The original WSJ article attributes this quote directly to ZTE...
“We have active R&D plans on the whole Windows Phone 7 platform product. Whether we expedite that process will be driven by the market demand.”
Like most vendors ZTE will wait and see how much traction Microsoft gets before committing. In fact that they even have prototypes of in the lab is probably good news for Microsoft ( who themselves are keeping the hardware partner list short ).
Oh and also WP7 doesn't have native Asian language input support ( display works fine ) until Microsoft Mango release slated for later this year. So I don't see them doing much in Asian markets before then.
Grandparent post asking how much of Bing's traffic is forced is modded up to the maximum. Parent post which correctly points out that Google does the same thing is modded '0'
Slashdot complains about group think, but I don't know of a single online forum that encourages group think more than Slashdot. ( Fox News maybe? )
I've always been a Firefox user, and Google has always been integrated into the browser as the default search with no confirmation from me. At least Microsoft gives the user a choice the first time IE is run.
When I go to Google, it constantly reminds me to "upgrade" to Chrome.
Google pays anyone who would direct traffic to them very good money. To the point that's how Mozilla and even Opera keep their browsers free. They'll pay for Chrome installs, use to pay for toolbar installs, Android installs etc.
I'm not complaining, nice way for many businesses to increase revenue without burdening users. But it's crazy to even imagine Bing as the biggest practitioner of this.
- You own one of the best development frameworks in the world, a framework that is 100% cross platform, and totally Unix friendly
A lot of people would argue.Net is a much better development environment than Qt. I can't understand why someone would willingly use C++ to develop user applications ( not systems dev ) in 2011. Even Android promotes Java for this.
- The world is changing. Windows is decaying on desktops. Unix runs most servers, many desktops (combining Apple + GNU/Linux + other free Unix-like systems), and is the biggest mobile player (33% Android + 16% Apple)
How is windows 'decaying'? Is that your emotional way of saying that it's losing marketshare? If so, why should Nokia care?
- You have an awesome linux-based mobile platform (meego).
Yes, unfortunately, only nerds care about that. And in case you missed Elop's many interviews, the board was focused on delivering more than just an operating system. Microsoft brings, XBox, office productivity, Bing and many other very large franchises.
- Microsoft has consistently failed on the mobile market, and is irrelevant
Many of the innovative features found on Android and IPhone today came from Microsoft and RIM. They ran the market for at least a decade before they faltered. WP7 has been out for only 3 months and has already gained 1-3% ( depends on who you ask ). That's without Nokia.
- Every organization that has ever partnered with microsoft has lost, big time
HTC made all its money before a year or two ago from Microsoft. That tiny company would never have been able to produce its own OS. Sony did the same. Dell and HP have both grown for decades using Microsoft software.
I'll use a Windows Mobile phone, too... if it's free. Sure as hell never paying for another device running WinCE, the most pointless operating system ever.
Wow, this is the entire content of a +5 Insightful post.
Could you at least give us a single piece of technical evidence to back that up? However anecdotal?
So the industry decided that 5-7 days after letting a vendor know about a problem that everyone would release the information so that everyone would know about rather than just the bad guys and so system admins would know to watch for that type of attack and force the vendor to fix it in a timely manner.
Except he doesn't give 5 days. This guy minimizes the amount of time Microsoft has to respond to the issue while trying to stay in the 5 day window.
First he could have given more than 5 days, ie. at least a week. He chooses 5 days.
He chooses the worst possible day of the entire week to report the bug. Saturday. Even Sunday would have been better, since have the weekend is gone. Also it would be easier to get a bigger emergency team on this the following day.
After all this he reports the bug, first thing on the 5 day!
This just shows how dirty the IT fighting has become ( not that it was ever civil ). And as many have pointed out, even if you don't like Microsoft this affects the XP and 2003 Server users the most.
The point of releasing this "Five day exploit" which has been vulnerable for 9 years now (XP was released in 2001) is to point out that Microsoft needs to do a better job responding to security threats and that the closed source model is less robust to these kinds of threats.
Linux developers have issued a critical update for the open-source OS after researchers uncovered a vulnerability in its kernel that puts most versions built in the past eight years at risk of complete takeover.
The question asks how do you feel. It does not ask about your actions.
To use your example. Two people can see someone is in distress, both look by casually and continue walking.
But the first did it due to lack of strong feelings to the situation or apathy. The second did it because they did feel the person's pain, but came to the conclusion that the best way to help would be to let that person deal with the issue themselves ( aka tough love ).
Although their actions are the same, they should answer the original question differently.
An effect language communicates the very broad range of human emotions that are possible. Everything from euphoric happiness to blinding hate. And there are many, many of those spectrums.
This is where curse words come in. They help or allow us to communicate some of those extreme emotions or feelings.
Accepting those words in everyday speech, making them less taboo diminishes their effectiveness. And in the end, simply necessitates us arbitrarily marking new words as taboo so as to communicate these important feelings.
All vulnerabilities and patch side effects should be described, so I'm not defending the practice,. But until a system administrator has the full source code of the system and is willing and capable of auditing it, they should apply all critical patches.
It's too easy to bash Microsoft to have to sink to this.
I don't see anywhere on the blog article linked mentioning.Net is Open Source. In fact I did a browser "find" and the first reference to Open Source is a reply in the comments section.
Scott Gu mentions that the source code is available, which it is, and has been ever since.
Also even if Scott had mention that, how would that qualify as much fanfare. Not a peep from Micrsoft PR.
Finally, since that reference release 2 years ago. Microsoft has released the entire.Net Micro as Open Source, help out Mono in development, and promised not to sue open source implementations. Not quite Open Source, but great strides for a company that was so afraid of the process a few years back.
KDawson gives MS bashing a bad name. ( I think that's going to be my new sig)
It's understandable no one wants to get sued over a single codec when there are so many alternatives from their point of view.
Maybe this can be underwritten or funded by a larger partner. But Theora may not get much traction if it continues to be perceived as such a legal risk.
They're freely admitting upfront, "hey, on this test, we're still doing badly, but we are working on improving. It's just not our focus."
Why should ACID3 be their focus? And even so, when did they mention it's not?
I think Microsoft working towards better ACID3 compliance is great news.
For a product the size of IE to make the changes needed to go from 22 to 55 in just a few months is incredible. This is regardless of who's working on it and I hope they get closer to 100% before IE9 is released.
I really don't get. HTML5 support, CSS3 and better Javascript performance and most of the posts on here are still complaining.
Personally, I'm just happy one more major browser is aggressively ( the standards haven't been ratified yet and are subject to change ) pursuing web standards.
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The original WSJ article attributes this quote directly to ZTE...
Like most vendors ZTE will wait and see how much traction Microsoft gets before committing. In fact that they even have prototypes of in the lab is probably good news for Microsoft ( who themselves are keeping the hardware partner list short ).
Oh and also WP7 doesn't have native Asian language input support ( display works fine ) until Microsoft Mango release slated for later this year. So I don't see them doing much in Asian markets before then.
Grandparent post asking how much of Bing's traffic is forced is modded up to the maximum. Parent post which correctly points out that Google does the same thing is modded '0'
Slashdot complains about group think, but I don't know of a single online forum that encourages group think more than Slashdot. ( Fox News maybe? )
I've always been a Firefox user, and Google has always been integrated into the browser as the default search with no confirmation from me. At least Microsoft gives the user a choice the first time IE is run.
When I go to Google, it constantly reminds me to "upgrade" to Chrome.
Google pays anyone who would direct traffic to them very good money. To the point that's how Mozilla and even Opera keep their browsers free. They'll pay for Chrome installs, use to pay for toolbar installs, Android installs etc.
I'm not complaining, nice way for many businesses to increase revenue without burdening users. But it's crazy to even imagine Bing as the biggest practitioner of this.
Sigh...
- You own one of the best development frameworks in the world, a framework that is 100% cross platform, and totally Unix friendly
A lot of people would argue .Net is a much better development environment than Qt. I can't understand why someone would willingly use C++ to develop user applications ( not systems dev ) in 2011. Even Android promotes Java for this.
- The world is changing. Windows is decaying on desktops. Unix runs most servers, many desktops (combining Apple + GNU/Linux + other free Unix-like systems), and is the biggest mobile player (33% Android + 16% Apple)
How is windows 'decaying'? Is that your emotional way of saying that it's losing marketshare? If so, why should Nokia care?
- You have an awesome linux-based mobile platform (meego).
Yes, unfortunately, only nerds care about that. And in case you missed Elop's many interviews, the board was focused on delivering more than just an operating system. Microsoft brings, XBox, office productivity, Bing and many other very large franchises.
- Microsoft has consistently failed on the mobile market, and is irrelevant
Many of the innovative features found on Android and IPhone today came from Microsoft and RIM. They ran the market for at least a decade before they faltered. WP7 has been out for only 3 months and has already gained 1-3% ( depends on who you ask ). That's without Nokia.
- Every organization that has ever partnered with microsoft has lost, big time
HTC made all its money before a year or two ago from Microsoft. That tiny company would never have been able to produce its own OS. Sony did the same. Dell and HP have both grown for decades using Microsoft software.
Seriously guys?
The only source of the article is a Mandarin to English machine translation?
I'm sure nothing will get lost in that translation...
Anyone know why Motorola chose this court??
Motorola has a very large presence in Fort Lauderdale Florida.
Stuff like replacing Google search with Bing and not letting you change it back, loading phones up with unremovable crapware
How is that different from the IPhone or the other incumbents? I agree, I really hate these tactics, but I just don't see what's new about them.
It's not a verbification, it's a legitimate word used correctly in the summary, you ignorant, misguided wannabe grammar nazi.
Don't you think your response is a little emotional considering the topic?
I mean, take a step back. We're discussing language here...
Look, this verbificationismness needs to stop. Let people use wordy things the way they want. Be tolerantish.
Funny, and I actually agree. This is why I questionized my original response.
Do we really need the verbification?
Wow, this is the entire content of a +5 Insightful post.
Could you at least give us a single piece of technical evidence to back that up? However anecdotal?
Apple gave away the original IPhone and Google did so as well.
I'm sure the other phone makers have similar employee incentives.
How exactly is this news? Or some sought of new idea by MSFT?
This reminds me of the Embedded Journalists traveling with the armed forces in Iraq.
Sorry, but did you read the article? He got an immediate response.
This guy is clearly trying to meet the 5 day minimum only. Who reports a bug on a Saturday, then goes public first thing the morning of the 5th day?
Does Google Have a Double Standard on Full Disclosure?
Except he doesn't give 5 days. This guy minimizes the amount of time Microsoft has to respond to the issue while trying to stay in the 5 day window.
This just shows how dirty the IT fighting has become ( not that it was ever civil ). And as many have pointed out, even if you don't like Microsoft this affects the XP and 2003 Server users the most.
Um sure....
Bug exposes eight years of Linux kernel
The Mac's default configuration was hacked. That was day 1.
Windows wasn't hacked until they added flash to the install..
Why does the Slashdot section on worms have a picture of a crawling caterpillar?
You can do simultaneous voice and data with GPRS and Edge.
I've done this on TMobile using my HTC Dash for a while now.
Your hardware may or may not support it though.
It's not a dumb question
The question asks how do you feel. It does not ask about your actions.
To use your example. Two people can see someone is in distress, both look by casually and continue walking.
But the first did it due to lack of strong feelings to the situation or apathy. The second did it because they did feel the person's pain, but came to the conclusion that the best way to help would be to let that person deal with the issue themselves ( aka tough love ).
Although their actions are the same, they should answer the original question differently.
My observations on the subject...
An effect language communicates the very broad range of human emotions that are possible. Everything from euphoric happiness to blinding hate. And there are many, many of those spectrums.
This is where curse words come in. They help or allow us to communicate some of those extreme emotions or feelings.
Accepting those words in everyday speech, making them less taboo diminishes their effectiveness. And in the end, simply necessitates us arbitrarily marking new words as taboo so as to communicate these important feelings.
All vulnerabilities and patch side effects should be described, so I'm not defending the practice,. But until a system administrator has the full source code of the system and is willing and capable of auditing it, they should apply all critical patches.
Regardless of the operating system.
It's too easy to bash Microsoft to have to sink to this.
I don't see anywhere on the blog article linked mentioning .Net is Open Source. In fact I did a browser "find" and the first reference to Open Source is a reply in the comments section.
Scott Gu mentions that the source code is available, which it is, and has been ever since.
Also even if Scott had mention that, how would that qualify as much fanfare. Not a peep from Micrsoft PR.
Finally, since that reference release 2 years ago. Microsoft has released the entire .Net Micro as Open Source, help out Mono in development, and promised not to sue open source implementations. Not quite Open Source, but great strides for a company that was so afraid of the process a few years back.
KDawson gives MS bashing a bad name. ( I think that's going to be my new sig)
It's understandable no one wants to get sued over a single codec when there are so many alternatives from their point of view.
Maybe this can be underwritten or funded by a larger partner. But Theora may not get much traction if it continues to be perceived as such a legal risk.
They're freely admitting upfront, "hey, on this test, we're still doing badly, but we are working on improving. It's just not our focus."
Why should ACID3 be their focus? And even so, when did they mention it's not?
I think Microsoft working towards better ACID3 compliance is great news.
For a product the size of IE to make the changes needed to go from 22 to 55 in just a few months is incredible. This is regardless of who's working on it and I hope they get closer to 100% before IE9 is released.
I really don't get. HTML5 support, CSS3 and better Javascript performance and most of the posts on here are still complaining.
Personally, I'm just happy one more major browser is aggressively ( the standards haven't been ratified yet and are subject to change ) pursuing web standards.
No connection to the product, but this fake geek unboxing for the LG Expo ( projector phone ) was kind of amusing.