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That's what it reminded me of too. Gah, but I miss him some days.
TTFN - Kent
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That demo was impressive! Something to explore further.
Marc
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Microsoft’s at it again, reminding users to sign up for Microsoft Rewards (formerly Bing Rewards) by using Edge, Windows 10’s built-in browser. It worked so well (and was so popular) last time
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Despite all the effort Microsoft is expending in getting Internet users to try out and stick with its Edge browser, Chrome continues to the popular choice. You know what would help with that? Popup ads for Edge!
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With 1% of global market share, Microsoft Windows' chances of becoming a major player in the smartphone game are basically dead. "You mean, not good like one out of a hundred?"
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It seems that Microsoft forced back (by the market) to it's original role - a software company...Maybe if they focus on that they will do things better...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Maybe if they focus on that they will do things better... cough cough ehem (windows 10) cough cough
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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That's exactly what I'm talking about...
If you see the history of W10 and it's features per release, you can see that Microsoft focused on adding things for a special hardware (the latest one is for designers, before it is for desktop, the original for touch and mobile)... If they will focus on creating an operating system instead of a toy that can be used on different hardware, they may do better...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I know... that's exactly what I wanted to say
I was agreeing with you and giving the "bad" example
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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You may not have noticed, but Microsoft have been a hardware company for a while now.
Mice, keyboards, laptops (Surface et al.) and now all-in-ones (Surface Studio).
All those product lines seem to be performing quite well.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Of which
XBOX gained ~9% in 2014
Surface gained ~4% in 2014
Phones gained ~8% in 2014
Other devices are not even listed alone, but with all the other small services (software included) gained ~6% in 2014
Since then all these where merged into the More Personal Computing group that created a ~17% revenue in 2015...
Add to it all the reports about loosing the phone war (last report about 1% market share) and the fail-back of surface...
I would not call Microsoft a hardware company in no way...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I break a lance in favor of MS mice: they are probably the best mice I ever had, particularly the Comfort 4500 is cheap, reliable, has 5 buttons and it is sufficinetly comfortable.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Two critical privilege escalation vulnerabilities in MySQL, MariaDB, and PerconaDB can help take control of the whole server, which is very bad for shared environments. No sense for just the Flash and Windows users to have all the patching fun
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Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has finally spoken out about his last few years at the software giant. "We loved, we laughed, we cried, and suddenly love died"
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Ballmer said: "I had pushed Surface, the board had been a little reluctant in supporting it, and things came to a climax about what to do about the phone business."
If that's true, it's very interesting.
Too bad their Surface / Phone initiative wasn't well thought out and targeted.
It could be a cool space out there with three major device vendors (with separate major OS choices for each).
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says that his company has finally gotten to the bottom of the September 1st Falcon 9 explosion — claiming it was the “toughest puzzle” they’ve ever had to solve. Was it the "blow up" part?
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Was it an exploding iPhone? (Not just Samsung's "explode").
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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This solid oxygen may have had a bad reaction with another piece of hardware..
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The solid oxygen that formed could have ignited with the carbon...
Yeah, that sounds definite.
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It's sometimes hard to determine exactly what happened when the evidence is in thousands of small pieces scattered over a large area! My debugging often has similar problems.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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The software is codenamed Project VoCo, and it’s not clear at this time when it will materialize as a commercial product. The standout feature, however, is the ability to add words not originally found in the audio file. Oh, that's never going to be used for the wrong purposes
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Oh, that's never going to be used for the wrong purposes boring. Who wants me to give them some money?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I don't see the big deal. Our mainstream media already does that.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Can it be used for REMOVING words from the recording without trace?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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With its new Microsoft Teams offering, the Redmond giant has built a new chat-based workspace in Office 365 which brings together thread-based conversations, integrations with Office apps and extensibility features through support for third-party apps. "Everybody's talking at me. I don't hear a word they're saying"
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What an absolute waste of bleeding time.
The only plus I can see is that it will keep low-quality managers, HR, and marketing morons occupied, and out of profit-makers' hair.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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