Posts by Steve Davies 3 7145 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2009
Yep
Notepad 365
A real snip at $9.99/month
If this ever comes to pass then we will really know that MS has totally lost the plot.
{Most of us know that already but a move like that will just make the average punter sit up and take note and wonder if there is an alternative to what moneygrabbing MS is offering}
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Cheap at £1M a pop.
And there we were thinking that Apple was ripping us off with their iPhone prices.
Seriously,
I don't think Corellium has a crooked leg to stand on. If as they say, they have taken IOS and are running it on non Apple hardware for the purpose of breaking it then they are onto a loser.
But you never know with the Courts now do you!
Just you wait. MS will be coming out with their Linux (again) and everyone will jump on the bandwagon. The only caveat (picked up from Oracle no doubt) will be the subscription fee for everything.
At least RedHat releases CentOS which is functionally the same as RHEL at zero cost. Although that may change once IBM digests RedHat and throws most of in into the Do Not Recycle bin.
Nothing in this world is truly free apart from the air that we breathe (I hope)
Not news really is it.
I wonder if Apple are running some form of on premises Azure or similar cloud in their own data centres?
Even if they were not, it might be hard for any of the plaintifs to prove that their bits of data did not reside on Apple owned servers.
Then it will be even harder to prove that they were damaged financially by it.
Sometimes these lawsuits seem to strecth credibility beyond reason. Unlike in the UK, there is often very little come back in the way of costs being awarded against the loser. Make these shyster law firms pay and very soon all the frivilous cases will magically disappear.
I'm all for suing the bejesus out of a company for doing wrong but sometimes these are just a joke and a needless drain on the court system.
Nice list but sadly you are shouting at an empty building. They won't listen.
Your option 3 is exactly what Apple has been doing for several years. I think it was Ubuntu that got us into this six-monthly cycle. Personally, I hate it which was why I left Ubuntu and went to CentOS. (This was before Canonical thought about long term releases before anyone points this out)
That's why they have increased the cost of running MS software on any cloud but their own.
Next will come hefty uplifts for on-premises workloads. They'll say it is your own private cloud so cough up.
Some companies will do the sums and carry on bringing workloads back in house. OThers will buckle under the pressure and move to Azure.
Then MS will increase their prices as well. You just can't win with this cloud stuff. The sooner it all blows away the better if you ask me.
Tux because even MS can't yet charge me for running it on my own hardware.
'Yet' being the operative word.
If Greenland is not West of West Sussex then why to some transatlantic flights heading WEST fly over Greenland?
Greenland is also on the American side of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Answers on a postcard and addressed to 'The Naughty Step, The Register'
Unless West Sussex has suddenly been transported to SoCal that is?
As they also use QC and Broadcomm components in their iDevices.
Perhaps those are suffuciently different as not to be affected by this.
I hope that Google get their act together and make EVERYONE using the Android brand provide security updates for at least 3 years. At the moment it is pot-luck and in that game, the odds are against you getting more than 1 year of updates.
Android devices are indeed a lot cheaper than those from Apple but not updating them is IMHO a cheapskate move.
This
Don't access personal accounts at your job.
Should be ammended to
Don't access personal accounts at your job using company owned computer or network equipment.
By all means (during permitted breaks) use your own phone (and data allowance) to read your own emails. Don't use the company WiFi.
Then everything you do is separate from the company and is outside their permitted snooping.
This
MS have a long history of scrapping things without always having an easy migration path
this can easily apply to others so...
Google/Alphabet have a long history of scrapping things without always having an easy migration path
SOP in most of the IT Industry these days I'm afraid
Fiddling with stuff until it breaks is just a normal day at the office for MS.
They seem to delight in taking things that work and have few complaints about and decide to 'fix' it.
Look what they did to Skype etc etc etc.
Why are tools that remove their madness so popular?
Will they ever get the message?
Somehow I doubt it.
Rather sad really and a waste of all that talent that could be put to better use like getting rid of all those tiles. (personal choice that one).
Sorry SatNad, the only one to benfit is Microsoft. Everything you do is for the benefit on MS.
But I'd like to know what his answer to the following question is.
Hey SatNad, when all the AI Systems and Robots have taken our jobs who will be able to afford to feed themselves let alone pay for MS products and services?
Come on now. Don't be shy! Tell us what you think...
Currently, I am paying an extra $30/month to tether my cell phone data plan to my home network.
Man are you getting robbed blind. Most Mobile contracts here include tethering at zero cost.
I use it all the time when I'm out.
Sadly what you are saying is typical of what goes on all over the USA. So much for being No 1.... No 1 in being mugged by big buisness perhaps.
And your POTUS is more concerned with sending tweets bad mouthing Sadik Khan than governing his country.
This:-
Then the user can select which identifiers wants to share, which of its personal data, who to share, and for how long. It generates a secure verification code that can be used to identify.
Is going to be a HUGE problem.
Lets be realistic here.
- This system will run (badly) by the likes of Crapita
- It will all be stored in the cloud
- Which is run by our (sic) good friends the Americans
- Who have to give it all up to Uncle Sam should the be asked
- It will take 10 years to develope even something as simple as this due to deature creep
- It will be horribly over its £1B budget.
And finally,
- It will never work due to the Feature Creep (trying to be all things to all men).
As it is Friday, time for a wet one.
Even into a really clean DC as I found out in Riyadh.
By everywhere, I mean everywhere including inside one of those big RED Button switches that you find inside most DC's.
During a test, the button was pushed and nothing happened. Only after the sixth press did the system start failing over.
Said switch was removed after the test and found that it was half full of sand.
further investigations revealed that it had been installed while the room was still a building site and naturally you don't think to clean inside a switch when making the room clean now do you?
The Backup DC had exactly the same problem when the insides of the 'big Red Button' switch was examined the following week.
This wasn't on some super secret network but just the ATM system for a major bank.
There is an old song by 'The Who' called 'Boris the Spider'
The chorus goes
"Creepy, crawly, creepy, crawly"
but the last verse is very apt
He's come to a sticky end
Don't think he will ever mend
Never more will he crawl around
He's embedded in the ground
If BloJob becomes PM, it won't end well.
"Oh, and Alexa, please take down all of AMAZON.COM while you are at it."
"Delete of Amazon.com added to my action l..... {no carrier}"
One can dream can't you eh?
In the meantime all of this
"spy kit that we have to pay for so that it can spy on us" {That' an oxymoron if ever there was one...}
is banned from my network and all the domains and IP's blocked at my firewall.
It isn't more secure than a password IF the password is at least 10 characters and not a word in the OED.
Then their is the thrust towards biometrics. The majority of current devices that use W10 won't be able to do this without some extra hardware (camera or fingerprint reader) to that is a dead duck before it get going HOWEVER, I would not think it very far fetched for MS to demand that Laptop/Tablet/AllinOne's include some form of biometric device and that systems without it won't be supported beyond say 2022 or not able to run Pro/Busness versions of W10 and also lose access to new functionality all on the interests of Security.
MS has lost the plot big time if they think that PINS are a step forward. I look forward to NOT using them.
Well done el Reg for using a Picture of Didcot Railway Centre and a bunch of Steam Locos from at least 60 years ago.
None of these will have any 'code' to steal or hack or be infected with malware although the crap coal (usually from Poland) that we have to use these days is a huge problem and means a lot more cleaning and maintenance of the Loco's. Oh for a nice load of Welsh Steam Coal!
As it is Friday have one on me (at the appropriate time naturally)
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