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Quote: Cmd is in maintenance mode...
And the cost of keeping it that way is insignificant. So leave it, you dummys!
But some idiot (probably the one who pushed the ribbon) will decide to ditch it just for the sake of change some day soon.
Please don't. I'll gladly let you belittle me for being wrong!!!
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A lot of people[1] suggest that Microsoft would never do something as stupid as removing CMD because, as Rich Tuner says, it's needed for legacy scripts and other stuff that are never, ever going to go away.
However... recently my impression is that Microsoft is losing its way a little but in terms of backward compatibility and its importance in the corporate marketplace. My impression is that there are people in charge there now who live and think in the legacy-free (supposedly) web mindspace and who don' know and can't understand that there's a whole corporate world out there that is vastly slower moving, where decades long compatibility matters way more than the latest cool thing. Their treatment of VB, where they can't even stick to their own strategy, is one symptom of this.
It would not surprise me (but it would sadden me) if CMD turns out to another symptom of this sooner rather than later.
Footnoote:-
1: Yes, Wikipedia would add a "Who?" tag. Well, people I've seen, ok.
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And then there are the organizations which forbid the use of PowerShell because it's too "dangerous".
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Every couple of weeks, the USAF tries to remove PowerShell from Windows on our boxes. We have to repeatedly remind them that we have to have access to it, and they turn it ion again, for a couple of weeks. It's a pain.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Yep. I tried explaining to DISA that PowerShell is needed to administer Windows servers, to no avail.
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An investigation of Twitter messages reveals new insights and tools for studying how people use stretched words, such as "duuuuude," "heyyyyy," or "noooooooo." Whaaaaa?
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I feel like there's an opportunity here to see how far some individuals stretch the truuuuuuuuuuuuuuth. 
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Money supermaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahket, anyone? 
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In our study, only one in three people who had accounts on breached domains changed their passwords Well, it can't get any more secure than 'p@ssw0rd!', can it?
I could add a digit at the end, but why bother? They'll just figure that one out.
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President Trump has taken the extraordinary step of threatening to close down social media platforms. We should be so lucky
Yes, sorry. Probably too political. Apologies in advance.
However, it's technical news, so Bob decided we should include it. Less as a comment on his behaviour than on my general feelings about Facebook and Twitter (and sure, MySpace, Friendster, Tik Tok, and whatever else the cool kids are using this week.)
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I have a little list
(He has a little list)
Of sites that never would be missed
(They never would be missed)
…
Filling in the list would be Soap Box material (but fun)! 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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OK, we are getting very close to "politics" now, but I am very close to saying: Let him!
Of course it wound't work. It wound't gag his opponents.
But it would reveal a lot of his respect for democracy, freedom and human rights.
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He's rich. He can buy it and bankrupt it, like his usual. (Or not, since I doubt his billionaire claims after everything we've seen.)
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actions speak louder than words
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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ha ha
is codeproject lounge and a social media platform?
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I don't think he has a legal (constitutional) basis for doing so. That seems to me to be a clear violation of the 1st Amendment. I'd like to see the legal argument, though.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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My guess is that it would have to be done by classifying Twitter, YouTube, and whomever as publishers. If they don't edit content, they aren't considered publishers. But now that they routinely censor things that they disagree with, they can be classified as publishers. And rightly or wrongly, publishers are liable for all content. This leaves them open to all manner of lawsuits or even criminal prosecution if, for example, they don't quickly take down illegal material. This isn't just child porn or whatever, but also things that violate copyright, which are rife on these sites.
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Insider news is the new Soapbox? why am I just finding out bout this? 
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Windows 10 continues to play a key role in how we learn, live and work during these unique times, and we want to ensure a high quality and reliable experience, while also delivering you the latest innovations. "Those who are about to die salute you"
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reliable experience Sorry, but I choked on this one. The only thing reliable with their updates, is that it will ruin someone's day.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Who the f*** is General Failure, and why is he reading my harddisk?
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Texas Instruments has removed the ability for some of its most popular calculators to run programs written in assembly or C Back in the day, the big calculator excitement was turning it over after typing 0.7734
Well, and that other upside down message that is appreciated by high-school boys.
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Bring back the slide rule!
(Confession; despite my dad trying with his ivory slide rule, I never figured it out.)
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I came across my 30+ year old handbook in "Synthetic programming of the HP-41 calculator" a few weeks ago. Maybe I could get at good black market price for that one today?
I believe that is was not on HP, but on some TI calcular that users complained: Why can't the new model do factorials - why do we have to load from an external module code that is dramatically slower? To which the manufacturer asnwered: "Oh, but the processor can do factorials - we just didn't have any spare key for that on the keyboard. So it can do it,it is just that you cannot invoke it" ...
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