Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 25th Oct 2012 20:50 UTC
"Microsoft today announced the global availability of its popular Windows operating system, Windows 8. Beginning Friday, Oct. 26, consumers and businesses worldwide will be able to experience all that Windows 8 has to offer, including a beautiful new user interface and a wide range of applications with the grand opening of the Windows Store." I'm still not clear on what '12:01 AM local time' means, but if it means it goes on sale in every country on 12:01 AM, I'll be buying in a bit over an hour!
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RE[4]: Comment by YEPHENAS
by bassbeast on Sun 28th Oct 2012 02:59
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What's he gonna do, chisel the articles on stone? I hate to break the news to ya but we are down to 3 megacorps and they ALL suck. You have Apple and the Walled garden, MSFT under Ballmer trying to be an Ersatz Apple, and Google is in bed with the NSA and want to know what you had for breakfast.
And PLEASE don't start with the "just use Linux!" meme as many of us have better things to do with our time off than Google for fixes because some dev got an itch and boned an entire subsystem. Hell if anything Linux is WORSE than it was 5 years ago, now you got Pulse falling down, wireless is like a bad joke, and just when gnome 2 and KDE were getting really rock solid and stable the devs went "Oh no, things am stable and people am happy! Quick bizarro devs, we must throw out all the good code and make things crashy again! That will make am miserable!"...sigh.
Hell even Canonical has sold everyone out to Amazon, although frankly i'm betting they'll still not get enough revenue to keep the doors open past 2 years...so you got Apple, MSFT and Google, and only Apple and MSFT in the desktop/laptop space...pick your poison, its 6 of one and half a dozen of the other.
RE[5]: Comment by YEPHENAS
by Soulbender on Sun 28th Oct 2012 05:26
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Member since:2005-08-18
What's he gonna do, chisel the articles on stone?
He's been doing that just fine up until now without Windows 8.
Besides, Thom is clearly competent enough to use an alternative OS to post articles, if he should so desire.
many of us have better things to do with our time off than Google for fixes
Yeah, I got tired of that and stopped using Windows...
[...snip same old tired rants that got old a long time ago...]
pick your poison, its 6 of one and half a dozen of the other
I already picked mine and it's neither.
RE[5]: Comment by YEPHENAS
by zima on Tue 30th Oct 2012 02:51
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Member since:2005-07-06
I hate to break the news to ya but we are down to 3 megacorps and they ALL suck. [...] Google is in bed with the NSA and want to know what you had for breakfast.
Makes you wonder when will we have it like in Syndicate or Syndicate Wars? ...and is that why Google wants augmented glasses, soon implants? (vide intro screenshots in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicate_Wars#Plot )
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/24/13 17:26 UTC
So, the Xbox One disaster continues. Microsoft's policy for dealing with the used games market has reportedly leaked - and it's a clear and direct attack to destroy the used games market. Prices for used games will be set at the retail value of a new game, and retailers have to hook into Microsoft's computer systems and comply with Microsoft's terms and conditions.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 21:38 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/29/13 21:06 UTC
Oh multitasking. That staple of computing that got thrown out the window with many modern smartphones. We got some rudimentary thing in its place - but even as multitasking on phone and tablets improves, its user-visible side remains cumbersome. Windows 8 has a neat implementation, and now it's time Android follows in it footsteps.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/24/13 22:24 UTC
They're here! Whether that excites you or not remains to be seen, but the Galaxy S4, which will most likely become the best selling Android smartphone of the year by a huge margin, has been reviewed by all the major sites, and there's lots of interesting conclusions in there - although I think most of you will get the gist.More Features »
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I think it's called "having integrity" when you actually do what you say.