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'Desktop: say goodbye to Windows!' This is exactly why I am switching to Linux. Only the desktop environment enables the work I do.
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I also don't know why it would be in Microsoft's best interest to drop the Desktop UI or relegate it to a back corner. There are still many people with mice and keyboards who are quite happy with the desktop UI and their legacy Win32 software. Killing off the desktop or de-emphasizing its value, would make these people have to seriously reconsider whether their next PC is Windows or Mac - because once you take away legacy software & legacy device support, Mac OS is arguably an equivalent product (or better?), and even more-so for someone who already owns an iPad or iPhone.
With Apple's announcement this week that Mac OS and iWork updates will be free forever, the TCO element is swinging into Apple's favor - it's a huge power-play - indicating that Apple knows its earnings and profits are not from Mac OS, but from iOS devices and app sales. More Mac OS users solidifies their developer base squarely on Apple products and emboldens their eco-system.
Microsoft should be very wary of doing any more damage to the Desktop UI. They already ticked-off a lot of users with Windows 8's downgrading of the desktop UI and 8.1 didn't do much to change that. Sooner or later, desktop users might just start kissing Windows goodbye if this keeps up.
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I whole-heartedly agree. I'd even go a step further and say many of these arguments apply as well to tablets: (a) many of the new gestures require too vast movements on an 10 inch screen or greater, and (b) hiding away some of the core functionality in corners doesn't make sense on a reasonably sized tablet screen. (c) also the two window limit seems arbitrary and unneccesary: what about utilities that do nothing but indicate a status in a tiny frame (time, connection status, battery power)? Why can't those all be viewed along with the active application?
There's more, but I'd just be reiterating other articles and postings.
For me Windows died with Windows 8, and MS failed to resurrect it in 8.1. I've been using 8.0 on my ultrabook for half a year and I hate it, in spite of all the tweaks I installed to return the W7 experience. On my desktops I'll run W7 for as long as possible, and once I need to retire it I'll probably switch to Linux. I may even switch my Ultrabook to Linux before then, it so annoys me. (It's not even the UI - I run it in desktop mode using ClassicShell - it's some of the W8 "features" under the hood that make me consider dumping it altogether!)
I used to prefer Windows over Linux because it worked out of the box. With W8, this is no longer true.
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In a rare move, a federal court in Idaho recently ordered a software developer's computer seized and its contents copied without prior notice because the developer described himself as a 'hacker' on his website. If software development is outlawed, only outlaws will write code
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If I describe myself as a burglar on my website, would I get arrested?
"Minority Report", anyone?
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Not necessarily. They would just seize all your property. 
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That's fine as long as you don't lose money out of it. If you do, you can hack them to modify the compensation amount. 
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Vivic wrote: "Minority Report", anyone?
Nah, seen it thanks. 
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I used to work with people who called themselves "coding ninjas". What should the law do with them?
In his case "hacker" was an attempt to portray his coding skills, not his ability to break into computers.
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TTFN - Kent
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In further news, JSOP has moved to Devil's Hole, with Hannibal and the Kid.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I can see the ambulance chasers lining up to take this one.... you could retire on that settlement.
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Real hackers don't announce their "hackerness" to the public.
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There's an open workshop in my neighborhood where for a small fee, anyone from age 12 and up can go to salvage electronics, code and play with Arduino's or whatever project you want. Those are "real" hackers.
In Idahole they would probably burn it down and arrest everyone for witchcraft.
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Does the judge not know the difference between a hacker and a cracker?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I think not.
I suspect he dcesn't know the difference between his gluteus maximus[^] and his articulatio cubiti[^] either.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Organisations in the UK should expect to be able to introduce new applications software up to 33 percent faster using DevOps – and the software should be better to. "Sort of like a team. 'Earth's Mightiest Heroes' type thing."
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What do you get when you cross Star Trek jargon, a decent knowledge of Photoshop, and Florida? Well, judging by Howard Leventhal's attempt to secure around $3 million in funding for a fake tricorder, the answer is one impressively delusional case of fraud. I'm a crook, not a doctor!
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Along with this growth in adoption and exploration of agile, the number of agile myths has grown as well. "You can't handle the truth" (with bonus free ebook - with registration)
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Katana creates a server implementation of the work done in the independent open source project called the Open Web Interface for .NET (OWIN). OWIN defines interactions between Web servers and application components. The vision for Katana is a broad and vibrant ecosystem of Microsoft .NET Framework-based Web servers and application components. Katana adds some of these OWIN-based capabilities with built-in bindings to frameworks such as SignalR and the ASP.NET Web API. "Now it cuts like a knife, but it feels so right"
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Microsoft has a fascination with big screens. The software giant has demonstrated Windows 8 on its 82-inch Perceptive Pixel PC and created giant displays with Kinect built in. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates even uses a giant 80-inch Windows 8 display occasionally. Today, however, Microsoft is going one step further. At one of London’s biggest tourist attractions, Trafalgar Square, the company has created a 383-inch Surface tablet. I wonder if the touch screen works?
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They haven't really got to grips with this whole portable thing.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: They haven't really got to grips with this whole portable thing.
Au contraire, they've got it spot on.
How big was your mobile phone a year ago, how big is the one you've got now, and how big is the one you're thinking of buying next year?
In 20 years, you'll need a truck to carry your phone.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: How big was your mobile phone a year ago, how big is the one you've got now,
Well, my personal mobile is smaller this year than the one I had last year.
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Web tracking is far more pervasive and invisible than ever, thanks to browser fingerprinting and third-party aggregation "Remember: no matter where you go... there you are."
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