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When it comes to business-friendly webmail services, Gmail has been the go-to tool for as long as anyone can remember. Outlook? That was purely a desktop mail client. Hotmail? Most business users wouldn’t touch that with a 10-foot spam filter. But, now, here comes Outlook.com, Microsoft’s new webmail service. And you know what? It’s pretty good. So good, in fact, that it deserves a chance to challenge Gmail head-on. Call it the elephant in the room versus the 800-pound gorilla. Outlook.com needs to prove that it’s not just Hotmail with a fresh coat of paint.
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This is where any and all credibility they had went up in smoke:
Quote: Even the online Outlook’s ads look nicer, with thumbnail photos that pop up when you mouse over deals that catch your interest.
The mouse over popup is far more infuriating than conventional popup's or popover style ads; both of the latter are easy to make go away and get out of your way. Without using adblock, the only solution to the former is to move your cursor away from the text area so they don't fly up randomly as you scroll.
Even then they severely degrade the normal user experience since they make it nearly impossible to tell at a glance if the author has linked to anything useful in the article.
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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Open ... and Shut It's hard to believe it now, but not too long ago the web was dangerously close to being owned by one vendor: Microsoft. As mainstream users came to equate Internet Explorer's logo with the Web, Microsoft worked to lock in its advantage with increasingly proprietary technology like ActiveX. It surely would have done so, too, but for the seemingly futile Mozilla browser, née Firefox. Born in the ashes of Netscape's failed browser business 10 years ago this month as Phoenix, Firefox 1.0 is arguably the most important technology developed in the last 50 years. Quixotic as it may sound, the purpose of Firefox was always to spread Web freedom.
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What we learned is that you have to sell out (a little) to sell (a lot). I’d argue that many makers have to do this when they want to scale. Going from 0 to 1 million units projected in just our first year meant we had to make a number of tradeoffs – from where to manufacture and how to work with partners without alienating our core community, to what features we chose (or didn’t choose) for the Raspberry Pi in the first place. When overnight success means impending disaster.
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I was happily reading this piece by Pete Lomas where he was mentioning Lego and Maths.
Then I get to the bottom and see comments and other article links referring to Math and Legos. Wish they could get the S on the right faarrrkkkking word.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Of course, spending a lot of time in Chrome isn’t enough to justify buying a Chromebook — I could easily have continued running the browser in Windows or Ubuntu. But as the idea of switching to Chrome OS matured in my mind, I became increasingly impatient with the extraneous features and restrictions full-blown operating systems forced on me. Even Windows 8 Consumer Preview, which I ran on my work laptop, took a good 20 seconds to boot, then required four or five clicks to get to the browser. 404 Operating System Not Found.
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For the past year Mozilla has been working on an experimental login system that completely eliminates passwords on websites while being safe, secure, and easy to use. Persona is ready to use for authentication: it works in all major smartphone, tablet, and desktop browsers, the user experience has been thoroughly reviewed and polished, we’re committed to the core APIs, and its infrastructure is highly available and stable. BrowserID is all grown up.
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Below please find a comment from a 25 year old Master Debator, which is just a fancy title for someone who likes to argue for the sake of arguing, or in other words, an ass.
Funny how it is Master Debator instead of Master Debater, I guess the first rhymes better with his probably real title.
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You clicked on the button "Post a news item" and thought this post would be newsworthy?
Perhaps it would have been better to browse the site a bit before just posting your question in a random forum.
We have a QA section especially for this type of question...
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Yeah, there's an (Android) app for that
Ah, finally malware for Windows 8 phones.
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sweet, now I just need an app to skip Metro start screen and boot directly into Android home screen
wait, nvm
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Here's[^] one way to run Android on a PC.
/ravi
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awesome thanks!
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Microsoft's failure to adhere to the European Commission's "browser ballot" requirement could result in formal charges, according to a new report. As noted by Reuters, EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia told reporters in Warsaw that the organization is "working on" opening a formal proceeding against Microsoft for its browser missteps. Almunia said he does not expect the investigation to last too long since Microsoft has already acknowledged its mistakes, Reuters said. I suppose "nobody noticed" won't be much of a defense.
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A big stir about very little. Will cost the EU courts and Microsoft money and time that probably could be spent worrying about something important.
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The point is they've not stuck to their EU mandate. Whether the EU was right to do mandate what they did in the first place is a separate issue. I think they were wrong.
Kevin
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Agree, just pointed out that there is a certain amount of pettiness in the whole process
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The fine goes to the European bailout funds.
Kevin
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Microsoft could have had most of the 107,000 Windows Phone 7.5 apps running on Windows 8 on day one. It would have been a fairly (read VERY) easy thing for them to do. It seems like arrogance on the part of Microsoft Windows Division President Steven Sinofsky is all that kept this from happening. And it could prove to be a fatal mistake on his part. But that isn’t what this posting is about. Despite Microsoft’s possible missteps, developers would be quite foolish to ignore Windows 8/RT’s new “Windows Store” applications. What are you waiting for, the first Service Pack?
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: What are you waiting for, the first Service Pack?
Honestly?
Yes.
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With Windows 8 being RTM’ed and a slew of new devices to be launched on October 26 (just a few weeks away) I can’t help but wonder where the new keyboards are. Sure, Microsoft has announced some new keyboards and mice, but they’re not gesture enables and have no charm keys on them. The keyboard is just a fairly standard keyboard with the new Windows logo on it. Boring! So, what do you want on your keyboard?
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