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I don't have that many fingers.
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I'm betting the only one is the right-click menu. And the only options there are Show Ribbon | Hide Ribbon | Customize Ribbon.
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Hopefully they'll fix the crashiness of Excel 2013...should have stayed with 2010.
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Same as the old boss?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Quote: Skype for Business is now available in the client apps, allowing you to IM, screen share, talk or video chat right in your docs. This same experience will be coming to Office Online later this fall. Skype for Business also has faster screen sharing and now adds the option to start a real-time co-authoring session from any conversation or meeting.
So did they just slap a Skype skin on Lync; or did they reinvent the wheel? If the latter, I hope the PHBs running it were smart enough to realize that a lot of thier current Lync customers won't accept a solution that's only available with a backend on MS owned servers instead of in house ones, and have planned accordingly.
Quote: making sure everyone on the To: line has the right access to modern, cloud-based attachments from OneDrive.
The URL http://onedrive.com/ is categorized as File Storage/Sharing.
The site may contain malicious software or content that is in violation of CompanyName's policy.
To request access to this site, click here.
For additional assistance or information, please contact the Help Desk at (123) 456-7890
*ahem* you were saying...
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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Skype for Business is just Lync with new underoos. And of course a separate code base from Skype for non-business.
Really? Your help desk blocks sharing sites?  Why don't they just block file shares (or even files) while they're at it? Sending from OneDrive is the only new feature I've seen in the new Oriface.
TTFN - Kent
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I suspect file share sites are blocked as a data loss prevention move; easier to blacklist the entire domain than just block upload pages/etc. Internal file share's aren't a source of that risk.
An external Share(d)Point(OfFailure) is our baseline for sending/receiving files to big to email. I suspect if there was a business need (read a client refusing to use our sharepoint and insisting on dropbox/etc) I could get an exception (just for my user account) without too much difficulty beyond the standard burrocratic overhead. Probably as narrowly defined as possible. eg only www.ShareSite.tld/users/thecustomer/ if possible.
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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The programmer is a species destined for extinction. if(true == bored) { declare EOW; getClicks();}
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I can definitely see the end of the traditional programmer. With Entity Framework, we see that through a wizard that a complete domain layer based off of a database or vice versa can be created. Let’s say that Microsoft created a user interface where you could take a spreadsheet and each spreadsheet tab represented domain logic. Once uploaded, a wizard could then create the domain layer, database, and create web pages from that. In fact, they probably have something now in house, that we don’t know about.
I can see a time when business analysts, programmers, and project managers are fighting for the same jobs.
Just like we’ve already seen in industries like automobiles, textiles, or even farming, there will be a time when there are too many workers and those who survive will earn much less than their ancestors. My guess is that nursing will be the next major sector hit once the baby boomers have past. And the Computer Science degrees of the future will be more geared towards math and analytics than code and computer architecture.
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Sure, if you think McDonald's is acceptable for three meals a day every day.
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jgakenhe wrote: You never know, this world might turn into Logan's Run where we have nothing to do but enjoy life until we are 30, then we are terminated.
That's a great movie...
... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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jgakenhe wrote: I can see a time when business analysts, programmers, and project managers are fighting for the same jobs.
That was already predicted with Microsoft Access 2000. Same myth as the paperless office.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Same myth as the paperless office.
The paperless office is just as practical as the paperless bathroom! (Three seashells not withstanding!  )
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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Nice quote  
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
}
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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We ruled, we do, we will! We are the ones people talk about when they jokingly say, "friends in high places". We are not going anywhere!
It is just the script kiddies, the one who have no idea of programming, who know which button to click to hack a Facebook account. They are something we should worry about.
BTW, your code is somewhat Java and C++ oriented. What is that you want to do?
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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The Plain English programming language lives!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Yoda wrote:
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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Complete rubbish. However, it would be true if programmers built the same app every week.
/ravi
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Several years ago I was hanging with a good friend of mine when I got on this kick about "...but if you could write a PROGRAM to do that..." for about 24 hours straight.
She and I finally decided on our list of things that we would never want machines to do for us because that would dehumanize us. I think we came up with, in no particular order:
- Cooking
- Gardening
- Sex
- Writing
- Drawing
- Composing
- Acting
Another good programmer friend/colleague of mine that I met doing some Expert Systems work used to always talk about working on "button that code itself" and "self-coding code"... Maybe if he's done with those yet we can all start on our own lists... 
... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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And who writes the programs that lets other people "program" without "programming?"
Marc
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It's turtles all the way down.
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In college (early 80s) a lecturer spoke about the future of 'artificial intelligence'. I asked him if AI would be able to make reasoned decisions in much the way a child can or would it be based on a series of pre-programmed scenarios?
The answer was: scenarios. My comment, then no intelligence whatsoever, just a machine doing what it was told to do. Not much has changed.
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When this programmer extinction arrives, what will the people who drag-and-drop buttons, correlate database tables, and assign actions to controls?
In the 90's we called them Visual Basic Programmers, but they were still Programmers.
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People have been predicting programming as a profession to die out for decades, and they've been consistently wrong. Tasks automated to no longer need a programmer end up becoming resources for more advanced programs build upon, requiring more programmers.
Software developers today already write code in high level languages abstracted far away from the machine they are writing for. They already focus mostly on logic and not on translating for a machine, and yet software development is still a specialized profession not usually tackled by experts in other professions. Programmers are more than middlemen; they have specialized skillsets that require lots of time and energy to obtain.
The author of this article vastly underestimates both the amount of expertise and the value of the expertise of various software development skills. Furthermore, even if many programming tasks could be easily done by amateurs, they would still end up being done by specialists because people in other professions would choose not to do them in favor of spending more time on their own area of expertise.
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