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Microsoft spent three hours today showing developers where it's going in the next few months, and beyond. As usual, its annual Build conference was chock full of code demos, but the company also spent its time showing off the next update to Windows Phone, which features a voice assistant named Cortana. Just in case you're a little... Hey, a squirrel!
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Microsoft's competitor to Apple's Siri is named "Cortana".
I noticed that "Cortana" is an anagram of "An Actor".
Update: I just searched with Google and found out that Cortana is a character in Halo 4 too. I wonder how Microsoft picked that name.
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Bill_Hallahan wrote: Update: I just searched with Google and found out that Cortana is a character in Halo 4 too. I wonder how Microsoft picked that name.
Halo 4, of course. Same goes for "Threshold", the Windows 9 codename.
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A man who ran a Microsoft computer scam tricking people into paying for free anti-virus software has received a suspended four-month jail sentence. One down, billions to go
Hmm. Seems to be yet another person from Luton not to trust.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: a suspended four-month jail sentence
Suspended by his thumbs I hope?
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Why on earth is this a suspended sentence?
I've seen shoplifters and pot-smokers get worse punishment!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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This is the biggest joke of a 'landmark' case I've ever seen. They basically gave him a stern talking to, made him say sorry and then let him go outside and play before a quick timeout. That's the equivalent of the suspended sentence and small restitution. Guarantee those fines are just a drop in the bucket compared to what he made off the scams.
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At its Build developers conference today, Microsoft announced the launch of the first release candidate of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2. While this may sound like a minor update, it’s actually a big step forward for Visual Studio and Microsoft itself calls it one of the most significant updates it has done for Visual Studio yet. If they could just add the ability to make coffee, it might be complete
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But you need Windows 8.1 for that 
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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For the coffee part? I hope not.
For the best of the features[^] (sadly very RC), Win7 and up.
TTFN - Kent
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Quote: The SDK currently enables building Windows Store apps for ARM and x64.
I don't think Win 7 is up to it...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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In this blog post, I look at the contributions of several different programming languages to our discipline. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need"
makes slaves of us all.
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You may not have noticed, but most people already are (that's if they're lucky enough to have jobs).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Nnno.
Just.
No.
If people aren't working towards their own goals and dreams, doing what they love, that's their own damn fault.
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At its Build 2014 conference today, Microsoft unveiled Windows 8.1 Update 1, coming via Windows Update on April 8. What a horrid product name. Oh well, break out the MP3 of "Start me up" for nostalgia
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I'm waiting for Windows 8.1 Update 1 Update 1 
Not sure why they wouldn't just call it 8.2, although from reading about it there seems to just be a handful of UI tweaks nothing really major in the update.
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Why not just call it Windows 8.2?
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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My thoughts exactly.
TTFN - Kent
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Because they want to have all windows versions on the same versioning scheme. Win 8.1 and Win Phone 8.1.
Wout
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Soooo...they just figured out that desktop users use a mouse? 
Marc
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At least one step. When will they find out that some desktop users also use a keyboard?
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Next version, they will figure out that more than one app at a time can be viewed on a 24" screen
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I am not sure. But I hope that they might think of such an odd thing in that strangely rare case when two monitors are connected with the smartphone computer.
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