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In late March, at its Build 2016 developer conference, Microsoft revealed that Windows 10 had made its way to 270 million devices. Five weeks later, in early May, it said that that figure had climbed to 300 million. Only one more month to force it to a billion, people
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I threw 19 * 350 mil at calc.
They would be morons if windows didn't go subscriptionware for even half or a quarter of 19 / month.
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Belarusians are now stripping off in their offices after the president ordered them to "get undressed and work."[^]
Seems rather unhygienic.  How is "pair programming" handled in these bare situations?
#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
modified 30-Jun-16 14:37pm.
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With the official launch of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update less than a month away, recent preview builds have been downright boring, with no new features to write about. But hold on a minute. What's this Windows Upgrade to Subscription tool? Sooner, or later, you know they'll try it
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Message Closed
modified 30-Jun-16 13:42pm.
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Yeah, they probably couldn't pull a cross-licensing agreement in place.
TTFN - Kent
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It seems like to me they want to keep control of it and just want you to acces it over the interent on their servers.
It's like they don't want any more installed desktops.
Everything runs from "Their Servers" OS, and applications "They" choose".
Just saying. 
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Google announced on Snapchat today that Android N, the latest version of Android, will now go by Android Nougat. The announcement comes after the company said at I/O last month that users could submit suggestions for the name online. Dang. I had my money on 'Nicotine gum'
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Meant to put my Nutella comment here, Dang it! or should i say Noug-it!
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Wasn't that also someone's advertising thing? At least I remember some old commercial bragging about "only the finest nougat de Montelimar"
TTFN - Kent
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Quote: Techeye Millions of Microsoft Office 365 users were exposed to a massive zero-day Cerber ransomware attack last week... Link[^]
Thar' be pirates in them thar' clouds!
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The fact it took M$ 24 HOURS to respond doesn't help their public image much.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Yeah, it's called Office365. They own the only crapware used to access your documents and you have to pay a fee to access them. Wait until they will force users to save them in the cloud, so that if you don't pay you won't have ANY access whatsoever to your documents...
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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den2k88 wrote: They own the only crapware used to access your documents
If you don't feel like paying, LibreOffice[^] supports reading and saving MS Office file formats. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I know I know, it's quite low quality IMHO, at least compared to Office 2010. I never used newer version than 2010 so I don't know if they are crappy too, in the purest MS tradition of making a good version out of 2 or 3.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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It is no news that Office 365 is a ransonware. 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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In a bad week for Britain in the news, the UK can at least take solace in its average mobile connection speeds, which — according to a new report from content delivery network Akamai — are the best in the world. "Low rider drives a little slower"
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Actually, I don't care about speed on mobile networks anymore. For me HSDPA is more than enough - although I think LTE is cool, but not for the speed. What I am more concerned about is the small data plans. It's cool to have 150Mbps mobile connection, but it's useless, when you can burn all of available data in minutes.
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Unhappy humans are unhappy workers, and unhappy workers are less productive. Yes, this angle of technical debt is seldom discussed, in my experience. You code 16 KLoC and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.
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Sadly, a lot of people are unhappy because they're trying to work in a field that is above their intellectual capability. We need to de-technify farming.
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Technical debt needs to be renamed to Manager Debt or PMP Debt, because it is they who are the cause of the situation and should be held accountable, not the developer(s).
On the bright side, these wonderful legacy systems keep many of us unhappily employed. I kind of think about it like a car that needs a 24X7 mechanic for the life of the car.
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jgakenhe wrote: Technical debt needs to be renamed to Manager Debt or PMP Debt, because it is they who are the cause of the situation and should be held accountable, not the developer(s).
What about bad developers?
I've met many developers who couldn't write a stable system even if they had crystal clear specs and all the time and budget in the world.
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Sander Rossel wrote: I've met many developers who couldn't write a stable system
Were they cow-orkers?
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Yes, I've met them and ended up inheriting their systems. I feel the pain.
I feel it is management's responsibility to put the right people and skills on a project. If someone doesn't have skills that can match up to any projects, then that developer should not be in the organization; employee or consultant. There's a saying in America from the movie Caddyshack, "the world needs ditch diggers too." I also believe it is management's responsibility to put employees on a career path; a career path the coincides with organizational needs and meshs with the individual's aptitudes.
If the right people aren't available, then the project should be put on hold because bad systems are very expensive to maintain and support.
modified 30-Jun-16 11:30am.
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