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by scholia 12y ago
True. Well, some of us had that experience with NT 4.0 ;-)
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by scholia 12y ago
At some points, Microsoft had two teams working on different versions of IE, in order to leapfrog Netscape. The extra team developed the "componentized" version where the browser was built from re-usable objects, where Netscape&#x
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by scholia 12y ago
See my comment above https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9029208 It's simply not true that IE wasn't adhering to standards, or had an "anti-standards stance". It is true that IE6 didn't support sta
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by scholia 12y ago
Was that the "lost decade" when we got LinkedIn, Skype, Second Life, MySpace, Flickr, Facebook, Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube, Pandora, Twitter and many of the other things on which we now depend?
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by scholia 12y ago
I switched back to Firefox 18 months ago because Chrome was crashy and consumed too many resources. But you're right, switching from Adblock Edge to µBlock saved more RAM ;)
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by scholia 12y ago
> a reaction to Microsoft's refusal to use the web > standards that every other major browser supported Take your points, but in fact, Microsoft didn't refuse to support web standards. IE6 was more standards-compliant than
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by scholia 12y ago
Exactly right. The big difference is that IE6 was a very old and limited browser -- in fact, Microsoft didn't want people to use it either. It's not the same as blocking a current and very capable browser. UPDATE: Update 9:05 a.m.
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by scholia 12y ago
It's annoying as hell because Google promotes "freshness" over quality. You can get a very high position in Google by knocking off someone else's tech news story while removing half the facts and adding nothing of any co
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by scholia 12y ago
Hmm, if you're using standard Android (not jailbroken) then Google is already tracking you much more comprehensively than Facebook.
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by scholia 12y ago
Since the whole purpose of Facebook is to enable people to share things with their friends, you'd have to be phenomenally stupid to use it to store things you want to keep private.
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by scholia 12y ago
How would you like Facebook to use this data? Perhaps it should report miscreants to their local school, church or police force? Google tracks everyone everywhere as well. Should it do the same?
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by scholia 12y ago
Which is normal on today's web, which as Bruce Schneier says, is a surveillance-based economy....
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by scholia 12y ago
You should read some of the other comments here. A lot of us have spent half a decade enjoying the massive improvements brought by the ribbon, and it's quite surprising there are still a few, er, very late adopters.
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by scholia 12y ago
Some businesses use Microsoft Office for business processes that go far beyond Mail-Merge, but are essentially unknown to people who don't work for large corporations. Have a look at the half-dozen Microsoft Office programs you've
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by scholia 12y ago
Do you also struggle with tabbed web pages and toolbars? If you can't use either of those, then I agree, you will have problems with the ribbon. If you can use both of those -- and I'm certain you can -- then I don't see why
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by scholia 12y ago
I'd love to have answers to the same questions, but it will vary a lot according to what is being done and who is doing it. If you're just typing simple text documents, the current Word is not going to save a massive amount of tim
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by scholia 12y ago
Classic software worked just fine, in its day. I can still remember most of the classic WordStar commands. ;-) The celebrations come when there are significant improvements, and there have been plenty of those. The (web-inspired) tabbed Off
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by scholia 12y ago
Indeed, I think it's been collapsed by default for some time...
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by scholia 12y ago
Sure, but that's why you keep it closed almost all the time. For practical purposes, the ribbon takes up less space than the header on Notepad. I've added my most used Word functions to the quick access bar, and some features are
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by scholia 12y ago
Billionaires have enough money that they probably don't have to worry about money. Millionaires are mostly pretty ordinary people, except they own a house and have a job and a pension fund. Many of them are "asset rich, cash poor&
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by scholia 12y ago
So simple statements of fact get downvoted? HN aspires to be Reddit ;-)
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by scholia 12y ago
True, but when I uninstalled Adblock Edge, I gained almost a gigabyte of memory in Firefox. (I'm now using Ghostery to block ads. It isn't as effective but I'd rather reduce the memory footprint.)
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by scholia 12y ago
Ghostrank is easily disabled, but it's off by default so you don't need to....
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by scholia 12y ago
It seems that, when it comes to modern software offices, appearance is much more important than functionality. Makes me wonder how far that's true of their software as well ;-)
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by scholia 12y ago
I wonder how big the gap is now. It would be interesting to see some benchmarks comparing Windows 8.1 with Bing (where the 32-bit version runs in 1GB) with an equivalent full-spec Linux.
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by scholia 12y ago
PogoPlug and CloudPlug go back to 2009....
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by scholia 12y ago
You're not actually disagreeing with me. I didn't say anything against cloud services, only that they could be set up to benefit users rather than suppliers. However, if people are too lame-brained to look after their own data, th
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by scholia 12y ago
Your link does not go to a Guardian article, it goes to a Press Association (PA) article published on the Guardian's website, and on thousands of newspaper websites.
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by scholia 12y ago
If you buy one of those $69-$99 Windows 8.1 tablets with Bing, you'll find some programs save to OneDrive by default. Once you've logged in, it's basically a transparent part of the file system.
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by scholia 12y ago
There was a backstory. Janet Reno's DoJ forced Microsoft to sign a consent decree that forbade them from tieing products to Windows but allowed them to add functionality to Windows. Therefore, IE had to be a feature of Windows not a se

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