Re: "Wonderful PCs"?
I agree with this to a certain extent but I have little sympathy with people who spend that much on something without researching it properly.
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I'll give you that one. Though I have never used Mac OS X so can't speak for its security model I have spent quite a lot of time using BSD and can't argue that it was way ahead of Windows (and even Linux, at least up to a few years ago) when it came to security.
That said the Mac OS X and Unix (This was originally a Unix backdoor) security methods didn't seem to help in this instance, that may be more down to user error though.
Never used Hyper-V myself but as I understand Microsoft's marketing material there are two options, run Hyper-V as a part of Windows Server or get a minimal standalone version of it without all the bells and whistles.
To cite said marketing material: "Either as a stand-alone product or an integrated part of Windows Server, Hyper-V is the leading virtualization platform for today and the transformational opportunity with cloud computing. "
I wonder how many different ways of telling the time a person will have on them if/when wearable computing becomes mainstream.
"The time you say? Well certainly sir, would that be phone time, iWatch time, or augmented reality glasses time? If you have a moment I can drop my trousers and a sundial will be projected from my arse"
Reading some of the comments on this article is making me cringe. Is this the same tech site where we all come together to bash lawyers/corps that file patents for everything and that accuse everyone else of copying? Now a company can't even change its release system, something that hardly affects features, without getting accused of copying someone else.
I am aware that it is considered that Apple make 'cool products' but has it got to the stage where Apple have made accusations of copying a cool way for fans of company <x> to bash company <y>?
And Linux/FOSS types, one of the concepts FOSS was founded on was the idea of adaptability and alternatives, not to mention that quite a few ideas in the area of Linux desktops have been taken from Windows over the years. You can have your open principles for all providing they are for all.
If something a company puts out is an exact feature for feature replica then that's fine, yell at them, but having a go for a change of release model is just petty as hell.