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2016-05-23 13:41 from IGnatius T Foobar @uncnsrd
If your mobile developers are still having Android fragmentation
problems in 2016 they're doing something very wrong. Google Play
Services API gets updated on every device, including OEM builds. They
built those API's specifically to get around OEM's who are slow to (or
stop) updating their phone OS builds.
Theoretically, sure.
But back to Microsoft - they still haven't figured out that Windows
doesn't need to be EVERYWHERE. Come out with a phone OS that isn't
Windows. It's okay - people know how to switch between devices.
It can be Windows internally, it just shouldn't *look* like Windows.
You'd think they'd understand that, after the non-Windows-looking XBox was well accepted in the gaming market. (Yes I know, they want the XBox to be yet another delivery vehicle for their "universal apps" now too, and that's also a bad idea.)
2016-05-24 16:37 from Ragnar Danneskjold @uncnsrd
Fuck Powershell. That is all.
Needed to be said again. Does anybody even pay attention to that thing? ;-)
Wed May 25 2016 19:03:25 EDT from LoanShark @ Uncensored2016-05-24 16:37 from Ragnar Danneskjold @uncnsrd
Fuck Powershell. That is all.
Needed to be said again. Does anybody even pay attention to that thing? ;-)
chocolatey.org is written in p00pshell. Its sort of usefull, you can even use it via ansible nowadays to provision a wintendo in the cloud.
Customer wins $10K judgment from Microsoft over unauthorized Windows 10 upgrade
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3089071/microsoft-windows/customer-wins-10k-judgement-from-microsoft-over-unauthorized-windows-10-upgrade.html
Heh. That sounds an awful lot like the "windows refund" bit ... hard to do, but possible if you really want to go through the effort. Although it sounds like the standard payout would be $150, not $10,000.
Windows 10 will be "the last version of Windows" according to Microsoft; they are going to push everything out as "updates" from now on. This could mean a number of different things. Ideally it means Windows will now follow a rolling release model, with all new features and subsystems truly being introduced seamlessly in system updates. But since this is Microsoft, and all they really know how to do is copy Apple and Google (in this case Apple), they'll probably just hold the version number at 10 and roll out point releases forever, like Apple does.
(Although, Apple's decision in 2013 to stop charging $$$ for OS upgrades might influence MS here as well.)
In 2025, will we be able to install Windows 10 from a DVD distributed in 2015, and seamlessly patch it to the current version using Windows Update? That's hard to do on any operating system. Debian (and its bastard stepchild Ubuntu) makes you step through all of the intermediate major versions. Not sure about Mac. From a developer's point of view it eventually comes down to, how far back do we want to code for (and test) in our upgrade routines.
What's pretty clear is that none of the major vendors really want to deal with the idea of a packaged operating system anymore, especially one that is an upgrade. You take the OS that came with the device, and you live with it for the lifetime of the hardware; if you're lucky then maybe you get updates during that time.
Windows 10 will be "the last version of Windows" according to
Microsoft; they are going to push everything out as "updates" from
now on. This could mean a number of different things. Ideally it
"Updates" belongs in quotes, yes. The major updates that they release every 3-12 months, akin to what used to be called service packs or updated release images, are installing by a process that looks a lot like a full upgrade install.
Also take a look at the support lifetime schedule. It hasn't really changed. Windows 10 "released in 2015" will be supported for the usual length of time. Then presumably you have to upgrade to windows 10 "Released in 2020"
"Last version of windows" is really playing semantics.
changed. Windows 10 "released in 2015" will be supported for the usual
length of time. Then presumably you have to upgrade to windows 10
Naturally. The question I have in mind is, will you be able to install Windows 10-2015 on a new computer and upgrade it to Windows 10-2020 simply by running updates and taking lots of reboots ... or will that only take you as far as, for example, Windows 10-2018 before it insists that you "obtain an upgrade"
This is an ACTUAL CORPORATE MESSAGE that was sent out by a Microsoft recruiter.
They have acknowledged that the message is authentic (but are already trying to walk-it-back after the entire Internet laughed at them).
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HEY BAE INTERN! <3
Hi! I am Kim, a Microsoft University Recruiter. My crew is coming down from our HQ in Seattle to hang with you and the crowd of bay area interns at Internapalooza on 7/11.
BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, we're throwing an exclusive after party the night of the event at our San Francisco office and you're invited! There will be hella noms, lots of dranks, the best beats and just like last year, we're breaking out the Yammer beer pong tables!
HELL YES TO GETTING LIT ON A MONDAY NIGHT.
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Yes that's right, youngsters: Microsoft is hip and cool. Cool like IBM when they did the commercial with a pair of nuns talking about OS/2 in Latin. Bill Gates must be rolling over in his grave (ok, Gates is not dead, but I wish he was). If there was ever any doubt that Microsoft's best days are behind it, this should clear that up.
More and more Exchange customers are switching from on-premise Exchange to Office 365.
Imagine ... they built a product so unreliable, so obtuse, so high-maintenance and expensive to run, that people are willing to pay them to run it for them.
Talk about Stockholm Syndrome!
I have one client that uses on-premise Exchange, the SBS 2011 variety. Which I installed in late 2013, because their previous SBS ate itself when C: ran full, because nobody had turned on backups and the logs ate all the space. It never recovered from a 30 gig log file.
The new Exchange had a seizure last year in August (precisely on my second day of summer vacation...). It never fully recovered and now needs attention like Kim Kardashian. I might be installing it again soon. Comparing the price for the SBS itself and my maintenance fees makes renting it in the cloud look really cheap. And I get to yell at a technician instead of being on the receiving end. Or spending two nights in a row at the office, trying to fix it.
(The second night became really funny when I shambled back to my car, wondered why it drove so shabby, only to realize I had a complete flat front tire. Which I then replaced while it was cold and snowing at 5 am. Next stop was a gas station to inflate the changed tire and buy half a litre of fine local beer, which I drank on the way home. Fuck Microsoft!)
Well, that's kind of the point. You can't just pop an Exchange CD into the drive and walk away with an email system an hour later, like you could with older versions. You're basically stuck using one of two megabucks models:
1. Install domain controllers and mailbox servers and front end servers, requiring an MCSE who has paid megabucks to Microsoft to learn that you need a half dozen servers to run even the most simple of Exchange environments.
By the time it's built and tuned and working properly, it's time to upgrade.
Pay through the nose forever.
2. Subscribe to O365, charges for every user, every mailbox, every month.
Pay through the nose forever.
https://betterwith.office.com/Starbucks-for-Outlook-add-in?WT.mc_id=eml_CXM_EN -US_X_O365MonthlyNewsletter_July+2016_EN-US_FLAT-FILE
or
http://tinyurl.com/zce849z
This is Microsoft innovation today?
For those not paying attention, the "Windows 10 Anniversary Edition" (or whatever they called it) came out this week.
No big deal, it's just a service pack, but the important piece is that you no longer have to be running an "insider build" (beta quality code) to get your hands on the Windows Subsystem for Linux, aka "Ubuntu for Windows." This is a fairly big deal for those of us who live in a mixed Linux/Windows world. I've used MobaXterm for a year and a half and have been loving it, but this is even better because it's 90% "real Linux" -- basically a Linux userland running over a Windows subsystem that emulates the Linux kernel.
(I guess Richard Stallman would have an autistic tantrum unless we called it "GNU/Windows" or something)
By the way, the new version of MobaXterm is compatible with WSL so you don't have to use Microsoft's shitty terminal window. And when you run WSL inside MobaXterm you can run X11 applications and they work just fine.
So it's not as nice as a true Linux desktop, but it beats the hell out of having to run virtual machines to have both operating systems running at the same time.