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There are now N+1 competing standards.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Microsoft's appalling track record with problematic updates for Windows 10 shows absolutely no signs of abating. "You put your one foot in You put your one foot out"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "You put your one foot in You put your one foot out and you shoot it in your toes... twice"
FTFY
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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For seven years, Morgan Galen King was vigilant about not updating his Windows PC. So, how was your day?
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I'm not sure if the biggest WTF was creating an environment that would be bricked by any OS updates that wasn't airgapped from the internet, or having done so not having a restorable backup of that environment to allow recovery.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Agreed!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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When you get data loss after updates, it often, if not usually, means your hard drive was corrupted. Sounds like this idiot was about to actually lose everything and the update probably saved his project.
(This is like that kid who bragged he never changed the oil in his car and then blamed the car when the engine seized.)
Anyone who doesn't do backups, even if to just an external drive, has zero sympathy from me when they lose data beyond a day or so. (I prefer OneDrive, but use DropBox for long term backups and both are simple to use.)
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Joe Woodbury wrote: (I prefer OneDrive, but use DropBox for long term backups and both are simple to use.)
I hope you still have your offline too
Millions of websites offline after fire at French cloud services firm | Reuters[^]
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Since the The .NET Language Strategy was published in 2017, the general belief in the .NET community was that Visual Basic was effectively a dead language. "I'm still standing after all this time"
It was either that, or the parrot sketch, or the "bring out your dead" bit. I figured I'd avoid some Monty for once.
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For some reason my eye played a trick on the subject line and I read "Visual Blight 16.9 in NET 5"
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Marc Clifton wrote: Visual Blight
Ah, I see your mistake: the actual headline has "venereal", not "visual". 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Teams users report files being deleted or moved to the Recycle Bin after the recent Azure Active Directory outage this week. Yeah, that's why I haven't responded. It was a bug. Yeah.
Could there be a stranger result from an AD bug/outage?
Ohwait, we're talking Microsoft. Nevermind.
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PowerPoint Presenter Coach listens to you while you practice a presentation out loud — it analyzes what you’re saying, and can warn you if you’re talking too fast or slow, using filler words like “um” or “ahh,” or just reading the words off the slide. Because into every life, a little PowerPoint must fall
Despite all our best efforts and desires.
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One of those rare things that is both impressive and loathsome.
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Almost also describes PowerPoint. Except the 'Impressive' part
TTFN - Kent
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... and the 'rare' 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Option 1:
To every cloud there is a silver lining: The cloud is PowerPoint but the silver lining is that no one has to look at it.
Option 2:
At long last, MicroSloth is think of the users, first, and eliminating the need for them to be present at a PowerPoint flogging presentation flogging.
Option 3:
If we all wish together - really really hard - maybe it can be made to just go away.
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This is kind of like an inverse Turing Test...
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Microsoft is taking the next step toward making its spring Windows 10 feature release available by enabling business users to check it out via its various update channels. Your chance to find the bugs before everyone else!
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A wrist-worn device could translate nerve signals into 'digital commands.' It's all in the wrists
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Quote: He's a pinballfacebook wizard
There has got to be a twist
A pinballfacebook wizard's
Got such a supple wrist
How to ruin a tune in 1 easy step!
Apologies to Mr. Townsend.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Ah, man. How could I have missed that reference? 
TTFN - Kent
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Windows 10X has had a rough time of it. It was first announced in October 2019 as an OS for dual-screen devices, even releasing some emulators that you can still download. Aw, shucks
I'm so waiting for the cancellation notice.
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Delayed 10x?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Ah yes, I can just imagine the internal arguments: Is it suitable for release? What really is its niche? Should we add X and Y? Phrases like "on your head be it", and so on.
Yes, I know, I'm imagining it.
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