UWP is getting built up as fast as possible to match Win32, and when parity is achieved, UWP will have all the new API updates and Win32 will stagnate. Eventually MS will say it's not worth supporting Win32 as a development platform and will leave it to a virtual machine for compatibility. It will be deemed too insecure and out of date. UWP will be supported on more devices. Through MS's store, UWP applications have DRM containers and the Windows PC won't be as open as it used to be, allowing for community fixes and game updates like texture packs and mods. Anyway that's what it seems like.
This is his they lead you to their walled garden. Eventually UWP will get all the new API versions and updates, such as DirectX, and Win32 will be left to stagnate and eventually will be shed and relegated to legacy VM only.
They will never stop you from loading non-app store apps on Windows. They will however stop supporting Win32 APIs, as focus shifts to UWP. UWP is getting new features first, and eventually Win32 (and Win32 development) will be suffocated. This is how they kill Steam (or at least your Win32 steam library, putting them on equal footing), this is how they have DRM top to bottom for Hollywood, this is how they get you in a walled garden.
Use some dedicated hardware with a custom software system with only components designed for the purpose of the machine and nothing else. Harden and sanity check the hell out of the I/O and connect THAT to your idiot box.
Which is why they're focusing on the UWP and Cortana metaplatform. Cortana runs on all your third party devices and lets a UWP device control them. UWP will run on more than just x86 and more platforms, but will share the MS store. MS is moving away from windows but building UWP on top of current Windows and MS devices, and deprecating all other Windows API sets. MS is building their walled garden from the inside.
A lot of people put in crap to get past prompts, or answer ideally instead of truthfully, etc. You have to imagine a lot of this data is biased and doesn't reflect reality anyway.
It's obviously disgusting when the person making the assertions has ulterior motives for convincing you. They will assert their opponents are incorrect, even when that's debatable.
I haven't had a phone for about 10 years and won't get one for anything like this. What about people using POTS who can't even get SMS. I imagine this will be used as just an alternative login method, otherwise a lot of people won't even be able to use it at all.
I don't understand how that could denigrate my comment, am I missing something? If it has anything to do with this, when I was in high school pagers were things dealers had and the rectangle everyone really wanted was a Gameboy.
For me I gave up on watches upon noticing: when I am constantly aware of the time, I tend to focus more on management of tasks than the tasks themselves. Instead I'd rather just set alarms for myself and never see the time. On my phone it doesn't show the time unless I specifically call up the clock app. The last thing I even want a watch for is to tell time, but with all the different things the watch does I still don't think it's such a brilliant alternative to pulling a rectangle out of my pocket. If I don't have the hands/time to do that, then I can't really be focusing on a watch face for info either. Personally no wrist things help me do anything better.
I still don't want anything on my wrist. It's an interesting remote control but doesn't have that killer app/functionality you get with other apple products.
Man same here except this is my wife's friends that were asking to get switched over, every time people tell her about the latest Windows headache she isn't in that loop and doesn't chime in or can't relate, finally they see her laptop and ask what she's using and then say "where can I get that?" I make some money on the side doing installs sometimes and it's been working out great so far.
And neither is my family I guess? It's getting harder and harder to find that "Everyone has their one or two "unique use cases." " I can't remember the last time I came across one. I can't think of anything I can't get done on Linux. Editing home movie clips together, publishing them online and distributing it on blu ray to family, doing vector illustration and animation, home theater PC and media streaming for other TVs and portable devices on WiFi, printing, browsing, composing documents, composing music (rosegarden is brilliant), home closed circuit camera, I use it for everything every day and so does family, I think that the Linux desktop is really hitting every target here.
"This raises one question: Is China's Great Firewall that easy to circumvent, or are members of the government treated differently than normal citizens?"
Really I can't believe there are so few of these in the first world. Nobody wants to hear you taking a dump and you don't want to hear them. Just do it, it would solve all the problems. About locker rooms, if you want to use one in public it's your call. Go where you want and know that anyone else can do the same, it's up to you if you want to use it or not. They have stalls in there. I don't see the problem, changing rooms are all close to each other in clothes stores, anyone could be in there, no big deal.
Is it someone who learns directly from a network by imbibing WiFi signals or something? Is this about that Linux kid IBM was always talking about in their ads?
I never tried any of these digital assistants but I thought like with any other text-to-speech software you'd be able to change the voices. It really is weird that they all select female voices. Maybe all fans of Star Trek Next Generation?
I see that the FBI is attempting to do public posturing, which seems completely out of line with their purpose and scope as an organization. The fact that this is an initiative at the FBI should prompt an inquiry and scrutiny in their direction and management.
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UWP is getting built up as fast as possible to match Win32, and when parity is achieved, UWP will have all the new API updates and Win32 will stagnate. Eventually MS will say it's not worth supporting Win32 as a development platform and will leave it to a virtual machine for compatibility. It will be deemed too insecure and out of date. UWP will be supported on more devices. Through MS's store, UWP applications have DRM containers and the Windows PC won't be as open as it used to be, allowing for community fixes and game updates like texture packs and mods. Anyway that's what it seems like.
This is his they lead you to their walled garden. Eventually UWP will get all the new API versions and updates, such as DirectX, and Win32 will be left to stagnate and eventually will be shed and relegated to legacy VM only.
They will never stop you from loading non-app store apps on Windows. They will however stop supporting Win32 APIs, as focus shifts to UWP. UWP is getting new features first, and eventually Win32 (and Win32 development) will be suffocated. This is how they kill Steam (or at least your Win32 steam library, putting them on equal footing), this is how they have DRM top to bottom for Hollywood, this is how they get you in a walled garden.
Look it up: here and here. Not really water vapor.
Use some dedicated hardware with a custom software system with only components designed for the purpose of the machine and nothing else. Harden and sanity check the hell out of the I/O and connect THAT to your idiot box.
MS has already stated that Windows 10 is their last version and they intend to move to UWP across multiple devices and architectures
Which is why they're focusing on the UWP and Cortana metaplatform. Cortana runs on all your third party devices and lets a UWP device control them. UWP will run on more than just x86 and more platforms, but will share the MS store. MS is moving away from windows but building UWP on top of current Windows and MS devices, and deprecating all other Windows API sets. MS is building their walled garden from the inside.
A lot of people put in crap to get past prompts, or answer ideally instead of truthfully, etc. You have to imagine a lot of this data is biased and doesn't reflect reality anyway.
It's obviously disgusting when the person making the assertions has ulterior motives for convincing you. They will assert their opponents are incorrect, even when that's debatable.
How disgusting that they wish to "correct" the viewpoint of the voters. Or I guess I should say proles.
Those stingy bastards
That's one example, yes.
So outdated libraries you have to rely on third parties to update in sync? That doesn't sound terribly safe.
I haven't had a phone for about 10 years and won't get one for anything like this. What about people using POTS who can't even get SMS. I imagine this will be used as just an alternative login method, otherwise a lot of people won't even be able to use it at all.
I don't understand how that could denigrate my comment, am I missing something? If it has anything to do with this, when I was in high school pagers were things dealers had and the rectangle everyone really wanted was a Gameboy.
For me I gave up on watches upon noticing: when I am constantly aware of the time, I tend to focus more on management of tasks than the tasks themselves. Instead I'd rather just set alarms for myself and never see the time. On my phone it doesn't show the time unless I specifically call up the clock app. The last thing I even want a watch for is to tell time, but with all the different things the watch does I still don't think it's such a brilliant alternative to pulling a rectangle out of my pocket. If I don't have the hands/time to do that, then I can't really be focusing on a watch face for info either. Personally no wrist things help me do anything better.
I still don't want anything on my wrist. It's an interesting remote control but doesn't have that killer app/functionality you get with other apple products.
Man same here except this is my wife's friends that were asking to get switched over, every time people tell her about the latest Windows headache she isn't in that loop and doesn't chime in or can't relate, finally they see her laptop and ask what she's using and then say "where can I get that?" I make some money on the side doing installs sometimes and it's been working out great so far.
And neither is my family I guess? It's getting harder and harder to find that "Everyone has their one or two "unique use cases." " I can't remember the last time I came across one. I can't think of anything I can't get done on Linux. Editing home movie clips together, publishing them online and distributing it on blu ray to family, doing vector illustration and animation, home theater PC and media streaming for other TVs and portable devices on WiFi, printing, browsing, composing documents, composing music (rosegarden is brilliant), home closed circuit camera, I use it for everything every day and so does family, I think that the Linux desktop is really hitting every target here.
"This raises one question: Is China's Great Firewall that easy to circumvent, or are members of the government treated differently than normal citizens?"
Why is this an either/or thing?
Really I can't believe there are so few of these in the first world. Nobody wants to hear you taking a dump and you don't want to hear them. Just do it, it would solve all the problems. About locker rooms, if you want to use one in public it's your call. Go where you want and know that anyone else can do the same, it's up to you if you want to use it or not. They have stalls in there. I don't see the problem, changing rooms are all close to each other in clothes stores, anyone could be in there, no big deal.
Is it someone who learns directly from a network by imbibing WiFi signals or something? Is this about that Linux kid IBM was always talking about in their ads?
I never tried any of these digital assistants but I thought like with any other text-to-speech software you'd be able to change the voices. It really is weird that they all select female voices. Maybe all fans of Star Trek Next Generation?
I see that the FBI is attempting to do public posturing, which seems completely out of line with their purpose and scope as an organization. The fact that this is an initiative at the FBI should prompt an inquiry and scrutiny in their direction and management.
MS is positioning themselves to manage all devices and be a defacto superset