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Must have been one hell of a mouse update at 800MB+ 
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And proper context menus for the start screen.
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NeverJustHere wrote: It has a stupid name: Windows 8.1 Update 1.
Actually it's called "Windows 8.1 Update," which is arguably more stupid. A lot of recent MS products have been using Update n (e.g., Visual Studio), so in fact if they'd called it Update 1 it would have made more sense.
Kevin
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Well that didn't take long. After a short honeymoon period, the Nadella regime makes its first truly asinine move. To be fair, he was already saddled with 8.1, but this is just a gigantic mess.
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Clickety[^] [CRA]
About 900 SIN numbers stolen. 
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: SIN numbers
You have to get a # in order to sin in Canada?!!?   Talk about control!
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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If you know C# then the name Eric Lippert will be synonymous with clear explanations of difficult ideas and insights into the way languages work and are put together. However this didn't stop our interviewer Nikos Vaggalis (NV) from ranging over topics as diverse as the future of C#, asynchronous v parallel, Visual Basic and more. C# run, run C#, run
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If you’re not a fan of the Live Tiles used on the Windows 8/8.1 Start screen, then you might want to look away now — Microsoft is experimenting with the idea of making these tiles even more interactive, giving users additional information on the over-sized tiles without the need to open individual apps. Anything that would make them even moderately useful would be nice
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Live tiles -> Vile tiles -> Evil tiles
(Personally I am waiting for the version where the tiles can be set to tessellate)
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With those tiles having internet connection, I am sure they'll become the major target of hacker attacks in Windows 8. Only the little prevalence of that smartphone OS has yet delayed such attacks.
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I really don't get the disdain for the tiles. I find the tiles useful and interesting. The proposed changes would make it more like a dashboard, and that too would be useful for me.
There are plenty of things I don't like about Windows 8/8.1, but the tiles aren't one of them.
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Oh, come on. Tiles were useful as early as Phone 7.5. I can see the current temp and weather on my Weather Channel tile, I can see how many unread messages I have in Outlook and GMail, how many notifications I have in Facebook, text messages, etc. All without having to go into the app itself to see these things.
There are plenty of things an anti-Microsoft blogger can criticize Windows Phone for, but this one is a bit silly.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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On the phone they're (very) useful. On the start screen, very rarely (IMO).
And seeing as how the article was entirely about Windows, I'd say it was appropriate, and hardly 'anti-Microsoft'. It's freaking writing about a Microsoft project.
TTFN - Kent
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Tax collector has 58,000 PCs still running the aged XP; will spend $30M to upgrade to Windows 7 "Don't ask me what I want it for , if you don't want to pay some more"
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As these stories keep rolling in, it is clear why Microsoft dug their heals in and refused to continue mainstream support of XP. They are obviously making millions and millions of dollars on these Custom Support deals and no organization can say they weren't warned.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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..these kinds of millions should come from the pocket of the fool who said that they need not upgrade in the first place.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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We’re pleased to announce our free (1311-page) ebook: Programming Windows Store Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, Second Edition, by Kraig Brockschmidt. They're not just for the web anymore.
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Amazon said this week that it has started a program called Pay to Quit, in which it offers workers at its fulfillment centers between $2,000 and $5,000 to quit. If you stay, does that mean you collect welfare?
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The Tiobe language index shows that Python and Ruby have gained in popularity at Perl's expense. print join " ", reverse split /,/, "exaggerated,greatly,been,have,death,my,of,reports";
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I couldn't imagine using something other than perl for the kind of spreadsheet <-> database <-> 'locally saved web page' conversion work I do.
My greatest love in programming languages will always be C++. But for many kinds of heavy lifting, you can't beat perl.
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I can't stand Perl. Worst language I've ever used. I admit it's good at what it does though. But would much rather use Python or Ruby.
Kevin
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It is one of those "Duct tape" languages: if nothing else will solve the problem, perl will. You might not want to re-read it six months later, though.
TTFN - Kent
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"t is one of those "Duct tape" languages: if nothing else will solve the problem, perl will."
Isn't that a tautology: "one of those" other languages will surely do the job as well. Probably in a nicer way than Perl.
(Except PHP of course, nothing is ever solved in a nicer way than anything by using PHP - except possibly BrainFuck).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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LastPass has updated its built-in Security Check so that you can now easily see which sites require you to update your passwords to be safe from possible Heartbleed attacks. All your woes in one convenient site
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