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No, Microsoft started with a product that is ultimately not ideal for anyone, then tried to convince us that it would please everyone.
This is how marketing works, you know.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: This is how marketing works, you know.
And this is the company that has never been all that good at marketing. 
TTFN - Kent
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Canning Windows Phone and using Android would be a huge mistake. Just posting this to remind myself to work "unforkable" into conversations this week
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Twenty-five years on from the web's inception, its creator has urged the public to re-engage with its original design: a decentralised internet that at its very core, remains open to all. "But when you talk about destruction, don't you know that you can count me out"
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HP server customers are about to get an unwelcome surprise when they need to update firmware or apply a service pack. Effective later this month, those downloads, which often fix critical bugs, will require either a current warranty or an extended support agreement. Did this idea come from Dell's sales department?
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Until a lawsuit for delivering faulty firmware and not fixing it for free comes flyin' in.
Clean-up crew needed, grammar spill... - Nagy Vilmos
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Read the fine print.
Computers are sold "as is" with no warranty for "fitness to purpose" or some such words.
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Quote: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman is getting a huge raise as she enters the third year of her attempt to turn around the slumping personal computer and printer maker.
Whitman's annual salary is soaring to $1.5 million from the $1 that she settled for during her first two years on the job, according a regulatory documents filed Tuesday. The raise approved last week is retroactive to Nov. 1, the beginning of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s fiscal year.
HP said the bigger paycheck will make Whiteman's salary comparable to what CEOs of similar-sized companies make. HP earned $5 billion on revenue of $112 billion during its last fiscal year
Somebodies got to throw more into the pot!
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According to Netcraft, which surveys publicly-accessible web servers, millions of websites still appear to be using vulnerable versions of Apache, including versions which are no longer supported. If only there was some kind of service they could run to update their web server at times
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Jeremy Ashkenas has released version 1.7 of CoffeeScript, and with it introduced some highly anticipated changes to the popular JavaScript transpiler. Now with added creamer!
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About a year ago we thought it would be a good idea to do a talk on "What not to do in ASP.NET?" - basically an anti-patterns talks. We kept seeing folks falling into the same traps and wanted to be prescriptive as there's aspects to ASP.NET that are 10 years old and don't apply to today's internet, but there are also new aspects to ASP.NET that are only a year old, and perhaps haven't soaked into the zeitgeist quite yet. Assuming ASP.NET is on your to-do list
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Do NOT write web applications...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Despite the meteoric start for iOS, slow-and-steady HTML5 might win the race for developers' hearts. Write once, work in most places FTW
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What plans, if any, does new CEO Satya Nadella have for Microsoft’s collection of products like Silverlight and Groove that have no future?
Take them out back behind the shed with a shotgun...
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The investment, confirmed in an interview by Foursquare Chief Executive Officer Dennis Crowley, is part of a funding round from late last year that valued New York-based Foursquare at more than $600 million, people with knowledge of the terms said in December.
You can put lipstick on a Windows Phone pig, but it's still a pig.
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Hardly. Windows Phone is a distant third in the market, but in my opinion it's superior to the competition. Android is the real pig. I recently dumped mine (no more Google at all in my life) and got a Lumia 928. I only have minor fit-and-finish type complaints.
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Fair enough. I've had it up to here with my Android phone, actually. It's not long for this world, and will die either by upgrade or by a rage-filled smash against the wall. Phone's choice.
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I was getting the same way with mine.
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As of Thursday, Google will sell you a $999 package called "Chromebox for meetings". The set-up includes a Chromebox — Google's answer to the Mac Mini — as well as a 1080p HD camera, a combination mic and speaker and a remote with a QWERTY keyboard on the back.
Get your thousand-dollar enterprise version of Google Hangouts, here!
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Mashable wrote: Chromebox — Google's answer to the Mac Mini
What a joke! A Mac Mini is a real computer (even a workgroup server, if you want).
/ravi
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..or you can use the mobile phones and big screen TV you already have and put together equivalent functionality leaving - oh about $800 in the H&B[^] account?
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..or even use an XBOX-1 with the Kinnect doing the fancy "camera follow the speaker" stuff, with the added advantage that there would be an Xbox in every conference room.
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If you want to know why big tech companies act the way they do, follow the money. Based on the latest SEC filings, Apple's still a successful hardware company, and Google's still in the advertising business. Meanwhile, how's that "devices and services" shift working for Microsoft? Money goes in, money goes out. Can't explain that.
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Standards-making is like sausage making. You need it, but it’s ugly. Yet the standards process is the necessary evil behind every technology we rely on. "Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made."
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A few years ago, the PC was the heart of digital living. Now it's just one of many devices -- and one Sony can live without. Sony sells computers? Oh wait, that's "Sony sells computers."
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