Posts by Mikel

Everything causes cancer

Not everything is delicious bacon.

The PC is dead

And Windows never was any good. Now that the very real, very good alternatives are so highly visible people are starting to ask: why did we chain ourselves to this Titanic?

Don't worry hardware vendors

Microsoft would never sunset your business now that they can sell own brand PCs, laptops, servers, switches, tablets and such directly to your customers without your assistance. They are generous like that.

Imagination doesn't like open source

No docs, no deal.

Now you know how much your privacy is worth

The OS with embedded spyware is free, and they can afford to give you this much on top. That money comes from somewhere.

It takes a Google

It takes a huge good guy company like Google to wage a decade long battle with the copyright lobby to win back for us what *was always our birthright*. Because remember, that's what this finding says. Fair use is real. We have always been legally entitled to do this thing Big Print doesn't want us to do: build a modern Library of Alexandria. Their malicious litigiousness was always stripping the less well heeled technologists of their civil rights, preventing the social good in what their nearsightedness saw as a pursuit of profit and a protection of their publishing oligopoly.

PDF for irony

When publishing a paper lamenting security vulnerabilities it's always best to use PDF for the sake of irony.

My Nexus 2013 devices have Marshmallow, so the fellow who says Google's bad for not supporting his either ought old stock from the closeout bin or is just lying.

The magic beans are in enterprise storage

The ridiculous margins are amazing.

Bounce back

Mike must be doing something right.

Always good advice

Heed it with everything else too.

One day...

Only Microsoft hardware will get Windows upgrades.

Wonderful idea

But I have been doing this since I bought the TF101 oh those almost five years ago. And it has apps.

Sadly it was destroyed in an unfortunate firework incident, but the utility lives on in every Android device that has Bluetooth.

The desktop is a dead parrot

No need for training on how to care for a dead parrot.

You heard it here first

Their secret new super blockbuster Apple shaming product is...

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Windows for Pets

OMG

I can just imagine the training session. "Which end do the tubes go in? Where do I send the pull tabs so Bill Gates will finally help the Cancer Kid? Make this app do that other, unrelated thing because I like the way this one keeps the stationary inventory but I want it to also send bulk spam emails to prospective donors."

The horror.

looking for budget no-name vendors to take up the strain of flogging cheap Windows phones.

Where are they going to find a no-name phone manufacturer with an urgent need to get rid of hundreds of millions of dollars of excess capital? They may be hunting unicorns here.

Sorry, Asus

Now that they have signed with Microsoft to shove their Office bloatware no matter how much I don't want it, I am no longer interested in any of their products with any set of features at any price. When I buy something it's mine.

Intel's Skylake CPU and Windows 10 should help drive up PC memory demand.

A flock of flying swine might fly so high they come too close to the sun and rain barbecued pork on the streets of London. In fantasy land.

Cut your other leg off

Part of the rationale for sticking with Windows is legacy apps, so they have to get you to cut those fingers off a few at a time. You are still going to pay to expire all your software, but you don't have to do it all at once and be free - you can do it a few things at a time and pay forever and ever.

Of course now that more and more things are mobile and web based, that strategy is going away too. Whatever will they do?

My guess

It's a field test of Taco Bell delivery.

They will refactor again in January

They will report in January that for the fifth consecutive year their projection was high for Microsoft's Windows PCs and their guess for Google's Android powered devices was low.

Microsoft is the biggest purchaser of their "analysis". I am sure that has no bearing on this perpetual error.

No Play?

No way!

embrace the cloud, rather than paying a lot more for on-premise licenses.

Getting the customers to pay less is never the plan.

The real Sony Hackers revealed

Whenever somebody says they know for sure where a hack was based out of I just laugh. What they are announcing is their own ignorance, and their own vulnerability.

Translation

We are ready with Internet II, but somebody has to totally break Internet I before anyone will adopt it.

Besides, now that all the numbers are given out, the job of giving out the numbers is light work we can hand off to a probie.

Finally hired someone who knows good software

Probably told her they were a .com startup until after the hook was set.

president’s budget request.

Every administration retasks NASA to build their own enduring science legacy in a fifteen year plan, cancelling the grand plans of their predecessors to move their achievements out of the potential shadow of the former administration. And then Congress prevents it. And then four or eight years later the weak compromise is cancelled by a new administration to put their stamp on a new enduring science legacy...

By the time NASA gets men to Mars, on arrival they will be having an espresso at the Starbucks on the patio at Musk Interplanetary Spaceport #4.

Knowing HP

The fact that the software management only works on specific versions of Windows and IE is what tripped their "buy" trigger. Once upon a time to fully access HP's partner portal from 64 bit XP not only did you have to be running a specific version of IE - it had to be run as admin.