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Details remain murky, but Microsoft's biggest customers will have to pay for a traditional update cadence, say analysts "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood"
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More responsible business practices and new laws are needed to make the Internet of Things viable, the FTC says. Regulate all the things!
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Despite the good intentions behind the movement to get people to code, both the basic premise and approach are flawed. It's the old literacy? Or is it the new black?
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Coding is obviously nothing like literacy, but there are definitely parallels.
Alan Kay was heavily motivated by using computers in educational settings. Watch a few of his videos and you'll see kids get amazing results from computers. Teaching them to code to code in a non-interactive way (by interactive, I DO NOT mean a REPL, which many seem to regard has the high-point in immediate feedback) will likely scare them off for life though.
Seriously, check some of the videos available on You Tube of his work.
Also worth checking are videos relating to the Self language.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Technology professionals are not only enjoying better job prospects, they're netting -- slightly -- bigger paychecks for their work. "Think I'll buy me a football team"
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I would be happy enough buying me a new car 
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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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is showing the same kind of leadership that Steve Jobs used to rescue Apple. Does that mean that they're going to suddenly triple their prices?
(While removing all the features and/or forcing you through iTunes for everything?)
Does that make Ballmer the Woz?
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Jobs didn't have as dark of a tan...
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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Yuck.
Is it Apple or Microsoft that owns the largest part of the software-market? And what is the long-term outlook for a company that makes mobile phones?
If Microsoft is going to be "rescued" in Jobs-style they'll loose their dominant position and become an Apple.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Legacy code (outdated to the point of obsolescence) is currently being created at a rate never before seen in the history of IT. "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
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Hopefully for the ages. At least a few of em....
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Ozymandias!?! I never knew ye.
'nuff said.
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Trill, a new development from Microsoft Research, is one such project. A 'simple' .NET library, Trill can process data at levels that are two to four orders of magnitude beyond those of its nearest competitors. A new toy you might be interested in
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Microsoft's Joe Belfiore revealed via Twitter today that Windows 10 devices with a screen size less than 8-inches will not have a desktop. This means phones, phablets, and small tablets will not have a desktop. Now where am I going to keep all my files?
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On their cloud if they get their way.
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This security hole, which impacts many older versions of Linux and some current ones, should be patched as soon as possible. "I see dead people"
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Almost two years ago, the Norwegian browser firm Opera ripped out the guts of its product and adopted the more standard WebKit and Chromium technologies, essentially making it more like rivals Chrome and Safari. But it wasn’t just Opera’s innards that changed; the browser also became more streamlined and perhaps less… geeky. "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
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Boring: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the same results.
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I saw it elsewhere earlier this morning; at first glance after download it appears to've added back a lot of the stuff that Opera-Presto had whose absence has kept me from downgrading to Opera-Chrome. I need longer than a 30 second glance at while puttering around before heading to the shower before making any more solid of a judgment though.
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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Pluralsight have taken on Code School[^] and are offering 72 hours of free Code School video training ... if anyone is interested
Forgot to mention in the body of this post that you only have until noon EST on Friday, January 30th to redeem your free access.
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Advertising gimmick. 
Marc
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True! However I have availed myself of the opportunity 
I do rate Pluralsight courses, not convinced with what I've seen so far of the CS stuff though.
Will be interesting to see how they (PS) bring the other stuff "into the fold"
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Do note that PluralSight requires you provide credit-card information to take advantage of free offers, and that you agree your free subscription will change to a paid-for subscription if you do not cancel your free subscription before it expires.
They will also charge your credit-card US $1.
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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I'd forgotten about having to give the card details, but there was no automatic charge after my free trial ran out - I wonder if they've changed their style?
The Code School stuff on the link I didn't have to give card details for... but they may have detected my pluralsight membership. I don't know what they do normally.
Good comment from you though ... just proves there is no such thing as a free lunch course
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