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And the rest are running away.
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Only 925 million devices to go!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I'm wondering how long tis going to take for them to reach their goal. 75 million sounds a lot, 7.5% doesn't.
I'm guessing there will be another peak of new users towards the end of this year of free upgrade but I think it will be hard for them to reach their goal. I can see a lot of normal users go towards the 10 but I know I'll keep recommending that we stick to older versions of windows here at my work.
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IIRC their 1bn goal was in a year or two. At the current rate they'll get there in 13 months. Put that way it looks good.
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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Business is usually years behind home use, so it's an ambitious target.
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On August 24, 1965 Ted Nelson used the word “hypertext” (which he coined) in a paper he presented at the Association for Computing Machinery. Did anything ever come out of it?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Did anything ever come out of it?
Yes
Nineteen Eighty Something
Dan Rollins
Flambeaux Software
Product: (DOS) Tech Help
Product: DOS Help
But of course, that was before windows, when computers weren't very useful like they are today 
modified 27-Aug-15 20:16pm.
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They were useful before windows.
We did all kinds of cool stuff with DOS.
Desqview and qemm come to mind - very cool stuff.
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It was 50 years ago today,
Sergeant Nelson taught the devs to play,
They've been going in and out of style,
But they're guaranteed to raise browser compatibility issues,
Sergeant Nelson's Not-So-Lonely Hypertext Baaaand 
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Linux is 24 years old today. In 1996, he told me how it all started. When a Daddy developer really likes his Mommy keyboard...
Yeah, I could have just changed the other post, but they were different enough that I wanted to keep both. Only this one will be in the email though.
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Oracle's CSO has some wrongheaded notions about her area of expertise. What is the company doing about that? The more things change, the more Java gets hacked
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Stephen Hawking says he may have solved a problem that has plagued astrophysics for 40 years: the information loss paradox. "Even the white bits are black"
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That's easy for him to say.
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Sounds racist to me.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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The first computer 'mathematically guaranteed' not to lose any data has been unveiled by researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. So, they're not letting anyone use it then?
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Abacus + crazy glue = guaranteed not to lose data.
Marc
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I can crash it - gimmie one and a c compiler.
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I refer you to my comment below 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The new Pony programming language[^] claims to be crash-proof as well. Actually it's making the stronger claim of being crash-free. Let's see.
Kevin
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It's not crash-proof in the sense that programs won't crash. Its a file system that is incapable of losing data when a crash occurs. Quite different.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Let me strap it to the bottom of a drone, take it up a few hundred feet and release it.
**CRASH**
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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uTorrent's current business model is a familiar one, used by many providers of free software. The application itself is free, but it's supported by the bundling of additional (and optional) apps and tools; the more this bundled software is installed, the greater the revenues generated for BitTorrent. People that download stuff for free don't pay for the software?
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Unless is Usenet search engines?
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Last time we talked about the Feedback Tools in Visual Studio 2015 RTM and I shared how you can send us feedback. In this post, I am going to share what happens to the feedback after you send it to us. All the steps before they close it as "works as designed"
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