Really? What is their leadership team thinking? Even if they take off, the revenue from a $2000 bike is dwarfed by that on an SUV, and there are already established players in the market.
Software engineers and business analysts may love it, but when you're updating stuff too often, it becomes a mighty headache to the end user. MS is simply too big to go this way with Windows....you can't update a billion devices 2x a year without something breaking.
Microsoft made some serious effort toward unifying a desktop, tablet, and phone into a single unit with the Display Dock. Paired with UWP apps, this was a pretty slick little setup. Too bad the Windows phone platform never took off.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...
I've worked from home now for 5 years and never want to go back to an office daily. The work I do, though, has been setup such that working from wherever actually "works". We have a central system to plan the work, open communication channels on Slack, Skype for Business, or even phone calls (haven't gotten one in about 4 years, though).
There are a few things I've learned:
1. You have to be okay with people just dropping in on you via Slack or something similar. The only time you can't allow it is when you're in a meeting or really working heads down on something complex. When someone pings, you respond. It's the digital analog (oxymoron) to passing in the hallway...
2. You need to be flexible about your time. Getting a ping at 7pm has to be okay with you if you're working with people from other time zones.
3. You do need occasional team get togethers. These are great for everyone, including the folks who actually are in the office. I used to go to the office for a week per quarter, and now it's more like a week every 6 months. 3 days is probably enough, but there has to be some face time. The best for me would probably be 3 days per quarter, but I can live with my current setup.
4. I, personally, have to have people around me, so I work from Starbucks or the library quite a bit. I'm fortunate in that I don't have a lot of critical meetings, so the background noise hasn't hurt me yet. I think a co-work place would be even cooler, but I don't have one around me and I'm afraid they'd be more expensive than my $2.50 cup of coffee a day.
Renting software really sucks when you have to pay for it yourself for your own use. I don't think that the subscription model is really that bad, though, for corporations. The subscription makes the annual cost predictable and you can budget for things. It also keeps rogue IT guys from installing too many copies of the software, thus putting the company at risk of an audit.
You've never actually "owned a copy" of a piece of software anyway. The licensing agreements let you use it for whatever period that you clicked Accept to in the license terms. The subscription model just flattens the cost out of a set number of years, instead of forcing companies to pay a ton up front and then having users fight for upgrades again 3-4 years later.
Now, for home use, it blows. I'm sorry, but I have no reason to personally pay for software that I can get an alternative for for free.
The only solution is to remove the software at the root of the "problem". Otherwise, you should not only accept but EXPECT that users will use what they have been given to the best of their abilities. You get the occasional Excel guru or Access user who will take the time to do something that fixes their problem. Those are the people who need to be promoted. Yes, I've seen these problems happen many times, particularly with Access . People make something worthwhile for their teams and then get in hot water for using a non-standard system. Well, then either remove Access globally or make the "standard" system better, but you should reward those who have used their minds to solve their own problems with the tools they are given.
Having watched hours of more recent Microsoft demos....Azure, PowerShell, etc......within the past couple years, I can tell you that the surprising part is that he started with Edge. The demos Scott Hanselman, Jeffrey Snover, and Mark Russinovich and so on, do are typically run on Macs or Surfaces, running Google Chrome in either case. Actually, I think that doing so is by design, to show off how cross-platform they think at the "new" Microsoft.
All the kids in my school district have iPads from Kindergarten on. They use the heck out of them, too. Make music, little stop-motion videos, a little coding stuff, and some math/reading games. I don't even have to push them to play those things.....they are just better than Mavis Beacon when I was younger.
All you need are the 3 R's.....everything else you can figure out later and do just fine. Kids don't need an "hour of code" or a "programming club" or such. #oldman
While I appreciate the idea that software should be made to keep people from doing dumb things, VS Code is made basically for the developer community. Isn't/. the site where everyone says "RTFM" to people when they screw up? This cat should've known better than to assume...
This shouldn't be a surprise. 20-some-odd years ago, Pay-Per-View became "a thing" for live sporting events. The analysts predicted that eventually, you'd only pay for what you wanted to watch and some day you could watch whenever you wanted. PPV was way ahead of it's time and didn't take over, but DVR and streaming services have made it happen. This feels like a completely natural evolution to me, as the tech has made it happen.
(Not that I was a fan of PPV. I never bought anything that way and I firmly believe PPV is the root cause of the downfall of boxing as a premier American sport. What a shame.)
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Really? What is their leadership team thinking? Even if they take off, the revenue from a $2000 bike is dwarfed by that on an SUV, and there are already established players in the market.
Software engineers and business analysts may love it, but when you're updating stuff too often, it becomes a mighty headache to the end user. MS is simply too big to go this way with Windows....you can't update a billion devices 2x a year without something breaking.
With fingers that aren't "that small", how do you ever input your password successfully?
That is all.
Microsoft made some serious effort toward unifying a desktop, tablet, and phone into a single unit with the Display Dock. Paired with UWP apps, this was a pretty slick little setup. Too bad the Windows phone platform never took off. https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...
100% uptime, until the first disk fails.
I've worked from home now for 5 years and never want to go back to an office daily. The work I do, though, has been setup such that working from wherever actually "works". We have a central system to plan the work, open communication channels on Slack, Skype for Business, or even phone calls (haven't gotten one in about 4 years, though). There are a few things I've learned:
1. You have to be okay with people just dropping in on you via Slack or something similar. The only time you can't allow it is when you're in a meeting or really working heads down on something complex. When someone pings, you respond. It's the digital analog (oxymoron) to passing in the hallway...
2. You need to be flexible about your time. Getting a ping at 7pm has to be okay with you if you're working with people from other time zones.
3. You do need occasional team get togethers. These are great for everyone, including the folks who actually are in the office. I used to go to the office for a week per quarter, and now it's more like a week every 6 months. 3 days is probably enough, but there has to be some face time. The best for me would probably be 3 days per quarter, but I can live with my current setup.
4. I, personally, have to have people around me, so I work from Starbucks or the library quite a bit. I'm fortunate in that I don't have a lot of critical meetings, so the background noise hasn't hurt me yet. I think a co-work place would be even cooler, but I don't have one around me and I'm afraid they'd be more expensive than my $2.50 cup of coffee a day.
Renting software really sucks when you have to pay for it yourself for your own use. I don't think that the subscription model is really that bad, though, for corporations. The subscription makes the annual cost predictable and you can budget for things. It also keeps rogue IT guys from installing too many copies of the software, thus putting the company at risk of an audit.
You've never actually "owned a copy" of a piece of software anyway. The licensing agreements let you use it for whatever period that you clicked Accept to in the license terms. The subscription model just flattens the cost out of a set number of years, instead of forcing companies to pay a ton up front and then having users fight for upgrades again 3-4 years later.
Now, for home use, it blows. I'm sorry, but I have no reason to personally pay for software that I can get an alternative for for free.
Is that a Chinese knockoff of HP? WTH?
And isn't this something they should be able to do pretty readily?
I've never seen a cat leading a blind man or a Kitty Cop searching for drugs.
The only solution is to remove the software at the root of the "problem". Otherwise, you should not only accept but EXPECT that users will use what they have been given to the best of their abilities. You get the occasional Excel guru or Access user who will take the time to do something that fixes their problem. Those are the people who need to be promoted. Yes, I've seen these problems happen many times, particularly with Access . People make something worthwhile for their teams and then get in hot water for using a non-standard system. Well, then either remove Access globally or make the "standard" system better, but you should reward those who have used their minds to solve their own problems with the tools they are given.
Why switch to Windows? Couldn't they get along with Macs instead? They could still get away from at least some Microsoft costs....
From LaserJet 4 to anything after means it won't work 1/2 the time.
Having watched hours of more recent Microsoft demos....Azure, PowerShell, etc......within the past couple years, I can tell you that the surprising part is that he started with Edge. The demos Scott Hanselman, Jeffrey Snover, and Mark Russinovich and so on, do are typically run on Macs or Surfaces, running Google Chrome in either case. Actually, I think that doing so is by design, to show off how cross-platform they think at the "new" Microsoft.
All the kids in my school district have iPads from Kindergarten on. They use the heck out of them, too. Make music, little stop-motion videos, a little coding stuff, and some math/reading games. I don't even have to push them to play those things.....they are just better than Mavis Beacon when I was younger.
If I needed one, I'd be paid a lot more and have one. Otherwise, I'll keep typing into my computer, thank you very much.
Or you can be like me and just keep buying inexpensive unlocked ones, then breaking them accidentally every 9 months or so.
All you need are the 3 R's.....everything else you can figure out later and do just fine. Kids don't need an "hour of code" or a "programming club" or such. #oldman
While I appreciate the idea that software should be made to keep people from doing dumb things, VS Code is made basically for the developer community. Isn't /. the site where everyone says "RTFM" to people when they screw up? This cat should've known better than to assume...
VSCode is free.....that money back isn't going to get him anywhere. :)
Will Ferrell and Jack Black have done well for themselves. Seth Rogan, too.
It was cute and there forever. Progress, I suppose.
This shouldn't be a surprise. 20-some-odd years ago, Pay-Per-View became "a thing" for live sporting events. The analysts predicted that eventually, you'd only pay for what you wanted to watch and some day you could watch whenever you wanted. PPV was way ahead of it's time and didn't take over, but DVR and streaming services have made it happen. This feels like a completely natural evolution to me, as the tech has made it happen. (Not that I was a fan of PPV. I never bought anything that way and I firmly believe PPV is the root cause of the downfall of boxing as a premier American sport. What a shame.)
http://librarybox.us/