A big part of why end to end encryption is becoming more popular and desired by the public is because people everywhere were horrified to find out how big a dragnet the 5 eyes nations were using, and they'd probably never have found out if it wasn't for Edward Snowden.
You have no idea just how entrenched Windows is in organisations. If an OS wants to replace corporate Windows desktops it will need some way of running Windows software.
I really wish I had some mod points for your post, because it's accurate as heck.
To expand on what bad_fx said, NZ's equivalent, the UFB (Ultra Fast Broadband) project is the polar opposite of the Australian disaster. Originally the plan was for 75% of the country to have Fibre To The Home, which has now been extended and will be around 84-85%.
The fiber companies don't provide ISP services, and wholesale to any ISP, so consumers have a great variety of choice. A variety of plans are available, but currently the two main ones are an entry level 100/20 plan, and a 1000/500 plan. Prices vary between providers but are around USD$60-70 for the 100Mbps plans and USD$90-100 for the 1Gbps plans.
In addition to the FTTH rollout, the government has also extensively funded a rollout of other technologies (Copper/Cellular) into rural areas in what's known as RBI (Rural Broadband Initiative).
I am often critical of our government, but they did all this in a fairly non partisan multi party way. It's such a shame the Aussie politicians turned their NBN into a political beast.
Wildly unpopular as it may be in these parts, Microsoft is correct, and starting to move away from Windows 7 is the appropriate thing to do.
Yes there is self interest involved form Microsoft, they want to sell licenses, but that doesn't inherently make their direction wrong. Windows 7 was released nearly 12 years ago, let that sink in.. _12_ years. Snow Leopard was the shiny new OS for Macs and the Linux Kernel version at the time was 2.6.30, SLES11.0 and RHEL 5.3 were released around the same time. I can't speak for all of you but most of the hardcore Linux sysadmins I work with or know would look at you funny if you told them you were going to build a new production server with those as a starting point.
If you consider Windows 7, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.0, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 RTM and Windows 10 Anniversary to be distinct OS versions, Windows 7 SP1 is 4 generations behind. Even if you only consider Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10 the distinct versions, Windows 7 is still 2 generations behind.
I work for one of the larger tertiary providers here in New Zealand, and we heavily restrict the surfing of staff and students. Our baseline policy could be described as "personal surfing is allowed within reason" but the reality is we barely tolerate it at all. Our policies basically ignore the students, its targetted at keeping the staff inline and the students just cop the side effects. We block all streaming media, pretty much every audio/video format, major archive formats (zip, ace, rar, etc), exe's, msi's, I could go on. Every week usage reports are compiled, and any non work/educational related sites in the top 100 are added to the banlist. This is all ontop of using commercial blocklists as a base.
I suspect however that we are not the average tertiary provider, and that our blocking is positively draconian compared to many of the others.
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Wrong.. they engaged in IP copying. No matter how much some groups scream, copying information isn't, and never will be theft.
A big part of why end to end encryption is becoming more popular and desired by the public is because people everywhere were horrified to find out how big a dragnet the 5 eyes nations were using, and they'd probably never have found out if it wasn't for Edward Snowden.
You have no idea just how entrenched Windows is in organisations. If an OS wants to replace corporate Windows desktops it will need some way of running Windows software.
I really wish I had some mod points for your post, because it's accurate as heck.
Was never on Cheeseplant's House, but spent a fairly decent chunk of the 90's up all night talking to people on Foothills.. I miss the talker days.
To expand on what bad_fx said, NZ's equivalent, the UFB (Ultra Fast Broadband) project is the polar opposite of the Australian disaster. Originally the plan was for 75% of the country to have Fibre To The Home, which has now been extended and will be around 84-85%. The fiber companies don't provide ISP services, and wholesale to any ISP, so consumers have a great variety of choice. A variety of plans are available, but currently the two main ones are an entry level 100/20 plan, and a 1000/500 plan. Prices vary between providers but are around USD$60-70 for the 100Mbps plans and USD$90-100 for the 1Gbps plans. In addition to the FTTH rollout, the government has also extensively funded a rollout of other technologies (Copper/Cellular) into rural areas in what's known as RBI (Rural Broadband Initiative). I am often critical of our government, but they did all this in a fairly non partisan multi party way. It's such a shame the Aussie politicians turned their NBN into a political beast.
Why the hell are people shocked? Microsoft first said it was going to do this 14 months ago, way back in January 2016.
Wildly unpopular as it may be in these parts, Microsoft is correct, and starting to move away from Windows 7 is the appropriate thing to do. Yes there is self interest involved form Microsoft, they want to sell licenses, but that doesn't inherently make their direction wrong. Windows 7 was released nearly 12 years ago, let that sink in.. _12_ years. Snow Leopard was the shiny new OS for Macs and the Linux Kernel version at the time was 2.6.30, SLES11.0 and RHEL 5.3 were released around the same time. I can't speak for all of you but most of the hardcore Linux sysadmins I work with or know would look at you funny if you told them you were going to build a new production server with those as a starting point. If you consider Windows 7, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.0, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 RTM and Windows 10 Anniversary to be distinct OS versions, Windows 7 SP1 is 4 generations behind. Even if you only consider Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10 the distinct versions, Windows 7 is still 2 generations behind.
Not true. Plenty of original netflix content is not available on my country
Same here.. NetFlix sold international licenses to lots of it's early stuff before it went global.
I'm not even going to bother pirating this game.. That'll show em!
I work for one of the larger tertiary providers here in New Zealand, and we heavily restrict the surfing of staff and students. Our baseline policy could be described as "personal surfing is allowed within reason" but the reality is we barely tolerate it at all. Our policies basically ignore the students, its targetted at keeping the staff inline and the students just cop the side effects. We block all streaming media, pretty much every audio/video format, major archive formats (zip, ace, rar, etc), exe's, msi's, I could go on. Every week usage reports are compiled, and any non work/educational related sites in the top 100 are added to the banlist. This is all ontop of using commercial blocklists as a base. I suspect however that we are not the average tertiary provider, and that our blocking is positively draconian compared to many of the others.