Stabilized
>After far too many shifts in direction, it also feels as if Microsoft's overall strategy is now more settled, giving developers more confidence that what they build today will not be wasted.
Until next time. Like all the times before.
Posts by Mikel
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Forget One Windows, Microsoft says it's time to modernize your apps
What's HPE Next? Now it's unemployment for 'thousands' of staff
HPE quits cloud servers, two weeks after telling El Reg it wouldn't do that
Raspberry Pi burning up? Microsoft's recipe can save it and AI
Never mind the WPA2 drama... Details emerge of TPM key cockup that hits tonnes of devices
Tuesday 17th October 2017 05:02 GMT
All your base are belong to us.
>Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin." - John Von Neumann
Current state of trust: not trusted. As it should have been all along.
Between the two it's an all-hours data buffet in hacker land. Now add in the Intel AMT hack, and various others. I assure you that state actors have had access to this stuff for years and now the kids get to play.
You need precisely one compromised device on the corporate network and you own the whole thing. Your medical records? For sale. Your ballot box too. It isn't a question of whether the data is hacked but who first, how many and how often.
So glad I got out of the biz. It's a mess.
Elon Musk says Harry Potter and Bob the Builder will get SpaceX flying to Mars
It's Patch Blues-day: Bad October Windows updates trigger BSODs
How many times can Microsoft kill Mobile?
Tuesday 10th October 2017 07:45 GMT
Osborne Maneuver
"Perhaps instead of reiterating that W10M is a dead end, Microsoft could show what follows? It clearly doesn't feel ready to do that just yet. "
Two things:
1)Non disparagement clauses in contracts are enforceable, and pretty much are mandatory when you're trying to sell a partner on sinking their own treasure into your platform.
2)After Elop's excellent job crushing Nokia's potential, the Osborne Maneuver is front of mind. This is where you tell your customer that he would be stupid to buy your product becquse it's obsolete, while standing in a warehouse full of said obsolete product that you desperately need to sell.
Moon trumps Mars in new US space policy
Monday 9th October 2017 08:33 GMT
Am I right?
No. You can simulate gravity using spinning just fine. Just like we do on Earth for high-g pilot training and, of course, centrifuge for various purposes.
As for sheltered habitat, the moon has capacious lava tubes available with ample space for a million inhabitants or more, and these likely have water ice in them.
Musk isn't interested in the moon because a) people have already been there and b) it's not far enough to be safe from various doomsday scenarios (comet, asteroid, plague, a Trump dynasty).
Microsoft silently fixes security holes in Windows 10 – dumps Win 7, 8 out in the cold
HP Inc exec: Yes, we'll put a bullet in the X3 device
Oath-my-God: THREE! BILLION! Yahoo! accounts! hacked! in! 2013! – not! 'just!' 1bn!
The axeman strikes again: Microsoft has real commitment issues
At last, someone's taking Apple to task for, uh, not turning on iPhone FM radio chips
Bless their hearts: Democrats want $40bn to spruce up America's bumpkin broadband
Brit chip design company Imagination Tech sold to China-linked private equity
iPhone 8: Apple has CPU cycles to burn
Fresh chips from Intel (yay?) at 14nm (awww)
Bing fling sting: Apple dumps Microsoft search engine for Google
CCleaner targeted top tech companies in attempt to lift IP
Downloaded CCleaner lately? Oo, awks... it was stuffed with malware
Tuesday 19th September 2017 08:12 GMT
Re: Meanwhile ...
Android and iOS have app isolation. That means an app scanner app could not possibly work because it can't access the other apps, nor the system. At most it can scan downloads.
If you're habituated to Windows so badly that it's inconceivable to operate a non-Windows mobile device without third party protection from the Windows design flaws it doesn't have, the Android app you didn't need can use whatever permissions you gave it to not fullfil its advertised purpose. It would follow then that you gave it all of them.
Unloved Microsoft Edge is much improved – but will anyone use it?
Another month, another malware outbreak in Google's Play Store
Servers sales are up. Nope, you read that right
Memo to Microsoft: Keeping your promises is probably a good idea
PC sales to fall and fall and fall and fall and fall for the next five years
Monday 28th August 2017 03:01 GMT
Re: Astrology
Gartner and IDC have been OVER estimating future PC sales for a decade. You're right that they're always wrong, but they're uniformly wrong on the high side. That makes your prediction that this time they will reverse the polarity of their reality distortion field and err in the opposite direction quite hilarious. There is absolutely no reason to belive next year is any different from the ten before it in this regard.
New MH370 analysis again suggests plane came down outside search area
Largest ever losses fail to dent Tesla's bulging order book
Intel loves the maker community so much it just axed its Arduino, Curie hardware. Ouch
Wednesday 26th July 2017 18:24 GMT
Re: cheap arse DIYs
>ARM don't sell any devices and cut-throat competition means making money isn't easy for their many licensees.
ARM commoditized their technology, which makes it more widely available cheaper and in greater variety.
Water is a commodity. I can buy 47 different kinds of it at the corner gas station - mostly paying more for water than the gasoline from the pump outside. This despite the fact that at home I buy it by the acre-foot. Neither the water vendors nor the retailer are in danger of going out of business.
Commoditization is not death.
Why can't you install Windows 10 Creators Update on your old Atom netbook? Because Intel stopped loving you
Thursday 20th July 2017 17:08 GMT
My first guess
Intel included PowerVR GPUs and hardware codecs sourced from Imagination Technologies (IT) in these chips. Ever proprietary and secretive, Microsoft and Intel probably don't have either the IP nor the necessary code to provide the updates. IT is now on the rocks after Apple decided they don't want to deal with this BS any more and yanked it from the iPhone and iPad.
Linux drivers were always reverse engineered, don't have proprietary IP and so, will continue to work. The same criticism about these drivers originally (lack of mfr secrets limit performance) now becomes a strength.
Long story short: lack of foresight.
Wikibon drops bomb, says Intel's Optane could be a flop...tane
Tuesday 11th July 2017 06:38 GMT
A terabyte of XPoint will be as big as a toaster and almost as hot. They've got about six generations of package shrinking to catch up on density with flash at the package level. Also that much will cost as much as a small house.
It's just not worth it yet for mainstream datacenter use. Maybe in a few years it will be worth checking on their progress. If it hasn't been cancelled yet.
Trump backs off idea for joint US/Russian 'impenetrable Cyber Security unit'
Monday 10th July 2017 06:34 GMT
The horror. The shame.
It will be over soon my friends. Perhaps in a few years we can pretend it never happened.
In the meantime, before you get all hateful about our indiscretion in allowing this fool to be elected, let's not go there. You've had your share of losers (Cough, John, cough). Nobody's perfect.
Web inventor Sir Tim sizes up handcuffs for his creation – and world has 2 weeks to appeal
Saturday 8th July 2017 09:22 GMT
Sir Tim is 62
A bit young to have reached his dotage, but it's a normal distribution curve and outliers happen.
On the question of DRM I have little to say except that no such scheme has been successful ever, and any attempt can be nought but snake oil sold to rights holders who demand the finest copperhead lube.
The analog hole still exists, and it cannot be closed. The chain of custody problem cannot be closed, and frankly - rightsholders don't want it to be: they count on it for word of mouth.
The whole evolution is sick now. I don't take my kids to the theater to watch the latest movies now. They've ruined it for us.
Payroll glitch at DXC leaves former staff in employment limbo
SpaceX halts Intelsat 35e launch twice in a row
Happy 4th of July: Norks tests another missile
NHS WannaCrypt postmortem: Outbreak blamed on lack of accountability
Huge ransomware outbreak spreads in Ukraine and beyond
Intel's Skylake and Kaby Lake CPUs have nasty hyper-threading bug
Lordy! Trump admits there are no tapes of his chats with Comey
In the Epyc center: More Zen server CPU specs, prices sneak out of AMD
Intel: Joule's burned, Edison switched off, and Galileo – Galileo is no more
Tuesday 20th June 2017 07:36 GMT
Watts and price
These are two big factors.
Platform flexibility too. Intel neuters the platform specs to avoid competing with their pricier platforms. ARM devices are, quite simply, engineered to be as capable as possible at the given power and price.
And gpio. HELLO! the iOT things need to do "thing" things.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
