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Quote: Microsoft’s vision for the future of Windows, Office, and work
Quantum cloud, all the way down, baby! And paid subscriptions to everything!Quote: Whereas in the past Microsoft may have attempted to modernize Windows, Office, and its other software and services, the company is increasingly looking to the web
So keep its current interface, and make everything reliant upon bandwidth and cloud uptime! Smart move! /s
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So no new icons? I'm heartbroken!
modified 8-May-19 20:01pm.
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So:
0. Total surveillance, so that employees will be afraid to move, speak, or touch anything.
1. Ridiculous voice/touch/movement contols everywhere and in every surface, so that employees will be afraid to move, speak, or touch anything.
The VWP (Victorian Workhouse Principle) is alive and well, in the hearts and minds of "UX designers" at ms.
These useless, uncreative "designers" have got their heads stuck so far up their own (or, more likely, each other's) arses that they'll never see sunshine or smell roses again.
And they want ms customers to have the same UX.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Right after the download links for Microsoft Edge for Mac were leaked, we now have the download links for the Microsoft Edge Beta leaked as well. And it looks astonishingly like a web browser
But posted for those who like to play with sharp objects like this.
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Female IEEE members say they face significant discrimination in the workplace, including demeaning comments, inappropriate job-interview questions, and exclusion from networking events and important business meetings. But of course non-IEEE members are better, right?
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The efficient generation of entanglement between remote quantum nodes is a crucial step in securing quantum communications. As one does
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Hey, this is tech that will make truly unhackable communications and VPNs that are truly private, and put packet-sniffer makers out of work!
It will even increase the security of the cloud -- until the data reaches a server storage area.
But this will only inspire people to make real advances in distributed processing/storage, where nothing is really "stored" anywhere, but bits of it are spread over the entire system ("the entire system" could be the Internet), constantly moving, and don't even have to be collated when they're used.
"Quantum computing" is to laugh at; "quantum entanglement" is serious stuff.
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“Android development will become increasingly Kotlin-first,” Google writes in today’s announcement. Nothing to do with the ongoing lawsuit at all
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They should be more careful with the name selection...
Kot in German means "sh*t / excrement / dung"
or maybe they did take it in consideration by the name selection?  
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Kotlin = "better Java" and "simpler Scala." That is my very superficial impression.
Kevin
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Yeah, I think that's a pretty fair estimate.
Getting rid of some of the Java cruft is a good thing, and seeing as how most people don't have the ... precision ... for Scala.
TTFN - Kent
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Kotlin adopted by Google, will be abandoned in 3..2..
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Is Microsoft's UWP going away? Is the Microsoft Store on its way out? Microsoft Corporate VP Kevin Gallo explains the latest twists in Microsoft's long and winding Windows developer platform strategy. "'Ere, he says he's not dead."
Yeah, I post too much Python (assuming that's even possible)
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zdnet really has to learn that a scare story isn't a scare story if it makes everyone break out the champagne.
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An attempt at translating Gallo's remarks (minus the Foley factor):
"We are just as creatively confused now as when we went off on the Modern-Metro tangent, which we threw under the WPF/XAML bus with SilverLight developers when we went off on the RT/Core tangent which we threw under the UWP bus.
Let's make it simple: we want your money, we want you forking it over frequently."
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Confusing! By win32, they actually meant Winform and WPF. Looks like C++ win32 dev is dead.
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A recent ActiveState survey titled “2019 Developer Survey: Open Source Runtimes” found that developers spend 20 percent less time on programming than last year. Efficiency!
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But they missed the point that it's because the newer coffee machines are 83% slower!
You can't make conclusions based on only partial evidence!
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The Binance exchange, which stores Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies for members, said hackers took 7,000 bitcoins in one go. Withdrawals have now been suspended on the platform. Sorry, worth $50. Correction, worth $732MM. Nope, now it's...
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Golly.
Who would have thought that something like this could happen, with a currency that's value is based entirely on its use by criminals?
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Mark_Wallace wrote: with a currency that's value is based entirely on its use by criminals?
..based on the limited availability of the resource. Scarcity means value.
Criminals prefer dollars.
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Google Chrome developers launch new iframe replacement tech. Because iframes aren't awful enough
Remember when people complained when Microsoft created their own HTML elements? Yeah. Good times.
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Microsoft first introduced the concept of “PowerToys” in Windows 95. It was originally a way for Windows engineers to test a prototype feature, and Microsoft packaged some of the best ones into a PowerToys bundle. Shovel another one on the open-source pile
Only two so far, and missing some of the good PowerToys I vaguely remember. Maybe it will go somewhere?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Microsoft first introduced the concept of “PowerToys” in Windows 95.
And then introduced Clippy   
Kent Sharkey wrote: It was originally a way for Windows engineers to test a prototype feature
All those engineers are probably retired, testing is being relegated to the users in Windows 10 
Kent Sharkey wrote: and Microsoft packaged some of the best ones into a PowerToys bundle.
I only hope they are x64 and Windows 10 compatible, it has been a while since then
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The power toys were a great thing.
But now?
With the morons who are now in charge of ms dev?
IDGAF, and I won't bother downloading whatever cr@p they think is useful.
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