Putting aside the usual monthly MS clusterfuck...
... the stock photo is nice but I think it could be a bit edgier, like one from here.
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Don't fool yourself, the ribbon is still shit.
Yesterday in Outlook 2013 I wanted to do an advanced search. But there's no search options in Outlook 2013’s ribbon. I went through all of it and found nothing.
Instead you need to start a useless quick search so the search tab magically appears (which you may not realise as you're looking at the quick search bar) and you can then choose a hidden drop-down option at the end of the ribbon to get an advanced search.
Time wasted: best part of five minutes.
Multiplied by: x people = x * 5 / 60 person hours.
The fact that more shit has come along since doesn't detract from the fact that the ribbon is still as shit as it ever was.
Examples include the central management of security keys and operating system updates; - no third party involved, the key to verify and decrypt the OS update is held by both the OS supplier and the OS itself.
the scanning of content, like your emails, for advertising purposes; - wrong, email is held at rest as plain text.
the simulcast of messages to multiple destinations at once; - usually wrong, if it's encrypted the message is sent multiple times and multicast doesn't work over the Internet anyway.
and key recovery when a user forgets the password to decrypt a laptop. - again wrong, no third party involved, the key to verify and decrypt the recovery key is held by both the OS supplier and the OS itself.
Firefox ESR will catch up with the stupid soon enough. June 2018, Firefox 52 ESR ends, and then you're stuck with 59, with all of the stupid changes they will add for three more versions. It's a stop-gap at best.
Not to worry, by then the planet will be a pile of smouldering rubble.
There's not much money in that though.
There might have been if they'd stuck to their guns with Firefox OS for TVs.
Perhaps they could push a tip jar, either teaming up with one (or more) or making their own. They could scrape a small commission, and it would do something about the stranglehold that advertising has on the web.
Why is he still updating Windows 10 Mobile if he's pulled out of hardware? There's no point having an OS for hardware that doesn't exist.
If he is exiting the mobile business then he should exit it. If he isn't he should announce what he's doing with mobile devices before everyone writes MS off completely.
Ok, spoilers:
The whole Xenomorph race being the product of a demented robot? Engineers who might have perhaps travelled the galaxy seeding and destroying life being reduced to a bunch of villagers getting wiped out by a demented robot? It's bollocks and it ruins both films.
There's a difference, Piriform was hacked and their official download was compromised and end users had no reason to suspect, XCodeGhost was an obviously unofficial version which end users (app developers) downloaded knowingly ignoring possible malware issues because it downloaded faster than from Apple's server.
The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked
If the first thing that happens after Las Vegas on YouTube is conspiracy theories and fake news and the algorithms in YouTube Kids select the sketchiest videos imaginable, their algorithms are shit.
Google needs to drop the "because algorithms" defence, and realise that publishing is actually quite an expensive business. The can't have it both ways. If they reap billions from adverts then they can cough up the money to moderate them.
They automatically generate subtitles for each video uploaded. People flagging one video usually means the rest of the channel is probably dodgy too. It's not beyond the wit of man to get rid of most of the harmful stuff instead of letting it fester there.
1. ID cards un Europe are not as compulsory as you think they are.
2. It's not all sorted out either. In Spain the SSN is only used by Social Security, so that's a step forward. On the other hand your ID number is used by everyone else, state or private company or credit reference agency, so that's pretty idiotic. There is no way to get a new number if the old one is compromised, it follows you around for life.