Re: "Whoops!"
I can't see it being deliberate really, daft to expect nobody would notice much sooner. All we learn is that the two sides are equally incompetent.
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Euro watchdog bares teeth at Microsoft over browser gaffe
Architect pitches builder-bothering 'Print your own house' plan
Microsoft Surface Pro will land in UK in WEEKS*
Friday 1st March 2013 13:32 GMT 
Re: A very expensive mobile computing solution
If only you could use external storage with Surface Pro.
Of course some of us would find the 80Gb or so free space on the 128Gb version is fine for work and Linux. You possibly don't realise how much space 80Gb is... if you don't fill the thing up with video it's a lot. 20Gb used to be OK for a desktop and PDFs/doc files are not really bigger than they were back then.
You shouldn't be using a tablet to store all your stuff.
Friday 1st March 2013 12:33 GMT
Price
Comparing it to a tablet it looks extortionate. No doubt some will be suggesting it should be £300. But it's not a tablet, it's a mid-range laptop squashed into a tablet casing. From the hardware side I think it's a marvel of modern technology to be honest.
But do you need a full PC in a tablet? If you do, this might be your wet dream. Otherwise just get an iPad :)
Friday 1st March 2013 12:31 GMT
Re: A very expensive mobile computing solution
How do you know it "doesn't quite work" when it hasn't been released yet?
And why on earth do you think this is based on Server 2012... isn't it desktop W8? Actually since Pro is just x86, which edition of W8 is it anyway? And couldn't you set it to dual boot Linux+W8 or W7+W8 or whatever?
Squillionaire space tourist offers oldsters a holiday to Mars
Sergey Brin emasculated after HORROR smartphone disaster
Microsoft finally ships Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7
Wednesday 27th February 2013 13:09 GMT
Re: Only Microsoft...
MS would be well aware that businesses wouldn't suddenly jump to W8 because half of them haven't jumped to W7 yet. It's a pattern they know very well because it happens every time and forces them to support software 10 years after the consumer market has stopped using it.
If IE10 was W8 only, that would be another story.
Wednesday 27th February 2013 10:24 GMT
Re: Only Microsoft...
>>Umm, I'll go out on a limb and say planned and enforced obsolescence.
WinXP is about to lose any support or patches. Why would they waste time supporting it, or implicitly supporting it? Considering IE9 doesn't run on XP this is not even an argument, they clearly aren't going to re-support XP.
The argument is only if they should be supporting Vista. I note not one single person has complained about lack of IE10 in Vista which is probably why they aren't doing it... not even Windows users want Vista. No diehard XP users are going to upgrade to Vista when patches stop being released - they'll go to W7 if they can get a copy.
Tuesday 26th February 2013 22:11 GMT
A bit dubious
I'm all for grabbing the new version and taking it for a spin... getting a bit disenchanted with Chrome and went off FF ages ago. IE9 is pretty good but still not as good as Chrome so I'd hope IE10 would be good.
BUT that "protracted development" makes me nervous it might not quite be there yet. Not that I use IE as my main browser just yet anyway so maybe I'll take the plunge as and when it wants to install.
Apple assimilates France, Sweden and pals into iCloud
25% of Groupon share value WIPED OUT after rates slashed
Ten smartphones with tablet ambitions...
So much noise on WinMob, but Microsoft's silent on lovely WinPhone
Thursday 28th February 2013 10:25 GMT
Re: I'm not suprised
My £150 WP lasts about a week between charges and has rebooted perhaps 4 times in the 6 months I've had it - I'd rather it rebooted than just locked up :)
Why does it need an iPlayer app, isn't iPlayer going HTML5 which is supported in IE10 (this is a guess I haven't tried).
It's got niggles and flaws but I've not really spotted bugs as such.
Microsoft unwraps sysadmin-friendly Office 365 for biz update
Wednesday 27th February 2013 21:30 GMT
NO SUBSCRIPTION
The other thing is, if you look around you'll find the subscription model is the one which is taking over - hosting, source control, storage, bug-tracking, music, netflix, yada yada. I agree that the idea of the office suite being an installed app is deeply ingrained so it feels weird but maybe that's where everything is going. Or maybe it's just this decade's trend and it will revert when we get bored of it.
Wednesday 27th February 2013 21:08 GMT
Re: The Preferred Business Model
>>Users have total control over where documents are stored, no cloud required
You already do.
>>No restriction on transferring licenses between users and machines
I guess the problem here is that it's much harder to enforce, and we all know how a single copy of Windows will get reinstalled everywhere given half the chance.
Nokia wants to build the Google of human behaviour - and share it
Wednesday 27th February 2013 16:05 GMT
Re: Are we sheep?
You might think you're pretty smart and nothing like a sheep/insect. But it's been well-known for decades that en masse, people act in ways that can be studied.
Do you really think it's going to be as simple as "oh you're near this bar, lets send you there like everyone else"? Such a system would in theory automatically avoid these kid of issues although it sounds an absolute nightmare to create.
Outsourcing your own job much more common than first thought
Wednesday 27th February 2013 13:05 GMT
Re: employers are less than impressed
Because as a company owner yourself, you are well aware of the legal ramifications to the company and its clients? When your employer gets sued for $millions because the guy you hired unofficially was allowed to see sensitive data they promised their client would not go outside the building, you have insurance and legal protection to cover that?
You're just a wage slave totally ignorant to what goes on above you, which is precisely why it's dangerous if you blithely do things your own way. Shortcuts are called shortcuts for a reason.
Wednesday 27th February 2013 13:02 GMT
Re: Free market economy...
If the employee wants to do that, they should not be an employee. Be an entrepreneur and set a up a company selling the service.
An employee who does this has no protection if the people he hires screw his employer over. A service company has indemnity insurance, contracts with the sub-contractors, etc.
Wednesday 27th February 2013 11:13 GMT
@Steven Roper
I don't know what kind of weird entitlement utopia you live in, but here in the real world a company is not a person. A company hires you to do a job so they can make profit, not so they can help the employment figures. They can choose who to pay to do the work because it's their company, and they are the decision makers.
Or to make it simple for you... employERs do the hiring, employEEs do not.
Wednesday 27th February 2013 11:11 GMT
Re: Right of substitution
No, they won't. Many will but it's normally not something you could enforce. IR35 is based on the reality of your working relationship, not what the contract says... if your contract says "contractor will not be subject to direct control" or "contractor is not obligated to accept work" (the other 2 pillars of the IR35 core test) but your client approves your holidays and expects you to be there 9-5 every day unless they give permission, you still fail.
Come join our community http://forums.contractoruk.com/accounting-legal/
Wednesday 27th February 2013 11:08 GMT
Re: Isn't that the definition of freelance?
>>in the UK, if you can't subcontract your contract then you're usually considered an employee
No you're not. IR35 is normally measured on several factors. Lacking the ability to substitute does not indicate anything. In fact while most contractors have contracts which say "the contractor can provide a substitute" this is subject to the client's approval and is hardly ever used.
Come and find out more http://forums.contractoruk.com/accounting-legal/
That Firefox OS mobe: The sorta phone left behind after a mugging
Wednesday 27th February 2013 11:56 GMT
Re: even I recognise that a new OS entering the market can only be a good thing
>>@JDX: You're a Windows Phone fanboi, we get it
Come back when you can make an argument rather than just insult people for upvotes. If a fanboi is someone who thinks WP is roughly on a par with Android and iOS then sure I'm a fanboi.
HTML5 is not the answer. It lacks many essential features and requires developing in a horrific toolset. That's WHY everyone writes apps for multiple platforms in the first place, not for fun. Maybe in 5 years your point will be valid.
Look out! Peak wind is coming, warns top Harvard physicist
Tuesday 26th February 2013 22:32 GMT
Re: Why not just build a solar panel that covers half the world....
We talk of Nuclear as being a clean sustainable power source but surely the one thing it is not is sustainable. Even coal and oil are continually being regenerated (slowly) but the very nature of radioactive material means it is always downhill... supernova creates heavy elements which accrete to a planet and then you have a fixed time span until the radiation is all gone... even if we don't use it it's disappearing (even more slowly)
Are there any sums on how much useful material we have?
Review: Sony Vaio Duo 11 Ultrabook
Apple to cough up $100m after kids rinse parents' credit cards on apps
Tuesday 26th February 2013 18:33 GMT
Since the move to iOS 6 app updates no longer require a password
Are you certain because I know I have iOS6 but I haven't recollected it. Unless the absense of the problem wasn't noticeable of course.
And being asked when you are paying is fine... though "are you sure" might be better than "enter your password AGAIN"... but for free stuff it gets wearing.
Tuesday 26th February 2013 18:31 GMT
>>How many times a day do you buy or update apps??
Some days, several times - I might download a dozen apps looking for the best one. Having to re-enter my password 10 times in a row is a PITA.
Obviously when MS do it with UAC it's crap. But if Apple do it - with a really ugly popup - it's stupid to suggest otherwise.
Google+ goes single sign-in, exec roasts Zuck's 'frictionless sharing'
Nexus 1 put in orbit to prove 'in space, no one can hear you scream'
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