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When you sign up to a service with a telecomms company for your phone and broadband, you have an obligation to pay your bill every month. However, the company also has an obligation: to provide you with that service and react when something seems out of the ordinary. To be fair, AOL is *totally* worth it.
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At its Build 2015 developer conference today, Microsoft announced Project Spartan will be called Microsoft Edge. Joe Belfiore, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of the operating systems group, announced the news on stage, and detailed Edge will have support for extensions. Very... edgy
I'll get my coat...
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Not thrilling, but a nice conservative name.
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I'm on the edge of my seat...
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Adobe already has a product called Edge[^]
...I would rather they just call it Spartan 
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Microsoft Edge. Just announced at //build/. The demo video shows some glimpses of some slick features.
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Very nice name! As a developer, I know I will be on the edge of my seat, hoping my code works like it does everywhere else....
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Using Times New Roman is the typeface equivalent of wearing sweatpants to an interview. I'm guessing not Comic Sans?
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Had seen a resume in ALL CAPS.
Not only was it shouting at me, but also took quite an effort to read.
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Ugh. Was it an old mainframe user? I find they can't seem to use that caps lock key anymore.
TTFN - Kent
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How about letters cut out from a magazine like a ransom note?
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Probably get you an interview. Maybe not with the company though. 
TTFN - Kent
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iOS and Android developers will be able to port their apps and games directly to Windows universal apps, and Microsoft is enabling this with two new software development kits. If you can't beat 'em, convert 'em
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The database market has largely been impervious to open source pricing pressure. That may be about to change. "Why buy a cow when you can get milk for free?"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Why buy a cow when you can get milk for free?"
For the pleasure of milking. D'uh! 
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Microsoft today announced a free editor for developers called Visual Studio Code, which is now available for download. Totally different from the free Express, or the free Community editions
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It's a rip-off of Visual Studio Online  now if it would only support VS solutions, it could be a really lightweight code editor on the go.
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When .NET was first released, Visual Basic and C# were on equal footing in the community. But over the years, Microsoft has been slowly moving towards deprecating VB. The first time that the future of VB was in question was around 2008 and resulted in co-evolution promise. "Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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Ha! Back when I took some .net classes circa 2003, one of the instructors said that C# would go away and VB was the way of the future! ![Badger | [badger,badger,badger,badger...]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/badger.gif)
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Curlies? Ha, who needs them! I've got COBOL like syntax baby.
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You... For a moment I thought/hoped in VB7.
Geek code v 3.12 {
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
}
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That was the language/platform which gave me a nice intro to GUI programming.
So easy, so fast, ... and so ugly
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Visual Basic is very much like COBOL. Whether you like it or not, it exists in the business world and will continue to exist for quite some time to come. Business is concerned about making money, not replacing something that already exists.
I have occasion to work on reports remotely: SQLServer 2000, Business Objects 6.5 (installed in September 2005). Why hasn't it been upgraded? Because it works... and there is an established report and user base that uses it.
When will it be replaced? When it breaks to the point it can't be recovered, but, until then... it serves the business.
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Fixing Windows 8's most glaring flaws is nice, but the new Windows doesn't address the fundamental PC dilemma. I didn't know it was in need of saving
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