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by scholia 11y ago
Which is odd, because it doesn't install without permission. Even if you can't see how to avoid installing it (ie you can't read or miss the small type that says "Click here to change upgrade schedule or cancel schedul
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by scholia 11y ago
> I can stop using Google products tomorrow without the need for a gun or explanation. True, but that would not stop Google from tracking you everywhere, via more than a dozen tracking systems. Also, even if you don't use Gmail, G
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by scholia 11y ago
Or maybe Microsoft is just creating a bigger and better ecosystem.... Who else is trying to cover all your needs (1) both on-premise and in the cloud; (2) across platforms from USB thumbdrives to smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops and
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by scholia 11y ago
You're missing the point. Rule of law applies just as much to Sky as it does to the BBC.
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by scholia 11y ago
Sky encrypts its content, and its subscriptions are certainly enforced by the whole legal system. Try forging some Sky cards or even using a personal account in a public setting, such as a pub, and you may well find out....
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by scholia 11y ago
Sure, just like nobody is writing games for the locked down Apple Store....
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by scholia 11y ago
Newspapers and magazines, for example, had multiple income streams, but as the cost of printing newspapers climbed, an increasing percentage of the cost shifted onto advertising. Many reached the point where it made more sense to give the p
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by scholia 11y ago
Ads have been funding content for centuries, and that includes newspapers, magazines, radio and TV. In most cases, people have never had to pay the full cost of producing the content they consume, which may well have resulted in them underv
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by scholia 11y ago
Microsoft could do a million things, but speculation doesn't get you very far. In general, it's better to have some actual facts to go on. One of the actual facts in this case is that Microsoft makes the vast majority of its inc
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by scholia 11y ago
Their choice: they could do either, neither, or both. Presumably Tim Sweeney wants to do UWP or he wouldn't be making such a fuss about it.... Maybe some developers will think it's a good thing if Steam has some competition?
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by scholia 11y ago
True, but Windows 10 has more than 200 million users, which makes it bigger than all versions of Mac OS X and Linux combined. The US DoD has already started to move 4 million users to Windows 10, which is a good sign. Most businesses will b
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by scholia 11y ago
Exactly right. It actually does cost more to make and sell a non-Windows PC. You have extra work to install and validate the different OS for hardware and drivers, plus extra stock-keeping, accounting and distribution costs, and then extra
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by scholia 11y ago
> How long before the windows store becomes the principle method to get apps on your desktop? How long before the [Windows Store] UWP becomes the principle method to get Microsoft Office and Visual Studio, Adobe Photoshop and Premiere,
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by scholia 11y ago
Who says so?
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by scholia 11y ago
In that case, they can write to the traditional Win32 API, just like Microsoft, Adobe, IBM and almost everybody else. There's nothing stopping them.
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by scholia 11y ago
> He is angry that the status quo of having an actively supported open Windows platform is being threatened. He is fighting against losing that. Except that, at this point, there's no evidence that it's being threatened. Micr
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by scholia 11y ago
Yeah, obviously Microsoft is planning to lock out Microsoft Office, all its business apps, and all its server apps... /s
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by scholia 11y ago
Except the point of UWP is to create safely-sandboxed apps that will run on Windows PCs, tablets, smartphones and Xbox One games consoles, so it insulates the software from the hardware. Good luck if the success of your game requires tweaki
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by scholia 11y ago
> Bottom line, if you don't like it, don't use windows. > Or if you use windows because it has value to you, you > have to play by MS rule or hack around. Like with cars. UWP apps are written to use the Windows Runtime A
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by scholia 11y ago
The original video interview and story is at Shacknews: http://www.shacknews.com/article/93547/oculus-palmer-luckey-...
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by scholia 11y ago
Not sure why there's such a concentration on San Francisco: it's a much smaller place than London (10m inhabitants). As a Londoner, I've visited tech companies in San Francisco, but also in San Jose, Santa Clara, Palo Alto, M
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by scholia 11y ago
The thing being that if you rent out somewhere for film or photography -- even if it's just a home or garden -- then you make a lot more money than if it's just for somewhere to stay. (Source: I used to be in the photography indus
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by scholia 11y ago
Corny but he nailed it....
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by scholia 11y ago
Windows runs on everything from USB thumbdrivess to supercomputers. Windows 10 also runs on phones and games consoles. The IoT version runs on the Raspberry Pi etc. I'm not sure how many of those I'd want to count, but Windows 10
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by scholia 11y ago
Not bought in, I think.... "OneNote started as an email exchange between myself and Steven Sinofsky, the Senior VP for Office, Nov 27, 2000." http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chris_pratley/archive/2004/0
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by scholia 11y ago
It's actually after 15 or more years of generally good behaviour. After the anti-trust case, Microsoft spent a decade under the close supervision of the US DoJ, as well as the supervision of the EU (with an eye to imposing large fines
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by scholia 11y ago
IDC PC numbers are depressed partly because it doesn't count tablets/2-in-1s as PCs, it counts them as tablets. The story to which you link notes that "The impact for 2016 will be larger as detachable tablet volume grows, boo
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by scholia 11y ago
Agreed, and that is exactly what he does: the foundation has an annual Fail Fest to try to learn from its mistakes. The website says: "Some of the projects we fund will fail. We not only accept that, we expect it — because we think an
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by scholia 11y ago
Gates doesn't govern any countries and he's not in charge of any global policies. Also, he is not superman and he doesn't have infinite resources. He's just trying to find niches where a rich geek can make a difference.
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by scholia 11y ago
Google regularly uses its near-monopoly in search to try to drive people to other Google products. This includes advertising Chrome on its search page if you are foolish enough to visit from another browser. The Foundem case is a well-docum

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