Re: Sadly... this is the beginning of the end
The 1990s called and wanted their paranoia back.
Posts by tabinnorway
9 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Mar 2013
Windows to become emulation layer atop Linux kernel, predicts Eric Raymond
Wednesday 21st October 2020 08:56 GMT
If this happens it would to a degree be a shame. I think it is in Microsoft's best interest to allow it to happen and I am kinda hoping it will happen as well. I just wish it wasn't happening with Linux. Linux is great, for a 1970s bloated monstrosity (slight exaggeration here) but it is still a 1970s bloated monstrosity. I would actually be a bit of a pity of Linux ends up ruling the world. It would be slightly better than if it was Windows, but only slightly.
If the winner was something akin to QNX on the other hand...
UK IT consultant subject to insane sex ban order mounts legal challenge
Monday 22nd August 2016 12:24 GMT
Re: "He was found not guilty, therefore he is innocent"
The communists soviets were not secular in any real sense of the word. They had plenty religion. Their religion was called socialism. A secular mindset can not be used to motivate atrocities since it is the absence of something, and the absence of something can not be a motivator.
Phablet for the biz fleet with easy typing: Microsoft Lumia 640 XL
Creative Suite cloud lurch crushes beret-wearers' cost-slash bid
Friday 10th May 2013 10:30 GMT
Re: Software Vendors, stop lying to your customers and just sell them the product!
>> When I purchase a product of any kind, I then own it.
No, you don't. Never have. Never will. This is why software companies as you to read the licensing terms before installing the software. Even the name of the document (LICENSE terms or similar) should be a clue.
When you buy the software you buy the right to use it. How, for how long and within what limitations. You never owned software. You lease it.
Windows Phone 8 support to end in 2014
Monday 18th March 2013 10:52 GMT
Re: So if I had bought a Windows Phone 8 on day of issue [1] ...
I'd recommend you sue your old school since they apparently didn't manage to supply you with basic reading skills. Yes, Windows 8 is going out of support in 2014, but Windows 8.5 (being released this summer) is not. If you upgrade to Windows 8.5 (or whatever version number they are going to assign it then) you have full support.
Some time next year there will be Windows Phone 9, which you should also upgrade to. Then your OS support is extended even further.
Monday 18th March 2013 09:59 GMT
Re: Backwards Compatibility
They have also stated that the current phones are going to be upgradable to the next major version of Windows. So there is no issue.
Companies dealing seriously with the Enterprise will always announce when specific versions of their software reaches End of Support, End of Life etc. This is just Microsoft communicating with the enterprise, and a bunch of journalists who are just a tad more clueless than journalists in general - who'd think it was possible to get even more clueless than journalists - posting sensational idiocy for the click rate. Sad really,
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