The 'softie sockpuppets are going to be really harsh with their mods on everything below the parent. There's nothing I can do about that. They're kicking my ass too, so if you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
You can't be serious Mr. AC. OneNote is not Office. Nobody in their right mind would run Microsoft software on their Android or iOS device. Microsoft is desperate to kill Android above all else, for their own survival - and iOS second. Microsoft didn't make the turn to mobile so everything they can't win they must spoil. That's a recipe for disaster.
The selective memory of you 'softie fans is amazing. There's a reason for these things. In 1986 Windows looked like this. Sales of Mac Office kept Microsoft alive in this period. Microsoft Office was moved to reinforce Windows as soon as Windows was a credible environment. Windows wasn't even a credible platform until Windows for Workgroups (Windows 3.11) was released in November 1993, some 7 years later (or 1/3 of the time to present day). Mac Office was so lagging for a long while after WfW launch that it was effectively discontinued, and Office's superior support of the Windows platform was a huge part of Windows assuming dominance over the superior Mac OS which had come to rely on Office, which now offered degraded inferior performance and features on the Mac OS. There were some other shenanigans you can read about in the above links. It was a very successful strategy you can read more about here - enough horrifying content to keep you awake for years. But if that's not enough, you might try these. Microsoft through these lessons evolved a strategy where all their products have to reinforce each other, and that became their core strategy. And then...
Apple got some traction in their TrueType font rendering patent suit against Microsoft and the Justice department was closing in on an antitrust action legendary in its scope and reach. Bill Gates blinked, and they settled, and now there's Mac Office, but you can't say that it's fully supported. The Mac versions lag the Windows versions by some years and are not fully compatible with each other in ways that can't be explained by OS platform differences. The Office platform supports Windows now, as you can see by all the sockpuppets who come out every time somebody mentions some non-Windows operating system to say "you can't get Microsoft Office for that and you never will." And then the rest of us chime in "Application vitualization solves that problem."
Eventually Microsoft discovered political advocacy and contributed in various ways to the installation of a government more supportive of their business activities. Then the enforcement of antitrust protections to limit them and protect us against their abuse of their monopoly became lax, the limits were quashed until those protections expired. But that's another long story for another day.
They sell Microsoft Office for operating systems other than Windows.
This concession to the antitrust authorities and Apple is something of an exception to the general rule and it was a brutal fight to make it come about. Your use of "operating systems" in the plural is interesting. Other than Mac OS X, which? Windows Phone shouldn't count in this context. Are there any others?
Since most of us live paycheck to paycheck already, and a job is easy enough to be rid of when you are accused of a serious crime, this seems not to be a serious impediment to the "crash the courts" strategy. The wealthy are unlikely to contribute to this social change. As others have observed, once you plead you are going to be impoverished for the rest of your life anyway, you may as well start right away and get the chance to be acquitted or crash the oppressive system.
There are three hundred million Android devices in the field, adding almost a million more every single day. If you can't profitably sell your application into that base, it's your problem.
Oh yeah, Android is horribly fragmented into camps that like physical keyboards or not, HD cams or no, front facing cams or not, items in pink, blue or prints.
Android vendors have better margins even than Apple, and that's saying something. I enjoy choosing, so I like the mess that Android is.
Count me in for four at least for my own house, and as many for gifts for Christmas.
I'm ot sure where you're going with that 1984 rhetoric though. This stuff works for us, it delivers modern innovation - and yet it lets us do with it what we will. That's not the same thing at all as the dystopian vision you portend.
Have you some credible source, some study or even some analyst to call dire outcomes? Surely you must. Your fear, show me it.
A 3.4 magnitude tremor isn't exactly earth-shattering. Anyway, he asked "what else is there?" The answer is clean, local, baseload enhanced geothermal systems. There is more than enough thermal resources in Japan to meet their needs for the next thousand years. It offsets wind and solar resources much better than nuclear, as it can be safely dialled up and down for periods of calm and wind, night and day. If they had started a crash drilling program as soon as their reactors started melting down they might have plants online by now. If they'd thought to include it in their mix earlier they wouldn't even be having an energy crisis now, as EGS systems can run above their steady state capacity for emergencies for quite a long time before they deplete their thermal resource, buying time to build more plants.
But as you were. Let's go back to pretending there is no such thing.
Speculating about the terms is useless. There is no requirement that this customer uses a standard license or terms. Like Nokia they may have a special deal where Microsoft pays THEM per activated user, and now Microsoft is saying "er, wait. This isn't going how we thought so let's draw your attention to Paragraph 752, subparagraph 17 which reads 'offer void under the following conditions' and under codicil 3 of the 4th amendment was added the text 'if we say so'." We don't, and won't know the terms so there's no point in talking about it.
OnLive should have known better. Nothing good comes of bargaining with the devil.
The wheel was invented several times, but the first few inventors didn't have practical implementations in mind. So it took many patent expiration generations for it to find common use.
For Bill Gates' humanitarian mission to be his legacy, Microsoft has to die. Otherwise the Beast he created to gain the wealth for his charity is the only thing we will remember him for - even if his charity cures hunger, malaria, AIDS and cancer.
At the time it was remarkable that overlapping windows could occur. At the same time that it was remarkable that this could occur, admins of multiple Unix systems (like me) were dragging their XWindows into overlapping window configurations on their XTerminals in the regular course of business.
Once in a great while common use surpasses even theory to get the work done.
I'm pretty sure that the PARC demo was seminal. They took from a lot of people but they didn't take as much from everybody else altogether as much they did from PARC. Why PARC didn't patent and exploit it is a different question. Another question is why Digital didn't market the demo PC they built - vehemently opposed by David Cutler.
Dave Cutler, who was involved with this technology, jumped to Microsoft at that time (October 1988) and is still there now. He was working on the recently embarrassingly failed Azure, but is now on the XBox team.
He's 70 now so his contributions might not be as vigorous as they once were - but they have the unequaled benefit of his unique experience of having prevented DEC from marketing the PC they invented.
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The 'softie sockpuppets are going to be really harsh with their mods on everything below the parent. There's nothing I can do about that. They're kicking my ass too, so if you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
You can't be serious Mr. AC. OneNote is not Office. Nobody in their right mind would run Microsoft software on their Android or iOS device. Microsoft is desperate to kill Android above all else, for their own survival - and iOS second. Microsoft didn't make the turn to mobile so everything they can't win they must spoil. That's a recipe for disaster.
The selective memory of you 'softie fans is amazing. There's a reason for these things. In 1986 Windows looked like this. Sales of Mac Office kept Microsoft alive in this period. Microsoft Office was moved to reinforce Windows as soon as Windows was a credible environment. Windows wasn't even a credible platform until Windows for Workgroups (Windows 3.11) was released in November 1993, some 7 years later (or 1/3 of the time to present day). Mac Office was so lagging for a long while after WfW launch that it was effectively discontinued, and Office's superior support of the Windows platform was a huge part of Windows assuming dominance over the superior Mac OS which had come to rely on Office, which now offered degraded inferior performance and features on the Mac OS. There were some other shenanigans you can read about in the above links. It was a very successful strategy you can read more about here - enough horrifying content to keep you awake for years. But if that's not enough, you might try these. Microsoft through these lessons evolved a strategy where all their products have to reinforce each other, and that became their core strategy. And then...
Apple got some traction in their TrueType font rendering patent suit against Microsoft and the Justice department was closing in on an antitrust action legendary in its scope and reach. Bill Gates blinked, and they settled, and now there's Mac Office, but you can't say that it's fully supported. The Mac versions lag the Windows versions by some years and are not fully compatible with each other in ways that can't be explained by OS platform differences. The Office platform supports Windows now, as you can see by all the sockpuppets who come out every time somebody mentions some non-Windows operating system to say "you can't get Microsoft Office for that and you never will." And then the rest of us chime in "Application vitualization solves that problem."
Eventually Microsoft discovered political advocacy and contributed in various ways to the installation of a government more supportive of their business activities. Then the enforcement of antitrust protections to limit them and protect us against their abuse of their monopoly became lax, the limits were quashed until those protections expired. But that's another long story for another day.
OneNote is not Microsoft Office. It's not even properly an Office app. It's an applet at best.
They sell Microsoft Office for operating systems other than Windows.
This concession to the antitrust authorities and Apple is something of an exception to the general rule and it was a brutal fight to make it come about. Your use of "operating systems" in the plural is interesting. Other than Mac OS X, which? Windows Phone shouldn't count in this context. Are there any others?
Since most of us live paycheck to paycheck already, and a job is easy enough to be rid of when you are accused of a serious crime, this seems not to be a serious impediment to the "crash the courts" strategy. The wealthy are unlikely to contribute to this social change. As others have observed, once you plead you are going to be impoverished for the rest of your life anyway, you may as well start right away and get the chance to be acquitted or crash the oppressive system.
There are three hundred million Android devices in the field, adding almost a million more every single day. If you can't profitably sell your application into that base, it's your problem.
That makes you perceptive and compassionate.
Oh yeah, Android is horribly fragmented into camps that like physical keyboards or not, HD cams or no, front facing cams or not, items in pink, blue or prints.
Android vendors have better margins even than Apple, and that's saying something. I enjoy choosing, so I like the mess that Android is.
Count me in for four at least for my own house, and as many for gifts for Christmas.
I'm ot sure where you're going with that 1984 rhetoric though. This stuff works for us, it delivers modern innovation - and yet it lets us do with it what we will. That's not the same thing at all as the dystopian vision you portend.
Have you some credible source, some study or even some analyst to call dire outcomes? Surely you must. Your fear, show me it.
Did you try pressing the power button on the PC? If that doesn't work, hold it down for five seconds.
A 3.4 magnitude tremor isn't exactly earth-shattering. Anyway, he asked "what else is there?" The answer is clean, local, baseload enhanced geothermal systems. There is more than enough thermal resources in Japan to meet their needs for the next thousand years. It offsets wind and solar resources much better than nuclear, as it can be safely dialled up and down for periods of calm and wind, night and day. If they had started a crash drilling program as soon as their reactors started melting down they might have plants online by now. If they'd thought to include it in their mix earlier they wouldn't even be having an energy crisis now, as EGS systems can run above their steady state capacity for emergencies for quite a long time before they deplete their thermal resource, buying time to build more plants.
But as you were. Let's go back to pretending there is no such thing.
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Those who ignore Unix are doomed to reimplement it, poorly.
We're talking here about OnLive. In addition to Windows and Office they also stream recent PC games to your iOS or Android device.
Speculating about the terms is useless. There is no requirement that this customer uses a standard license or terms. Like Nokia they may have a special deal where Microsoft pays THEM per activated user, and now Microsoft is saying "er, wait. This isn't going how we thought so let's draw your attention to Paragraph 752, subparagraph 17 which reads 'offer void under the following conditions' and under codicil 3 of the 4th amendment was added the text 'if we say so'." We don't, and won't know the terms so there's no point in talking about it.
OnLive should have known better. Nothing good comes of bargaining with the devil.
Pfft. You kids and your "tiny" 17" screens. Back in the day a 5" screen was a luxury.
The Model M keyboard is dishwasher safe for the top rack. You have to disassemble it to dry though, or use the vacuum process. Rinse agents are OK.
You aren't going to convince these guys. Their hatred is a bitter sauce, but they insist on it. It is its own reward though.
Just because it may be Microsoft talking points does not mean that those points are incorrect, or that they are merely intended as FUD.
That is exactly what that means.
He's right. Google's prime motivation is providing killer services. As long as they continue to do that advertisers will have nowhere else to go.
The wheel was invented several times, but the first few inventors didn't have practical implementations in mind. So it took many patent expiration generations for it to find common use.
For Bill Gates' humanitarian mission to be his legacy, Microsoft has to die. Otherwise the Beast he created to gain the wealth for his charity is the only thing we will remember him for - even if his charity cures hunger, malaria, AIDS and cancer.
At the time it was remarkable that overlapping windows could occur. At the same time that it was remarkable that this could occur, admins of multiple Unix systems (like me) were dragging their XWindows into overlapping window configurations on their XTerminals in the regular course of business.
Once in a great while common use surpasses even theory to get the work done.
I'm pretty sure that the PARC demo was seminal. They took from a lot of people but they didn't take as much from everybody else altogether as much they did from PARC. Why PARC didn't patent and exploit it is a different question. Another question is why Digital didn't market the demo PC they built - vehemently opposed by David Cutler.
Dave Cutler, who was involved with this technology, jumped to Microsoft at that time (October 1988) and is still there now. He was working on the recently embarrassingly failed Azure, but is now on the XBox team.
He's 70 now so his contributions might not be as vigorous as they once were - but they have the unequaled benefit of his unique experience of having prevented DEC from marketing the PC they invented.
What a coincidence. That's about how long it will take for certain patents to expire.