I'm actually surprised no one else has picked up on this. The requirements for Office 2013 happen to be roughly the same as the requirements for Windows 7/8. Chalk this one up to slashdot freaking out over nothing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7#Hardware_requirements
You realize that moving graphics calculations to a processor that specializes in graphics calculations is in fact an optimization? You will be hard pressed to find a computer built today that doesn't have DX10 level hardware, might as well use it.
Maybe my vim-fu is weak but remind me how I can check my email and schedule a meeting with vim? Other then writing a shell script to wipe the drive and install windows/office of course.
Secure boot is not the same thing as DRM. They are different technologies with different purposes and very different implementations. Secure boot is trying to stop malicious software from silently tampering with critical OS files before antivirus software is loaded. DRM is trying to stop people from making certain copies of files. How you got modded to +4 I will never know.
Absolutely. I find it amusing that the people who refuse to upgrade because "there's nothing new" are usually the ones who complain the loudest every time a vulnerability gets discovered.
He's talking about the SkyDrive-Office integration, the Office web apps in SkyDrive and Office apps in WP7. You should try them sometime, they are actually pretty good.
Actually with all of the low level security features that Vista, 7 and 8 have but XP lacks, just moving forward will add security. Especially when you consider newly discovered exploits will get patched on Vista and up while XP sits there rotting.
As of April 8, 2014 the worlds most notoriously insecure operating system is no longer receiving security fixes. Or any fixes at all. Seems like something IT departments would want to work to avoid.
Considering they just announced this thing today, I doubt there will be anything official on group policies for a while. If I was a betting man I would say that there would be some mechanism to turn SkyDrive off. Maybe it would happen automatically when connected to a SharePoint server.
Well that's great because TFA is complaining about the version of the mail app that won't be what ships. We know the one that ships will have IMAP support for example. Also it's in the store so it will probably be iterated on and improved more often then the OS will.
Tell that to the Nexus S owners who had to wait over 6 months for 4.0 to land on their phones. Owning a Nexus phone is not a guarantee of timely updates.
If you read the link, you would see that they exceeded their own expectations by 130 million copies. The hate for vista is much stronger on slashdot than it is in the real world.
Hmmm, maybe it's just a coincidence then that every piece of code I've seen that has made heavy use of void* has been write-only junk. Personally I'm of the opinion that a programmer should rely on computers to do the boring mechanical work like checking for type safety. People are exceptionally bad at things compilers are good at. Anywhere I can get my tools to do work for me is a good thing.
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I'm actually surprised no one else has picked up on this. The requirements for Office 2013 happen to be roughly the same as the requirements for Windows 7/8. Chalk this one up to slashdot freaking out over nothing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7#Hardware_requirements
Deadlocks the whole OS as soon as you try to use a DX10+ feature is not working just fine.
You realize that moving graphics calculations to a processor that specializes in graphics calculations is in fact an optimization? You will be hard pressed to find a computer built today that doesn't have DX10 level hardware, might as well use it.
A neckbear!? Sweet jesus tell me how I can get one of those.
Maybe my vim-fu is weak but remind me how I can check my email and schedule a meeting with vim? Other then writing a shell script to wipe the drive and install windows/office of course.
We are arguing the general case, not specifics. Try to keep up.
all the way to the death camps
You know, using a slippery slope argument is a shockingly bad way to convince someone that a slippery slope isn't a logical fallacy. Just saying.
Secure boot is not the same thing as DRM. They are different technologies with different purposes and very different implementations. Secure boot is trying to stop malicious software from silently tampering with critical OS files before antivirus software is loaded. DRM is trying to stop people from making certain copies of files. How you got modded to +4 I will never know.
Deathfromsomewhere's law states: sooner or later in any discussion, someone will commit an ad hominem attack when he runs out of useful arguments.
It is a fallacy. Too bad if you don't like it.
Hopefully none because the slippery slope argument is a logical fallacy.
Can we stop using this old folksy saying now? It just isn't true.
If by obsolete you mean that the replacement is already being planned then yes, every single electronic device on the market today is obsolete.
Absolutely. I find it amusing that the people who refuse to upgrade because "there's nothing new" are usually the ones who complain the loudest every time a vulnerability gets discovered.
Ribbon is still there, just looks a little different now.
He's talking about the SkyDrive-Office integration, the Office web apps in SkyDrive and Office apps in WP7. You should try them sometime, they are actually pretty good.
Actually with all of the low level security features that Vista, 7 and 8 have but XP lacks, just moving forward will add security. Especially when you consider newly discovered exploits will get patched on Vista and up while XP sits there rotting.
As of April 8, 2014 the worlds most notoriously insecure operating system is no longer receiving security fixes. Or any fixes at all. Seems like something IT departments would want to work to avoid.
Linux - about as popular as medieval torture!
Considering they just announced this thing today, I doubt there will be anything official on group policies for a while. If I was a betting man I would say that there would be some mechanism to turn SkyDrive off. Maybe it would happen automatically when connected to a SharePoint server.
Let me wikipedia that for you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_2007#New_features
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_2010#New_features
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_2013#New_features
Well that's great because TFA is complaining about the version of the mail app that won't be what ships. We know the one that ships will have IMAP support for example. Also it's in the store so it will probably be iterated on and improved more often then the OS will.
Tell that to the Nexus S owners who had to wait over 6 months for 4.0 to land on their phones. Owning a Nexus phone is not a guarantee of timely updates.
If you read the link, you would see that they exceeded their own expectations by 130 million copies. The hate for vista is much stronger on slashdot than it is in the real world.
Hmmm, maybe it's just a coincidence then that every piece of code I've seen that has made heavy use of void* has been write-only junk. Personally I'm of the opinion that a programmer should rely on computers to do the boring mechanical work like checking for type safety. People are exceptionally bad at things compilers are good at. Anywhere I can get my tools to do work for me is a good thing.
You can read C code and not have to worry about strange gotchas.
#define + -
Good luck.