They had the perfect opportunity to show everything was changed in Microsoft.
What if they used the claimed multi platform, open source.NET parts to build their new, fresh browser and ship it to every OS in existence? Edge for Android and Ubuntu and OSX? I am not saying they should have posted its entire source to github, that is too utopic.
Otherwise, if it will be Windows only and use Windows only technologies, IE was doing fine lately.
Actually, Firefox is the living proof that Communicator "suite" kind of mess killed Netscape brand and Netscape Navigator was the thing to push rather than full communication suite.
Don't get me wrong, I always liked the full integrated suite idea myself but ordinary users liked "A functioning, fast browser only" aka UNIX way of "do one thing and do it perfectly" doing things better.
I agree that Gibson is more like a tabloid in security business but he did one thing good, he made ordinary people aware of the risks involved when they wonder around with open ports exposed to the internet. I believe the language he uses with all that sensational terms somehow made Joe Public install a free firewall to his Windows machine, that is a good thing.
He also made people, ordinary non technical people aware of spyware.
He claims some crazy things that is a fact and we all laugh when someone codes a GUI app in pure ASM& brags about it but let's all think about the dark ages when GRC.com was founded.
As tablets have larger physical volume, used mostly at homes where charger isn't a big deal, Intel cleverly sponsored Atom powered tablets. They had big batteries, 2A chargers. That was why you were seeing not so bad tablets in very cheap prices.
Now that the Intel gave up competing with ARM and let Atom miss competition, it doesn't make sense that they will continue the "Put Intel inside logo to boot, get CPU free" type scheme.
If a black hat manages to crack the device, first target will be Google billing information and Google password. Once they are stolen, a huge, never heard of scandal will happen and people will blame Android or Google. Not the manufacturer of device.
It is just like Windows got blamed once the vendor bundled AV expired and let all the crap in.
Google doesn't have a clue about potential digital argameddon that is on the way.
QuickTime does power a lot of professional video workload, perhaps Apple tried to say that they are dropping the browser plugin via removing it in an update which is seriously overdue. Apple wasted a great technology but whatever, days of plugins are long gone.
If there is no misunderstanding, that should be a final wakeup call to creative professionals.
I wonder if they are trying to hide the fact that the owner use a HP brand laptop?
I am not trying to joke here as my older computer was Lenovo and current one is HP. Both chosen with the criteria of being Debian compatible (chips) and I will not be running Apple in Starbucks for example.
If they are ashamed of being themselves and try to hide it, they have a bigger problem.
Did anyone from Sun or current Oracle say "So, we had something like that in our hands and wasted it down to bundling ask.com toolbars." when they see anyone with Android in hand? It isn't like Xerox, they never wanted to sell computers or desktops. This must be way more worse than Xerox since they admit their business arm never wanted to sell computers.
As an end user, I saw the potential in Java when I run Think Free office, in Java 1.1 or 2 ages or IBM doing mp4 decoding in browser applet. How could Sun miss it.
That junk was absolutely outsourced and coded by some "trendy" team, it was NEVER tested on the most common Intel graphics displays such as 1366*768 (ultrabooks) nor 1280*720 (old HDTV). How do I know? Well, it doesn't display properly with large font setting of Windows.
It also installs documented, opt in but very alerting piece of data mining software running as administrator.
That is IBM and they deserve that treatment as 40 years old software can run unmodified on 64 bit mainframe.
If shareholders wake up, a lot of IT managers would end up in prison for choosing Microsoft with very suspicious reasonings. One day, this will happen.
Oh wait, there are no release notes except marketing talk. Believe or not, they don't publish release notes anymore. When a company CEO talks about what a "serious" company they are, show them this story.
You just provided an answer to people whining about "Why business people, enterprise insist on relying to MS solutions (.NET etc) rather than Linux/OSX?"
Business wants long term support and dependability. When couple of nerds in a IRC channel or Starbucks decide the fate of their multi million dollar applications future because "nobody uses it", it doesn't work.
They try to be trendy and it backfires. I really hate when they call my full feature laptop, notebook a "device" on Windows 10 too.
They should look to IBM, they just reinvented themselves without doing such "lets look cool to these young kids" trickery. They stayed as Big Blue. For example, having complete W3C HTML valid homepage (don't know current) is way more modern than coming up with some pseudo code names.
Google should admit there is a problem in Android's model of getting updates and do something about it.
It is not just code.
If they don't care because Android is doing well in terms of market share etc, they should read comments & stories about Nokia Symbian. Developers, users, authors were telling them everything which were wrong and they were laughing at them showing their massive marketshare. Now, their own Google Keyboard didn't autocomplete Symbian, it is that irrelevant.
Setup an ordinary OS X user and try to drag any application to/Applications see what happens. It will ask an Administrator name&password. Exact same thing happens on Windows too.
I am not defending this short sighted, old fashioned approach but the TV channels, online outlets like Amazon, Apple, Google and DVD/Bluray distributors would go crazy if they setup a legimate way to sell to global audience.
I use VPN against censor and packet logging government and it always made me curious about BBC and other large networks turning blind eye to well known IP blocks. IMHO VPN just postponed the revolution which should take place in commercial video broadcasting for a long time coming. Mp3 piracy woke up the audio industry and now with current bandwidth, 4K and H265, it is time for TV industry.
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I won't pay a cent to my device manufacturer but I would surely pay a subscription fee to a official, supported Cyanogen port.
They had the perfect opportunity to show everything was changed in Microsoft.
What if they used the claimed multi platform, open source .NET parts to build their new, fresh browser and ship it to every OS in existence? Edge for Android and Ubuntu and OSX? I am not saying they should have posted its entire source to github, that is too utopic.
Otherwise, if it will be Windows only and use Windows only technologies, IE was doing fine lately.
Actually, Firefox is the living proof that Communicator "suite" kind of mess killed Netscape brand and Netscape Navigator was the thing to push rather than full communication suite.
Don't get me wrong, I always liked the full integrated suite idea myself but ordinary users liked "A functioning, fast browser only" aka UNIX way of "do one thing and do it perfectly" doing things better.
I agree that Gibson is more like a tabloid in security business but he did one thing good, he made ordinary people aware of the risks involved when they wonder around with open ports exposed to the internet. I believe the language he uses with all that sensational terms somehow made Joe Public install a free firewall to his Windows machine, that is a good thing.
He also made people, ordinary non technical people aware of spyware.
He claims some crazy things that is a fact and we all laugh when someone codes a GUI app in pure ASM& brags about it but let's all think about the dark ages when GRC.com was founded.
I mean he did more good than harm.
As tablets have larger physical volume, used mostly at homes where charger isn't a big deal, Intel cleverly sponsored Atom powered tablets. They had big batteries, 2A chargers. That was why you were seeing not so bad tablets in very cheap prices.
Now that the Intel gave up competing with ARM and let Atom miss competition, it doesn't make sense that they will continue the "Put Intel inside logo to boot, get CPU free" type scheme.
If a black hat manages to crack the device, first target will be Google billing information and Google password. Once they are stolen, a huge, never heard of scandal will happen and people will blame Android or Google. Not the manufacturer of device.
It is just like Windows got blamed once the vendor bundled AV expired and let all the crap in.
Google doesn't have a clue about potential digital argameddon that is on the way.
Popcorn!
QuickTime does power a lot of professional video workload, perhaps Apple tried to say that they are dropping the browser plugin via removing it in an update which is seriously overdue. Apple wasted a great technology but whatever, days of plugins are long gone.
If there is no misunderstanding, that should be a final wakeup call to creative professionals.
I wonder if they are trying to hide the fact that the owner use a HP brand laptop?
I am not trying to joke here as my older computer was Lenovo and current one is HP. Both chosen with the criteria of being Debian compatible (chips) and I will not be running Apple in Starbucks for example.
If they are ashamed of being themselves and try to hide it, they have a bigger problem.
Did anyone from Sun or current Oracle say "So, we had something like that in our hands and wasted it down to bundling ask.com toolbars." when they see anyone with Android in hand? It isn't like Xerox, they never wanted to sell computers or desktops. This must be way more worse than Xerox since they admit their business arm never wanted to sell computers.
As an end user, I saw the potential in Java when I run Think Free office, in Java 1.1 or 2 ages or IBM doing mp4 decoding in browser applet. How could Sun miss it.
Mozilla Firefox has a "bug" open for same purpose and there are several reasons for the switch, build performance increase and increased security.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...
That junk was absolutely outsourced and coded by some "trendy" team, it was NEVER tested on the most common Intel graphics displays such as 1366*768 (ultrabooks) nor 1280*720 (old HDTV). How do I know? Well, it doesn't display properly with large font setting of Windows.
It also installs documented, opt in but very alerting piece of data mining software running as administrator.
That is IBM and they deserve that treatment as 40 years old software can run unmodified on 64 bit mainframe.
If shareholders wake up, a lot of IT managers would end up in prison for choosing Microsoft with very suspicious reasonings. One day, this will happen.
Oh wait, there are no release notes except marketing talk. Believe or not, they don't publish release notes anymore. When a company CEO talks about what a "serious" company they are, show them this story.
You just provided an answer to people whining about "Why business people, enterprise insist on relying to MS solutions (.NET etc) rather than Linux/OSX?"
Business wants long term support and dependability. When couple of nerds in a IRC channel or Starbucks decide the fate of their multi million dollar applications future because "nobody uses it", it doesn't work.
Windows 10 can still run software coded in 1995.
They try to be trendy and it backfires. I really hate when they call my full feature laptop, notebook a "device" on Windows 10 too.
They should look to IBM, they just reinvented themselves without doing such "lets look cool to these young kids" trickery. They stayed as Big Blue. For example, having complete W3C HTML valid homepage (don't know current) is way more modern than coming up with some pseudo code names.
People will remember the one and only Windows 98 C:/con/con Bug , not good for new Microsoft ;-)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...
Google should admit there is a problem in Android's model of getting updates and do something about it.
It is not just code.
If they don't care because Android is doing well in terms of market share etc, they should read comments & stories about Nokia Symbian. Developers, users, authors were telling them everything which were wrong and they were laughing at them showing their massive marketshare. Now, their own Google Keyboard didn't autocomplete Symbian, it is that irrelevant.
Besides being really Windows NT style rather than UNIX style, the rudeness and lack of empathy will kill systemd.
It isn't very technical? Why don't you use ReiserFS than? I still hear it is unmatched in technical quality in some aspects.
A billion Android devices & chrome books include busybox. Not even mentioning, trying to count routers etc.
Why did I care to reply is another question.
Not being open source and platform agnostic was the problem, it wasn't IE.
Poor thing :-/
Setup an ordinary OS X user and try to drag any application to /Applications see what happens. It will ask an Administrator name&password. Exact same thing happens on Windows too.
It is still "su" in polished way.
I am not defending this short sighted, old fashioned approach but the TV channels, online outlets like Amazon, Apple, Google and DVD/Bluray distributors would go crazy if they setup a legimate way to sell to global audience.
I use VPN against censor and packet logging government and it always made me curious about BBC and other large networks turning blind eye to well known IP blocks. IMHO VPN just postponed the revolution which should take place in commercial video broadcasting for a long time coming. Mp3 piracy woke up the audio industry and now with current bandwidth, 4K and H265, it is time for TV industry.
A friend had older model and got somehow tricked by advertising, decided to dive to sea with it.
They restored the SD card, it actually has video of fish checking it out.
There are many analysts checking the massive data leak, this thing, the entire company & website could turn out to be scam of the century.
Don't speak too soon about integrity and the CEO.