The OP was probably referring to the fact that Microsoft required any vendor who sold DOS/Windows to pay them for every PC sold no matter if it had Microsoft software on it or not. That makes it tough to enter the market.
IBM was able to get OS/2 pre-loaded on PCs in Germany without those restrictions and gained 25% marketshare in the few months the vendors were doing it. Even IBM had to give up trying to get an alternative OS on PC hardware and their OS also ran Windows applications...
I ran BeOS on a machine for a short period and was stunned at how well it handled tough tasks.Playing multiple videos on different side of a 3D cube for example and the system was still very responsive.
No even close to a Beowulf cluster so pretty worthless.
Besides, Windows being ported to X, Y or Z is not new. It's been done for a couple of decades at the very least. It just always sucks. Does this one suck less? Probably not.
Internal Combustion Engines are so inefficient. So electric 'anything' has that going for it.
Combining that with the fact that there are no stop lights, stop signs, sharp left/right turns, traffic in the sky two dimension rolling mobility just doesn't fly.
Because Microsoft's marketing department still finds this an effective way to news sites to post their company name and OS brand. The lemmings they call customers are very much influenced by what other people are doing. As Microsoft sales start pushing product licensing they lead by pushing out these "growing" numbers "research" projects.
They've been doing this for a couple of decades so well known.
When Google came on board with Dalvick, Sun was having a grand time putting JAVA in the browser and on the server. Those wanting to put it into embedded devices, it's original intent, were ignored by Sun Microsystems. As HP about that since they wanted to license JAVA for use in their printers but Sun would not address their requests for licensing. HP had to do a clean-room implementation which they called Chai or something like that( as in the tea ). No doubt there were many others since we all know HP is no small printer manufacturer and landing them would have been a large deal.
But somehow we are to expect, or the judges are, that it was all Google's fault? Java on mobile phones, back when phones were not very smart, was a mess with many different layers of API's to follow. I forget what they called that mobile version of JAVA but each phone vendor had different application stores and different application requirements.
Apple showed that the market for downloading applications on mobile devices was viable again( remember Palm did it years before ) and Google just followed their lead. Had the phone vendors considered their Sun JAVA mobile API's sufficient they could have competed but they were stuck with what Sun provided and it was not really so good for the rich smartphone OS which was becoming the norm.
Oracle purchased Sun thinking they'd leverage JAVA everywhere but Sun left the mobile market and focused on the server side and browser...
He is such a sweet guy and so helpful. Bless his tiny little heart. You know he was just trying to help people get on the Internet when he started paying people to use Microsoft Internet Explorer instead of Netscape Navigator. And he hired the top software architects away from Borland to create Microsoft.Net because Java was harmful to developers and you know, he really believed Philippe Kahn wanted to do something different.
You people do realize that Toyota had a 100% electric Rav4 in the early 2000s don't you? They partnered with Panasonic and made a kick ass NiMH battery they called the Prismatic EV-95 battery and it powered the Rav4 EV. But GM had sold the majority patent rights for NiMH to the oil industry and Toyota ended up in court and not only did they have to stop selling the Rav4 EV and the EV-95 batteries, they almost lost the right to sell their hybrids because they used NiMH too. That's right, the oil company wanted to shut down their use of NiMH in vehicles. FYI, the GM EV1 got 125 miles on a charge with the NiMH batteries they used. That was before GM collected them all and destroyed them once Bush/Cheney feed the industry $$$ to smoke hydrogen.
So I have to wonder, why is Toyota so adverse to EVs when they were once industry leaders? Does it have to do with some legal declaration they made long ago in order to be "allowed" to continue to make and sell hybrids? It's almost insane how they are staying away from EVs.
All the Chromebook users out there are asking for this. They are asking for Microsoft to save them from the Linux they are using so they can get back to what they are familiar with. Long boot times, virus and malware, buggy software and a back-end which falls down every few weeks or more. They don't want to use Linux and Chromebooks, they want pain. Like they are accustomed too.
So big surprise here that they are attacking Musk. Elon Musk saw first hand what a fool Donald Trump is and bailed out of Trump's advisory council in a very public way. Yes, the ManBoy President is fanatical about that kind of thing. ex. Search for Richard Branson's article of his first meeting with Donald Trump. It/he was so whackadoodle Sir Richard Branson felt he had to publicly expose what happened.
He can afford it, claim the business expense and well, use it for porn after hours. That is, when not in a room full of executives wearing them while jumping up/down and waving their arms around as everyone tries flipping the pages on the virtual MS PowerPoint presentation demo. During intermission, when they stop for a bit, then Microsoft can get some footage and use it for marketing to sucker^H^H^H^H^H^Hexcutives at other corporations.
The comment was about the false belief getting peddled which says that people need to have a familiar user interface(UI)(Microsoft Windows) and having a familiar UI is a benefit. Yes, it took a different hardware platform before people figured that out and some of that had to do with the fact that Microsoft couldn't use its marketing channels to block people from access to that platform(Apple iPhone) like they've done for decades with PC based devices.
That pathetic excuse to keep Windows around has been around for decades and is false. The iPhone proved that wrong and so has Android. Not to mention, Microsoft has constantly forced massive GUI changes on it's users which has constantly required them to learn a new UI. So even Windows users can learn new user interfaces.
Time for another reason why anyone would want Microsoft Windows on a useful Raspberry Pi. Please note the word "useful".
Most likely it is because they keep hearing EV's are the future, that gasoline and diesel fuel is wrong and you know, the whole 'global warming is fake' thing. Probably listen to guys like Rush and Alex who'll say anything so they've probably heard there'd be people coming to take their truck away from them like the Gun Police they constantly talk about coming to collect their guns. So all of This gets focused on those who are proving EVs are viable.
I thought they first took python and hooked it into a bunch of Microsoft One Way products and called it iron python or something like that.
Most likely the only reason why Microsoft might now accept and embrace standard Python now is because, like Linux, they can't ignore what the rest of the world is doing any more. The desktop control doesn't have the power it once wielded.
Can you imagine how long it would have taken them to provide such a complex piece of software had the openSSH source code software not been available for free and widely published?
Reminds me of when they broke the TCP/IP stack AOL provided for Windows and told a judge it was a mistake and they'd have it fixed in 6 months.
Then the time they said they would release a JBDC driver for MS SQL Server with an 18 month release schedule.
But hey, that many monkeys hitting buttons on keyboards take time to get it right. And we know Microsoft always gets it right the first time. Or maybe the second time. Or was it the third time?
It was freaking anti-competive practices like contracts preventing anything but MS-DOS and later MS-DOS and Window installations. it was freaking changing the OS API's last minute before releases and only then publishing the updates to the ISV Partners thereby ensuring Microsoft's software works the best on Windows first. It was breaking things like the TCP/IP stack so things like AOL stopped working and then bringing up a dialog box saying to install MSN, it'lll work fine. Then brilliantly telling a judge it was a programming error and it would be fixed in 6 months.
It was that and so much more which made Microsoft what it is today and what it was yesterday.
And it is STILL their fault when they crash the car.
The guy who told the cop it was the auto-pilot's fault he crashed into the cruiser might just as well have said it was MacDonald's fault because he was taking the lid of their coffee when he crashed. He was in the driver seat, it's called the driver seat because that is where all the controls for the vehicle are and those controls are, well you know, for controlling the car.
We are in a very sad state of affairs when the driver of a car can blame something else for crashing and the Police and press blame that thing.
In auto-pilot or not the driver is responsible for what the car does since the Tesla Auto-Pilot is not a level 5 autonomous control unit. So far I've only seen statements from the Police to the press stating that the driver _said_ it was in auto-pilot. Either way, the driver drove into the back of the patrol car, end of story. But it is not so this is just more of the negative press machine against Tesla and nothing more. Could be funded by Delco-Remy or any of the other antique auto industry players.
In and around 2000, some lawyer for the US auto industry told a commission that people did not want electric cars and would have to be paid $15,000 to take one.
I forget where I heard or read this as it was many years ago and probably was part of the plan by General Motors to end its electric car venture( EV1 ).
Something seems out of sorts and it's not just the Donald Trump lives in the White House. Microsoft has been known for decades as the king of bloatware with it's Windows operating systems and various other applications. But now they want to start talking about one application's battery usage?
I get a chuckle thinking about how many decades it was required to reboot Microsoft Windows computers weekly so they wouldn't crash so often. And the nightly auto reboots people implemented when trying to use Windows as a web server. Fun times.
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The OP was probably referring to the fact that Microsoft required any vendor who sold DOS/Windows to pay them for every PC sold no matter if it had Microsoft software on it or not. That makes it tough to enter the market.
IBM was able to get OS/2 pre-loaded on PCs in Germany without those restrictions and gained 25% marketshare in the few months the vendors were doing it. Even IBM had to give up trying to get an alternative OS on PC hardware and their OS also ran Windows applications...
I ran BeOS on a machine for a short period and was stunned at how well it handled tough tasks.Playing multiple videos on different side of a 3D cube for example and the system was still very responsive.
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No even close to a Beowulf cluster so pretty worthless.
Besides, Windows being ported to X, Y or Z is not new. It's been done for a couple of decades at the very least. It just always sucks. Does this one suck less? Probably not.
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Internal Combustion Engines are so inefficient. So electric 'anything' has that going for it.
Combining that with the fact that there are no stop lights, stop signs, sharp left/right turns, traffic in the sky two dimension rolling mobility just doesn't fly.
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Because Microsoft's marketing department still finds this an effective way to news sites to post their company name and OS brand. The lemmings they call customers are very much influenced by what other people are doing. As Microsoft sales start pushing product licensing they lead by pushing out these "growing" numbers "research" projects.
They've been doing this for a couple of decades so well known.
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When Google came on board with Dalvick, Sun was having a grand time putting JAVA in the browser and on the server. Those wanting to put it into embedded devices, it's original intent, were ignored by Sun Microsystems. As HP about that since they wanted to license JAVA for use in their printers but Sun would not address their requests for licensing. HP had to do a clean-room implementation which they called Chai or something like that( as in the tea ). No doubt there were many others since we all know HP is no small printer manufacturer and landing them would have been a large deal.
But somehow we are to expect, or the judges are, that it was all Google's fault? Java on mobile phones, back when phones were not very smart, was a mess with many different layers of API's to follow. I forget what they called that mobile version of JAVA but each phone vendor had different application stores and different application requirements.
Apple showed that the market for downloading applications on mobile devices was viable again( remember Palm did it years before ) and Google just followed their lead. Had the phone vendors considered their Sun JAVA mobile API's sufficient they could have competed but they were stuck with what Sun provided and it was not really so good for the rich smartphone OS which was becoming the norm.
Oracle purchased Sun thinking they'd leverage JAVA everywhere but Sun left the mobile market and focused on the server side and browser...
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He is such a sweet guy and so helpful. Bless his tiny little heart. .Net because Java was harmful to developers and you know, he really believed Philippe Kahn wanted to do something different.
You know he was just trying to help people get on the Internet when he started paying people to use Microsoft Internet Explorer instead of Netscape Navigator.
And he hired the top software architects away from Borland to create Microsoft
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You people do realize that Toyota had a 100% electric Rav4 in the early 2000s don't you? They partnered with Panasonic and made a kick ass NiMH battery they called the Prismatic EV-95 battery and it powered the Rav4 EV. But GM had sold the majority patent rights for NiMH to the oil industry and Toyota ended up in court and not only did they have to stop selling the Rav4 EV and the EV-95 batteries, they almost lost the right to sell their hybrids because they used NiMH too. That's right, the oil company wanted to shut down their use of NiMH in vehicles. FYI, the GM EV1 got 125 miles on a charge with the NiMH batteries they used. That was before GM collected them all and destroyed them once Bush/Cheney feed the industry $$$ to smoke hydrogen.
So I have to wonder, why is Toyota so adverse to EVs when they were once industry leaders? Does it have to do with some legal declaration they made long ago in order to be "allowed" to continue to make and sell hybrids? It's almost insane how they are staying away from EVs.
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All the Chromebook users out there are asking for this. They are asking for Microsoft to save them from the Linux they are using so they can get back to what they are familiar with. Long boot times, virus and malware, buggy software and a back-end which falls down every few weeks or more. They don't want to use Linux and Chromebooks, they want pain. Like they are accustomed too.
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So big surprise here that they are attacking Musk. Elon Musk saw first hand what a fool Donald Trump is and bailed out of Trump's advisory council in a very public way. Yes, the ManBoy President is fanatical about that kind of thing. ex. Search for Richard Branson's article of his first meeting with Donald Trump. It/he was so whackadoodle Sir Richard Branson felt he had to publicly expose what happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Securities_and_Exchange_Commission#Commission_members
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He can afford it, claim the business expense and well, use it for porn after hours. That is, when not in a room full of executives wearing them while jumping up/down and waving their arms around as everyone tries flipping the pages on the virtual MS PowerPoint presentation demo. During intermission, when they stop for a bit, then Microsoft can get some footage and use it for marketing to sucker^H^H^H^H^H^Hexcutives at other corporations.
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The comment was about the false belief getting peddled which says that people need to have a familiar user interface(UI)(Microsoft Windows) and having a familiar UI is a benefit. Yes, it took a different hardware platform before people figured that out and some of that had to do with the fact that Microsoft couldn't use its marketing channels to block people from access to that platform(Apple iPhone) like they've done for decades with PC based devices.
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That pathetic excuse to keep Windows around has been around for decades and is false. The iPhone proved that wrong and so has Android. Not to mention, Microsoft has constantly forced massive GUI changes on it's users which has constantly required them to learn a new UI. So even Windows users can learn new user interfaces.
Time for another reason why anyone would want Microsoft Windows on a useful Raspberry Pi. Please note the word "useful".
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"But Office 365 is really what the company wants you to buy."
Buy? They don't want you to buy anything, they want you to rent it.
Most likely it is because they keep hearing EV's are the future, that gasoline and diesel fuel is wrong and you know, the whole 'global warming is fake' thing. Probably listen to guys like Rush and Alex who'll say anything so they've probably heard there'd be people coming to take their truck away from them like the Gun Police they constantly talk about coming to collect their guns. So all of This gets focused on those who are proving EVs are viable.
I thought they first took python and hooked it into a bunch of Microsoft One Way products and called it iron python or something like that.
Most likely the only reason why Microsoft might now accept and embrace standard Python now is because, like Linux, they can't ignore what the rest of the world is doing any more. The desktop control doesn't have the power it once wielded.
LoB
Can you imagine how long it would have taken them to provide such a complex piece of software had the openSSH source code software not been available for free and widely published?
Reminds me of when they broke the TCP/IP stack AOL provided for Windows and told a judge it was a mistake and they'd have it fixed in 6 months.
Then the time they said they would release a JBDC driver for MS SQL Server with an 18 month release schedule.
But hey, that many monkeys hitting buttons on keyboards take time to get it right. And we know Microsoft always gets it right the first time. Or maybe the second time. Or was it the third time?
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THAT is hilarious. I wonder which marketing firm came up with that restriction?
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It was freaking anti-competive practices like contracts preventing anything but MS-DOS and later MS-DOS and Window installations.
it was freaking changing the OS API's last minute before releases and only then publishing the updates to the ISV Partners thereby ensuring Microsoft's software works the best on Windows first.
It was breaking things like the TCP/IP stack so things like AOL stopped working and then bringing up a dialog box saying to install MSN, it'lll work fine. Then brilliantly telling a judge it was a programming error and it would be fixed in 6 months.
It was that and so much more which made Microsoft what it is today and what it was yesterday.
But great PR pitch there Nadella.
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How about making a Beowulf cluster of those? Oh, what a minute. ;-/
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And it is STILL their fault when they crash the car.
The guy who told the cop it was the auto-pilot's fault he crashed into the cruiser might just as well have said it was MacDonald's fault because he was taking the lid of their coffee when he crashed. He was in the driver seat, it's called the driver seat because that is where all the controls for the vehicle are and those controls are, well you know, for controlling the car.
We are in a very sad state of affairs when the driver of a car can blame something else for crashing and the Police and press blame that thing.
LoB
In auto-pilot or not the driver is responsible for what the car does since the Tesla Auto-Pilot is not a level 5 autonomous control unit. So far I've only seen statements from the Police to the press stating that the driver _said_ it was in auto-pilot. Either way, the driver drove into the back of the patrol car, end of story. But it is not so this is just more of the negative press machine against Tesla and nothing more. Could be funded by Delco-Remy or any of the other antique auto industry players.
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You forgot how much better they made the Danger phone/OS.
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In and around 2000, some lawyer for the US auto industry told a commission that people did not want electric cars and would have to be paid $15,000 to take one.
I forget where I heard or read this as it was many years ago and probably was part of the plan by General Motors to end its electric car venture( EV1 ).
LoB
Something seems out of sorts and it's not just the Donald Trump lives in the White House. Microsoft has been known for decades as the king of bloatware with it's Windows operating systems and various other applications. But now they want to start talking about one application's battery usage?
I get a chuckle thinking about how many decades it was required to reboot Microsoft Windows computers weekly so they wouldn't crash so often. And the nightly auto reboots people implemented when trying to use Windows as a web server. Fun times.
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He played such a big part of the beginning and growth of this little(right) corner of the Internet it feels like a family member has passed.
/. and other pubs.
RIP Roblimo, your story lives on in the thousands and thousands you've guided her on
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