of a bad piece of Microsoft software."
"From my point of view, ever since IE6, Microsoft has blatantly put its own financial interests ahead of its customers' security, for about a decade and a half."
"Windows 8 and Windows RT: Killing the Windows brand"
"Why would anyone in their right mind name an operating system "Windows RT," knowing full well that it won't run Windows programs? Beavis, meet Butthead, and a billion-dollar write-off."
Quote from the parent comment, about XP login: "... they made the default account an administrator with full rights to do anything with no further prompts."
Good point. Our experience is that all XP user accounts should be changed to limited user. An XP limited user has very limited rights.
Also, we use Windows XP with a software firewall and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. We have only 16 Windows XP computers, so our experience is limited, but we aren't having problems, even though all those computers are connected to an internal network and the internet. (We have some valuable software that is not compatible with later versions of Windows.)
Ideas: (partly a re-post from Stop updating completely? Methods and comments)
1) Autopatcher and WSUS Offline Update: Use Autopatcher until Microsoft begins its new system of hiding even more completely what it is doing with its updates. Kvasio said to use WSUS Offline Update, another community driven solution.
Apparently Microsoft approves of WSUS Offline Update. This is from the Microsoft web site: Update Offline Virtual Machine with PowerShell and WSUS Offline Update: Part 1
Update Offline Virtual Machine with PowerShell and WSUS Offline Update: Part 2
2) Windows on an isolated network: Don't allow any Microsoft operating system to have a connection to the internet. Use Linux on a separate computer on a separate network for internet connections. Use Bluetooth to communicate between the Windows OS network and the Linux network.
For Microsoft, convincing people that Windows is buggy is profitable. An article I wrote last year, Microsoft Windows XP "end of life", makes the point that Microsoft fixed 319+828+459=1,606 bugs in Windows XP since Windows XP SP1 was released. Now Microsoft says Windows XP is still too buggy to use. We have 16 computers running Windows XP and haven't had any problems. And software does not have an "end of life", it continues to do what it always did.
Do secret government agencies pay for vulnerabilities? Why do Adobe Flash and the Windows operating system have so many vulnerabilities? Do Adobe Systems and Microsoft sell vulnerabilities to secret government agencies and fix them when they are publicly discovered?
Get serious about recognizing abuse. Quoting this comment, with modifications: We've seen Microsoft's continuous stream of lies and incompetence... including a number of "bugs" and "mistakes" that appear deliberate.
Good idea! Autopatcher saves Windows updates, also.
Quoting the parent comment, with modifications: We've seen Microsoft's continuous stream of lies and incompetence... including a number of "bugs" and "mistakes" that appear deliberate.
An article I wrote last year, Microsoft Windows XP "end of life", makes the point that Microsoft fixed 319+828+459=1,606 bugs in Windows XP since Windows XP SP1 was released. Now Microsoft says Windows XP is still too buggy to use. We have 16 computers running Windows XP and haven't had any problems. And software does not have an "end of life", it continues to do what it always did.
Why do Adobe Flash and the Windows operating system have so many vulnerabilities? Do Adobe Systems and Microsoft sell vulnerabilities to secret government agencies and fix them when they are publicly discovered?
Ideas:
1) Use Autopatcher until Microsoft's begins its new system of hiding even more completely what it is doing with its updates.
2) Don't allow any Microsoft operating system to have a connection to the internet. Use Linux on a separate computer on a separate network for internet connections. Use Bluetooth to communicate between the Windows OS network and the Linux network.
Articles:
.NET, Part 1 of 3. (Because the problem is in .NET.)
What I Hate About PowerShell
Is PowerShell really this bad?. Quote: "... the strangest mashup of Perl and VAX/VMS I've ever seen." Another quote: "... one of the most ass-backwards, lipstick on a pig, polished turd add-ons to the Microsoft stack in recent years."
Why Microsoft doesn't fix the long file name issues in PowerShell: Long Paths in
And don't forget the very poor writing quality of the documentation.
"... worst syntax features of every scripting language..."
My reaction exactly.
For many years there have been stories about bad management at Cisco. Here's one: Cisco: Bad Economy, or Bad Management? (August 15, 2013)
Quotes: Cisco is "a maze of barely related tech business"... "Aside from its network core, it has operations in data center management, video hardware and software, "collaboration" products, cloud computing and low-tech WiFi products. All of it together seems too much with too little connection."
This Slashdot story is a very effective advertisement for ad blockers.
Dutch police close Ennetcom encrypted communications network (April 25, 2016)
It is likely that many airline managers have no knowledge of technology, but like to make decisions anyway.
Also, managers are dominant. They hire low-pay employees and don't train them so that they can make more money. Yesterday's Delta story: Delta Air Lines employees mistake New Mexico for Mexico (Aug 11, 2016)
That's nothing! In my joke, Windows 10 causes the end of all life on Earth! Experiences With Windows 10? Nightmares!
Okay, it's a competition. Can anyone do better than that?
Make a product and sell it for 10 times the cost of the ingredients. Sell to people who don't know how to spend money carefully.