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Microsoft has announced Azure Service Fabric, a new cloud platform for developers and ISVs to build scalable cloud services.
Pile more services onto the cloud until it can't handle the weight.
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Be prepared for a fall in traffic if your site isn't 'mobile-friendly' and you get a lot of traffic through Google's mobile users. "It's a small world, after all"
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Sacrifices must be made. Down with pinch-to-zoom on mobile websites.
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In March of 2013, Tesla was in a dire situation: the company was nearly bankrupt, its electric vehicles failing to connect with buyers. But according to a new report from Bloomberg today, Elon Musk had a contingency plan: cash out with Google. High-speed, autonomous cars, full of explosive battery packs. Win!
Yes, all cars are potentially explosive. Thank you for informing me.
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Docker, Puppet, LibreOffice, and the Go language are the latest additions to the Open Invention Network's extensive patent nonaggression umbrella "I'd like to see the world for once all standing hand in hand"
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An international team of researchers led by Japan's Riken research institute propose blasting an estimated 3,000 tons of space junk out of orbit with a fiber optic laser mounted on the International Space Station. Asteroids: ISS edition (just watch for that flying saucer)
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How hard was it for them to keep a straight face while proposing that?
I'd be grinning like a gibbon if I was proposing that, possibly with a slightly wild and excited look in my eyes.
There probably would have been a "no" in the reply somewhere.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Sharks with head-mounted lasers!
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According to AMD's CEO, Microsoft is looking to launch the Windows 10 operating system by the end of July. " We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!"
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Windows 7 still has a lot of wear left, think I'll wait a while before upgrading.
I wonder if they'll give pre-order discounts like they did with 7?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
When you are dead you don't know it, it's only difficult for others.
It's the same when you're stupid.
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Well, they're still saying it will be free, so I don't think you'll get a discount 
But yeah, Service Pack 3 as is SOP.
TTFN - Kent
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I had heard that but don't know if I believe it or not and if it is free shirley it won't be for the Pro version?
Any time I hear free I start to wonder what the catch will be.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
When you are dead you don't know it, it's only difficult for others.
It's the same when you're stupid.
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Mike Hankey wrote: Any time I hear free I start to wonder what the catch will be.
Remember, if it's free, then you're the product!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: Remember, if it's free, then you're the product!
Yeah that's what worries me!
Wonder if it's approved and/or subsidized by the NSA? 
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
When you are dead you don't know it, it's only difficult for others.
It's the same when you're stupid.
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Mike Hankey wrote: I had heard that but don't know if I believe it or not and if it is free shirley it won't be for the Pro version?
I assume not for pro version.
Mike Hankey wrote: Any time I hear free I start to wonder what the catch will be.
Free upgrade only for a year after RTM.
Kevin
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Thanks for the heads up.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
When you are dead you don't know it, it's only difficult for others.
It's the same when you're stupid.
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I've not actually seen anything mentioned about the Pro version. I'm just guessing.
My desktop is Win 7 Pro and either way I'll likely leave it that way. My laptops is Win 8.1 consumer version, so I'll probably take up 10 when it appears.
Kevin
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Yeah I'm running Win7 Pro on my desktop and I'll probably keep it as long as I can.
I've got Win10 on a VM and have been kicking the tires but see no reason to be in any hurry to upgrade.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
When you are dead you don't know it, it's only difficult for others.
It's the same when you're stupid.
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Kevin McFarlane wrote:
Mike Hankey wrote: Any time I hear free I start to wonder what the catch will be.
Free upgrade only for a year after RTM.
Only guaranteed to be free for a year. Since it's to MS's benefit to get users on the newest version and retail sales of upgrade licenses are negligible compared to the rest of Windows revenue I'd be stunned if they make it a pay upgrade at some point in the future.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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That's because MS wants all of its Enterprise customers on a Software Assurance site license instead of buying boxed copies and SA comes with upgrade/downgrade options baked in.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Mike Hankey wrote: I wonder if they'll give pre-order discounts like they did with 7?
I'm wondering to. They did discounts with 8 as well; but I'm wondering if the free 7/7 to 10 upgrade program will be all we get. I'm hoping otherwise because one of my summer projects is going to be to refresh a few old Vista era budget boxes for uncle that have his kids are using again for school because it swapped out chomebooks for ipads this year and they need something with a keyboard for writing reports. The kids don't want Vista, my uncle doesn't want to buy 3 new boxes, and the idea of spending $100/box to put a newer OS on machines that were only $300-400 when new makes me cringe.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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When they speak of "launch", doesn't it actually mean Windows 10 will RTM even earlier, maybe at the end of June, and GA (general availability) will be much later, say, at the end of October? I'm really curious what they're going to ship in the end given the fact that the current builds were rather buggy and haven't been so stable (at least for me). Maybe they repeat the Windows 8.1 scenario: RTM an unfinished/incomplete product and deliver the "final" bits via an update just before they hit GA (gives them another three months to iron out bugs).
I'm not so sure if I'll upgrade right away. The only compelling reason for users running Windows 8/8.1 on a non-touch device is the ability to run apps in floating windows now. Personally, I don't care a lot for all the app crap, so they could rather just give me a Windows without all that non-sense. I don't even ask for a Start menu, and the new one they came up with is ugly and can't compete with the Windows 7 one, at least not in its current incarnation, so the only reason to upgrade for everyone running Windows 7 would be for the better performance, but the UI still su~ks.
Further, what I don't like is that they made it really hard to create a local account during setup, which leaves a bad taste in my mouth because it means they're subtly forcing people the create an MS account to log-in. Guess that's the pay-off for going all-in on cloud first, mobile first. People who don't use that stuff are left in the rain.
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FIorian Schneidereit wrote: Further, what I don't like is that they made it really hard to create a local account during setup
I noticed that too. And it got me really steamed.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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For my recent 7 to 8.1 upgrade adventure (upgrading from a BIOS to UEFI system is a cluster elephant) I painlessly dodged the issue and was never bugged to create an MS account or convert my existing login. What I think happened was that I didn't have a network connection at that point in the install (accidentally pulled the cable loose) and it did an intelligent fallback to not even mentioning the option it couldn't setup.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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