interesting, win10 during setup tells you “create a super memorable password”, doesn’t tell “create a super unbrutforcable password” or something more security oriented. because super memorable is an alias to easily breakable, right? probably. (:
#microsoft #security #password #windows10 #usability #privacy
apparently today software in order to be competitive, must be not only good, but also free and / or open.
software for software developers.
microsoft and apple probably got wind of that, and opening c# and swift compilers followed.
however, developers differ from the “regular user” and they let’s say developed and obtained more needs than they realized ten years ago.
will come a day, when this “regular user” will have a need to use free and/or open software, therefore software producers in order to be more competitive will have to free/open their software? i don’t know. i don’t know.
i don’t know.
#free-software #free_software #need #market #economy #competition #c_sharp #swift #microsoft #apple #freedom
how microsoft banned third party language compilers.
We are very keen on supporting WinRT with native Delphi & C++ code. Right now, the issues surrounding the WinRT space center around the fact that many OS-supplied APIs which are required by anyone implementing their own language RTL are actually off-limits unless you’re the VC++ RTL DLL. You know, little things like RtlUnwind for exception processing and VirtualAlloc (et. al.) for memory management… Any calls to those APIs from your application will automatically disqualify your application from being an “official” WinRT application capable of delivering through the MS app store.
when I read something like this, or even “how to pay to apple, get keys, and become an officially approved developer”, I have a strong desire to never participate windows/macos/ios development and I feel the freedom I have on GNU+Linux/BSDs, etecetra.
#microsoft #compilers #delphi #embarcadero #winrt #api #programming
this is both amazing and frightenful.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aThCr0PsyuA
#microsoft #hololens #holograms #technology
this was back ~10 years ago, at the Microsoft event, where they were basically stating that years of freebie passed, and we have to buy officially licensed Windows copies. As an answer to those, who were whining that Armenia is a poor country, and may it be they can sell licenses cheaper, a guy from M$ answered:
— you buy cars, right? why do you agree to pay for cars, but not for software.
Then there was a voice from auditory.
— can you sell us second hand copies of 15 years old windows installers?
#microsoft #windows #proprietary_software #software #armenia
apparently, it is possible to copy file in one remote windows terminal (rdp) and paste it to other. amazing.
#microsoft #windows #rdp #apparently
Why I’m Saying Goodbye to Apple, Google and Microsoft
I’m putting more trust in communities than corporations
https://medium.com/backchannel/why-i-m-saying-goodbye-to-apple-google-and-microsoft-78af12071bd
via @{dolphin ; dolphin@spyurk.am}
#apple #google #microsoft #gnu #linux #cyanogenmod #free-software #freedom #software #communities #corporations
Create your own Version of Microsoft BASIC for 6502 http://www.pagetable.com/?p=46
#microsoft #basic #6502 #retro-computing #retro #cc65 #programming
You don’t damage what you want to sell, you make it attractive before you sell it.
#tomi-ahonen #nokia #microsoft #stock
The Full Story of #Nokia and #Microsoft - How we got here, and why Microsoft will fail with Nokia handsets just like it did with Kin http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2013/09/the-full-story-of-nokia-and-microsoft-how-we-got-here-and-why-microsoft-will-fail-with-nokia-handset.html
Ok the news is out. I told you literally two years ago, that the Windows Phone strategy would be the death of Nokia’s handset business, and today we have the final nail in that coffin. I honestly, truly with my hand on my heart, hoped this day would never come, and that my prediction would be seen as wrong. But unfortunately I was correct (once again). I do tend to know this industry. And I was the first to tell you, on this blog, that Nokia’s handset business just died. I told you when it happend, and more importantly, I told you why it died. It didn’t die with the crazy Burning Platforms memo, nor with the announcement of Microsoft Windows Phone either. So this is my (first) full epitaph to Nokia. And we have to have a bit of history. (Long blog warning - this runs 12,000 words, so get yourself a cup of coffee, this will take about half an hour
#mobile #phone #smartphone #elop #elop-effect #tomi #tomi-ahonen #communities #brands #handset #maemo #symbian #meego #lumia #windows #intel #fremantle #n900 #n9 #n950 #iphone #apple #samsung #internet #operating-systems
Delta Gives Windows Phones To 19,000 Flight Attendants, Brings Number Of Windows Phone Users To 19,003
#windows #phone #delta #windows-phone #microsoft #smartphone #device #mobile
Any sane CEO would look at the disasterous Windows Phone failure in the market - come on, before this alliance, Windows has 5% market share in smartphones, now ‘with Nokia’ it has 3%. This after Nokia has sacrificed 31% of its smartphone market share on Symbian and Maemo/MeeGo
#windows #nokia #market #smartphones #microsoft #elop #ballmer #maemo #meego #linux #gnu #economics
Old #paper, but I like it. #Bruce-Perens: Analyzing #Microsoft ’s #TomTom #Lawsuit
#software-patents
I don’t like when the word #folder is used. As far as I remember we had no #folders before #microsoft #windows. We had #directory structure and #directories.
Why do we keep calling directories folders?
Also, I feel that it does not make deep sense even for a native #english speaker. Why folder? I can understand #file and #directory of files. #terminology
No. I worry because there is open and #free source like #GPL, and then there’s open but a little less freer #CDDL, for example. It might be handy to know how tight the chains are held on their #proprietary or not-so-proprietary code. We saw how wonderfully CDDL worked for the #ZFS and the related lawsuits. I don’t see how simply being #OSD - compliant should be enough for me to prostrate myself at the alter of #open-source software, especially with the likes of even #Microsoft, #Oracle and others buzzing around trying to find ways to cleverly call something open while slipping in a poison pill if you do your own thing in the open. http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=962391&postcount=33
I personally have no problem with the whole #Apple #patents brouhaha. Steve #Jobs did a miraculous job on "dumbing-down" the smart #phone, to the point where it now has no buttons at all, and the only thing the user can do is finger-paint on it. The #touchscreen may seem like a cool approach to a user interface, but it also subtly locks the user into being merely a #consumer of information, never a #producer. The rest of the #cell phone #industry has blindly rushed down the rabbit hole right behind Apple. The jury really was right -- the whole world now is filled with iPhones and #iPhone wannabes. These corporations needed a good smack in the side of the head to remind them that Apple's way is not the only possible way to design products. Stuff like pinch-to-zoom is popular because Apple made it popular, not because it is necessarily the best way to do things. Right now, I don't see _anyone_ trying to actually compete with Apple. The default response seems to be what #Nokia did -- just give up, dump your entire internal R&D department, and license the latest #iOS clone from #Microsoft or #Google. Maybe if Apple wins enough patent cases, somebody will get the hint and go back to designing a device that isn't an iPhone
#update #windows #mac #microsoft #apple #linux #gnu #updates #os