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Our goal is to enable developers around the world to build experiences that include the ability to talk to Skype users and other WebRTC compatible communication services. Phone it in, no plugins needed
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Windows 10 users are downloading more apps than Windows 8 users did, and that's exactly what the Store needs to attract better apps. However, 75% of those downloads were for Solitaire
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Quote: Now all those users need are more and better apps Now all those users need is an OS that works the way they want it to without all the app-crap!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Exactly what is the point of any OS without applications?
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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I think he means modern apps, specifically.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I have lots of applications running on my Win7 boxes, but no "apps". In other words I run things like Excel, Word, Visual Studio, several useful programs I or my colleagues have written, even Chrome; but not the little, 1st grade level, overly colourful, useless finger-poking crap that are referred to as "apps" most of which seem to exist to tell my friends what "app" I have recently run!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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You can get it, it's called Enterprise LTSB (N). No apps except for Settings, no Edge and Cortana, even the old Win32 calculator is there. Problem is: It's not available for individuals, but fortunately you can even go and shrink the Home/Pro version down, remove all provisioned apps etc. but it takes some time and you need to maintain a custom setup image.
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But there are hardly any apps for Windows 10.
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That's still more than none.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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“Engineering productivity is hard to measure,” said Peter Seibel, the tech lead of Twitter’s engineering effectiveness group. “But we certainly can harm it.” Step 0: Keep them off Twitter
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The discussions and feedback that we received after the announcement went public showed that we had failed to properly account for all considerable groups of our customers and articulate our reasoning for the move in the announcement message. Translation: oops
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As PC owners increasing take to mobile connections for Internet access, malware follows. W00! #1! They're #1!
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AVG, the Czech antivirus company, has announced a new privacy policy in which it boldly and openly admits it will collect user details and sell them to online advertisers for the purpose of continuing to fund its freemium-based products. That's strange: the entire browser history is searches for competitive antivirus products. Then it goes blank.
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WTF? Go to hell, AVG.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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With Device Guard and Credential Guard, Windows enjoys unprecedented protection from malware and advanced persistent threats. Something about "Damning with faint praise"
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Yeah we'll see about that.
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They secure the old ways but introduce more new ways that are yet to be discovered.
(like all of the shared files and folders ,Skype,Microsoft Login for everything,store aps ,etc.)
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Security through obscurity?
modified 19-Nov-18 21:01pm.
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Tine Svete wrote: obscurity?
There is no "obscurity" that can't be broken by a simple candle light.
And just wait until a Hacker finds the flamethrower
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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Maybe we won't need AVG anyway.
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Pretty ironic given the fact that it's also the most chatty Windows ever... and it feels just as hard as breaking the security to turn all that telemetry stuff off.
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A pity they're making it enterprise only and tying it to a TPM. TPMs being only present in enterprise laptops is very much a chicken and egg problem; give a value added reason and there's no reason they couldn't be more common. For those of us who still build our own desktops, a lot of higher end mobos have TPM headers; and a quick Google shows them available for <$20; which's certainly within budget for anyone building a mid/high end box. For as often as I install new software, having to self-sign anything I install explicitly wouldn't be a major burden assuming it could be done from the same secure desktop as login/UAC prompts are already hosted 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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Actually, it probably will be the most secure consumer version; but for one of the reasons people are up in arms.
The majority of Malware currently infecting systems[^] uses bugs that were patched years ago; and thus is only a threat to sunshines whose boxes haven't been patched for years.
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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But hold your horses -- Azure Cloud Switch is a custom version of Linux designed for running switches in Microsoft's own data center. "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."
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