Maybe he realized he needed some positive PR and this was the one they identified as most likely to resonate with the people MOST likely to damn or absolve him. 

It is weird. 

Oh, and I never hit the paywalls, either, it seems. 

Sun Jun 13 2021 15:56:11 EDT from Nurb432

Darn. Gates supports nuclear power and thinks we should increase its use. Even founding/funding a nuclear energy research company. 

I hate to agree with him.

Might just be he sees a personal advantage to nuclear. but the side effect is good for all of us..   Even a clock is right once a day, if even for the wrong reasons.

Sun Jun 13 2021 09:00:02 PM EDT from ParanoidDelusions

Maybe he realized he needed some positive PR and this was the one they identified as most likely to resonate with the people MOST likely to damn or absolve him. 

 

Ya, its hard to agree with him. But, he is correct so i guess i got no choice.

Well, until we can tap into dark energy.. Then i might change my tune.

Mon Jun 14 2021 10:43:52 AM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

Nuclear is the only practical future for abundant energy production. Gates is making the right move. Nevertheless, I hope he falls into a reactor and is toasted.

The image i saw looked more like OSX.  *shrug* either way, just eye candy, nothing really tangible.

And sounds like they did almost nothing underneath, and its just a market/attention grab ( as i suspected )

Wed Jun 16 2021 09:56:10 AM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

Back to the 'soft...

[ https://www.xda-developers.com/hands-on-windows-11/ ]

"Leaked" (probably deliberately) screenshots of Windows 11 are starting to show up ahead of their big announcementfest. Spoiler alert: it looks like Linux. Seriously. I guess now that Apple has stopped innovating they needed someone new to copy so they've been looking at KDE and Ubuntu builds to figure out what to do next.

I agree... the design changes I saw looked more like OS X, and overall - it still looked pretty much like Win10. 

I think it is more of a case of convergence where all OSes look pretty much like one another. 

Which has been the case since... well, Windows 95. Maybe Mac OS Classic 6. 

Wed Jun 16 2021 10:14:27 EDT from Nurb432

The image i saw looked more like OSX.  *shrug* either way, just eye candy, nothing really tangible.

And sounds like they did almost nothing underneath, and its just a market/attention grab ( as i suspected )

Wed Jun 16 2021 09:56:10 AM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

Back to the 'soft...

[ https://www.xda-developers.com/hands-on-windows-11/ ]

"Leaked" (probably deliberately) screenshots of Windows 11 are starting to show up ahead of their big announcementfest. Spoiler alert: it looks like Linux. Seriously. I guess now that Apple has stopped innovating they needed someone new to copy so they've been looking at KDE and Ubuntu builds to figure out what to do next.

 

You mean how they both resembled Atari GEM?   just kidding, we have to give Xerox the ultimate credit i think. and its been incremental ever since, with everyone chasing each other's tails.

For the non-techie  i think the only real radical divergence in GUI was 'Bob'.  I know i'm in the minority , but still think the underlying concept was ok, even tho REALLY sucked in implementation. And i'm sure they stole that from some one else. Nothing else the gaming world. I guess what we had on the newton was a different concept too. But PDAs were just getting going so it had to be 'different'.   

Thu Jun 17 2021 01:12:56 AM EDTfrom ParanoidDelusions

 

Which has been the case since... well, Windows 95. Maybe Mac OS Classic 6. 

Figured it was, but the 'concept' was ok. Just they ruined it. 

Thu Jun 17 2021 09:29:18 AM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

"Bob" was a ripoff of The Little Computer People Project. Don't think for a minute they actually created something.

Picked up a copy of WIn11. Just curious.  Installing now. ( VM, no network. Who knows if its full of virus )

Yet another update at the office.   Now i have a weather/news widget.  Thanks Microsoft, i always wanted more crap pushed in my face.

There has been a weather and news widget in Metro since Windows 8. 

Mon Jun 21 2021 09:31:35 EDT from Nurb432

Yet another update at the office.   Now i have a weather/news widget.  Thanks Microsoft, i always wanted more crap pushed in my face.

Installed by default? Down by the clock.  And in enterprise editions?

Mon Jun 21 2021 07:26:20 PM EDT from ParanoidDelusions

There has been a weather and news widget in Metro since Windows 8. 

 

 

I dunno. I kinda quit MS IT right around the time that Windows 8 was hitting. 

But, no - as a Metro UI app/widget thing. Either way, enabled by default - and pulling data by default - yes. You had to go in and select things to turn it off. 

Mon Jun 21 2021 19:30:12 EDT from Nurb432

Installed by default? Down by the clock.  And in enterprise editions?

 

Mon Jun 21 2021 07:26:20 PM EDT from ParanoidDelusions

There has been a weather and news widget in Metro since Windows 8. 

 

 

With the product i support moving to HTML 5, originally they declared it 'finally browser agnostic, other than IE or old Edge" ( which made sense ). Legacy version was using OCX, so we were stuck with IE

In the first week i found problems with Chrome, Firefox and Safari. ( but not consistent across platforms different issues on different browsers and OSs ).

Now its " we suggest you use Edge ". I installed edge on my Linux desktop to avoid windows as much as possible.  it felt dirty.

Tue Jun 22 2021 10:43:18 AM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

I found that on my Windoze machine at work, the latest Edge works just fine as a Google-free Chrome version, but you have to install a couple of extensions to keep it from constantly sending you to MSN.