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To be fair. IE10 & IE11 aren't THAT bad anymore. I even prefer IE when it comes to the Metro Browser.
And it's perfectly fine to ditch support for older browser versions. Supporting more than the last 2 major versions is a waste of time and money. It's not like they the functionality will stop working on those older browsers, there just might be some features that aren't working the way you would expect them to.
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Fair enough, I meant it as a joke, but probably too out dated... You are right, they have improved lately and hopefully will continue to keep up with new technologies
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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It would be perfectly fine to ditch older browsers if widespread use of them had also gone away. As of last month[^]; only ~1/3rd of IE users were on v 10 or 11; and 8 was still the most widely used version. In China, IE6[^] still has 22% of the market due to the widespread use of WarezdozeXP with all update services disabled.
As an aside, while I fully support MS's decision to dog food it's new accelerated 2d APIs; by making IE9+ Vista or newer only they've made IE8 linger as a major browser for far longer than it should have.  
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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Nicholas Marty wrote: I even prefer IE when it comes to the Metro Browser.
Even with this horrendous bug feature[^]?
"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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I didn't notice that yet as I'm using it usually just fullscreen on my Surface Pro.
Google Chrome, However displayed the content out of the box already way too small and the Menus etc. were so poorly designed, that you couldn't change any settings or something like that without using the Pen or a mouse. (Besides, Text and Images from the Menu etc. were all very blurry which didn't help the readabilty either). Chrome is my browser of choice when in Desktop Mode.
So yeah, I prefer Metro IE to Metro Chrome 
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Certain versions of Windows, Office and Microsoft Lync are being attacked in the wild via a new remote code execution vulnerability, says Microsoft in a disclosure. Stop me if you've heard this one before
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It's no secret that people choose dumb passwords. But when a large database of passwords gets hacked and exposed, it can still be shocking that users still go with such easy-to-guess passwords. When "password" is #3 on the list, I despair for mankind
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And then you get some morons that will complain about the lack of security from a software when they get hacked...
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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AngularDart is heavily inspired by AngularJS and is supercharged for Dart. Core Angular features such as directives, data binding, and dependency injection, are all there, and they've taken advantage of Dart's features like metadata, types, and classes to feel natural for Dart developers. AngularDart is also the first version of Angular to be built on emerging web standards like Shadow DOM.
modified 5-Nov-13 17:32pm.
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The second paragraph is repeated in the Microsoft item below. I suspect it doesn't belong here.
BDF
The internet makes dumb people dumber and clever people cleverer.
-- PaulowniaK
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Thank you, I'll fix that.
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TTFN - Kent
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We’re committed to the success of the developer community, and we’ve been proactively working with third-party development tool vendors to ensure that their developers can take advantage of the monetization opportunities and global user base on the Windows platforms. The latest of these shops is Marmalade, which just released the final version of Marmalade 7, their cross-platform C++ SDK that includes support for Windows Phone 8, ending the beta phase.
Hundreds of Marmalade developers have already taken advantage of the opportunity to develop for the Windows Phone Store, and to participate in Marmalade’s special offer*, with rewards for porting your app to the Windows Phone Store. The Marmalade offer closes on December 31, 2013, so don’t miss your chance to participate. Voulez-vous programmer avec moi ce soir?
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New Microsoft service matches similar services from competitors like Google, AWS. When it absolutely, positively, has to be uploaded overnight
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Redirected Net searches, unexpected installs, rogue mouse pointers: Here's what to do when you've been 0wned. But of course that would neveKORROK THE ALMIGHTY I SERVE NONE BUT KORROK
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Open source databases PostgreSQL and MariaDB are making strides, but need more than technical edge or lower price to attract Oracle customers. Mental note: stop signing support contracts in blood
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Up until now, our open source repository has just included the EF runtime. We have now moved the EF Tooling code into the same open source repository. You can find instructions on how to work with the EF Tools code on our CodePlex site. Oh, that's how they did that
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LINQ was one of the best things that happened to the .NET software engineering ecosystem in a long time. With its introduction of lambda expressions and monads in Visual Studio 2008, it had catapulted the C# language way ahead of Java, which was at version 6 at the time, still discussing the pros and cons of generic type erasure. var feature = from f in CS.features where f.supports(query) && f.contains("Anders' coolness") select f
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Great news,
As a C#/Linq programmer I'm impressed with this new functionality on Java 8. This kind of investment can only bring improvements for the software development.
My answer to your question would be NO, java doesn't need LINQ..  for the java 8 development
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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No, but Java should just die already.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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The company is said to be unveiling a service Monday night that connects people to experts via Google+ Hangouts. Because nothing screams expert like, "Some guy with a webcam"
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Depression is a topic that many of us have struggled with over the years and we have always thought that there might be more people out there that did than, ‘just us’. We have been looking for someone who could do this subject justice for years and we asked Greg to do a half hour talk instead. Please watch it. If it doesn’t affect you directly, it is almost inconceivable that it doesn’t affect someone close to you. "Life? Don't talk to me about life." (video)
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When does a bug become a bug?
Who decides that it is a bug? "Only about 54% of all defects can be resolved by the engineers"
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It's not a bug, it's ..... a feature
Bug/Feature comparison[^]
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/04/helium_drives_from_hgst/[^]
A 4TB four-platter Cinemastar drive could become a 7TB seven-platter helium drive, and a five-platter 4TB MegaScale, spinning at 5,700rpm, could become a 5.6TB Helium MegaScale with seven platters – at least that’s the theory.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Yeah - let's use a dwindling resource[^] that can't be replenished to make hard-drives! Can't see anything going wrong with that plan. 
"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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