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I subscribed to Office 365 because it was an overall more cost effective greenfields choice for me.
I had no existing office license to use, so I needed to either buy a license ($200 or so) or go Office 365 ($15 or so). I also also wanted hosted mail, and I was originally going to go for Google Apps (because it was familiar) for $5 a month, but then needed a license for office.
So I decided to go for Office 365 because I got Outlook as my online mail clients (its pretty nice) and desktop installations of Office as well. So I'm ahead for the first 2-3 years, at which point I would have likely upgraded again anyway.
Also, I have found the animating UI elements in Office 2013 to be the big surprise feature for me. It sounds silly, but when you edit chart data in excel, or chart ranges, all the chart smoothly animates to the new state, giving some nice feedback on how things changed.
Oh, SkyDrive for Business is just the worst. Never ever use it. Ever. And the way it integrates with the desktop applications - ugh. With a poor or missing network connection you sit staring at a busy cursor for 15 seconds.
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When a patent is put up for sale, members of the LOT Network are still protected from whatever "troll to which the patent was sold." "For he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,"
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IBM will pour $3 billion into computing and chip materials research over the next five years, as it rethinks computer design and looks to a future that may not involve silicon chips. Dang, I thought they were going to announce the AS/400 was coming back
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IBM System/360, 370, and maybe now the 380!
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While OpenStreetMap offers great mapping data, its community-driven approach may not be enough to unseat Google Maps. "No stop signs, speed limit. Nobody's gonna slow me down"
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I'm considering using Open Street Map with OpenLayers[^] for a project...I want to be able to host the map data myself...Google and Microsoft have serious privacy concerns.
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It is surely true that OpenStreetMap is not well organized and does not offer an integrated product like Google. Actually, "everything" you may want could be found somewhere in OSM land, somewhere, and you may not be able to find out where... There are many web sites displaying "the map" - differently. Do you want to see English names in foreign countries or the local names (in e.g. Khmer which you cannot read)? If you want to use it on your smartphone, there are many options. If you want to use it on your Garmin device, again there are many different maps for download, or you can create your own. And if you succeeded with e.g. creating your own Garmin map, that likely won't help you when you want to create a web site with your own map style...
Difficult, disrupted, disintegrated, or how you might call it.
Despite of that, I use it frequently: I can create my own maps for car, bicycle, skiing etc. and can load them onto a mobile device for offline use - no expensive internet connection required when I need the data a few thousand miles from home in a tropical forest.
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The second technology preview of latest Microsoft IDE update adds features such as custom layouts and VC++
Another day, another Visual Studio CTP.
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There are certain constants in life, and one of them is a never-ending spate of predictions that Linux is dead on the desktop. It's inevitable that we see these kinds of article popping up every once in a while. CIO has one of the latest examples of this as it tries to make the case that Linux is dead on the desktop.
Linux is dead. Long live Linux.
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Just saw this was posted yesterday! My bad!
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The injustice is that programming has become an elite: a vocation requiring rare talents, grueling training, and total dedication. "You are a god among insects. Never let anyone tell you different."
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"My guidance counselor said I'd be an under-achiever."
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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I think that article is spot on.
Marc
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You mean I got one right? Usually the comments tell me what a stupid selection I've been making for the articles. 
TTFN - Kent
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It's not you - I think you make great selections that illustrate what idiots most people are. In this case, I strongly agree with the author, which might simply mean there are two idiots in the room now. 
Marc
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I like your picks, Kent...keep them coming
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Thank you very much (and Marc as well, and everyone else who likes my picks). It makes my panda sad when they're not up to snuff.
TTFN - Kent
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I suspect the real blame lies with an unnamed person whose name rhymes with Mris Chaunder; but it's that the Insider prioritizes having the same number of articles every day over only having links quality articles.
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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In particular this paragraph:
Quote: The civilized platforms controlled by large companies who invested in developer tools are all gone, strangled by the Darwinian jungle of the web. It is hard for programmers who have only known the web to realize how incredibly awful it is compared to past platforms. The web is just an enormous stack of kluges upon hacks upon misbegotten designs. This Archaeology of Errors is no place for the application programmers of old: it takes a skilled programmer with years of experience just to build simple applications on today’s web. What a waste. Twenty years of expediency has led the web into a technical debt crisis. To my shame, we are OK with that.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: In particular this paragraph:
Exactly.
Marc
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Agree completely.
Brendan Eich reads up on every mistake ever made in designing a programming language, invents a few more, and creates [JavaScript]
grossly understates how bad things are.
If I can't do desktop applications I'll do mobile apps. Web development is about as appealing as a management lobotomy. 
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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I think at this stage we need to treat JavaScript the way the 80s treated machine code - yes, it's a thing you can create by hand but you would be so much better using a high level language to do so.
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Until you can debug your compiles to javascript language as the original language in your browser you're just adding another layer of WTF onto the pile.
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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This article nails why I'm working towards getting out of programming.
After using tools like Visual Studio and Silverlight to create awesome applications delivered via the web I'm simply not willing to roll back 20 years of development evolution to work with the dozen or so technologies it takes to get an HTML solution put together. I'm dismayed that goofy selling points actually convinced so many people to invest in the worse development stack imaginable.
If you like the HTML/CSS/JavaScript mess more power to you.
I have a life outside of programming that I'd like to maintain.
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