Easy, release the code that powers your SAAS. In most cases, the appeal of SAAS isn't the fact I can't run the same code myself, it's the fact I can pay you to do it for me and when it breaks, it's not my problem, it's yours.
Since NASA is US Government institution and United States is Representative Republic, I'm kind of glad democracy was thrown out. I think NASA handled this quite well and only people insulted are people who forget "The Colbert Report" airs on a channel called "Comedy Central".
Driver support for Windows XP x64 isn't there but support for Vista x64 is. I just upgraded my home computer to Vista 64 bit Ultimate because I was having issues with XP x64 drivers. All my Vista drivers have been flawless. If I was Microsoft, I would announce that Windows 7 is last 32 bit desktop OS they will be making and all new Desktop OSes will be 64 bit. Windows 2008 is last 32 bit server OS. Even Windows 2008 R2 is 64bit only.
GoogleTalk server uses XMPP standards to communicate. Only time I've seen Server to Server messages not function properly with GoogleTalk is when you do not have proper SRV records set for your domain.
Where do you make the jump that alienation by new UI in Office is going to cause average joe to completely throw his OS out the Window and replace it with Linux? If anything, he might download Open Office on Windows and give it a spin but most users do what they do in my office. They complain about the new UI, grumble, use the Help Facility to find where some stuff got buried and by end of the week, the complaining has stopped. It's change and all users hate change but majority of them get over it.
If you have seen more then 3 Windows boxes and you always have those problems, then it's either one of three things.
You constantly get shoddy hardware and Windows barfs on it, some buggy program you are running blows up explorer or PEBKAC. Every time I've come across explorer.exe crashing with any frequency, it's one of three problems above. Generally PEBKAC 90% of the time. Windows has alot of problems but properly patched Vista install running Word, Outlook and Internet Explorer or Firefox will not have any problems.
When talking about Windows server, which in most businesses is Operating system your talking about, only 2008 is IPv6 100%. 2003 is not 100% IPv6 and some stuff must be done either via config files or command line. Not that this is bad thing but when your looking at GUI Console, you don't see IPv6 information which could lead to confusion. Easy example is that 2003/XP look up AAAA DNS records over IPv4 instead of IPv6. Also, Active Directory over IPv6 is not supported as well. Vista and Windows 7 support IPv6 natively along with Windows 2008. Till those operating systems are largely used in Enterprise, we will still see IPv4 being rolled out.
My guess is IPv6 will not see wide adoption in United States till IPv4 addresses are completely exhausted and their price skyrockets which should happen around 2011/2012. Native IPv6 deployments (where IPv4 address are not given to clients) till 2014-2016.
No, it pops up some control panel to either check for updates, download updates or install updates depending on your current Windows Update status. It's decent at what it does.
No, Symantec Endpoint Protection is just as crappy. It's not Norton level of shit but it's there. It still likes to eat CPU cycles for no reason and randomly crash. Also, as added feature, it marks many Windows Network tools like Angry IP Scanner, Blues Port Scanner and Ethereal as "Hacking tools" or other such garbage. Makes diagnosing problems with users PC quite entertaining as I get to box with Virus Scanner on top of everything else.
Then I have to install ACL support and headache that goes with that, hoping something doesn't scramble my file system. In most businesses, Windows Server is not terribly expensive and allows the admin to get more done in less time.
Note, there are distros that offer GUIs for getting this done but they generally cost $$$. Why spend $$$ and introduce multi OS environment into what used to be single OS environment resulting in additional headaches.
TL;DR version: Windows 7 has DRM but same DRM from Vista and almost all users will not be bothered by it. You can crack Photoshop and record audio once software gets properly updated (and their cracks).
It wouldn't put them out of business but if her work was decent before but has fallen to complete crap, you have a problem. It's standard problem business face after employee suffers traumatic personal life issue. How long do you let them heal? 1 month, 3 months, a year before you demand the same performance? What if they never heal? Miscarriages are particularly difficult one to deal with. At a job I had as computer tech, we had one lady who had one. She was gone for 2 months and when she finally came back, her performance wasn't great. She then got pregnant again and that was mess. She was at Doctors at least once a week if not more. She started to become ultra protective where she need someone to lift anything over 10 pounds for her so she couldn't even haul desktops off the user's desk without assistance. She would question our health if we even coughed and got mad at me when I went to doctor and wouldn't tell her why I went. One day she just disappeared and never came back and found out she was gone on medical issues and finally the company let her go. Officially, I think it was mutual separation due to medical problems.
You took a beta operating system, installed a cracked program, and then after some stuff went completely screwy, started blame Windows for all of this? I haven't really tested Windows 7 but I seriously doubt it locks you out of Local Settings folder. Adding Exceptions to Firewall has been around since XP and Vista but I believe if you have UAC enabled, it will complain about that. Usability vs Security and Microsoft compromised with UAC if I remember correctly. Besides, hoping your firewall picks up some nasty and prevents it communicating outbound after you have executed is little much.
Then, you took some Audio recording program which probably hasn't been updated for Windows 7 (and that's possibly cracked since your so willing to crack Photoshop) with beta quality drivers and ended up with some crappy quality audio. Instead of ruling out drivers, operating system compatibility between programs you were using and lack of any form of nasty payload on this cracked software, you have determined that Microsoft is completely in bed with RIAA and Adobe to completely screw everyone over.
This article doesn't even count as news, it looks like shit you would find on digg and kdawson should have his editor privileges revoked for letting this be cleared for publication. Next article cleared for publication by kdawson: "Black Helicopters seen over Redmond, Washington. Microsoft in bed with CIA and developing brain reader. Get your tinfoil."
No but they could do similar to best buy and stock a bunch of computers from those different companies.
I see the store as something that will launch with Windows 7. With free upgrade track from Vista (if the rumor is true) and fact Mac is starting to make inroads partly due to the Mac Stores, evidence is there that Microsoft is feeling threatened in the consumer market.
Also other products they could sell include Zune, Windows Mobile Cell phones from several different carriers and Xbox360 stuff.
I think it's interesting idea, not one that will go well but you never know.
For a poli sci major, you seem to a little misinformed on which documents are binding law in United States and which are simply important documents in History of United States.
Constitution - Binding Law Declaration of Independence - Important Document Federalist Papers - Important Document
And yes, we have stripped states of rights using purse strings or just flat out ignoring interstate commerce clause. Also, we passed 17th Amendment which removed the ability of states to have influence on Federal Government. States can now bitch to Federal government but have no ability past bitching to change anything.
We have a lefty at work who fliped her mouse to her left side and even flipped the buttons around. It's quite annoying when I have to fix her computer.
Part of the problem is directory structure in Windows. Applications for some reason want to write some.dlls to one location(generally Windows system folder), user settings to another and bulk of the files to a third. Instead of shoving all the.dlls and application files into Program files\appname and should shove all the settings into My Documents\My Settings\Appname to make backing up easy as backing up My Docs.
It's a mess to get it all working properly and to get Windows clients to swallow it.
While I applaud their laudable goals, I don't see this making it very far. In 12 months, Exchange 2010 will probably be out and they will continue to play catch up. Also, it needs to drop into Active Directory without Windows AD servers not complaining and Outlook clients not noticing a change. For most businesses, no email world stops and price of Exchange is worth it to many businesses.
It has it's appeal in fact that A. Phone calls are an interrupt. While I can let it roll to voicemail, I then have call my voicemail and retrieve my messages. B. You can send text messages in places where calling someone is considered rude. C. not all phones have Email support while almost all cell phones do. D. For short stuff, text messages are quicker. I can send a quick text to girlfriend "Where Dinner Tonight?" and she can respond with "restaruant A,B,C,D" and I can go "B". It takes about 1 minute to type out and we can respond to each other when we have time at work.
As far as downtime, It's just like telephone networks or internet, they sell based on the fact not everyone is going to be using their systems 100% of the time. If cell phone companies charged for their system to be able to handle 100%, basic plans would cost 350 dollars and unlimited would be 1000 or so. The real concern is all the cops there will be using Cell phones and they will need to communicate using them and if something happens, they won't be able to communicate.
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Fighters pilots won't die but primary issue is we don't need fighter pilots in our current conflicts. What guys on the ground want and need is Close Air Support or CAS. Something that Air Force isn't interested in and doesn't want to build planes to do. However, Drones are extremely effective at this and would probably get alot more effective at if Air Force went along with it.
Which OSes are you referring to? Their OS has been stable since XP SP2 (2004) and before that XP pretty stable. Windows 2000 was extremely stable as well. Vista issues are compatibility and general UI issues but stability has not been a problem in my Vista testing. I don't remember DOS days but I'll agree with Win9x versions were crap. That's about 7 years or so of crap OSes.
Gmail and Google Calendar are not replacements for several reasons.
First being despite how responsive and AJAX, it's still a web client and still slower to work then Outlook. Second, many companies are not willing to turn over their email to outside party that they cannot control what they do with it.
Zimbra is a nightmare and there is no reason to use Outlook as client but not use Exchange as backend. It might be cheaper but I've never seen anything that plugins to Outlook work as well as native Exchange.
XP is bloody operating system for personal computer, not operating system for AI that operates terminator drones. Microsoft probably didn't even build the system they are using and doesn't know their OS is being used for said system. Like most things done for government, a contractor build the system, they developed in Windows because A. Government is more then happy to spend your tax dollars on Windows licenses. B. Windows programmers are dime a dozen.
Try not seeing evil conspiracy where there is none. You can probably walk through check point wearing a Linux TShirt and system isn't going to deploy ceiling mounted turrets and blow you away. You might want to try removing the tinfoil, I think it's cutting off circulation.
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Easy, release the code that powers your SAAS. In most cases, the appeal of SAAS isn't the fact I can't run the same code myself, it's the fact I can pay you to do it for me and when it breaks, it's not my problem, it's yours.
Since NASA is US Government institution and United States is Representative Republic, I'm kind of glad democracy was thrown out. I think NASA handled this quite well and only people insulted are people who forget "The Colbert Report" airs on a channel called "Comedy Central".
Driver support for Windows XP x64 isn't there but support for Vista x64 is. I just upgraded my home computer to Vista 64 bit Ultimate because I was having issues with XP x64 drivers. All my Vista drivers have been flawless. If I was Microsoft, I would announce that Windows 7 is last 32 bit desktop OS they will be making and all new Desktop OSes will be 64 bit. Windows 2008 is last 32 bit server OS. Even Windows 2008 R2 is 64bit only.
GoogleTalk server uses XMPP standards to communicate. Only time I've seen Server to Server messages not function properly with GoogleTalk is when you do not have proper SRV records set for your domain.
Where do you make the jump that alienation by new UI in Office is going to cause average joe to completely throw his OS out the Window and replace it with Linux? If anything, he might download Open Office on Windows and give it a spin but most users do what they do in my office. They complain about the new UI, grumble, use the Help Facility to find where some stuff got buried and by end of the week, the complaining has stopped. It's change and all users hate change but majority of them get over it.
If you have seen more then 3 Windows boxes and you always have those problems, then it's either one of three things.
You constantly get shoddy hardware and Windows barfs on it, some buggy program you are running blows up explorer or PEBKAC. Every time I've come across explorer.exe crashing with any frequency, it's one of three problems above. Generally PEBKAC 90% of the time. Windows has alot of problems but properly patched Vista install running Word, Outlook and Internet Explorer or Firefox will not have any problems.
When talking about Windows server, which in most businesses is Operating system your talking about, only 2008 is IPv6 100%. 2003 is not 100% IPv6 and some stuff must be done either via config files or command line. Not that this is bad thing but when your looking at GUI Console, you don't see IPv6 information which could lead to confusion. Easy example is that 2003/XP look up AAAA DNS records over IPv4 instead of IPv6. Also, Active Directory over IPv6 is not supported as well. Vista and Windows 7 support IPv6 natively along with Windows 2008. Till those operating systems are largely used in Enterprise, we will still see IPv4 being rolled out.
My guess is IPv6 will not see wide adoption in United States till IPv4 addresses are completely exhausted and their price skyrockets which should happen around 2011/2012. Native IPv6 deployments (where IPv4 address are not given to clients) till 2014-2016.
No, it pops up some control panel to either check for updates, download updates or install updates depending on your current Windows Update status. It's decent at what it does.
No, Symantec Endpoint Protection is just as crappy. It's not Norton level of shit but it's there. It still likes to eat CPU cycles for no reason and randomly crash. Also, as added feature, it marks many Windows Network tools like Angry IP Scanner, Blues Port Scanner and Ethereal as "Hacking tools" or other such garbage. Makes diagnosing problems with users PC quite entertaining as I get to box with Virus Scanner on top of everything else.
Actually no, I'm a busy admin and I don't have time to follow these instructions for getting Samba hooked up to Active Directory: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_&_Active_Directory
Then I have to install ACL support and headache that goes with that, hoping something doesn't scramble my file system. In most businesses, Windows Server is not terribly expensive and allows the admin to get more done in less time.
Note, there are distros that offer GUIs for getting this done but they generally cost $$$. Why spend $$$ and introduce multi OS environment into what used to be single OS environment resulting in additional headaches.
Or the fact that besides that complete bullshit slashdot article that was posted makes everything think there is some massive DRM in Windows 7.
My previous comment sums up that slashdot article quite nicely: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1130241&cid=26882509
or Ars Tech article: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/02/oh-the-humanity-windows-7s-draconian-drm.ars
TL;DR version: Windows 7 has DRM but same DRM from Vista and almost all users will not be bothered by it. You can crack Photoshop and record audio once software gets properly updated (and their cracks).
It wouldn't put them out of business but if her work was decent before but has fallen to complete crap, you have a problem. It's standard problem business face after employee suffers traumatic personal life issue. How long do you let them heal? 1 month, 3 months, a year before you demand the same performance? What if they never heal? Miscarriages are particularly difficult one to deal with. At a job I had as computer tech, we had one lady who had one. She was gone for 2 months and when she finally came back, her performance wasn't great. She then got pregnant again and that was mess. She was at Doctors at least once a week if not more. She started to become ultra protective where she need someone to lift anything over 10 pounds for her so she couldn't even haul desktops off the user's desk without assistance. She would question our health if we even coughed and got mad at me when I went to doctor and wouldn't tell her why I went. One day she just disappeared and never came back and found out she was gone on medical issues and finally the company let her go. Officially, I think it was mutual separation due to medical problems.
You took a beta operating system, installed a cracked program, and then after some stuff went completely screwy, started blame Windows for all of this? I haven't really tested Windows 7 but I seriously doubt it locks you out of Local Settings folder. Adding Exceptions to Firewall has been around since XP and Vista but I believe if you have UAC enabled, it will complain about that. Usability vs Security and Microsoft compromised with UAC if I remember correctly. Besides, hoping your firewall picks up some nasty and prevents it communicating outbound after you have executed is little much.
Then, you took some Audio recording program which probably hasn't been updated for Windows 7 (and that's possibly cracked since your so willing to crack Photoshop) with beta quality drivers and ended up with some crappy quality audio. Instead of ruling out drivers, operating system compatibility between programs you were using and lack of any form of nasty payload on this cracked software, you have determined that Microsoft is completely in bed with RIAA and Adobe to completely screw everyone over.
This article doesn't even count as news, it looks like shit you would find on digg and kdawson should have his editor privileges revoked for letting this be cleared for publication. Next article cleared for publication by kdawson: "Black Helicopters seen over Redmond, Washington. Microsoft in bed with CIA and developing brain reader. Get your tinfoil."
No but they could do similar to best buy and stock a bunch of computers from those different companies.
I see the store as something that will launch with Windows 7. With free upgrade track from Vista (if the rumor is true) and fact Mac is starting to make inroads partly due to the Mac Stores, evidence is there that Microsoft is feeling threatened in the consumer market.
Also other products they could sell include Zune, Windows Mobile Cell phones from several different carriers and Xbox360 stuff.
I think it's interesting idea, not one that will go well but you never know.
For a poli sci major, you seem to a little misinformed on which documents are binding law in United States and which are simply important documents in History of United States.
Constitution - Binding Law
Declaration of Independence - Important Document
Federalist Papers - Important Document
And yes, we have stripped states of rights using purse strings or just flat out ignoring interstate commerce clause. Also, we passed 17th Amendment which removed the ability of states to have influence on Federal Government. States can now bitch to Federal government but have no ability past bitching to change anything.
We have a lefty at work who fliped her mouse to her left side and even flipped the buttons around. It's quite annoying when I have to fix her computer.
Part of the problem is directory structure in Windows. Applications for some reason want to write some .dlls to one location(generally Windows system folder), user settings to another and bulk of the files to a third. Instead of shoving all the .dlls and application files into Program files\appname and should shove all the settings into My Documents\My Settings\Appname to make backing up easy as backing up My Docs.
It's a mess to get it all working properly and to get Windows clients to swallow it.
While I applaud their laudable goals, I don't see this making it very far. In 12 months, Exchange 2010 will probably be out and they will continue to play catch up. Also, it needs to drop into Active Directory without Windows AD servers not complaining and Outlook clients not noticing a change. For most businesses, no email world stops and price of Exchange is worth it to many businesses.
Because people the coupons are for are the "poor" and poor people don't pay any taxes.
Saved us from getting the latest and greatest version of Office.
So would Office 2007 compatibility pack. Added Bonus of not having to have everyone sent to you for conversion. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/HA101686761033.aspx
It has it's appeal in fact that A. Phone calls are an interrupt. While I can let it roll to voicemail, I then have call my voicemail and retrieve my messages. B. You can send text messages in places where calling someone is considered rude. C. not all phones have Email support while almost all cell phones do. D. For short stuff, text messages are quicker. I can send a quick text to girlfriend "Where Dinner Tonight?" and she can respond with "restaruant A,B,C,D" and I can go "B". It takes about 1 minute to type out and we can respond to each other when we have time at work.
As far as downtime, It's just like telephone networks or internet, they sell based on the fact not everyone is going to be using their systems 100% of the time. If cell phone companies charged for their system to be able to handle 100%, basic plans would cost 350 dollars and unlimited would be 1000 or so. The real concern is all the cops there will be using Cell phones and they will need to communicate using them and if something happens, they won't be able to communicate.
Fighters pilots won't die but primary issue is we don't need fighter pilots in our current conflicts. What guys on the ground want and need is Close Air Support or CAS. Something that Air Force isn't interested in and doesn't want to build planes to do. However, Drones are extremely effective at this and would probably get alot more effective at if Air Force went along with it.
Which OSes are you referring to? Their OS has been stable since XP SP2 (2004) and before that XP pretty stable. Windows 2000 was extremely stable as well. Vista issues are compatibility and general UI issues but stability has not been a problem in my Vista testing. I don't remember DOS days but I'll agree with Win9x versions were crap. That's about 7 years or so of crap OSes.
Gmail and Google Calendar are not replacements for several reasons.
First being despite how responsive and AJAX, it's still a web client and still slower to work then Outlook.
Second, many companies are not willing to turn over their email to outside party that they cannot control what they do with it.
Zimbra is a nightmare and there is no reason to use Outlook as client but not use Exchange as backend. It might be cheaper but I've never seen anything that plugins to Outlook work as well as native Exchange.
XP is bloody operating system for personal computer, not operating system for AI that operates terminator drones. Microsoft probably didn't even build the system they are using and doesn't know their OS is being used for said system. Like most things done for government, a contractor build the system, they developed in Windows because A. Government is more then happy to spend your tax dollars on Windows licenses. B. Windows programmers are dime a dozen.
Try not seeing evil conspiracy where there is none. You can probably walk through check point wearing a Linux TShirt and system isn't going to deploy ceiling mounted turrets and blow you away. You might want to try removing the tinfoil, I think it's cutting off circulation.