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DURA LEX, SED LEX
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--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Actually, I live-streamed the Microsoft ignite and learned some interesting stats about Microsoft.
I thought they were failing also, but actually -- in terms of cloud they are definitely winning.
They have something like 75% of Fortune 500 companies signed up for their cloud solutions.
Now, you might think, "Cloud? what do I care for the cloud?" Right, but big businesses do care and small business (start-ups) care too, because there is a MUCH smaller introductory cost to get up to speed with a strong infrastructure.
All of that focus on cloud is probably why desktop is suffering. They don't care right now.
So, why the UWA? Eventually, it will be there. Right now it is the best way to build an app that is easily accessible by Win10 users (get from app store). It is also the only way to add advertisements (I know you're smiling now) to a free app. Yes, you can simply pay $0.99 for the app and then the ads are gone so I think that is a fair trade-off.
Microsoft is too big to fail. INstead they can limp along for years throwing money at issues until they are finally just about as good as other choices --- which have gone out of business. Yes, that is a catch-22 as it is goo and bad.
The most important thing to me with the UWA is __easy deployment__ and that's the main thing I get from the Windows Store.
Also, UWA means XAML (which I alternately like a bit and then hate) which (if Microsoft is around in 5 years) will be the way to build all "desktop" apps (if there is such a thing). The windows form apps and that stuff has a serious crufty build-up. I hate to say it since I've been using those controls since Win3.1 
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raddevus wrote: Microsoft is too big to fail
Sure, the company won't collapse, but just look at how many projects, which they initially hailed as the greatest thing they'd ever done, have failed miserably.
They can afford to lose a billion or three to satisfy the lunatic desires of their decision makers, and they don't care how much time, money, and stress it causes us ordinary Joes.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I agree with you 100%. The product list that they've abandoned is larger than most companies list of current products. There have been some terrible ones too, like that little smart phone they produced, released and then something like 4 days after release killed. It was crazy.
That's a really good summary of the situation and you are right about the troubles it causes ordinary joes. Good discussion.
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Microsoft has a long history of being great on the enterprise end while face-planting with consumer products. Nothing new about that.
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StatementTerminator wrote: Microsoft has a long history of being great on the enterprise end while face-planting with consumer products.
That's a good point. Consumer products aren't really their thing.
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As one who has been repeatedly whinging about unexpected updates and other irritations of Win10, I have to praise Microsoft for actually listening to their users. Yes really!
In the current version of Windows that I have on my PC and my laptop, there is now an option to set the quiet times during which restarts are allowed to take place. This may have been there before as I have only just found it but I think MS may have listened to various complaints and decided to do something about it. Top marks Microsoft!
Another of my pet hates was that Edge did not permit renaming downloads or sending them anywhere other than the downloads folder. Once again MS listened and fixed it.
To be honest I can't think of anything I still dislike about Windows 10. It definitely rocks.
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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I've clung to Win 7 at home for as long as I could, but this weekend I'm going to have to bite the bullet and upgrade to Win 10. Because gaming. No DirectX 12 on Win 7, and VR is pushing me to Win 10 anyway, there's just no avoiding it for gaming.
I'm still on Win 7 at work fortunately, but I'm due for a new computer before long so that will change. I'll miss you, Win 7 my friend.
I'm not looking forward to having updates crammed down my throat, but at least I qualify for the pro version so I can defer them and hope the bugs get worked out before I get them 
modified 13-Oct-16 15:02pm.
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Why not simply crank up desktop DPI? That's precisely the setting for high-DPI monitors.
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In your screen shot right above what you are changing is the "change size of items" that changes the size of everything including fonts inside any text area.
It's designed for hi rez screens or small screens like laptops and tablets.
I wouldn't recomend doing both size and text size, You might get some crazy big fonts.
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I love this time of year when the nights are drawing in, there's a chill in the air & the whole family gathers round a roaring Galaxy Note 7 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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I think they need to rewrite the tune to make the lyrics fit:
"Put another Galaxy Note 7 on the fire..."[^]
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
modified 12-Oct-16 8:47am.
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And from it a merry jingle arises:
Bruce Springsteen - I'm On Fire[^]
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--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Does it come in Pumpkin Spice flavor ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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Clickety[^]
Perhaps I can borrow a copy from Nagy? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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We (well I) have done it, it's not big or clever...
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I've done it seriously hungover, and I suspect the drunk code was considerably better quality... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Quote: I suspect the drunk code was considerably better quality
Don't let the hangover stop if this is the case - Keep drinking!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Then you spend your life chasing the Ballmer Peak[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Nothing wrong with that. Even if you never hit it, the chase in itself can be quite enjoyable... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Yep that is amusing, right up until the next day when you inspect the crap you typed in last night!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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So a coworker had this weird issue on a Windows Phone app.
Send a POST request to the server and get an (internal server) error 400 "GET is not supported."
Some debugging and logs checking later we found out that for some reason the body of the request was not logged.
Checked out the source code and it wasn't logged because it contained sensitive information.
Turned on the logging for this call only to find that there was no body at all...
Some Google-fu taught us that older versions of IE convert POSTs to GETs if the body is empty.
But why is there no body?
Now, some more debugging... Is the AJAX call okay? Are all values valid? Is something funny going on at the server application? Is the URL alright? Does it work on other environments?
Finally, two hours later, another coworker ask what URL we're posting to. http://something...
There's the problem, it's actually httpS or some internal network thingy does a redirect and empties the body converting it to a GET.
There goes four hours of productivity for a stupid redirect 
Just one of those days... 
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Perhaps you should have asked the duck[^]?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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We kind of did... 
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xkcd: Record Scratch[^]
The only record layer I still own is an antique portable 78. Now go and look at the mouse over.
veni bibi saltavi
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