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Early next year, when Microsoft finally, officially, and unreservedly drops support for Windows XP, it won't mark the beginning of a new XPocalypse. XP is a relic of a bygone era. It's time to let it go. Go into the light, XP, go into the light
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Go into the light, XP, go into the light
It'll be in queue, right after VB6.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
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At this point XP should be dragged out into the street at 3am for revolutionary justice. Then have a parade of elephants march over the remains.
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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Dan Neely wrote: At this point XP should be dragged out into the street at 3am for revolutionary justice. Then have a parade of elephants march over the remains.
If you had said Vista, I'd agree with you. XP just needs a quiet injection, and "go to sleep now, sweet Prince" of a treasured old pet.
It served well for a long time, but it is time.
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TTFN - Kent
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I think it's time I went shopping for some retro XP T-shirts. I seem to be the only one actively using it. 
/ravi
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There's at least two of us. 
BDF
The internet makes dumb people dumber and clever people cleverer.
-- PaulowniaK
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My work XP systems have no update scheduled. They may not be upgraded until Balmer's successor retires. 
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No Windows Update enabled on them? 
/ravi
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Not a question of updates being enabled - I do that manually rather than automatically - but I will still be on the same systems after updates cease to be issued in April 2014.
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Gotcha. I have a feeling I might be giving you company.
/ravi
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XP may have been good in it's day; but in comparison to newer versions of windows it's a festering cesspit of malware. IIRC from when MS was publishing stats from MSE XPs infection rate was ~2x Vista32's or ~3x Weven32's (64 bit versions lower still). The sooner it goes away the better.
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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While Google has everything that I personally need, it has its shortcomings when you compare it against some of the features Bing and Yahoo! have to offer. Even if you’re a Google supporter, knowing that it has competitors standing up and challenging it to improve, should make you happy. Without them, Google would look like a monopoly. Just in case it's time for an intervention
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Always root for the underdog.
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DuckDuckGo? 
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TTFN - Kent
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Everyone from users to entrepreneurs to advertisers loves the “mobile” category because those products are always with us, always on, and instantly accessible. But these opportunities are also design constraints: Mobile screens are small, driven by touch, and often connected to spotty networks. Which is why companies like Facebook, Google, PayPal, and countless startups taking the plunge into mobile-first design quickly realize that designing for mobile is not the same as designing for the desktop PC. A phone is not a desktop, part 42
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If you're an IT pro looking to either polish your existing cloud skills or add new expertise to your resume, the time is now as demand for cloud skills continues to outpace the supply of available workers. Must be aware of best practices for converting cumulonimbus to cirrus
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Microsoft's top executives spent nearly four hours Thursday explaining why the company is charging ahead with retiring CEO Steve Ballmer's "One Microsoft" plan. The remarks came during Microsoft's first financial analyst meeting in two years and touched on a number of much-discussed topics, including whether Microsoft Office will be released for the iPad and why consumers are crucial to the company's core enterprise products. "And I'm standing at the crossroads, believe I'm sinking down."
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MS Evasion of the day:
Quote: Ballmer said, adding, "We don't have our heads in the sand."
...we all know his head is somewhere else...
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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You have to admit, he's flexible.
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The biometrics hacking team of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) has successfully bypassed the biometric security of Apple's TouchID using easy everyday means. A fingerprint of the phone user, photographed from a glass surface, was enough to create a fake finger that could unlock an iPhone 5s secured with TouchID. This demonstrates – again – that fingerprint biometrics is unsuitable as access control method and should be avoided. If you see someone photographing your fingerprints, keep them away from your iPhone
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Microsoft is pushing ahead with a Windows strategy that would have a unified code base that runs from smartphones to servers I bet you thought I was going to do, "And in the darkness bind them" didn't you?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I bet you thought I was going to do, "And in the daorkness bind them" didn't you?
FTFY
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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From a slightly less snarkastic point of view that my last post, is this a round about way of saying that Win9/WP9 will be full of breaking API changes again in order to merge the two codebases more thoroughly?
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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Seems a reasonable interpretation. Or at least a "portable" subset that limits you to phone-grade capabilities.
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TTFN - Kent
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.net added a portable subset in 4.0. I spent a morning playing with them in an attempt to get a code analysis tool that only worked with them running; but the code in question broke in too many places due IIRC to dependencies not in the portable subset to make it a plausible effort without major refactoring: Some of it was on my round tuit enhancement list; but a lot of other stuff would've needed major changes to be made. AFAIK the biggest breaking changes MS would need to greatly merge development would be in the metro UI classes being different between device types.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/gg597391%28v=vs.100%29.aspx[^]
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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