What's been implemented is standards compliant. No, not 100% of Exchange web functionality available in IE is available to non IE browsers, but the 95% common functionality there is between the 2 implementations will work on any major browser - see http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/09/13/428901.aspx for a brief rundown of what won't work on non-IE browsers.
Finally, if you're looking for a web only email solution, don't use Exchange; that's not what it's designed for.
Actually, Exchange works just fine on any browser you want. Some features aren't supported (like sending rich-text emails), but 95% is.
But then, there's still a bunch of stuff you can't do on web-access for any browser, so this is hardly a show-stopper. Exchange was never meant to be just a web-mail server believe it or not.
The UAC dialogue boxes I see are on the scale of about 1-2 a day max, and I'm a software dev. UAC has not changed since RTM; Windows has got better at batching up UAC requests, but it in itself has never changed.
For most users though, it's a simple explanation of "If this window comes up, something wants to change the way your entire computer works. If you're unsure, click Cancel". Easy.
For the record, the new stuff takes time to trickle into mainstream development anyway, so Mono gets to at least focus on implementing the stuff the industry considers important too rather than just Microsoft.
The bits missing (Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Presentation Foundation) aren't as crucial in my personal opinion; they are just nice toys you aren't going to miss if you've never had them before.
LINQ however is a killer feature IMO; I'm glad to see that's now available on mono.
Next up, you'll have another tech-company claiming they've got their server's running without failure in the car park, nay, ground into the tarmac without significant failure rate increase.
It's a bit like extreme ironing; it's probably possible, but why would you want to?
Without wishing to piss on anyone's parade, I'm not so sure this is such a great thing....let me explain...
The fundamentals of OpenGL and Direct3d is it a standard agreed on by software developers and hardware vendors alike right? While it's great this is now free, if one target now diversifies into a hundred different variations, you can be sure the likes of NVidia and ATI drop it completely.
Don't get me wrong, I do support the FOSS philosophy but in this case I'm not convinced it's such a great move?
iTunes 7 was big enough, what with Bonjour, Apple service, QuickTime etc all being loaded quietly in the background.
As far as I'm concerned, Apple have fucked up iTunes too much now; these drivers that seem completely unnecessary, MobileMe, AND the above? System stability & performance on your machine come second to Apple controlling it's ecosystem exactly how it wants to apparently.
Apple seems to think it has the right to load anything it wants onto my system, and worse, without even telling me, and for me they've crossed the line.
Europe by far, as a continent goes has the best rail infrastructure I'd say.
Take Spain for example; in a few years time, from Madrid, every single major city will be accessible by train in 2.5 hours or less. Spain's no small country either, with it's fair share of mountains too.
It's not even cheap either. Take a return ticket Madrid -> Barcelona; you're looking at about $300 if you buy it on the day for a standard class seat. Trains leave every hour, it takes 2.5 hours to get one way @ 300Km/hour and shockingly, each one leaves packed.
It to me sounds like Spain is the complete inverse of the US....the roads suck, but the train network is seriously impressive.
I've done quite a few LAN parties now; big & small. They started with me and my flatmate housing 8 mates in our living room, battling out various incarnations of war. Then slowly it grew into many more people until finally it got too big; too dispersed, and the original spirit of the gaming sessions was lost to clusters of people doing their own thing; with little cohesion in the group.
Now, when we do LAN parties, it's 8 people max, and people everyone knows well. 8-way battles with mates + pizza & vodka + drinking games == some of the best nights I've ever had.
The performance testing tools was "Office performance benchmarks". So I guess Vista isn't as great as XP for what exactly? TFA mentions nothing about things like Vista's SuperFetch speeding up load times etc, so this "omg vista is slooooow" is highly unscientific if you ask me.
The only reason I know people don't upgrade is for mission critical apps not being ready yet.
Stick a question-mark in front of any text and suddenly you can say anything.
Vista comes with huge security implications (it that it has some), IE7 as mandatory, and therefore has large compatibility implications for large companies especially.
I know of several huge Microsoft customers that, despite being 100% MS based, still are in the testing/tweaking/certification stage of all their apps before they begin global roll-out. It's in the pipelines, but no one standardises on new workstation OS's until they can guarantee 100% compatibility - which can take a long time.
There's a scarily amount of enterprise-based IE6 only apps out there which alone makes Vista a difficult upgrade (IE6 not being an option on Vista). It's worth it in the end, as frankly, it's a better OS in the long-run IMO.
Gone are the days of writing to c:\windows without repercussion. Gone are the days of dropping kernel hooks in to get better app performance. Thank god.
then Bitlocker will work fine. Otherwise you won't have it.
In fact, on a active directory, you can configure bitlocker for your entire network to automatically encrypt volumes and backup the TPM recovery information to the Active Directory if you so desire - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766015.aspx
Other than that, TrueCrypt works just as well for standalone machines.
Seriously, people aren't all that much different from what they were in their late high school/early college years. It is a bit saddening that the so many people are judged (and judge) based on their "cool stuff."
Yep. Apple products are aimed at people who want to feel cooler than anyone else. They're whole "Think Different" slogan reflects that. Clever, a bit sad like you say, but it definitely works.
for me...he has steered some excellent products; some shaking the industry down to it's foundations (read: iPod), but one thing that's struck me the most is how he's managed to re-create the "coolest kid in the school" feeling kids go through but in adults, by having selling the coolest image/product/both with consumer electronics. The kind of emotion that buying a high-performance car has been reproduced in electronics & computer gear, even if the product in question isn't necessarily the best technically. That's impressive.
Also, Steve understands people want a complete experience; not component parts. iPods come with iTunes for complete top-to-bottom management. OSX comes with Apple hardware only. Even the throw-away packaging somehow looks like someone really thought it through as to how it fits into the whole "product experience". That to me is Steve's influence. Congrats I guess!
So Vista pre-SP1 got the Win2003 kernel, and Vista SP1 got 2008.
That's so far from true. Win2003 has always been an minor upgrade from XP kernel. Vista has always been a major upgrade from the Win2k3 kernel....UAC for example is baked deep into it.
SP1 just patched it to exactly the same build as Win2k8 - not even a minor upgrade; just a patch.
Vista SP1 == Windows Server 2008 + Active Directory + some other extra toys (depending on version) and minus others (Media Center for instance).
I mean really, I love how the image of one is completely tarnished but the image of the other is "not bad for a MS OS"....it's like comparing Windows 2000 Server & Pro.
The only other difference is what's enabled by default, which in Win2008 is rather less. It only takes a few minutes to shutdown the same services in Vista.
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works fine but not everything works.
What's been implemented is standards compliant. No, not 100% of Exchange web functionality available in IE is available to non IE browsers, but the 95% common functionality there is between the 2 implementations will work on any major browser - see http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/09/13/428901.aspx for a brief rundown of what won't work on non-IE browsers.
Finally, if you're looking for a web only email solution, don't use Exchange; that's not what it's designed for.
Actually, Exchange works just fine on any browser you want. Some features aren't supported (like sending rich-text emails), but 95% is.
But then, there's still a bunch of stuff you can't do on web-access for any browser, so this is hardly a show-stopper. Exchange was never meant to be just a web-mail server believe it or not.
...is good at advising to upgrade out of date drivers if they cause problems.
I've had it diagnose a bunch of dodgy drivers with success before; I'm not quite sure what the angle on this tool is.
The UAC dialogue boxes I see are on the scale of about 1-2 a day max, and I'm a software dev. UAC has not changed since RTM; Windows has got better at batching up UAC requests, but it in itself has never changed.
For most users though, it's a simple explanation of "If this window comes up, something wants to change the way your entire computer works. If you're unsure, click Cancel". Easy.
In most Linux distros, if you do something that requires admin access, it asks you for the admin password
...unless the user logged in already has those privileges, which in Vista is never.
if I rearrange a bunch of icons I don't get 100 different prompts.
You don't in Vista either. Maybe you can elaborate what you're doing exactly?
For the record, the new stuff takes time to trickle into mainstream development anyway, so Mono gets to at least focus on implementing the stuff the industry considers important too rather than just Microsoft.
Most of it anyway; but crucially, LINQ.
The bits missing (Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Presentation Foundation) aren't as crucial in my personal opinion; they are just nice toys you aren't going to miss if you've never had them before.
LINQ however is a killer feature IMO; I'm glad to see that's now available on mono.
Actually, knowing someone that works there, they tell me EA will cancel a game if they're convinced it'll literally be a market leader.
I expect this game wouldn't be bad at all in other words; sounds to me like the execs weren't convinced it would dominate its genre that's all.
Next up, you'll have another tech-company claiming they've got their server's running without failure in the car park, nay, ground into the tarmac without significant failure rate increase.
It's a bit like extreme ironing; it's probably possible, but why would you want to?
Without wishing to piss on anyone's parade, I'm not so sure this is such a great thing....let me explain...
The fundamentals of OpenGL and Direct3d is it a standard agreed on by software developers and hardware vendors alike right? While it's great this is now free, if one target now diversifies into a hundred different variations, you can be sure the likes of NVidia and ATI drop it completely.
Don't get me wrong, I do support the FOSS philosophy but in this case I'm not convinced it's such a great move?
iTunes 7 was big enough, what with Bonjour, Apple service, QuickTime etc all being loaded quietly in the background.
As far as I'm concerned, Apple have fucked up iTunes too much now; these drivers that seem completely unnecessary, MobileMe, AND the above? System stability & performance on your machine come second to Apple controlling it's ecosystem exactly how it wants to apparently.
Apple seems to think it has the right to load anything it wants onto my system, and worse, without even telling me, and for me they've crossed the line.
I can't believe someone went to all that effort of making a website like that, and didn't even provide an RSS feed.
They've become self-aware. Run for the hills!
Europe by far, as a continent goes has the best rail infrastructure I'd say.
Take Spain for example; in a few years time, from Madrid, every single major city will be accessible by train in 2.5 hours or less. Spain's no small country either, with it's fair share of mountains too.
It's not even cheap either. Take a return ticket Madrid -> Barcelona; you're looking at about $300 if you buy it on the day for a standard class seat. Trains leave every hour, it takes 2.5 hours to get one way @ 300Km/hour and shockingly, each one leaves packed.
It to me sounds like Spain is the complete inverse of the US....the roads suck, but the train network is seriously impressive.
I salute you for your extreme levels of boredom sir!
I've done quite a few LAN parties now; big & small. They started with me and my flatmate housing 8 mates in our living room, battling out various incarnations of war. Then slowly it grew into many more people until finally it got too big; too dispersed, and the original spirit of the gaming sessions was lost to clusters of people doing their own thing; with little cohesion in the group.
Now, when we do LAN parties, it's 8 people max, and people everyone knows well. 8-way battles with mates + pizza & vodka + drinking games == some of the best nights I've ever had.
The performance testing tools was "Office performance benchmarks". So I guess Vista isn't as great as XP for what exactly? TFA mentions nothing about things like Vista's SuperFetch speeding up load times etc, so this "omg vista is slooooow" is highly unscientific if you ask me.
The only reason I know people don't upgrade is for mission critical apps not being ready yet.
Stick a question-mark in front of any text and suddenly you can say anything.
Vista comes with huge security implications (it that it has some), IE7 as mandatory, and therefore has large compatibility implications for large companies especially.
I know of several huge Microsoft customers that, despite being 100% MS based, still are in the testing/tweaking/certification stage of all their apps before they begin global roll-out. It's in the pipelines, but no one standardises on new workstation OS's until they can guarantee 100% compatibility - which can take a long time.
There's a scarily amount of enterprise-based IE6 only apps out there which alone makes Vista a difficult upgrade (IE6 not being an option on Vista). It's worth it in the end, as frankly, it's a better OS in the long-run IMO.
Gone are the days of writing to c:\windows without repercussion. Gone are the days of dropping kernel hooks in to get better app performance. Thank god.
then Bitlocker will work fine. Otherwise you won't have it.
In fact, on a active directory, you can configure bitlocker for your entire network to automatically encrypt volumes and backup the TPM recovery information to the Active Directory if you so desire - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766015.aspx
Other than that, TrueCrypt works just as well for standalone machines.
I've got a XPS M1530; runs games for days no problems.
Maybe I'm lucky?
Either way, i'm not gonna install an update that'll make the machine think it's a helicopter just yet.
Seriously, people aren't all that much different from what they were in their late high school/early college years. It is a bit saddening that the so many people are judged (and judge) based on their "cool stuff."
Yep. Apple products are aimed at people who want to feel cooler than anyone else. They're whole "Think Different" slogan reflects that. Clever, a bit sad like you say, but it definitely works.
To quote a "Bowling for Soup" song; "Highschool never ends". How true that song is.
for me...he has steered some excellent products; some shaking the industry down to it's foundations (read: iPod), but one thing that's struck me the most is how he's managed to re-create the "coolest kid in the school" feeling kids go through but in adults, by having selling the coolest image/product/both with consumer electronics. The kind of emotion that buying a high-performance car has been reproduced in electronics & computer gear, even if the product in question isn't necessarily the best technically. That's impressive.
Also, Steve understands people want a complete experience; not component parts. iPods come with iTunes for complete top-to-bottom management. OSX comes with Apple hardware only. Even the throw-away packaging somehow looks like someone really thought it through as to how it fits into the whole "product experience". That to me is Steve's influence. Congrats I guess!
So Vista pre-SP1 got the Win2003 kernel, and Vista SP1 got 2008.
That's so far from true. Win2003 has always been an minor upgrade from XP kernel. Vista has always been a major upgrade from the Win2k3 kernel....UAC for example is baked deep into it.
SP1 just patched it to exactly the same build as Win2k8 - not even a minor upgrade; just a patch.
Vista SP1 == Windows Server 2008 + Active Directory + some other extra toys (depending on version) and minus others (Media Center for instance).
I mean really, I love how the image of one is completely tarnished but the image of the other is "not bad for a MS OS"....it's like comparing Windows 2000 Server & Pro.
The only other difference is what's enabled by default, which in Win2008 is rather less. It only takes a few minutes to shutdown the same services in Vista.
:D
But! The adverts are true! AD/WSUS are so easy, even SHE could set it up!