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Earlier this week, Adobe announced that it would be discontinuing the boxed versions of its Creative Suite software.... Microsoft is another company moving in that direction—with Office 2013, the company began offering subscriptions that allow consumers to install the software on multiple PCs while providing extra SkyDrive storage space. However, Microsoft continues to offer boxed, perpetual-license versions of the software as well. Whoever came up with this plan is a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.
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Easy way to chase me away from Office. When they go subscription I will almost definatley either stick with the old version, and lets face it, Office XP still works well, although I use either 2007 or 2010. I find that I like 2010 for some things like Outlooks since it automatically makes hyperlinks (However, I hate that Outlook still is basically what was shipped in Office 97 and is crude by modern standards). I still think that Windows XP is an excellent choice for 32 bit systems, but MS has basically discontinued support, and that Visual Studio 2012 does not support it sucks big time, and one of the things about Microsoft that is leaving a bad taste in my mouth.
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XP is only a year from death (which can't come soon enough). Continuing to grumble about lack of support by new MS products is silly.
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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IT still has a lot of people using it. It will probably not really die for a long while after that. The thing that will definately kill xp is that the pretty much all the pcs now sold are 64 bit, and it does not support tablets. Also a large number of computer (the small Atom laptops) cannot support anything else. It has more useage than any os other than Win 7, and far more than Vista. Its use is declining sharply, but I suspect that it will level off since there are computers that will not support newer OS's. See http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp[^]. Makes more sense to drop Vista
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Even first generation netbooks can be upgraded to w7. I did it to mine sometime back during the public beta; and swapped out for a release copy a few months later.
Any competent IT that hasn't already left XP behind already should be well into the migration planning process by now. Virtualize a few legacy apps if necessary because they can't be replaced in time (or for embedded systems that need raw hardware access disable everything but the controller software); but once security patches stop XP will become impossible to secure meaning an XP network will be pwnd repeatedly.
If you exclude parts of the world where WarezdozeXP is a major player I expect XP to drop into the low single digits within a year. Stats Counter[^] has a per country breakdown of their os share stats; in the developed world XP's already down to ~10-15% vs 20-30% a year[^] ago.
Lastly, w3schools browser/os share tracker is for general usage by far the worst of the three that're most commonly cited because it only looks at visitors to their site; beyond seeing what webdevs like it's basically worthless. Stats Counter and Net Applications both have access to data from numerous major sites/CDNs. One major difference between the two are that NA weights its data by total internet using population while SC doesn't; because of the sites being tracked have a bias towards western customers this results in NA reporting higher shares for old browser/OSes than SC. A second major difference is(was??) that they differ in how they treat Chrome's downloading linked content in the background to build a local cache; NA added weighting to counterweight chrome downloading lots of pages that aren't ever viewed by end users; at least initially SC didn't.
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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Interesting, probably the biggest computer user, China (I don't know for sure) is stil lat almost 60% XP.
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You would think that, once we master space exploration and how to replicate the perfect cup of Earl Grey, everyone in the future according to Star Trek would understand the necessity for unique, strong passwords. Unfortunately, you would be wrong. And no, as we’ll see later, biometrics don’t seem to help. I've giv'n her all she's got captain, an' I still need an uppercase letter and symbol.
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I CAME to AdobeMAX in Los Angeles to give a talk to a room full of designers. Before arriving, I thought of Adobe as a historically important 20th century company that was slowly leaking relevance—a company web designers in the era of responsive design have begun to think of with a combination of fondness and embarrassment, like a beloved but somewhat shameful old uncle. I came to LA with those perceptions, but I leave with the impression of an exciting 21st century company in emergence. Rather than grasping onto Flash, Adobe is retooling for continued relevance on the web.
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After a decade of looking for the "year of the Linux desktop", many Linux columnists have given up. Some say it isn't coming, while others claim that Linux has simply failed on the desktop. If we responded to everyone who has ever criticised the Linux desktop, we wouldn't get any work done. But Miguel de Icaza isn't just anybody. He's well respected in the open source community as the founding developer of one of the two main Linux desktop environments, the Gnome desktop. To our utter amazement, even he now thinks the Linux desktop is dead! Growing a neckbeard is a commitment not everyone is willing to make.
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Bearing in mind this is the same idiot that caused the whole GNOME launcher mess up, it's no wonder he thinks it's "dead", he caused the damage!
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Linux is basically an dinasaur. At this point I am not sure Windows is much better.
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Just have some faith - 2013 is the year of the Linux desktop.
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Hey everyone, Erik here posting for Intel. We’d like to invite you all to participate in the second phase of the Perceptual Computing Challenge.
In addition to wanting to see more use of gesture, voice, and facial recognition in today’s software, Intel is also looking for that one big idea that will change the way people interact with their PCs. And they are putting their money where their mouth is: With a grand-prize of $100,000 USD and thousands of dollars more in prizing available in 4 different categories, this is not one to miss.
Think you’ve got what it takes to inspire others and ignite the computing market with an innovative new concept? You’ve got six weeks to submit ideas for games, productivity tools, user interfaces, generally innovative uses of the Perceptual Computing SDK. If your idea is outstanding it will be selected by the panel of judges to progress into round two, where you’ll receive an interactive gesture camera in order to turn the idea into reality.
Here are more details about the rules and prizes, as well as a link to see who won in the first phase of the competition:
Competition home page and prize list: https:
Showcase of winners from phase one: http:
Good luck!
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Isn't this done & over with?
Didn't we have from here people compete? At the very least I think Pete was an entrant 
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed”
“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated”
Sir Thomas More (1478 – 1535)
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No, this is a new one. Registration and ideas to be submitted by 17th June 2013
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As Dave said, this is new -- think of it as "phase 2"
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That was the Ultimate Coder Challenge.
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Shiny i7 goodness in a small form factor - just add RAM (up to 16GB) and an SSD!
Clickety[^]
/ravi
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hooooo!! nice shiny!!
Nihil obstat
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Nice! I'm looking for something about the size of a Mac Mini, hence am holding out for the Brix.
/ravi
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If you are looking for something a little more expandable, this would be better. Since it is a media and storage computer, need a dvd, and 2 disk drives. With the case for holding a slim optical and 3.5", that gives 2 3.5 drives. The attachment is not great since only provides for attachment from the bottom, not the sides. The design will handle 2 2.5" and a 5.25" or a 3.5" and 5.25"
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Looks nice!
"I've seen more information on a frickin' sticky note!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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"Designers are such fickle b*tches (I say this, as a designer). We want control of the entire user experience. We want to ensure repeat use, and high engagement - and to do so, we want to design every little piece of whatever it is we're working on. After all, we are largely responsible for the performance of the result. However, most of us don't want to own the work it takes to execute this full scale implementation. We want to complain about people butchering our designs when bringing them to life, and claim non-responsibility. This is the problem."
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I think you might want to post this in 'The Lounge'. This particular forum 'The Insider News' is for posting news and new announcements. 
Please read the description under this forum's name on the top.
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