Posts by Mikel

All together now...

Embrace...

Bah

I am coming to the conclusion that if you choose Windows at this point then this is what you chose. You earned it, you are entitled to it, you deserve it and are welcome to it.

Clearly they don't care.

Zombie PC OEMs

Foraging for profits where there never was any. Why don't they put their capital to use in a place where there is some hope? I hear there are several mobile thingies where profits are to be had.

That's huge

>We understand Dell shipped 3.6 petabytes of data, more than NetApp, IBM and Hitachi combined (3.05 PBs).

3.6PB? That's like what, eight Storinators. With Drives, a total of $360,000 plus shipping. For the whole quarter. I am pretty sure Netflix and Backblaze each add more storage than that in a month.

Did the author lose some digits somewhere? Is this just for London?

Is it time to give up Windows yet?

Everyone has to hit their personal limit of how much of this they will tolerate before they will install Linux or get a Mac.

Blaming China

It is not the fault of the government of China that the American government has so much high value data, and "secures" it with Windows. We might as well leave our wealth on the lawn with a sign requesting the burglars feed the cat while we're away on holiday.

Windows isn't done until [x] won't run

The joy of being a Windows developer is that if you are successful, Microsoft will modify Windows so it won't run, and then steal your users with their clone app.

Cancel Christmas again

No end in sight.

An OS people don't want, or an OS people don't want

The choice is clear: No. Just... No.

It is none of your business what their computer is doing behind the scenes

Be grateful they let you use it at all.

Tobacco taxes are addictive

I hear they are harder to kick than heroin.

It is difficult

It is difficult to overestimate the acts of stupidity average people are capable of.

Whose PC again?

Apparently if you run their OS they can tell you what programs you can use, what music and videos you can store and play, what devices you can plug into it. They can change the OS features with an update at any time. All the info in it belongs to them to monitor, audit, copy, delete or share. So it isn't your PC. It's theirs.

The last Windows ever

Let us hope they keep their promise.

Redmond's not been super-responsive of late.

I imagine they will be very busy for the next few years.

Speculation

What if Microsoft released a new Windows, and nobody cared?

It puts Cortana in the box

It puts Cortana in the box or else it gets the hose again.

Misread that

"How is Microsoft dying?"

Radio is so 20th century

They want lasers

So buy your Nexus from Google

Build LMY48I. My Nexus 5 is already patched OTA. Problem solved.

Make that

Oracle's former CSO.

Shopping list

Lilies for Uber.

We know how Microsoft partnerships go.

Chrome runs on all the things

Android, Linux, Windows, Mac - Chrome is everywhere. Edge runs only on Windows, therefore it is useless for anybody who also uses something else and wants a consistent browser experience.

A:

No.

Called it

/self takes a bow

The festival of horrors

Mark my words: the cacophony of shrieking that begins on launch day will be heard 'round the world. Failed updates, broken or missing drivers, lost data, broken apps, devices and apps misbehaving inexplicably, critical functions lost, businesses losing productivity during an aborted migration, security problems. Basically the works.

But "Great artists ship".

The Register has asked Cisco for comment

Good luck with that.

Fit

Google is the world's second largest technology company in the world by market cap - after Apple. It is meet that they spend more to educate lawmakers and policy makers. Especially since their chief rival Microsoft spends several times more but launders it through Astroturf consumer and industry advocacy groups who don't report as part of the Microsoft total.

Kali + Adobe + Java

A wonder it didn't collapse into an irony singularity.