* Posts by prowla

2 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Apr 2016

NYPD head of IT doubles down on Windows smartphone idiocy

prowla

My previous employer decided to roll out Lumia Windows phones across the board; they were just horrible and didn't work very well; a number of people, including myself, solved the problem by personally acquiring iPhones and putting the company SIM in them - sorted!

Ironically, the legacy of Windows phone is that we now have a phone UI on our desktop PCs, even though the phone itself which it was designed for is gone.

Windows 10 with Ubuntu now in public preview

prowla

Will it be possible to run the Ubuntu GUI instead of the Windows one?