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A year is a long time in technology, but the past 12 months has seen one of the most surprising and exciting shake-ups in recent history: Microsoft and Google have swapped places. "Up is down and black is white"
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I stopped reading when I got to the line about Spartan being a "cross-platform" browser.
Only if you count 3 versions of Windows as platforms, there is no sign of it running on other platforms.
While MS are doing much better recently, this is a firm puff-piece and they should hang their heads in shame.
"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: I stopped reading when I got to the line about Spartan being a "cross-platform" browser.
You often see the odd daft statement like this in such articles.
Where MS has become cross platform, if you like, is in the cloud and mobile apps. In fact, with the latter, we now get complaints that Microsoft is writing for other platforms before its own! On the desktop the complaints used to be that it only wrote for its own platforms, with the occasional nod to Mac.
The new Microsoft is not its playing nice, so much as its being more open out of necessity.
Kevin
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I'll believe that when Bing becomes usable.
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There's no Hope for Bing.
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Renewals of custom support agreements will boost price to $400 for each Windows XP PC. "House rules: You gotta pay to play."
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What I personally find most amusing about this is that embedded versions of XP are still in support until 2019[^]; so it's not even like MS is having to develop extra patches to support the dinosaurs.
When regular XP fell out of support there were even blog posts explaining how to registry hack your copy of XP into requesting patches for the embedded version. As of December[^] it still worked with the main gotcha being 3rd parties pulling the plug. 
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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Here’s how the enterprise stalwart and onetime script-kiddie toy stack up in a battle for the server room. "Do you think Mighty Mouse could beat up Superman?"
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Given that I don't use Java and I don't use node.js, I find little that is of epic proportions in this battle. 
Marc
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Totally epic: something that works, versus something people think might work. 
TTFN - Kent
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Just because you don't use either (nor do I) doesn't mean that there's not an epic battle. Software is a big field!
Kevin
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Kevin McFarlane wrote: Just because you don't use either (nor do I) doesn't mean that there's not an epic battle. Software is a big field!
Oh darn, and here I thought we were the center of the software universe.
Marc
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A language vs FW. 
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Java is more than just a language. By itself, it's no more useful than C# is by itself. They both come backed with frameworks, and that's where the power is. So, it looks like the article's focusing on the Java ecosystem versus the Node ecosystem.
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Support for asm.js has been one of the top 10 most-requested items at the IE Suggestion Box on UserVoice since we launched it in December. "Chakra wheels are turning like a love train"
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Sony announced last night that it's spinning off its audio and video divisions, much like it spun off its television division last year. Unless you count the Playstation. I think it contains electronics
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Wow, it's a little sad to see an old giant slowly fall apart.
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You know all that big data that’s streaming into your company from sensors, customers, social media, Excel spreadsheets, and data sources all over the internet? Microsoft wants to help you process all of it, build APIs and make use of that data in the cloud with machine learning technology. "Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate."
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Well, at least August 29th is on a Saturday this year. Won't have to go to work after the apocalypse.
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This is the first major change to one of the backbones of the Web in over 16 years. "Double your pleasure, double your fun"
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The Linux Foundation has released its 2015 report "Linux Kernel Development: How Fast It is Going, Who is Doing It, What They Are Doing and Who is Sponsoring It." "The workers control the means of production"
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IMHO - Their is nothing wrong with corporations being involved with development, as long as it is done correctly. Corporations can contribute much needed capital to hire the proper resources to ensure that something is done correctly.
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