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thanks for the link Mark Russinovich is my coding hero :')
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A laser beam can alter a fly’s behavior and make it mate with just about anything — even a ball of wax, according to scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Next step: mounting the lasers on the flies to control scientist's brains
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Microsoft is planning to use pop-up warnings to entice Windows XP users to upgrade. The software maker is ending support of XP on April 8th, and will start distributing notices next week to machines running the 12-year-old operating system. I'll take, "How do you irritate existing customers? for $200, Alex"
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Wow, how far they have fallen.
We used to beat down the doors to get at the latest offerings from MS now they have scare people into buying a POS nobody wants.
XP will run fine mine's been untethered from the mothership (automatic corrupdates off) for the better part of a decade.
MS, once a proud company to a fault is now a wounded cornered animal.
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 A wounded cornered animal at least has a chance, however slight. 
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Ya, they'll bite you good and don't have your best interest at heart! 
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The problem is that MS have never before been in a situation where 13+ years after an OS's debut it still has 30% market share. Windows 2000 was at 2% after 10 years.
At some point they have to stop supporting it. Maybe they should wait until share drops to 5%?
Kevin
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We are all familiar with the saying "you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar"? In Microsoft's case, their business model and wish is to get people off the Windows XP platform, which works, onto Windows 8, which has many issues in the geek community and otherwise. I have a solution for it. Provide registered XP users with an opportunity to move to Windows 7 if their hardware supports it. All for the cost of shipped media, about $15-20 or so, the same protocol that is used for near next version Windows-based computers "Buy Win7 now, get Win8 for free, etc.". This way those folks on XP can migrate up with limited licensing expenses.
Free your mind and the rest will follow,
Don't be colorblind, don't be so shallow!
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Herbert H Dupree II wrote: In Microsoft's case, their business model and wish is to get people off the Windows XP platform, which works, onto Windows 8, which has many issues in the geek community and otherwise.
A lot of the commenters in these postings aren't even happy about migrating to Windows 7 let alone 8! Though admittedly it would be easier for MS if 8 had not had such a bad press.
Kevin
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During the two posts, I have went out and purchased 8.1 Pro Pack, while subsequently upgrading my Windows 8 box to Windows 8.1 and further to Windows 8.1 Pro. When Windows 8.2 (Win8.1Update1) comes out next month, I will load it on my secondary system, test it out, and then load it on the primary system. It would be great if I could get my hands on Windows 8.2 to run in a Virtual Lab (VM) but I guess to be expecting too much.
Free your mind and the rest will follow,
Don't be colorblind, don't be so shallow!
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The upcoming NameTag app for Google Glass is facing scrutiny over privacy concerns from those such as Sen. Al Franken.
Facebook stalking has now simply become face stalking.
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Gives a whole new meaning to "Turn the other cheek" of course unless you're mooning someone. 
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Cool. That will be a blessing in my years to come.
I walk though the grocery and people I think I recognize say hi.
Now, are they a customer of our pc shop or do they go to our church? 
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CarPlay replicates the iPhone interface on the car’s center stack display, uses the car’s built-in controls, and takes orders from Siri as well. It goes far beyond Siri Eyes Free.
Why not just call it iCar? Seems like some inconsistent branding.
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Christopher Shields wrote: Why not just call it iCar iCrash? Seems like some inconsistent branding.
FTFY.
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Today Microsoft confirmed the raft of executive changes that leaked yesterday. Senior executives Tony Bates and Tami Reller will exit the company, Mark Penn will move to a more ‘strategic’ role away from advertising, and the company’s ad efforts will be headed by Chris Capossela, who will be the executive vice president of marketing. Eric Rudder will take Bates’ job on an interim basis. Microsoft is all over the place
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Microsoft is making big changes to Office 365. The company announced new developer tools, software and capabilities at its SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, which kicked off today.
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According to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 85% of the tasks in our daily lives will include game elements by 2020. In other words, our lives will be gamified.
In the game of life...
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It is already 100% for me.
I don't do anything but play games on my PC!
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At the very least you seem to browse Code Project!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I'd feel sorry for all the companies and organizations that are telling me that what used to be something important is now just a target for me to elephant with; but the sunshines deserve every bit of breakage I inflict on them for designing systems with the intend of elephanting with my head to make me do something.
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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Ethernet's bandwidth would let every passenger in a car could get real-time streaming video, its backers say Mental note: get really long network cable for drive into work
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For optimal download speed, drive fast into the signal.
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The Microsoft Office team has also been working toward a new generation of “app experiences” for a modern generation of devices. In the future, they'll get rid of the app, and replace it with a larger ribbon
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Kent Sharkey wrote: In the future, they'll get rid of the app, and replace it with a larger ribbon
thought they did already??  
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