Not surprising
MS & MS Ofiice have had quite a few years market exposure prior to the provision of Office 365.
Where as the others...
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Computer says "NO".
Office 365 using ODF and other open standards?
End to end SSL across all apps.
A MAC code so one can easily shift to another provider should MS up the ante?
Computer says "Maybe"
Regardless of QoS and the level of service offerings, being locked in to one provider and their proprietary formats should cause concern for any CIO/CFO.
I see your point and the that bill was directed against her estate rather than me personally.
However, we are talking about a company with annual profits in the millions and a debt of £97 and some pennies run up by a private individual who had no savings and was living on a pension, not a business or corporation.
If companies actually employed people and not machines to run their finances and treated their customers as people and not account numbers perhaps we as the consumer would have more respect for them. And, perhaps situations such as this would not arise in the first place. To large corporations we are not people, we are sources of income for some investor/shareholder to whom all this kind of thing is just a game.
I really despair of a capitalist system that does not empathise or understand that customers are more than just numbers on a balance sheet, they are people that feel, bleed and hurt.
building a honeywall using a Raspberry Pi this morning.
Almost every piece of software I install wants to phone home without asking permission or giving any indication in the EULA or documentation that it will do so.
It's been quite a while since a ran a honeywall and honeypots, getting back into it again will be a nice refresher. Something for rainy Sunday afternoons, I expect we will get a lot of them in summer.
I tell my partner the truth, I tell my friends the truth, I tell my bank the truth, I tell the tax man the truth. As for the rest, I fabricate what I think they want to hear.
I am sure nobody believes I was born on the 1st of January 1901. Mind you, if one looks close enough one might be forgiven for thinking so!
Friends are people I know, people I care about, people I trust, people I want to spend time with. Acquaintances are people I sort of know, people I care less for (I might not risk my life for them), people I might eventually trust, people I might have the odd pint with.
What are Facebook "friends" ?
I would be surprised if any IT professional expected anything else.
Windows is an evolution of an inherently insecure operating system. Despite MS claims of Vista being re-written from the ground up it was an evolution of XP. Windows 7 was Vista rebuilt to actually work and Windows 8 is Windows 7 with an added UI.
It is a huge OS, millions of lines of code, I suspect much of it is legacy. I doubt there is much of Windows 3.1 left in there. I expect code from all previous versions beyond 3.1 is in there in varying amounts. If Windows was just an operating system perhaps is could have been made secure but it isn't just an operating system. It is a collection of many useful and useless utilities on top of an operating system.
Microsoft's desire to be a dominant player in areas beyond operating systems... the Internet... Office productivity etc. and their desire to set closed standards in order to make everyone bend to their whim has produced the operating system we see today. I would guess that all new features have just been tagged onto legacy code and that legacy code modified to accommodate the additions.
Anyone who trusts any operating system to be secure is somewhat naive. The same is true for Linux, that too has its fair share of security issues, although with a smaller foot print and more timely updates is isn't so much of an issue. Linux tends to be used by those with a clue whilst Windows is a consumer focused operating system. That fact alone is even more cause for Microsoft to produce something secure even if that security breaks ease of use of certain features.
What should really be of concern is that Microsoft have now adapted that insecure Windows code base to run across a multitude of devices, will it be a case of one exploit to rule them all?
Michala Wardell, UK committee chair at the BSA - who doubles up as anti-piracy manager at Microsoft - branded the findings "shocking",
Mmmm, I would brand the findings understandable considering that many software licencing fees... Especially those dreamt up by Microsoft are a piss take.
UK committee chair at BSA and anti-piracy manager at Microsoft. Who would have thought. The next thing I will be hearing is that MP's are chairmen/chairwomen or on the board of directors of large corporations.
in trying to have a rational conversation with those incapable of rationalisation.
I think this Android hymnbook approach is a waste of money. Money the could be better spent in the community or maintaining the church building. Books do come in large print for the visually impaired.
Not that I condone the teaching of fairytale as fact. However, people have a right to believe what they wish and not be persecuted for those beliefs.
For those in search of knowledge and understanding what knowledge is, David Deutsch has written a rather good book called the "The Beginning of Infinity".
In this book there is a chapter called "A dream of Socrates" where Socrates has a chat with whom he presumes to be Apollo, yet later in the conversation is convinced or persuaded that he is talking to Hermes.
This gives a pretty good insight as how we as humans attain knowledge and discover truths.
Having an open mind swings both ways. I don't do gods any of them, it doesn't mean one does not exist. However, a benevolent god would not punish those who questions its existence nor would it seek submission. I am of the opinion that all the many hundreds of gods we know of are a product of the imaginings of man. Should a god really exist I am quite sure it would be falling over itself laughing at us.
Maybe we should just nuke them now. Who knows after South Korea they might just annex China. Or is it China that pulls the strings?
Nazi Germany had the support of several European nations and Japan, not to mention the sympathy of many others. North Korea's supporters can be listed on any quarter of a second class stamp.
Mr Cameron voted in favour of the Iraq war proving that he can be misled just as much as he can mislead.
Yes, it was a joke, humour.
The classical mechanical degrees of freedom of a proton (disregarding the quarks and gluons that compose such a particle) in 3d space are surprisingly enough are 3.
As you rightly state and just as the Heisenberg uncertainty principal states, one cannot precisely measure both the momentum and position of a quantum object such as a proton at the same time. However one could precisely measure the position of such a particle. Of course once the measurement has been made the particle would have moved if not by the action of the measuring device, by zero point fluctuation alone.
Still this is his/her Noodliness that is doing the accounting here. Are you suggesting his/her Noodliness is anything less than Omni-everything? That is heresy and you are likely going straight to the restaurant at the end of the Universe without any Bolognese sauce ;-)
will eventually have DirectX11.1/OGL 4.2 feature set.
This has to be good for PC gamers who have had DirectX11 and OGL4.x capability for years and scant little game software coded that truly takes advantage of those capabilities.
The quality of console ports if not the content has been improving over the years and some developers do make an effort for the PC port.
I'm looking forward to what both the PS4 and the new XBox bring to the PC gaming scene, even if I am unmoved by the control that each party wants to exert over the use of their respective devices.