Too little too late
The only people still using Teams are those in big corporates and government bureaucracies that only have one account anyway
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This was a little later - around '95 I think - I was working for a small but multinational company, having one office in the UK and another in the US. We (in the UK) used to have an after-work deathmatch with the US guys while they were on their lunch break using our E1/T1 lines. It seemed absolutely revolutionary at the time.
It's not remote desktop - remote desktop is a legacy technology that was around in the 90's and allowed people to do the kind of things they wanted to do in the 90's. Cloud PC is a completely brand new cutting-edge name for the exact same technology which now enables people to handle today's workloads.
I'd like to think that in a better world it would be possible for a government to be sufficiently IT literate as to realise the impossibility of what they are trying to achieve - there is no simple way to distinguish between the good guys and the bad guys, which is basically what this comes down to.
Unfortunately, considering the twitter "blue tick" fisco it seems that even very IT-savvy organisations aren't immune from the same fallacy.
hmm I guess YMMV.
I had a brother MFC which could use non-branded ink but it used to clean the heads periodically (using up a lot of ink) even if you hadn't turned it on, so it needed a new set of ink cartridges every year even though I hardly used it.
Moved to a Samsung B+W laser 15 years ago which cost £50 to buy + about £1 a year in toner for the amount I print
What I've got from this article (and my experience with it) is that Microsoft have been at the old product renaming game again. much like Skype, "Teams" is the current name for a bunch of unrelated code-bases all to do with instant messaging. They are probably all world-class garbage but I'm damn sure they aren't the same product.
What I'm curious about is whether these people who run Linux on low-end hardware are actually using them to do work or are they just using them to mess around or run IOD-type applications?
I find that once you've got a few copies of VS code and a dozen browser tabs open, the CPU and memory requirements of the OS itself are dwarfed by those of the apps, so the spec of machine you need is pretty much the same for linux as it is with windows
I beleive the point is that if your (scammer/spammer) business model involes signing up for millions of accounts every year then the total amount would become a deterrent.
Someone mooted the idea a few years ago of charging a nominal amount to send an email, but since email is completely decentralised it's difficult to see how that could work
One of the main reasons for Microsoft's continued commercial success is the strategy of giving business users the tools to produce their own software solutions (excel, VBA, SharePoint, PowerApps, Power BI).
Granted this means giving them enough rope to hang themselves and causing a myriad of horrible problems (technical and legal) along the way, but the ability to implement and customize business processes without having to involve the IT department is a killer feature which Microsoft's competitors still don't properly understand.
This is not an IT failing or an Excel failing - it's a management communication failing
It's common sense at the most basic level to ensure that your employees know what they are supposed to be doing before they start a task, and to make sure they have done what you expected at the end.
What clearly happened here is some manager shoved a load of work at some employees without any context or explanation and without any control process to check whether they were doing the right thing.
both the size of the NHS and the use of IT are confounding factors here but management incompetence is at the core.
Just upgraded from 10 to 11 and I only noticed two differences:
1 - rounded window corners which is a huge productivity boost because you can visually tell wherre one window ends and another begins. This alone is enough to make it almost as good as windows 7
2 - taskbar won't go vertical which basically takes the window management experience back to windows 3.1. At the moment I'm using a hack to get back the old taskbar. Not sure what I will do if the hack stops working before vertical taskbar is officially supported
I'm a bit baffled by most of the comments on here - they seem to be based on an underlying assumption that stuff generated by humans is genuine/trustworthy/high quality and what's created by AI is fake/low quality. This is obviously wrong - people have been producing fake/low quality content for years (whether deliberately or by inability) and will continue to do so
Graanted, at the moment a lot of AI output is low quality but in time that will improve and when we get to the point where AI can reliably generate higher quality content than people in a specific area then I'll be happy to switch.
I don't see why we need to distinguish between human vs AI at all. there's a lot of content out there, of varying quality, some generated by people and an increasing amount by machines. It's up to us as consumers to navigate that minefield and select appropriate content to consume. Whether it's produced by a human or a machine or a cominbination will become increasingly irrelevant
For 20 years now it's been relatively painless to install a standard (non-MFP) printer in Windows using MS drivers.
How come installing a scanner or MFP is like going back to the early 90's?
So much faffing around with different versions of custom drivers, bespoke apps and control panels, some devices not working with some apps etc.
I think there's something missing here, what he maybe meant to say was:
If WASM+WASI existed in 2008, and we threw away all the code that had ever been written in the history of computing and rewrote it all in the new environment, we wouldn't have needed to create Docker.
I was once (in the mid-90's) called upon to investigate why our app had stopped working on one of the sales demo PCs. After a short troubleshooting session it was clear there was no database driver installed (informix if you're interested). But the app had been working a few days before. It transpired that the person who originally installed the app decided that the appropriate place to install the database driver was c:\temp which had then subsequently been deleted by someone else in order to free up disk space
For servers, it wouldn't be too much of an exaggeration to say Linux (and therefore Debian) has been a runaway success - as the author points out, FOSS enabled a hitherto unimaginable amount of scalability which is what has made the IT world what it is today
On the desktop unfortunately, the huge number of competing distros and variants on those distros, makes it a baffling and sometimes unreliable experience for many users (and I say that as a veteran of Windows, Mac and Linux who uses Ubuntu every day)
what I'd really like is the ability to see the content of HTTP requests that fail CORS validation. I understand that this is blocked from being passed to the rendering engine and JavaScript code, but it would be useful if I could see it in the console so I can at least try to troubleshoot the problem.
If there was a bot that could direct you to a specific product you're actually looking for in a Tesco gigastore, that would be extremely useful.
I realise conventional wisdom is that the more I have to hunt round to find what I'm looking for, I'm more likely to pick up other stuff I don't want, but in reality I'll probably give up and go to Lidl where there's only 4 aisles
For the past month or so I've been using both bing and google chat seach alongside standard google, but on the whole I'm using it less and less.
If you ask a question where the answer is well known (has multiple sources on the net) and in the public domain, then it's probably better to ask a chat engine than do a standard web search, but for most of my searches I find it will just make up an answer that sounds feasible but is nonsense. I've had it describe in detail which menu options to click, or even spout out complete command lines, which were completely fabricated.
Don't get me wrong, it's certainly possible that in the future, these engines might be capable of solving problems that haven't been solved before but at the moment they're only any good if you're trying to re-hash something that has been done many times before. And if that's what your job involves, you should probably question how much value you're adding.