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by scholia 11y ago
Yes, that was part of the deal. OEMs could choose to design whatever they liked, or choose to exploit a netbook/nettop design package that provided some discounts on Microsoft/Intel technologies. OEMs were not obliged to marke
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by scholia 11y ago
New Atom chips are actually quite fast -- certainly they're much faster than the ones in netbooks. Also, Windows 10 runs quite well in 2GB of RAM, for most ordinary purposes. In my experience, these machines browse faster than Chromebo
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by scholia 11y ago
Microsoft has already launched dozens of apps on Android and iOS, and there are several it has already bought in. That's part of its cross-platform strategy. There's no guarantee that Microsoft won't rename an app, or incorpo
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by scholia 11y ago
We don't know that Microsoft is worse, but we do know that Google's entire business is based on surveillance and personalized advertising, and that it's an insignificant part of Microsoft's business.
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by scholia 11y ago
Except that PC sales grew for the next decade....
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by scholia 11y ago
Though you can get real Windows laptops for less than that.... EDIT: for whoever downvotes simple statements of fact... Lenovo - Ideapad 100s 11.6" Laptop $199.99; HP - Stream 11.6" Laptop $199.99; New! Dell - Inspiron 11.6&qu
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by scholia 11y ago
No, they didn't. In fact, under OEM pressure, Microsoft foolishly prolonged their life by providing support for a next generation of netbooks with Windows 7 Starter. Fact is that that you could get a proper laptop for the same money as
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by scholia 11y ago
> They gave away a free version of windows on it... Not true. It was a low cost version of XP, for which OEMs paid $11 to $15. > ... with heavy restrictions. That's certainly true (as defined by Microsoft and Intel). However,
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by scholia 11y ago
The PC market is 40 years old, so it's a fair bet that, in the developed world, pretty much everyone who wants one has one. The real problem is that a decent PC will now last five years (on average). This means sales of PCs will halve
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by scholia 11y ago
That's really a figment of IDC's decision to count Microsoft Windows tablets and 2-in-1s as tablets when the tablet format is usually more incidental than essential. (1) It also means that IDC's PC industry numbers are also m
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by scholia 11y ago
Except, for example, when Google decides to provide inferior results (ie inferior as determined by Google search), which may still result in anti-trust action in Europe http://focusontheuser.eu/
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by scholia 11y ago
"Asinine mistake that many companies have made" is still different from "deliberately evil Microsoft backdoor/whatever".
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by scholia 11y ago
The profits were down in the GAAP numbers which involved Microsoft deferring $1.9 billion in revenues. In the non-GAAP (traditional) numbers, revenues were down 2 percent but profits up by 8 percent. This is why the shares jumped in after-h
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by scholia 11y ago
> As much fun as it is to carry on the Slashdot tradition and make fun of every bug at MS as indicative of a toxic and stupid culture, maybe that's not entirely appropriate anymore. But betanews wouldn't have very much to wri
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by scholia 11y ago
Sure. You have to start somewhere.
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by scholia 11y ago
Apologies: I didn't think of that. I had no idea what it was either, so I thought I was saving you a search.....
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by scholia 11y ago
Thanks for the link: that's a very thorough review. It says: To begin, from a 24×7 standpoint, the HR values presented are generally accurate when you open the page to view them from within the band. When it does this, it notes that
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by scholia 11y ago
Hm, I just bought a Band 2 and I think it's really good. (I'm using it with an Android phone.)
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by scholia 11y ago
The main point of Windows 10 phones is to have Universal apps that run on the phone, desktop and laptop PCs and games consoles. If Microsoft gets a billion or so Windows 10 users, it could become a very large ecosystem.....
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by scholia 11y ago
Sure, but it's not a replacement for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook or any of the other Office programs. The real question is, if vim cost $100, would you pay or would you use a product you didn't like as much, that wasn't
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by scholia 11y ago
Bad news if his life is as grey as his type....
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by scholia 11y ago
I didn't even know that "banana hammocks" were a thing. Maybe whoever runs bananahammockworld.com reads HN.... http://www.bananahammockworld.com/banana-hammocks-for-men/
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by scholia 11y ago
As Clive James once said, "No amount of careful writing can overcome careless reading" ;-)
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by scholia 11y ago
Let's say someone who earns $50,000 a year uses Office for 5 hours a day while making a living. It's also a purchased copy so it lasts at least 6 years. What's that worth? How does it compare with the cost of, say, one Starbu
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by scholia 11y ago
Yes. First time I flew from London to New York -- when planes still had propellers -- we stopped twice, in Shannon and then Gander.
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by scholia 11y ago
MinecraftEdu -- which Microsoft bought -- was created by teachers, so you'd get some info from its various blog posts at http://minecraftteacher.tumblr.com/ Otherwise, there are lots of articles about teachers using it
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by scholia 11y ago
It depends if there's a demand. How many pupils will benefit if it does? (How many schools have access to Linux or Mac OS X and not to Windows 10?) Against that, how many pupils would benefit from spending that development time -- a
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by scholia 11y ago
> If it were an antiquated view it wouldn't be so popular! I don't know: there's more than enough ignorance around for completely absurd views to be popular. Look at Trump ;-) Microsoft is actually more cross-platform th
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by scholia 11y ago
The Windows 10 version is based on the Pocket Edition. MCPE is written in C++, and is already cross-platform - it runs on smartphones, tablets and games consoles. This doesn't mean the Education Edition will be cross-platform. It does
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by scholia 11y ago
> I chuckled at this: "In schools and colleges that use Office 365, students will be able to log on to Minecraft using their Office credentials." Because everyone things "how can I log into this game? Oh yeah, with my off

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