According to a video from PDC, Microsoft engineers have just spent three weeks with developing IE9 and have already boosted speed, compatibility and rendering quality immensely compared to IE7 and 8. So... Why didn't they spend those three weeks before actually launching IE7 and 8?
Man, I just thought I saw some obscured letters in one of the heatmaps but then realized it was just my damn glossy Macbook screen reflecting the writing on my t-shirt... Damn it...
I think this is the smartest move Microsoft has done in a long time. They need to relegate the backwards compatibility to a virtual machine, and make the next Windows OS much leaner and secure.
It would have been a smart move if they had actually been rebuilding Windows 7 from the ground up. Now there will be the situation where there are two sort-of-similar Windows versions, where some software may only run virtualized and some other software may only run natively.
To me, it sounds more like Microsoft going "Well, we didn't really get the backwards compatibility working so here's a band-aid for all you corporate customers who won't update their software".
It's not only a matter of making money. Everybody and their dog has heard that this "Vista" thing sucks. Hell, it's even hit mainstream news. So the only reasonable thing they can do is write it off as one giant failure and tell people that "Windows 7" is something completely different. Just releasing an update or a service pack wouldn't make a difference to people's perception.
I guess that's one of the big differences between European and USAian attitudes. Here in the USA we treat governments with the same level of mistrust (and, in the case of some agencies, a higher level of mistrust) than corporations. In Europe, it almost seems to be the reverse.
It's changing rapidly though, at least here in Germany. With all the new laws that are being put into place that increase the government's right to spy on people (some of these in clear violation of our constitution), people get a lot warier of what they are told.
Alas, the "war on terror" sloshed over here as well and made for a great excuse for a lot of braindead decisions.
I feel sorry for this guy's staff if he thinks he should be the one driving what customers want, not the other way around.
Sure, nobody gives a rat's ass about what this guy thinks but it's developers that tell customers what's actually a good idea. Someone might come up to you and ask for blinking text because he thinks it looks cool. Will you do it as long as you get the money or tell him that he'll annoy the hell out of his customers if he does so?
It's us techies who should know what the customer wants and posess a reasonable amount of convincing power. After all, it's our job!
No, I didn't read TFA but if they analyzed billions of messages, how do they know which ones are spam? I mean, for sure? And why do I still have a couple of false negatives with my Bogofilter if such a technology exists? charon
I silently suspect that this Dvorak guy doesn't really exist at all but that he is just an invention by the Slashdot editors allowing them to post stories about subjects that have been discussed around here for ages.
That's happening too often to be mere coincidence...
charon
Once they add decent NETworking capabilities (and rename their product accordingly), I'm sure there's quite a number of people who just can't resist.
charon
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They're working on it: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gecko:Layers
Nucular, the word is 'nucular'.
According to a video from PDC, Microsoft engineers have just spent three weeks with developing IE9 and have already boosted speed, compatibility and rendering quality immensely compared to IE7 and 8.
So... Why didn't they spend those three weeks before actually launching IE7 and 8?
Anyone can open an HTML file without having to install new software;
Except for Windows 7 users in Europe...
Man, I just thought I saw some obscured letters in one of the heatmaps but then realized it was just my damn glossy Macbook screen reflecting the writing on my t-shirt... Damn it...
Nucular! The word is nucular!
I think this is the smartest move Microsoft has done in a long time. They need to relegate the backwards compatibility to a virtual machine, and make the next Windows OS much leaner and secure.
It would have been a smart move if they had actually been rebuilding Windows 7 from the ground up. Now there will be the situation where there are two sort-of-similar Windows versions, where some software may only run virtualized and some other software may only run natively.
To me, it sounds more like Microsoft going "Well, we didn't really get the backwards compatibility working so here's a band-aid for all you corporate customers who won't update their software".
Support nightmare indeed!
Is it just me or does that sound rather like coming straight from an Orwellian "Newspeak" nightmare?
It's not only a matter of making money. Everybody and their dog has heard that this "Vista" thing sucks. Hell, it's even hit mainstream news. So the only reasonable thing they can do is write it off as one giant failure and tell people that "Windows 7" is something completely different. Just releasing an update or a service pack wouldn't make a difference to people's perception.
There is Swissvpn (http://www.swissvpn.net/) which (as I'm told) works quite well. Mainland Europe, too.
I guess that's one of the big differences between European and USAian attitudes. Here in the USA we treat governments with the same level of mistrust (and, in the case of some agencies, a higher level of mistrust) than corporations. In Europe, it almost seems to be the reverse.
It's changing rapidly though, at least here in Germany. With all the new laws that are being put into place that increase the government's right to spy on people (some of these in clear violation of our constitution), people get a lot warier of what they are told.
Alas, the "war on terror" sloshed over here as well and made for a great excuse for a lot of braindead decisions.
Where's my "-1 Disturbing" modifier when I need it...
Even if a CEO had cancel or some other health issue...
And we all know what a bitch that cancel thing can be...
Sure, nobody gives a rat's ass about what this guy thinks but it's developers that tell customers what's actually a good idea. Someone might come up to you and ask for blinking text because he thinks it looks cool. Will you do it as long as you get the money or tell him that he'll annoy the hell out of his customers if he does so?
It's us techies who should know what the customer wants and posess a reasonable amount of convincing power. After all, it's our job!
No, I didn't read TFA but if they analyzed billions of messages, how do they know which ones are spam? I mean, for sure? And why do I still have a couple of false negatives with my Bogofilter if such a technology exists?
charon
... Transactions, ACID...Yeah, it's about time mysql supports this stupid smiley face. Opera's had this for ages!
Honestly, why can't anyone come up with original acronyms?
Those were the eight patches where this BrowserShield thing actually worked! What did you think?
*raises eyebrow*
I silently suspect that this Dvorak guy doesn't really exist at all but that he is just an invention by the Slashdot editors allowing them to post stories about subjects that have been discussed around here for ages.
That's happening too often to be mere coincidence...
charon
And you don't want to know what your mails look like after they've gone through that.
charon
Ever heard of hay fever? Allergies? Think, people, think! charon
Once they add decent NETworking capabilities (and rename their product accordingly), I'm sure there's quite a number of people who just can't resist.
charon
> I'm a programmer.
> (...) but honestly, I don't want to compile,
I sense some trouble there...
charon
This is nothing more than the usual troll post - just that it's an article this time instead of a comment... nothing new here. charon
... in German by Spiegel Online charon