Have you ever worked on or maintained an operating system? It is a little more complex than writing little apps. Are you so sure that they are dragging their feet? Are you aware that all software companies do this same thing? Do you really feel that it is correct for a competitor that is not a security firm to go after another competitor like that? Google is doing the same thing on Android, Apple repeatedly has done the same thing.
Office 365 is not a data mining tool. It is a pay for subscription to the latest version of Office and allows you to install on multiple machines. And you can still buy Office as a single license that is not a part of the subscription model. Also, any version of Office, 356 or otherwise, allows you to save everything on your own machine or out on One Drive.
I think that Microsoft has better intentions in this than Google does. Microsoft acknowledged the bugs and requested that Google delay the public release slightly so that they could patch. Google to me seems to be simply slamming Microsoft. All the while Google has extremely vulnerable versions of it's old stock browser on older but not out of support Android phones that it openly states that it will not patch.
But to my knowledge that is the only way Google makes any money at all, and, since Google has a higher market cap than Microsoft who also sells a lot of for profit software, I can only assume that Google sells a lot more information. Every tool Google provides for consumers is a data mining tool that is funded solely by data mining. Microsoft actually sells stuff that you can buy and use without agreeing to allow your data to be mined.
I sincerely hope that they wait to do this until after I am dead. Honestly, I believe that they want to tinker with things that they barely understand.
Do Irish citizens living in Ireland agree to abide by all applicable US Laws when the create an Outlook.com account? No they don't. You do realize that US law doesn't apply in Ireland, right? Your point is irrelevant. Also, why is email so different than the U.S. Mail?
Microsoft is fighting the good fight. Yes it is in their own best interest, but the US Government is currently their biggest threat to remaining a globally viable company. Microsoft currently seems to have more interest in the public good than our government does.
Kind of funny that in this great "Land of the Free" companies are prioritized over people. Must be that American Dream everyone likes to fantasize about, or some other American myth. This is a great country but we seem to be addicted to lying to ourselves here.
Right....you are aware that our government spying on foreign businesses has a negative impact on American tech companies that try to business with other countries? If they are our allies we should trust them. If they stop being our allies we should stop trusting them. Simple.
I lived in Europe and their cars for the most part are not econoboxes. They might not drive big SUVs and trucks like many do here in the US, but on average they drive better than average cars when compared with the US.
The coffee isn't good, the amount of plastic waste is ridiculous, and each cup of coffee is expensive! Laziness is the only reason I could justify a Keurig, but then again I am a coffee snob who grinds craft roasted bean from a local roaster every morning. It is kind of sad that someone like me thinks it is too expensive, but I feel more justified that I spent 300 on my bur grinder than I would feel to buy one of their machines.
It surprises me that the government might have this opinion, but I guess that it shouldn't. I wish that the government would remember that those people who post things to social networking sites believe that they are posting to a limited group of their friends. The government is really the friend of no one.
It is about time that Microsoft finally helps protect their customers from the flaws in their applications and network stack. They should have been doing this for years as I find it completely unacceptable to have to subscribe to third party software to protect my PC. That is why I use a Mac. Four years running: No viruses, no spyware (and never any OS related crashes or malfunctions).
I am a Windows developer with 10 years of experience as an SA of 300 Windows servers; I am pretty proficient with Windows.
I was going to comment about that same line: "I don't have time to mess around at my local Barnes & Noble and browse books..."
It sounds like you need to fix your life first if you can't make an hour sometime during the course of your week to go to the bookstore. It doesn't take any more time than does Amazon. You have time to read magazines, make time for the bookstore.
I also do not understand: "Less expensive than Amazon in the long run."
The clubs are only less expensive for a short while. They give you free books and then require that you buy their more expensive and generally cut-rate, cheaply bound editions. Book club books are not built of the same quality as what are at the store and they charge you the same or more. Also, last time that I checked Amazon is pretty cheap.
You are a whiner.
I have been purchasing U2's music since the 80s. Guess what, I will purchase no more. I have been a very dedicated fan and have purchased all of their offerings. No more.
The Zune deal was ridiculous. Why should a company give record companies money for hardware that they sell? That makes no sense. The record company is just the victim of the fact that we can not be forced to pay for the music again in the latest format. All in all, the file sharing community has helped music quality anyway, as the best music is not (nor ever has been...for the most part) by the biggest name artists. I buy more music today than I did pre-digital and I steel no music.
Regardless, I will live without any future U2 music.
Open Office offers all of the functionality that the vast majority of users need. I think that Microsoft knows that they have serious competition just around the corner and that is why they want to see Office users become trained and used to their new (patented) "Ribbon" interface. I am not saying that office is not very good software, it is and has always been very good. However, inevitably all of the high priced software with the every couple year upgrade cycle with limited new features will end up being made less and less relevant by the free or cheaper alternatives. I just can not see how programs like Office can really maintain their market share for the long term without relying on ininformed users indefinitely.
Publicly available government sites are required by law to function in more than one browser. I work with government web-sites and if anyone wanted to make a big deal out of this they could.
I wish that the record industry would hurry up and kill itself so that we could drop this subject (not to mention so that we would not have to put up with the whole marketing/star creation thing).
Artists need to start distributing their own music. The music/film industry is the biggest killer of creativity and quality in art.
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Have you ever worked on or maintained an operating system? It is a little more complex than writing little apps. Are you so sure that they are dragging their feet? Are you aware that all software companies do this same thing? Do you really feel that it is correct for a competitor that is not a security firm to go after another competitor like that? Google is doing the same thing on Android, Apple repeatedly has done the same thing.
Office 365 is not a data mining tool. It is a pay for subscription to the latest version of Office and allows you to install on multiple machines. And you can still buy Office as a single license that is not a part of the subscription model. Also, any version of Office, 356 or otherwise, allows you to save everything on your own machine or out on One Drive.
I think that Microsoft has better intentions in this than Google does. Microsoft acknowledged the bugs and requested that Google delay the public release slightly so that they could patch. Google to me seems to be simply slamming Microsoft. All the while Google has extremely vulnerable versions of it's old stock browser on older but not out of support Android phones that it openly states that it will not patch.
But to my knowledge that is the only way Google makes any money at all, and, since Google has a higher market cap than Microsoft who also sells a lot of for profit software, I can only assume that Google sells a lot more information. Every tool Google provides for consumers is a data mining tool that is funded solely by data mining. Microsoft actually sells stuff that you can buy and use without agreeing to allow your data to be mined.
today download.com is a piece of shit.
I sincerely hope that they wait to do this until after I am dead. Honestly, I believe that they want to tinker with things that they barely understand.
Do Irish citizens living in Ireland agree to abide by all applicable US Laws when the create an Outlook.com account? No they don't. You do realize that US law doesn't apply in Ireland, right? Your point is irrelevant. Also, why is email so different than the U.S. Mail?
Microsoft is fighting the good fight. Yes it is in their own best interest, but the US Government is currently their biggest threat to remaining a globally viable company. Microsoft currently seems to have more interest in the public good than our government does.
Kind of funny that in this great "Land of the Free" companies are prioritized over people. Must be that American Dream everyone likes to fantasize about, or some other American myth. This is a great country but we seem to be addicted to lying to ourselves here.
Right....you are aware that our government spying on foreign businesses has a negative impact on American tech companies that try to business with other countries? If they are our allies we should trust them. If they stop being our allies we should stop trusting them. Simple.
I lived in Europe and their cars for the most part are not econoboxes. They might not drive big SUVs and trucks like many do here in the US, but on average they drive better than average cars when compared with the US.
So I now root for Sony or Microsoft.
The coffee isn't good, the amount of plastic waste is ridiculous, and each cup of coffee is expensive! Laziness is the only reason I could justify a Keurig, but then again I am a coffee snob who grinds craft roasted bean from a local roaster every morning. It is kind of sad that someone like me thinks it is too expensive, but I feel more justified that I spent 300 on my bur grinder than I would feel to buy one of their machines.
Glad to see that the local law enforcement is so effective.
The iPad has a higher resolution than most laptops or desktops.
It surprises me that the government might have this opinion, but I guess that it shouldn't. I wish that the government would remember that those people who post things to social networking sites believe that they are posting to a limited group of their friends. The government is really the friend of no one.
It is about time that Microsoft finally helps protect their customers from the flaws in their applications and network stack. They should have been doing this for years as I find it completely unacceptable to have to subscribe to third party software to protect my PC. That is why I use a Mac. Four years running: No viruses, no spyware (and never any OS related crashes or malfunctions). I am a Windows developer with 10 years of experience as an SA of 300 Windows servers; I am pretty proficient with Windows.
I was going to comment about that same line: "I don't have time to mess around at my local Barnes & Noble and browse books..." It sounds like you need to fix your life first if you can't make an hour sometime during the course of your week to go to the bookstore. It doesn't take any more time than does Amazon. You have time to read magazines, make time for the bookstore. I also do not understand: "Less expensive than Amazon in the long run." The clubs are only less expensive for a short while. They give you free books and then require that you buy their more expensive and generally cut-rate, cheaply bound editions. Book club books are not built of the same quality as what are at the store and they charge you the same or more. Also, last time that I checked Amazon is pretty cheap. You are a whiner.
I have been purchasing U2's music since the 80s. Guess what, I will purchase no more. I have been a very dedicated fan and have purchased all of their offerings. No more. The Zune deal was ridiculous. Why should a company give record companies money for hardware that they sell? That makes no sense. The record company is just the victim of the fact that we can not be forced to pay for the music again in the latest format. All in all, the file sharing community has helped music quality anyway, as the best music is not (nor ever has been...for the most part) by the biggest name artists. I buy more music today than I did pre-digital and I steel no music. Regardless, I will live without any future U2 music.
Open Office offers all of the functionality that the vast majority of users need. I think that Microsoft knows that they have serious competition just around the corner and that is why they want to see Office users become trained and used to their new (patented) "Ribbon" interface. I am not saying that office is not very good software, it is and has always been very good. However, inevitably all of the high priced software with the every couple year upgrade cycle with limited new features will end up being made less and less relevant by the free or cheaper alternatives. I just can not see how programs like Office can really maintain their market share for the long term without relying on ininformed users indefinitely.
Publicly available government sites are required by law to function in more than one browser. I work with government web-sites and if anyone wanted to make a big deal out of this they could.
I wish that the record industry would hurry up and kill itself so that we could drop this subject (not to mention so that we would not have to put up with the whole marketing/star creation thing). Artists need to start distributing their own music. The music/film industry is the biggest killer of creativity and quality in art.