tanzam75

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by tanzam75 12y ago
> Both Microsoft and Google should offer small businesses packaged services where you bring your own internet service, then buy telephone plus email using your own domain name from them for a flat fee. Microsoft is focusing on the ente
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by tanzam75 12y ago
99.52% of votes were cast in favor of the Microsoft acquisition at Nokia's Extraordinary General Meeting on November 19, 2013. But that's not what makes this a friendly takeover, because shareholders also have to approve hostile t
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by tanzam75 12y ago
SQL CE is no longer under active development. Most Microsoft tools that need an embedded engine use ESE(Jet Blue), which is bundled with Windows. For third-party desktop developers, the replacement is SQL Express LocalDB. For WinRT develop
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by tanzam75 12y ago
> However it bugs you constantly to do it and all the save dialogs in Office 2013+ promote saving to "The Cloud". It's terribly irritating. File - Options, Save, Save to Computer by default.
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by tanzam75 12y ago
> Please don't say "market cap" when you mean revenue or market share. (Market capitalization of a stock is the number of shares of the stock multiplied by the price per share.) And please don't downvote without fis
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by tanzam75 12y ago
As TI phrased it in their press release back in 2012, they were focusing on "embedded" instead of "mobile." The way I understood it was that this covered everything mobile: not just phones, but also tablets. In any case
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by tanzam75 12y ago
Intel's position in CPUs is analogous to Apple's position in phones: Less than 15% of the units, but over 50% of the profit. ARM is a commodity market. Nvidia makes its money on GPUs and runs Tegra at a loss. ARM has a huge mark
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by tanzam75 12y ago
Latest figures from February 2014, http://www.tvb.org/research/media_comparisons/4729/72512 Wired cable 58.3% ADS 31.9% OTA 10.3% Satellite is counted in ADS, Alternate Delive
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by tanzam75 13y ago
What's bizarre is that it's easier to create a .NET program that runs on every supported version of Windows without having to worry about installing the prerequisites. Simply compile to .NET 3.0. You can do this even on Visual St
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> This allows programs should have failed epically to run flawlessly on everything from Windows 95 to Windows 7. The "upgrade through every version of Windows" videos show Reversi and MS-DOS Executive running on Windows 8. Y
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> For Office 365 you actually have to change your nameservers over to Microsoft and they handle your DNS. No, you don't. That is just an option. The other option is to use a third-party nameserver. See: http://technet
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by tanzam75 13y ago
It's a real shame that Microsoft dropped it on the floor, because Outlook.com itself is very nice. I even prefer it to Exchange, because it syncs better with Outlook. Outlook connects to Outlook.com using Exchange ActiveSync, a push p
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by tanzam75 13y ago
What happened was that most third-party developers refused to use WinJS, and stuck with XAML: http://www.zdnet.com/windows-8-developers-are-shunning-winjs...
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by tanzam75 13y ago
It's funny you mention Freedom Fries. The top four spacefaring countries in the world are Russia, the US, China, and France. It is already illegal for NASA to have any bilateral contact with the Chinese. And now NASA is cutting ties w
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> The far more interesting possibility is that the data suggested that they do what they did, but that the data was wrong. New Coke scored better than Pepsi in blind taste tests, yet New Coke was a sales disaster. Pepsi scored better
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by tanzam75 13y ago
As the underdog competing against ESX, Microsoft had to make it easy for businesses to adopt Hyper-V. By hooking up Hyper-V to the Windows management OS, they get to leverage Windows device drivers. And this, in turn, ensures broader hardw
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by tanzam75 13y ago
Yes, Azure VMs run on top of Hyper-V. Which means that the physical machine must reboot after every Hyper-V update. However, each physical machine also runs an Azure Host Agent, which runs on top of Windows Server Core. While the use of
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by tanzam75 13y ago
No. None of that $590 million came from the sale of Alibaba shares, as the Alibaba sale took place in 2012, not in 2013. In addition, $590 million is not Yahoo's net income, but their pretax income from operations . In other words,
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by tanzam75 13y ago
All Metro apps are launched in a hosting process. Thus, the Soluto software would simply look for that particular process EXE to determine if Metro apps are launched. However, most OS features do not trigger a new hosting process. For exa
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by tanzam75 13y ago
Microsoft Office is broadly used throughout the business world. Adobe sells to an industry niche of creative professionals. That's a substantially different situation. A lot more computers have Word installed than Photoshop.
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by tanzam75 13y ago
It's a port of Paint.net 3.3.6 from .NET to Mono. Paint.net used to be MIT-licensed, and 3.3.6 was the last version that was released open-source. Besides, the UI in Paint.net 4.0 has been rewritten to use WPF. That makes it essentia
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by tanzam75 13y ago
Today's featurephones have GPS, navigation, mail, IM, sometimes even installable apps. In 2006, we would have considered them smartphones. If you read my original post, you will notice that I focus on the mobile broadband connection a
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by tanzam75 13y ago
Thanks for the tip. I finally found the link to Advanced Search. It's off the Settings menu. I could swear it used to be right there next to the Search button ... I guess I've just been using memorized operators on Google, and h
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by tanzam75 13y ago
Thanks for doing the search. As for: > 4,588,074 - Holder for storing and supporting articles ... Yes, if I understand it correctly, Microsoft's first patent At one point, Microsoft Press was a big player in the publishing market.
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> Under Windows, including the most recent versions, you can get repeatable results for procedures that involve peripherals only if you disconnect them all, then reconnect them in the same order each and every time. Why? Drive letters.
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I doubt it. I mean, Adobe also released the source code for an old version of Photoshop. So old that it didn't even have layers. It didn't signal anything about the release of source code for say, Flash Player. And look at which
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by tanzam75 13y ago
As I stated: > Traffic data was broadcast over FM radio, and eventually mass-transit data might've been broadcast as well. It's a natural broadcasting application. You really don't need point-to-point. Eventually when
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by tanzam75 13y ago
The only VC with an investment in Microsoft was David Marquardt's Technology Venture Investors. At the IPO, TVI owned 6.1% of Microsoft. The remaining 93.9% belonged to the founders, the Board, the employees, and friends and family.
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They have the x86 assembly code. What they don't have are the comments.
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by tanzam75 13y ago
Right, any patents from 1983 and 1991 have expired. Besides which, I don't think Microsoft had any patents in 1983. P.S. Google Patents is useless for answering this question. "Referenced by" is included in the search, so a

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