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Maybe they should remove Windows. 
Marc
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You know where we're all going right?
UEFI Boot allows booting from anywhere Microsoft likes. If they can get it small enough and can pull it off semi transparently , one of these updates is going to hook you to the cloud to get at your windows. Already you can't login in many instances to windows without being on the net.
Then they can demand money for pieces or all of it. And they will.
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They already demand money for Windows, if you aren't paying it, then you're a thief.
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And as they do that, we'll continue moving towards Linux, letting Windows die a slow, painful death
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Quote: Removing these ... features ... allows for the development of new features.
In other words, hundreds of man-hours are going to be devoted to finding a way of making 0x0 your new background color for times when your screen is bored.  How DARE they take away my Nyan Cat! This will finally be the year of Linux!
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Not Paint! Auuuugggghhh.
I use it for pasting screenshots of error messages. Way faster than waiting for PaintShop or even Paint.net to load.
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I prefer Snipping Tool for that.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I like alt-PrtScn, ctrl-V and then just save it at leisure. 
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As windows has followed the Linux route of having a package repository (the Windows Store), they can start peeling these products out of the core installation.
I think this is all to the good.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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And it turns out that's exactly what they're doing. Paint is going to the Windows Store[^]. Presumably as a dog fooding exercise using Project Centennial to package win32 apps into the store.
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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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Rereading the article and headline here I love how everyone in the commentariat is merging two very different (at least in the short term) fates together.
At one end Outlook Express is going to be fully gone (and appears to be gone by default in 1703 already). At the other end, Paint is just being officially moved to the no changes expected category; which since it's only received a single non-trivial update since win3.1 (ribbonization in Win7) is little more than an official statement of something that's already defacto true. Screen savers is somewhere in the middle being checked in both categories; appears to just be being kicked out of themes (and again in 1703 it's not obviously there now). And instead is being exiled to configuration via legacy control panel ui instead. With the settings app steadily eating other control panel functionality that doesn't bode well for their long term survival.
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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Astronomers have finally solved the mystery of peculiar signals coming from a nearby star, a story that sparked intense public speculation this week that perhaps, finally, alien life had been found. Which of course means it must be aliens. It's *always* aliens.
At least according to the History Channel
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Researchers have developed a method to increase by a factor of five the computing power of a standard algorithm when performed in one type of standard chip, FPGA. The new method is both simple and smart, but the road to publication has been long. For those that like their Fourier Transforms Fast.
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Joe Vito Venzor, 41, from El Paso, was sentenced this week to 18 months in prison for hacking and destroying the IT network of his former employee on the day he was let go. PSA: Don't do that.
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Two game creators are poised to make $2 million apiece. Not really 'hobbyists' then, are they?
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Developers and system administrators spend all day at the keyboard. It behooves them to use the best one possible. And by BEST we mean YOU WANT THESE. If it comes with more than 9 keys, it's a waste
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My 13 year old actually bought me a Razer gaming keyboard for my Birthday in May, and I must same it's a real pleasure to type on - it also comes with a column of macro keys to the left of the keyboard, and is easily programmable (although I'm uncertain of the utility of overriding alphanumerics - Harris actually managed to somehow do this accidentally for the 'J' key, causing much confusion for a while).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: although I'm uncertain of the utility of overriding alphanumerics - Harris actually managed to somehow do this accidentally for the 'J' key, causing much confusion for a while).
Occasionally you'll run into games that don't support remapping of its control system. Provided you take advantage of per application remapping instead of global it can be useful then.
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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I'm gonna throw in my recommendation of DAS keyboards. I have a Model S Professional which has been going strong for around 7 years now. The keys are easily removable so it's easy to clean (Cherry MX Brown switches), the unit has a metal switch base so no need to worry about damaging the PCB, and you get n-key rollover 
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We are releasing .NET Core SDK usage data that has been collected by the .NET Core CLI. We have been using this data to determine the most common CLI scenarios, the distribution of operating systems and to answer other questions we’ve had, as described below. Big .NET is watching!
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Microsoft is making a cloud service that uses artificial intelligence to track down bugs in software generally available, and it will begin offering a preview version of the tool for Linux users as well. Does it fix them as well?
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The scientists have already partnered with a major Korean battery maker "Yo ho, haul together, hoist the colors high."
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For much of the history of software, developers would develop and writers would write. After all, isn't it usually?
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Strange. I am so confused now: I used to think that "code documentation" and "user help files" are different things...
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