"If you are going to discuss Microsoft's problems, I suggest not bringing up MS Office. Because it is one of the few examples of areas where Microsoft is doing just fine."
It can't open Microsofts own ISO standard. It is not very good att OpenDocument. If productivity means producing documents in open formats, MS office is not there.
"Most people I know of know Microsoft as simply the company who makes the software they are familiar with."
Those people are not the one who are deciding the future in companies and organisations. If websites are built for standards, why should we use internet explorer?
If documments are open office or pdf, why should we use MS office?
Microsofts software are only good att Microsofts own specifications. With the move to mobile, they have lost their monopoly on clients which was their reason to exist.
Hardware has never been their problem, their problem has always been their strategy that has led them wrong.
By building products that are incompatible with others and refusing to open up Office files, they have implanted themself as the evil company in the mindset of those afffected. Those affected are those that realise that the world is always changing and want to be free to use any product.
Those are also the people that end up makeing decisions about what products to use.
Microsoft has "closed" them self out of the market.
;) I have a lot of Linux systems migrating from Debian version to Debian version without a lot of time and effort. That has been going on since 1995 and is the reason that we don't like to deploy on windows.
It is a silly system because the copyright laws are made for the 19th century. What happens when people copy is that business is hit, which is fine for me. It is not to support a media industry that is the goal of the copyright laws.
We have now a system for cheap and rapid distribution of digital media, and the problem is that the media industry want to take all the profit from that. The obvious answer to that would be that the market forced them to lower the prices, but it doesnt work. The industry is using their monopoly to raise their margins instead of lowering the prices. As long as they do that, they will need laws and police to hunt those that try to escape the monopoly.
The politicians need to rework the copyright laws or deal with the media industry abuse of their monopoly. Lobbying has so far prevented our representatives do represent us.
Microsoft realised that MSN was dead before its release and licensed Spyglass Mosaic as a quick Fix. They had the idea to lock users in to their own network and provide services for pay. When Internnet took off, they wondered where their customers went.
Wikipedia writes "
Open access to the World Wide Web was not originally included in the classic MSN service at the time of its initial launch, but Internet access was quickly offered through Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser, which was available as a download from the MSN service or as part of the Windows 95 Plus! package"
I don't find it strange that 1.0 is good. Microsoft was caught without a browser when they realized that no one wanted MSN. So they bought Spyglass Mosaic which was a good browser, but they didn't have the time to ruin it before the release. Curiosly, I was one of the first 10 000 that downloaded it and was rewarded with a T-shirt.
I agree that this is a danger with the cloud in general, but in this case, it was Amazon that kicked out a customer and in this discussion we talk about Amazons new "reliable" service.
It was well known that it was proprietary, and I was warning people then and I warning them today.
It is not hindsight and Microsoft was already well known to lock their customers in then, as they are now. Just because you don't want to know, it doesn't mean that the rest of us don't want to know
Socialism? Where did you get that from? A conservative French government that subsidize the multinational media industry doesn't sound very socialist to me.
The procecutor has withdrawn the warrant for arrest since there is no reason to arrest Assange and the suspicions are not of the kind that warrant an arrest.
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Not if the task is to produce documents in an open format.
"If you are going to discuss Microsoft's problems, I suggest not bringing up MS Office. Because it is one of the few examples of areas where Microsoft is doing just fine." It can't open Microsofts own ISO standard. It is not very good att OpenDocument. If productivity means producing documents in open formats, MS office is not there.
"Most people I know of know Microsoft as simply the company who makes the software they are familiar with."
Those people are not the one who are deciding the future in companies and organisations. If websites are built for standards, why should we use internet explorer?
If documments are open office or pdf, why should we use MS office?
Microsofts software are only good att Microsofts own specifications. With the move to mobile, they have lost their monopoly on clients which was their reason to exist.
Hardware has never been their problem, their problem has always been their strategy that has led them wrong.
By building products that are incompatible with others and refusing to open up Office files, they have implanted themself as the evil company in the mindset of those afffected. Those affected are those that realise that the world is always changing and want to be free to use any product.
Those are also the people that end up makeing decisions about what products to use.
Microsoft has "closed" them self out of the market.
Try out Alfresco, It is a nice document management system if you are familiar with IT-system.
I have this problem on a HP desktop-machine with Nvidia-graphics. It does not appear om My thinkpad X220 with intel graphics.
It's because we pull a fiber in to the living room. I have 100 Mbps that way. 200 SEK/month
;) I have a lot of Linux systems migrating from Debian version to Debian version without a lot of time and effort. That has been going on since 1995 and is the reason that we don't like to deploy on windows.
No, the market has done what it should.
Expensive and proprietary?
Free and Free?
Which would the market choose?
Actually, it is patents that prevents people finding better and cheaper solutions, as we can see in the software industry now.
No, Linux does not contain any Microsoft Intellectual property.
If you continue to maintain that view, please present some evidence in favor of that. Microsoft has not succeded with that.
I do not say that copyright in not relevant. I say that it is made for the 19th century when we didn't have digital culture.
I am not saying that it is doing better, I say that they try to take all the profit from the new technique.
It is a silly system because the copyright laws are made for the 19th century. What happens when people copy is that business is hit, which is fine for me. It is not to support a media industry that is the goal of the copyright laws.
We have now a system for cheap and rapid distribution of digital media, and the problem is that the media industry want to take all the profit from that. The obvious answer to that would be that the market forced them to lower the prices, but it doesnt work. The industry is using their monopoly to raise their margins instead of lowering the prices. As long as they do that, they will need laws and police to hunt those that try to escape the monopoly.
The politicians need to rework the copyright laws or deal with the media industry abuse of their monopoly. Lobbying has so far prevented our representatives do represent us.
Microsoft realised that MSN was dead before its release and licensed Spyglass Mosaic as a quick Fix. They had the idea to lock users in to their own network and provide services for pay. When Internnet took off, they wondered where their customers went. Wikipedia writes " Open access to the World Wide Web was not originally included in the classic MSN service at the time of its initial launch, but Internet access was quickly offered through Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser, which was available as a download from the MSN service or as part of the Windows 95 Plus! package"
I don't find it strange that 1.0 is good. Microsoft was caught without a browser when they realized that no one wanted MSN. So they bought Spyglass Mosaic which was a good browser, but they didn't have the time to ruin it before the release. Curiosly, I was one of the first 10 000 that downloaded it and was rewarded with a T-shirt.
Obviously it is a hoax. How can anybody claim that 101 degrees Celsius is cold?
I agree that this is a danger with the cloud in general, but in this case, it was Amazon that kicked out a customer and in this discussion we talk about Amazons new "reliable" service.
I wont touch them anymore.
If it is your work laptop, why doesn't your employer buy you an AV?
It was well known that it was proprietary, and I was warning people then and I warning them today.
It is not hindsight and Microsoft was already well known to lock their customers in then, as they are now. Just because you don't want to know, it doesn't mean that the rest of us don't want to know
Of course it is stupid, we all knew what was going to happen and still many dig them self deep into Microsoft software. It is plain stupid.
Well, if you do apt-get update now, you will see it.
Socialism? Where did you get that from? A conservative French government that subsidize the multinational media industry doesn't sound very socialist to me.
The procecutor has withdrawn the warrant for arrest since there is no reason to arrest Assange and the suspicions are not of the kind that warrant an arrest.
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/assange-anhallan-havd-1.1157250
Apparently one of the women said to Aftonbladet that "it was a man with a twisted view on women and that he couldn't take a no".
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article7652935.ab