Never used it with VMware but I've certainly moves physical machines over to KVM using dd images. If you want elegance, Clonezilla has a reasonably easy interface.
It's because copying your competitors and adding a few minor features isn't really innovation. Even the Xbox is still years from paying off the huge amount of money thrown at it.
The problem here is that it is now going to do battle against companies who have years of experience as *hardware* manufacturers. Yes, Microsoft has some experience, but on the level of Apple or Samsung? And just how far can Microsoft intrude into the world of manufacturing before it starts stepping on the toes of OEMs? If Microsoft is just planning a few flagship devices to demonstrate Windows on smartdevices, I can understand it, though I have a hard time seeing how they can hope to make money with it, but if Microsoft is deciding, after literally decades of essentially being a software company, that now it is going to become a manufacturer, then it's entering territory it has little direct experience with, and is going to be going head to head against very big players like Apple.
I'm not saying it might not work. Who knows? Maybe in five years, it will be a major rival against Apple and the Android ecosystem. But even success in this new strategy carries risks of damaging core business units.
They were the bit player in those days. Blackberry was the big guy on the block. What reason would there have been in the last two years to sue Blackberry? It's market share has collapsed quite nicely without needing to set Apple's legal hounds on it.
By and large I agree with you, though there are some pretty nice Android devices out there if you're willing to spend the money. The fact is that the market seems to be shaping up to be a two horse race with the likes of Blackberry fading quickly, or at least doomed to niche positions. Can Microsoft make it a three horse race? Who knows, but history suggests that Microsoft's forays into this market have been pretty dismal failures. In fact, outside of the Xbox division, Microsoft's attempts to break out of its core business units has been rather unimpressive, and even with the Xbox division, it basically bought its market position, and who knows when that unit will finally pay off the vast mountains of money thrown at it.
Apple has a problem with Android because Android is a major competitor. It has no problem with Microsoft because it does not foresee any point in the near future when Microsoft will be a major competitor.
Getting hauled into court by Apple is a sign that you're on to something. Not getting hauled into court by Apple is a sign that you're probably going to fail.
Whatever you may think of Apple, the fact is that Microsoft's notion of innovation now seems to be "Do what Apple does." At some point, if Microsoft continues down this path, it's going to weaken its OEM network, which is, at the end of the day, what made Microsoft the company it is today. Without all those manufacturers throwing MS's OEM products on new units, I'd say Microsoft's attempt to become Apple better work really damned well.
Government is little different in my part of the world. My company has a contract with a government agency that uses a Siebel-based case management system (if Siebel weren't bad enough, this one is customized), and it runs best in IE6, with increasing issues with the compatibility modes in IE7, IE8 and IE9. Supposedly there is a browser-independent front end coming out some day, but until then we are literally stuck with having to use IE 8 and 9 with low security mode and using Siebel's ActiveX controls (yes folks, it's like 1999 over here).
Most x86 software currently in existence will not run well on a tablet. Two different kinds of interfaces. The same applies to Linux-based tablets. While one can certainly compile older GUI software to run on Androids, without the nice interface extensions, it's just plain ugly.
For all intents and purposes PCs and tablets/smartphones/smart devices are totally different ecosystems. Certainly Microsoft is betting on at least a partial merger, but I'll wager that the PC version of MS-Office will always be a different critter to the mobile/tablet version.
WTF? ARM has massive penetration in mobile devices. Beyond that, ARM's huge advantage is custom SOC, which, along with low power consumption, is another reason ARM has become such a monster platform. As much as anything else, ARM is a philosophy.
I'm not following. Even if the GPL were given the weight and force of law, that would only apply to GPL licensed software. Am I missing something here?
I asked a pretty basic question here. You're insisting Richard Stallman wants to force you to license your software in some specific fashion, and yet I see no evidence that Stallman desires that, or that he even has the power. If you don't like the GPL, don't use it. Now that's freedom.
Bollocks. On the eve if WW1 was the supreme naval power and had a far more expansive empire. Germany was left with the leavings from the older colonial powers. What you were describes the Ottoman Empire and to a lesser extent France.
The last scene of the robot Maximilian and Reinhardt joined into a single being in Hell was a pretty damned harrowing end, probably the darkest of just about any Disney-branded film.
Nor does he mention the fact that five or six years ago he was insisting The Revenge of the Sith would be the last cinematic treatment of Star Wars. But then again, Lucas has long been known for rewriting history.
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Never used it with VMware but I've certainly moves physical machines over to KVM using dd images. If you want elegance, Clonezilla has a reasonably easy interface.
Yes, it's called dd.
It's because copying your competitors and adding a few minor features isn't really innovation. Even the Xbox is still years from paying off the huge amount of money thrown at it.
The problem here is that it is now going to do battle against companies who have years of experience as *hardware* manufacturers. Yes, Microsoft has some experience, but on the level of Apple or Samsung? And just how far can Microsoft intrude into the world of manufacturing before it starts stepping on the toes of OEMs? If Microsoft is just planning a few flagship devices to demonstrate Windows on smartdevices, I can understand it, though I have a hard time seeing how they can hope to make money with it, but if Microsoft is deciding, after literally decades of essentially being a software company, that now it is going to become a manufacturer, then it's entering territory it has little direct experience with, and is going to be going head to head against very big players like Apple.
I'm not saying it might not work. Who knows? Maybe in five years, it will be a major rival against Apple and the Android ecosystem. But even success in this new strategy carries risks of damaging core business units.
They were the bit player in those days. Blackberry was the big guy on the block. What reason would there have been in the last two years to sue Blackberry? It's market share has collapsed quite nicely without needing to set Apple's legal hounds on it.
By and large I agree with you, though there are some pretty nice Android devices out there if you're willing to spend the money. The fact is that the market seems to be shaping up to be a two horse race with the likes of Blackberry fading quickly, or at least doomed to niche positions. Can Microsoft make it a three horse race? Who knows, but history suggests that Microsoft's forays into this market have been pretty dismal failures. In fact, outside of the Xbox division, Microsoft's attempts to break out of its core business units has been rather unimpressive, and even with the Xbox division, it basically bought its market position, and who knows when that unit will finally pay off the vast mountains of money thrown at it.
Apple has a problem with Android because Android is a major competitor. It has no problem with Microsoft because it does not foresee any point in the near future when Microsoft will be a major competitor.
Getting hauled into court by Apple is a sign that you're on to something. Not getting hauled into court by Apple is a sign that you're probably going to fail.
Whatever you may think of Apple, the fact is that Microsoft's notion of innovation now seems to be "Do what Apple does." At some point, if Microsoft continues down this path, it's going to weaken its OEM network, which is, at the end of the day, what made Microsoft the company it is today. Without all those manufacturers throwing MS's OEM products on new units, I'd say Microsoft's attempt to become Apple better work really damned well.
Government is little different in my part of the world. My company has a contract with a government agency that uses a Siebel-based case management system (if Siebel weren't bad enough, this one is customized), and it runs best in IE6, with increasing issues with the compatibility modes in IE7, IE8 and IE9. Supposedly there is a browser-independent front end coming out some day, but until then we are literally stuck with having to use IE 8 and 9 with low security mode and using Siebel's ActiveX controls (yes folks, it's like 1999 over here).
Most x86 software currently in existence will not run well on a tablet. Two different kinds of interfaces. The same applies to Linux-based tablets. While one can certainly compile older GUI software to run on Androids, without the nice interface extensions, it's just plain ugly.
For all intents and purposes PCs and tablets/smartphones/smart devices are totally different ecosystems. Certainly Microsoft is betting on at least a partial merger, but I'll wager that the PC version of MS-Office will always be a different critter to the mobile/tablet version.
WTF? ARM has massive penetration in mobile devices. Beyond that, ARM's huge advantage is custom SOC, which, along with low power consumption, is another reason ARM has become such a monster platform. As much as anything else, ARM is a philosophy.
I'm not following. Even if the GPL were given the weight and force of law, that would only apply to GPL licensed software. Am I missing something here?
I asked a pretty basic question here. You're insisting Richard Stallman wants to force you to license your software in some specific fashion, and yet I see no evidence that Stallman desires that, or that he even has the power. If you don't like the GPL, don't use it. Now that's freedom.
I'm sorry. Can you point out where exactly you are forced to use the GPL to license your software?
You forgot 1.1.1.1 "Format like Word 97"
A nice example of the sort of liberty TEABAGGERs believe in.
Apparently this is based on SCoTUs decisions, so no, going to another state does not fix the problem.
And in other fantasy news, the moon is made of green cheese and Elvis is living in New Jersey posing as an Asian exotic dancer.
Bollocks. On the eve if WW1 was the supreme naval power and had a far more expansive empire. Germany was left with the leavings from the older colonial powers. What you were describes the Ottoman Empire and to a lesser extent France.
It wasn't just the rise of Germany as a Great Power, it was Germany's not so subtle designs on Britain's allies and economic interests.
Do you get paid to critique grammar?
The prequel trilogy sucked, and made billions. Suckage does not seem to be a problem.
The last scene of the robot Maximilian and Reinhardt joined into a single being in Hell was a pretty damned harrowing end, probably the darkest of just about any Disney-branded film.
Nor does he mention the fact that five or six years ago he was insisting The Revenge of the Sith would be the last cinematic treatment of Star Wars. But then again, Lucas has long been known for rewriting history.
Meesa thinking I will be mooie mooie great in the Disney Land parade.