Apple has seen the light in not charging for OSX. They will make their margins elsewhere. On the othehand, Microsoft can't even give Windows 8 away so they have a precidence already to not charge for Windows.
If they don't, where is the money (viz income) going to come from in the Operating System space? They don't seem to have a clue really. Their focus on the 'cloud' could have a big impact on their bottom line. Can they charge a $200-$1000 license fee for an Instance that may only last a few hours/days/weeks? Nope.
so, once again... Where is the income going to come from?
Satya is IMHO between a rock and a hard place. Balmer has left him up shit creek without a paddle. IMHO, it will be up to his successor to make or break MS. Satya will fix a few of the more obvious things that are wrong with MS. Then he'll head off to pastures new, a very rich man.
Personally, I think MS is at a crossroads. They might do well to look at the maschinations of DEC in the 1994-1997 timeframe. I see a lot of similarities with MS in 2014.
Sales of Chewing Gum and Duct Tape to owners of new Fords rise by 10000%
Being serious for a moment, is there really any demand from the public for this? Is his being driven by the lawmakers who are frankly desparate to stop Drunks from getting behind the wheel?
Will the car refuse to start if the camera is obscured and the driver can't be identified? As the Car not the driver seems to be the boss then who owns the pictures? Who says that the pictures won't be sent to the NSA? Can you be sure.
This is not something I'd want in any car I drove.
My carrier '3' has a deal where calls & texts in the US come out of my UK 10GBP/Month deal. That's right, no roaming.....
I was over there last month and it seems that you have to use the 'T-Mobile' network. This is fine in the Cities but in many areas there was only AT&T or no signal at all. I was in the Rockies so this might not be the case for other parts on the US.
This has to be the way forward for all networks. Now if only I could get rid of roaming charges in India and other countries that I visit on a regular basis
If it has a Harley logo, an awful lot of people with more $$$$$ than sense will buy it. These will be mostly middle aged (or older) men who want to do their 'Easy Rider' trip.
Yes I do ride bikes but frankly, I'd rather be pushing up dasies than be seen on a Harley. Others will have differing opinions though.
If that is the case then we will invalidate all those local laws you have somehow gotten enacted to stop competition in local areas. you know the ones that say it is illegal for the local government to give Comcast competition? The ones that strangle startups at birth keeping your defacto monopoly. How about a bit or 'real world' economics to sharpen your game then? See how you like that then?
The point is, they don't care. They sue/extort first and hope that they don't pick on someone with deep pockets who will sue the bejeezus out of them. Just don't have any of that public domain music on any device you might take to the USA.
They are being abolished in the EU plus with my Carrier I can use my UK Plan for my phone calls and data while I'm visiting the US. No Roaming there either.
It does happen and sometimes the costs can be severe.
There is a small costal village in Kent that for a while had no UK mobile coverage. Instead they were connected to a French Carrier 22+ miles away. The uproar foced at least one UK carrier to put a basestation in the village. This ruling will eliminate the charges if you happen to connect to the french carrier
I've been in Basel on the Swiss side yet my mobile insists on connecting to one of the French networks. This ruling won't stop roaming charges if your phone is registered in Switzerland.
Typically it costs a lot more to 'Pay' to have your brand mentioned than it is to give away some kit for free. That costs you only the cost price of the items and is often tax deductable as a promotional expense. Also, in many places giving kit is not considered a bribe whereas paying $$$$$ for some placement is the opposite.
Why are you listening? Do you understand me now? Why are you still listening? Do you think I have something to hide? Remember, I'm on your side So bugger off like a good man and snoop on the Taleban
In the end if say Google and Apple were in a salary war the ultimate lose would be the employees. Why? because they would soon shift their positions to lower cost economies.
Don't price yourself out of a job. The Union in one place I worked did just that. That company is now a mere memory and the old site a supermarket.
There really is no future in IT. The bubble has burst and Everything 'IT' is in danger of becoming just another commodity. If you aren't already a manager then just don't bother.
Take up a new career NOW before it is too late. I've been writing software for 40 years ranging from cobol on Punched Cards through C, C++ , Java and onto to more modern things like Ruby, PHP and NOSQL. I'm just hoping that I can hold on and keep employed until I retire in a couple of years.
Or you could slap on some makeup and pretend to be an H1B Visa holder. I'm sure you will get a job quickly but you will have to drop your salary expectations but hey, at least you are still employed.
Have you never heard of Firewalls and VPN's? As part of my job I login to sites all over the world via VPN (actually two VPN's). None of the systems I connect to are visible on the internet. Good job too. Putting all sorts of devices directly on the Internet as all those IPV6 advocates are so fond of reminding us that there is plenty of address space to do it is just stupid and will eventually cost a lot of lives. Perhaps it will take a major catastrophy to wake people up to the dangers of doing this.
Having been involved with computer networks since 1974 I feel that some of these 'connect everything' advocates need to be taken outside and given a good seeing too in the hope of making them see sense.
could someone a lot wiser than me please explain why we need to connect everything and anything to the internet? I expect the hackers are rubbing their hands with glee at the prospect of being able to hack all sorts of things. Imagine all the havoc they could cause by making all the freezers in a country suddenly defrost?
Frankly, I think this drive to connect everything is totally misguided.
These things would be just the job for that in some parts of the US given the number of holes you see in road signs. A few 12bore blasts and they would be landfill.
with the millions of guns available and people not wanting Big Bro spying on them these will soon bite the dust in more ways than one.
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Chicken Little by Frederick Pohl.
nothing more needs to be said.
Some very astute comments.
Apple has seen the light in not charging for OSX. They will make their margins elsewhere.
On the othehand, Microsoft can't even give Windows 8 away so they have a precidence already to not charge for Windows.
If they don't, where is the money (viz income) going to come from in the Operating System space?
They don't seem to have a clue really.
Their focus on the 'cloud' could have a big impact on their bottom line. Can they charge a $200-$1000 license fee for an Instance that may only last a few hours/days/weeks? Nope.
so, once again... Where is the income going to come from?
Satya is IMHO between a rock and a hard place. Balmer has left him up shit creek without a paddle.
IMHO, it will be up to his successor to make or break MS. Satya will fix a few of the more obvious things that are wrong with MS. Then he'll head off to pastures new, a very rich man.
Personally, I think MS is at a crossroads. They might do well to look at the maschinations of DEC in the 1994-1997 timeframe. I see a lot of similarities with MS in 2014.
We already have them in London on the Docklands Light Railway. Been running since 1987
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
Even some deep level Tube lines were built to have driverless trains but the Unions won't let Tfl introduce them.
As ORacle controls MySQL, it might be free but for how long eh?
worth thinking about.
In other news, Reuters reported that Stonemasons were in huge demand for 'tablet' work.
Like you then, Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms Anonymous coward?
What have you got to hide then?
do you like to wear women's clothing and chop down trees? (Monty Python link deliberate)
From the
Can we see those incriminating emails that might be about something totally irrelevant but we need to see them anyway...
Department.
Like two Boeing 737 Fuselages that ened up in the river after a derailment.
http://www.kwch.com/news/local...
Oppss..... Someone is going to have to foot an awfully big bill for that one.
Sales of Chewing Gum and Duct Tape to owners of new Fords rise by 10000%
Being serious for a moment, is there really any demand from the public for this?
Is his being driven by the lawmakers who are frankly desparate to stop Drunks from getting behind the wheel?
Will the car refuse to start if the camera is obscured and the driver can't be identified?
As the Car not the driver seems to be the boss then who owns the pictures?
Who says that the pictures won't be sent to the NSA? Can you be sure.
This is not something I'd want in any car I drove.
My carrier '3' has a deal where calls & texts in the US come out of my UK 10GBP/Month deal.
That's right, no roaming.....
I was over there last month and it seems that you have to use the 'T-Mobile' network. This is fine in the Cities but in many areas there was only AT&T or no signal at all. I was in the Rockies so this might not be the case for other parts on the US.
This has to be the way forward for all networks. Now if only I could get rid of roaming charges in India and other countries that I visit on a regular basis
Nah, you should have said that
If it has a Harley logo, an awful lot of people with more $$$$$ than sense will buy it. These will be mostly middle aged (or older) men who want to do their 'Easy Rider' trip.
Yes I do ride bikes but frankly, I'd rather be pushing up dasies than be seen on a Harley. Others will have differing opinions though.
If that is the case then we will invalidate all those local laws you have somehow gotten enacted to stop competition in local areas.
you know the ones that say it is illegal for the local government to give Comcast competition?
The ones that strangle startups at birth keeping your defacto monopoly.
How about a bit or 'real world' economics to sharpen your game then?
See how you like that then?
The point is, they don't care. They sue/extort first and hope that they don't pick on someone with deep pockets who will sue the bejeezus out of them.
Just don't have any of that public domain music on any device you might take to the USA.
Roaming fees?
They are being abolished in the EU plus with my Carrier I can use my UK Plan for my phone calls and data while I'm visiting the US. No Roaming there either.
Isn't that the obvious ploy of this move.
Embrace the education establishment
Extend the curriculuim so that ONLY MS tools can be used
Extinguish all non compliant teachers as being obsolete
It does happen and sometimes the costs can be severe.
There is a small costal village in Kent that for a while had no UK mobile coverage. Instead they were connected to a French Carrier 22+ miles away. The uproar foced at least one UK carrier to put a basestation in the village. This ruling will eliminate the charges if you happen to connect to the french carrier
I've been in Basel on the Swiss side yet my mobile insists on connecting to one of the French networks. This ruling won't stop roaming charges if your phone is registered in Switzerland.
Typically it costs a lot more to 'Pay' to have your brand mentioned than it is to give away some kit for free.
That costs you only the cost price of the items and is often tax deductable as a promotional expense.
Also, in many places giving kit is not considered a bribe whereas paying $$$$$ for some placement is the opposite.
Simple really.
Why are you listening?
Do you understand me now?
Why are you still listening?
Do you think I have something to hide?
Remember, I'm on your side
So bugger off like a good man
and snoop on the Taleban
In the end if say Google and Apple were in a salary war the ultimate lose would be the employees.
Why?
because they would soon shift their positions to lower cost economies.
Don't price yourself out of a job. The Union in one place I worked did just that. That company is now a mere memory and the old site a supermarket.
There really is no future in IT. The bubble has burst and Everything 'IT' is in danger of becoming just another commodity.
If you aren't already a manager then just don't bother.
Take up a new career NOW before it is too late.
I've been writing software for 40 years ranging from cobol on Punched Cards through C, C++ , Java and onto to more modern things like Ruby, PHP and NOSQL.
I'm just hoping that I can hold on and keep employed until I retire in a couple of years.
Or you could slap on some makeup and pretend to be an H1B Visa holder. I'm sure you will get a job quickly but you will have to drop your salary expectations but hey, at least you are still employed.
Because once a Python wraps its body around you, you are done for.
Unless you work for Yahoo and a few other companies who have stopped that nasty practice.
It does not seem to have stopped raining here in Blighty for about a month.
The climate is changing. We are seeing more and more extremes of Cold, Hot, Wind, Rain, Sun and Snow just to name a few.
Have you never heard of Firewalls and VPN's?
As part of my job I login to sites all over the world via VPN (actually two VPN's). None of the systems I connect to are visible on the internet. Good job too.
Putting all sorts of devices directly on the Internet as all those IPV6 advocates are so fond of reminding us that there is plenty of address space to do it is just stupid and will eventually cost a lot of lives. Perhaps it will take a major catastrophy to wake people up to the dangers of doing this.
Having been involved with computer networks since 1974 I feel that some of these 'connect everything' advocates need to be taken outside and given a good seeing too in the hope of making them see sense.
could someone a lot wiser than me please explain why we need to connect everything and anything to the internet?
I expect the hackers are rubbing their hands with glee at the prospect of being able to hack all sorts of things. Imagine all the havoc they could cause by making all the freezers in a country suddenly defrost?
Frankly, I think this drive to connect everything is totally misguided.
These things would be just the job for that in some parts of the US given the number of holes you see in road signs.
A few 12bore blasts and they would be landfill.
with the millions of guns available and people not wanting Big Bro spying on them these will soon bite the dust in more ways than one.