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In an interview with Mary Jo Foley from ZDNet Microsoft Executive Vice President of Windows and Devices Terry Myerson revealed that the investment was strategic, and a way for Microsoft to keep a toe in the ARM and telephony development ecosystem, rather than taking years again to reboot if they need the technology again in the future. Oh well. Mission accomplished then.
At least the "not growth" part
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MS's always had multiple CPU architectures supported for windows internally to avoid baking x86isms into the core code even though they've never been released, so the biggest part of windows mobile 10 is something they'd be doing anyway. The real question's how much maintaining the telephony stack itself is costing. You can get laptops with 3/4g modems built in, adding the ability to sms/make voice calls to windows messaging/etc apps in the future would be interesting but otherwise I'm not sure what the potential value of this part of the stack is.
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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They have supported multiple CPU architectures since the design of NT but not before that. The non-NT OSs up to WME were X86-specific.
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I actively work to forget that 3.1 and 9x ever existed. NT4ever.
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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Was just thinking somewhat about this this morning. I work mostly in the embedded space, which is being taken over by Linux which lacks the awesome tools of Windows development. I'm waiting for a new Embedded Compact with reasonable licensing (no, not holding my breat) and stumbled across the little advertised Windows 10 IoT Core Pro, which is apparently now royalty free. Or is it? As is typical in that space for them, Microsoft is extremely confusing. They also seem unaware of the long term stability issues with the embedded space. Perhaps Mr. Nadella can put someone who has a clue in charge of this market segment.
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Flow, Microsoft's in-house version of IFTTT, has been in preview mode since April, but the folks at Redmond are finally ready to open the service up to the general public. Starting November 1, Flow will be available in 42 languages worldwide, alongside PowerApps -- Microsoft's code-free app-building service. If {competing product} then {duplicate} and {exterminate}
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In an interview with Polygon, HoloLens chief Alex Kipman revealed that Microsoft will detail its VR headsets at an event in December. Not confusing to have both these and Hololens. Not at all
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Personally, you're right - I don't find it confusing at all.
HoloLens is an augmented reality headset that allows 3D "holograms" to be viewed in the real world.
VR is an immersive reality, where the user's entire field of view is replaced by an alternative reality.
Obviously, there are common elements to the two approaches, and it seems that MS's vision aims at allowing developers to exploit these, rather than be committed to developing different versions for each target.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Shadow Brokers—the name used by a person or group that created seismic waves in August when it published some of the National Security Agency's most elite hacking tools—is back with a new leak that the group says reveals hundreds of organizations targeted by the NSA over more than a decade. I'm just going to assume yes (so they know all my dirty, dirty secrets)
All that VB code... THE HORROR and the shame.
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Scientists have implanted the leafy greens with tiny tubes that let them sense when an explosive is nearby and even alert someone by email. Finally, someone discovers a use for spinach?
I'm of course ignoring Popeye here. He was a patsy for Big Garden.
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Is there anything you cannot do better with spinach?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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To make matters worse, Google says it is aware that this critical Windows vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild. Better than 10 days before?
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It's suitable that Google's motto is no longer "Do No Evil".
cheers
Chris Maunder
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That article and most of the other hysteria I've seen are missing the point. The bug was being ACTIVELY EXPLOITED IN THE WILD. The bad guys ALREADY KNEW ABOUT IT, but people on the defense didn't meaning mitigation wasn't possible.
That's a hugely different scenario from when only the security researcher who found the bug knows about it but attackers are in the dark. In one case maintaining silence until its patched is responsible (unless the affected company is blowing you off anyway); in the other it's playing into attackers hands.
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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Agreed. My problem with it was that Microsoft had 10 days (and probably knew people were already hitting it) to fix it and didn't. Now, it could be that it's in the queue for next Tuesday, but the reporters could have found that out.
Adobe received a warning from Google the same day, and got a fix out. Although they do need to be pushing fixes out hourly, so I'm sure their fix team is pretty peppy. 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Now, it could be that it's in the queue for next Tuesday, but the reporters could have found that out.
Does MS comment on these sorts of things? I didn't think they normally did.
And as for waiting until Tuesday, MS has honestly shot themselves in the foot on that front by pushing W10 fixes outside of that cycle on a semi-regular basis. 
Kent Sharkey wrote: Adobe received a warning from Google the same day, and got a fix out. Although they do need to be pushing fixes out hourly, so I'm sure their fix team is pretty peppy.
Of course since their updater only looks for a new version at boot time, for 99% of users it'll actually come out with the next OS patch.  Adobe really needs to update their updater to do daily checks and start pushing them in users faces despite the hassle of browser restarts. (Well that or Flash just needs to die. One or the other.)
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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The Corrode project automatically ports C codebases to Rust as a way to give older C projects like CVS a new lease on life I'm not sure "Corrode" gives the right impression for your project fellows.
Then again, maybe they're right?
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Quote: Sharp's quest for such projects led him to CVS, the version control system that was last updated in 2008 and has a code base of 50,000 lines of C. Most projects use one of CVS's replacements, such as Subversion or Git, but Sharp pointed out that "there are still tons of open source projects where their history is only available via CVS." Bringing CVS up to date would allow the histories of those projects to be more readily preserved.
If it wasn't for a handful of major projects like at least one of the BSDs still using CVS as their primary source control, I'd suggest building tools to automate finding and importing legacy CVS repos into a more modern SCC would be a much better investment of time and money.
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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Matt Mullenweg, the founder of Automattic, downloaded his competitor Wix’s iOS app. It looked eerily familiar, and he confirmed it contains source code stolen from WordPress. There is no free beer?
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Pretty straightforward.
Kent Sharkey wrote: no free beer
Yes, that which you make for yourself.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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That's not free either. That is, unless you grow the grains and yeast yourself.
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True, nothing in life is truly "free"
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Kent Sharkey wrote: contains source code stolen from WordPress.
Wix prefers you use the phrase "borrowed silently" when referring to their code. 
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Welcome to the future: Vision APIs, Bots, Hololens, reading brain waves, and so much more. Welcome to the future: reading articles before they're on paper!
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