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'Incredibly shortsighted,' says one petitioner on Microsoft's own UserVoice after company cuts free storage by 83 percent Hey hey! Ho ho! Cloud disk space gotta grow!
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The uservoice item is currently at 48k votes; which is more than everything else on the first page if sorted by vote totals and nearly 4x the 2nd highest voted item. It probably helps a bit that 99% of the people going to there don't have anything else to rage at though. I've got 1 vote x 10 items on my work and personal email addresses for visual studio items. 
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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HipChat, the team chat platform Atlassian acquired in 2012, now allows developers to build apps that run directly inside its user interface.
Until now, developers were only able to push inbound messages to HipChat through its existing API, and create their own custom slash commands. That was mostly on par with what HipChat competitor Slack also currently offers. HipChat Connect takes this a step further. It's Hip to be square.
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As part of the partnership, Red Hat solutions will become available natively to Microsoft customers, and Microsoft will offer Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the preferred choice for enterprise Linux workloads. Red Hat customers will be able to bring their virtual machine images to Azure, and Azure customers will be able to take advantage of Red Hat’s JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Web Server, Gluster Storage and OpenShift. In addition, the two companies plan to provide a “pay-as-you-go” service, called Red Hat On-Demand, for Red Hat Enterprise Linux images in Azure Marketplace. It's about time...
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In the early nineties, when Microsoft was still working on Windows 95, the pressure was high. The ones even worse got to work on Windows
Or VB, or PowerPoint. Basically, fill in a product name there. It's late in the day for me. I'm blanking on really bad, but popular, Microsquish apps at the moment.
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Bob?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Too easy to kick. Besides, look what it did for the PdM 
TTFN - Kent
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Nah, I loved Works. It was all the good stuff of Office, at a tenth of the cost.
TTFN - Kent
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For DOS ?
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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So that's why you handle the Insider News... 
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 yup. I'm definitely the weak sauce here. Best to keep me where I can't do any damage. Other than bad jokes.
TTFN - Kent
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I assumed they were talking about Power Pup[^].
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Together with the availability of Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 RC, we’re also announcing a new way of acquiring the C++ tools: as a standalone installer that only lays down the tools required to build C++ projects without installing the Visual Studio IDE. A compiler without an IDE. That's just magic, how would that work?
(Yes, that was an attempt at sarcasm)
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Should install with .net just like CSC and VBC do. 
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MS always on cutting edge
certainly what they call "state of the art"
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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ppolymorphe wrote: certainly what they call "state of the art ark"
FTFY
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Lost Ark
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Mehbe they should call it "Mt. Sinai".
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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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New research suggests there is more to having a successful DevOps implementation than you might be aware of, or are adequately addressing. So, do you have a definition of DevOps?
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I'm an Ops/Infra guy, and a freelance consultant.
More and more I find managers at my customers that 'want DevOps' because they think it's the ultimate tool. It will fix the islands-problem and all teams magically will communicate with each other, since that's what DevOps involves.
Please note that these are the words from a manager I've met about two weeks ago.
So indeed, what is DevOps?
Or if it's some abstract thing like ITIL, the question should be: How have you implemented, or how would you want to, implement DevOps within your organization.
I also wonder where the story originated that DevOps is the ultimate tool to solve the islands-problem. More and more of the managers I meet say some variation of this to me, and I'm having a hard time to get them to understand this is not the case. DevOps is a goal, not a tool?
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We're not quite full fledged DevOps, but many a day I get mad at the business unit for their nit-picky requests and my response is to login into the prod servers through Explorer, build VS, publish VS, and then click the prod RoboCopy scripts. Easy Peasy DevOps!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: So, do you have a definition of DevOps?
Yeah. DEVolvingOPerationS
Marc
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In the quest for smaller, longer-lasting, more powerful batteries, scientists have tried many alternative approaches to battery chemistry. One may have just produced the breakthrough we’re waiting for. You might get a charge out of this
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As long as they aren't met with too much resistance.
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