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by scholia 10y ago
You can already reply to yourself and Your handle doesn't appear, does it? At least, it doesn't if I use the web interface. Otherwise, this pic will give you a good idea of the changes Twitter is making to the tweet structure...
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Richard Stallman announced that he was working on a Unix clone on September 27, 1983. [1] This was the GNU Project from GNU's Not Unix. Stallman was a prodigious programmer and wrote GCC (GNU C), a debugger and Emacs. He also created t
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by scholia 10y ago
Another was Avadis "Avie" Tevanian, who worked on Mach at Carnegie Mellon University before joining NeXT. He took over Apple software.
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> The first Microsoft apps were Excel and Word for the Mac. Nice quote otherwise, but this bit is not actually true. Microsoft got into apps via Word and Multiplan on DOS. Excel and Word for the Mac were its first graphical applicati
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Many thanks, that's very interesting.
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Windows is approachable. MacOS isn't significantly different, in terms of usability, for the majority of the non-computerate public. And however you define it, the fact is that Windows did bring computing to the masses and Apple didn&#
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Apple's PC market share is much higher in the USA than it is worldwide, and it's very low in Asia, apart from Japan. Also, Apple's market share is much higher now than it was when the masses adopted PCs. That happened under W
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by scholia 10y ago
> many, many ordinary people buy them none the less. True, but Windows still has around 90% (or more) of the global PC market. Windows actually brought computing to the masses. Apple didn't.
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Or if Apple allowed users to upgrade their own machines....
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> Apple's mission has always been to make computing accessible to the masses (remember the slogan: "The computer for the rest of us"?), not to make it better for the elite few who already know how to use one. Except the
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Ditto. Last year, I made the mistake of buying a non-touch laptop thinking I didn't care that much. Had to take it back to the shop and swap it for a touch-screen machine....
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> I just bought an xps 15 running arch linux to replace my mba 13. The build quality is poorer for sure. and > Or I can pay almost triple the price for a macbook pro for the same specs and even slower vm on top. ;-)
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> The touchpad is really the only thing that I think compares poorly. Which is why Surface Pro owners often turn to these: https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msuk/en_GB/pdp/productI... > I&#x2
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> Microsoft effort is limited to Windows based PCs and even they might have a better advantage than Amazon. Not really. Microsoft has dozens of apps on iOS and Android, including Cortana, and it has Cortana on Xbox One as well. Microso
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May "innovation" is just an irrelevant marketing claim. The claim, whether true or false, doesn't make the product better.
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> Respectfully, banning "assault" weapons isn't going to stop the vast majority of gun violence True. However, it might well reduce the death rate, and that's better than nothing. In America, you are far more likely
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> "Why are the Democrats still obsessing over gun control, when all it does is cost them one election after another?" Because tens of thousands of Americans are being killed every year, including children being massacred? [1]
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Australian science fiction writer Greg Egan is complaining because Google keeps showing photos of other people called Greg Egan while claiming they are him. As a Facebook user, I thought the problem of face recognition was pretty much solve
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Thanks for the feedback. WiMAX does seem to be successful in some lower-tech countries, but I guess it depends partly on what else is available....
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Microsoft had precursors for most of those, including pen operation via MS DOS extensions (in the 1989 GriDPad) and the intelligent Office Assistants in Microsoft Office 98. Otherwise, the interesting point about Windows 10 is that so much
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If you have an unusual usage pattern -- eg you only turn your laptop on twice a month or so -- I guess you're going to get a backlog of updates. If you check the update settings, you can set "active hours" when it won't
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Yes, the off-the-shelf package includes a large fee for Microsoft support, and the right to move the OS from one machine to another. You don't get either of those with the OEM versions. One obvious factor in the fall of Windows pricing
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This is the IBM that has enjoyed 18 consecutive quarterly declines in revenues, including the most recent 21% fall in hardware revenues? ;-) It has bought more than 100 companies to try to reverse its decline (including Softlayer), so maybe
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If you look at the top of the page, there's a "web" menu item next to the number of comments.
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Tablets, 2-in-1s and most laptops are actually mobile. This is one of the reasons why Windows 10 is in large part a mobile operating system. The next generation of ARM-based Windows 10 tablets, 2-in-1s and laptops will also be much more SIM
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Microsoft had a stylus and a word processor on PocketPC handhelds long before the iPhone, and Apple had them on the Newton, though Palm was there first.... Going back to 1989, Microsoft had a stylus-operated tablet with the GRiDPad, which w
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> constant force update/reboot from Win10 Really? How often? I have "active hours" set and I rarely get more than one reboot per month. Same with network connections, and what they're doing. Some recorded facts woul
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> they charge a licence (I think around 300€) Pretty interesting if Microsoft can charge €300 for an operating system that ships on €150 (£150/$199 or less) laptops ;-) The Windows installation fee used to be around $42-$44 and s
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> Windows is now free(?) To answer your question: Windows is only free on small-screen devices [1]. Windows 10 is a paid-for OS, but it was offered as a free upgrade to people who had paid for Windows 7 & 8. Windows 10 includes fre
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Powerful 2-in-1 that works as a laptop and a tablet; runs sandboxed apps from a web store as well as traditional Windows apps; built in AI assistant; excellent pen operation; built in accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer; cloud integr

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