There's no way it can fall. It just shows how meaningless and inaccurate things like this are.
Posts by Steve78
56 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Sep 2012
Windows 10 market share fell in September
Skype shuts down London office, hangs up on hundreds of devs
YouTube stars shilled for Warner Bros, screwed up, and now the FTC has written an angry letter
OFFICIAL: Zuck's BIG in-your-face Facebook Messenger SHOVE finally pays off
Microsoft to Windows 10 consumers: You'll get updates LIKE IT or NOT
Re: no matter what MS force on us
Why would anyone want a 'fix' to stop important security updates & fixes? Anyone declining updates puts themselves at risk as well as others.
Some of you are being awkward just for the sake of it. Having said that, as I.T Admins you'd be using the Enterprise version which you having full control over updates. If you are the kind of Admins who do not deploy updates after a week or two of testing then you should be removed from your jobs.
Lenovo to customers: We only just found out about this Superfish vuln – remove it NOW
Apple pulls iPhone 4 from sale in India after just four months
Firefox, is that you? Version 29 looks rather like a certain shiny rival
Re: Hate it already
Firefox is still Firefox. When I click on the new Menu button on the right I get everything I need in my face. This is GOOD.
I can't believe how some of you spaz out just because of a few minor (and they are minor) UI changes. How do you lot ever cope when you are dealing with a critical issue?
With all this worry, some of you are going to be turning your beards even greyer.
Re: Hate it already
If some of you people cannot accept or adapt to change then you need to get out of I.T and take a job in Asda or Tesco. Then you can have the same boring steady routine day after day after day.
Me? I like progress. I like learning new things and Firefox has adapted their browser to suit the masses. You moany old farts must be the most boring people in your work place.
OnePlus One equals 'killer' new mobe running CyanogenMod
Apple: You're a copycat! Samsung: This is really about Google, isn't it?
VCs drop cash on DropBox, bestow $10bn valuation
I am a longtime Dropbox premium user. I migrated all my data away from Dropbox onto SkyDrive for about 4 months as I purchased a 100GB SkyDrive account when I upgraded my (then) main PC to Windows 8.1 from 8.0. SkyDrive is forced down your throat and it does actually make sense to adopt it above offerings from rivals such as Google Drive & Dropbox due to the integration with all your Microsoft products - until you realise it doesn't fucking work properly! SkyDrive is so unintelligent when it comes to managing your data!
I own quite a few machines (Windows & Mac) and run various VM's (Windows/Linux) and Dropbox just worked beautifully. So lets talk about my SkyDrive woes. If I powered on a machine that hadn't been online for a while (lets say for more than 4 or 5 weeks), it would recognise data that I had deleted on other machines as "new" and instead of deleting it from the machine that had not been online for a while it would actually pull the 'old' data into my SkyDrive account and sync old deleted data across all my machines. This was infuriating and I took to Twitter to have a whinge (as you do). The Official SkyDrive Twitter account quickly followed me on Twitter and attempted to help me with my problems. I was then in touch with SkyDrive support and to cut a long story short, they couldn't resolve the problem. SkyDrive is too fucking dumb to recognise what is old and what is new which surely defeats the purpose of having it!
So I moved back to Dropbox and everything just works. Dropbox also has LAN sync which Google and Microsoft still fail to include with their services.
Sure, Dropbox may cost a bit more but it works and that's all I care about.
Microsoft to ship Windows 8.1 in 'late August'
Microsoft's murder most foul: TechNet is dead
Prince of Persia: Baggy trousers and curvy swords
Windows 8.1: 'It's good for enterprises, too,' says Redmond
8.1 is a fine OS and a solid update.
Those cry babies who refuse to adapt to anything new can simply purchase Start8 (or a free alternative if they are too tight to spend $4.99) and shut up up moaning. Start8 gives people the native Windows 7 Start Menu and is fully customisable.
8.1 allows you to boot straight to the desktop (as Start8 does and has always done with Windows 8.0) so this will stop a lot of so-called professional IT Administrators from shedding further tears.
Windows 8 betters Windows 7 is every area. And as I said above, if you still want the look and feel of Windows 7 (which is essentially a tarted up Windows 95) then spend 2 mins of your time downloading a tool to give you the functionality you stick in the muds want.
Stop the Microsoft, Skype wedding, screams enraged Cisco in court
More than half of Windows 8 users just treat it like Windows 7
Pile of pony!
The survey is bollocks. Almost no one uses Windows Store? Well maybe the users surveyed had this particular feature locked down, as you would expect in a corporate environment.
Any Admin worth his salt wouldn't allow his users to install all sorts of shit on their PC's, so why make an exception for Windows Store?
And most users treat Windows 8 like Windows 7? No shit! Nearly all tasks and applications run from within the desktop.
Adobe's Creative Cloud fails at being a cloud
Ten Windows 8 Ultrabooks
IBM selling x86 server business to Lenovo?
British designer builds $15m iPhone for Hong Kong mogul
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic Two's Day
Does anyone remember the day Sonic 2 was launched? I remember having an awful day at school as time was going SO slow. All I wanted to do was rush home and start playing Sonic 2 that my mum was picking up on her way home for me!
The day seemed to go on forever and when it came to 3.45 I literally ran home as all I wanted to do was play the game.
Good times.
Windows XP support ends a year from … now!
Hate being stalked by Facebook? Why not try Google+ stalking
Microsoft's 'Gemini' project will be the Windows Blue of Office
Re: Gemini should...
That menu system was bloody awful! The ribbon makes so much more sense with most things grouped together logically. Granted, it wasn't implemented perfectly in Office 2007 but it was much better in Office 2010 and tweaked and perfected in Office 2013.
Some of you people are so stuck in your ways. You need to change and move with the times and if you can't do this then you are working in the wrong industry.
Not got 4G? There's a reason we aren't called 'Four', sniffs Three
Next from Microsoft: 'Blue', the Windows 8 they hope you don't hate
Samsung's new Galaxy S 4: iPhone assassin or Android also-ran?
Adobe thinks outside box, nixes retail Creative Suite packaging
Re: Not for the first time Adobe dances to Apple's tune
Adobe are a business and they will do what's best for their bottom line. So many millions of users are tied in to their products that Adobe knows it can get away with offering subscription-only software. I personally don't see it as a big issue as long as the cost is reasonable. I also would rather subscribe to things annually rather than pay monthly instalments, I would hope that Adobe gives users the option.
I think the real reason is to cut out the resellers. Adobe wants to be the only 'go to' place for their software. To be honest, if I was running Adobe I'd be doing the same thing! Why give others a portion of your income when there's no real need to do so? The only major downside is that Adobe can then decide to charge what they want. Of course if it's too expensive then you don't buy it, no once forces people to spend their cash. Adobe will soon change their tune if sales significantly decline.
Intel's Centrino notebook platform is 10 years old
My first Centrino branded laptop was a ThinkPad T40p. One of the best laptops I ever had! It had a 1.6GHz Pentium-M processor, 60GB 7200RPM drive & a 1400x1050 SXGA+ screen that put it above nearly everything else. It also had a ATI Mobility FireGL 9000 graphics chip which was more than decent for 2003. It was still going strong 7 years after I bought it before I sold it to a mate. He still uses it to this day.
My modern day ThinkPad 420s is basically the same build quality with some subtle changes. These things are built to last.
Microsoft exec selling his Surface tablet
Microsoft about-face: Office 2013 license IS transferable now
Re: Too late
What kind of bizarre licensing agreement do you have? My 55,000 users can upgrade or downgrade their Office/OS 'til their hearts content.
How many users to you actually support?? I can't imagine they will be happy about having to run with new software platforms & having to learn a new OS.
Microsoft Surface Pro will land in UK in WEEKS*
Vodafone cash supply choked as Europe tightens pursestrings
Oh, Sony, you big tease: Mystery PlayStation reveal date set
Microsoft Office 2013 vs. Office 365: Is either right for you?
Microsoft tries to sell home Office users on subscription pricing
Pretty good deal
I think it's a pretty good deal. £79.99 per year gives me the full suite of applications for all the computes in my house (2 Mac's, 3 PC's). 365 is always updated so I will always have the most current and latest version for however long I subscribe for.
Yeah, I could use the free alternatives, but they are shit.
Apple releases iOS 6.1, adds LTE carriers, tweaks security
Sharp set for 30 BILLION YEN cash injection
Apple MacBook Pro 13in Retina display review
Yes, I understand where you are coming from. I have a 2011 MacBook Air and a 2010 Vaio Z and my thinking was to replace both of these with a 13" rMBP. However, the 13"rMBP doesn't meet my requirements/expectations so I am happy to wait. Two grand is a lot of money. But I know what I want and I know Apple will deliver it, with Intel's assistance. I'll just have to wait.