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I installed office 2013 on my workstation because someone should learn it in case there's ever a business need for it outlook 2013 is actually decent word and excel though? 
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Sep 18, 2014 17:16
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duTrieux. posted:i have a stack of free licenses/subscriptions for 2013 and i'ms till using 2010. yea i bought it for :tenbux: from my employer's home use program, took one look at the new interface and promptly uninstalled it and went back to office 2010. im guessing after they finish backpedaling metro in win8 they'll get around to fixing the office UI in 2015. (either that or make it even worse)
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Sep 18, 2014 17:40
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they're backpedaling on metro but not touch, which means that the office "optimizations" to help with touch are here to stay
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Sep 18, 2014 17:46
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so i was working in excel earlier today and command-c and command-v started acting wacky. looked at the edit menu and  it was fine after a restart. i guess Start Dictation somehow got moved to the top of the list and moved all the shortcuts down by two positions  
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Sep 18, 2014 17:48
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duTrieux. posted:they're backpedaling on metro but not touch, which means that the office "optimizations" to help with touch are here to stay show us on the doll where ballmer implemented touch on you
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Sep 18, 2014 17:49
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i just watched the season premier of The Mindy Project and they had a whole scene of them using Windows 8 on a huge touch screen TV the episode aired 2 days ago. it is here to stay Cardboard Box A posted:Tell me what you want to do... the ALL CAPS menus i think has something to do with visual studio iirc
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Sep 18, 2014 18:01
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insert design is right
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Sep 18, 2014 18:25
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Number19 posted:I installed office 2013 on my workstation because someone should learn it in case there's ever a business need for it you immediately changed it to the dark grey theme, right?
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Sep 18, 2014 18:26
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:i just watched the season premier of The Mindy Project and they had a whole scene of them using Windows 8 on a huge touch screen TV agreed, microsoft would never aggressively promote something today only to neglect or discontinue it tomorrow
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Sep 18, 2014 18:37
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minivanmegafun posted:so i was working in excel earlier today and command-c and command-v started acting wacky. this is loving with me so hard
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Sep 18, 2014 18:41
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duTrieux. posted:i have a stack of free licenses/subscriptions for 2013 and i'ms till using 2010. can i have one i dont use windows and have never used office 2013 but i want to install it in a vm for laffs
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Sep 18, 2014 18:53
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minivanmegafun posted:so i was working in excel earlier today and command-c and command-v started acting wacky. how in the gently caress
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Sep 18, 2014 18:56
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:you immediately changed it to the dark grey theme, right? I put it on the one that sort of looks like a circuit board. e: i just switched to dark grey with circuit and it is indeed better.
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Sep 18, 2014 19:03
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duTrieux. posted:lol they really didn't want people pirating their poo poo I guess the copy protection consisted of a sector with an invalid size so it couldn't be written if you were copying the disk. 10 sectors at the beginning of the disk contained an anti-pirate message directed at hackers and the invalid sector.
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Sep 18, 2014 19:14
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yeah physical copy protection that wrecked/de-aligned drives even when working as intended was fun to deal with on the c64
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Sep 18, 2014 19:17
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the 1541 didn't really need help getting dealigned
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Sep 18, 2014 19:18
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Phoenixan posted:how in the gently caress
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Sep 18, 2014 19:29
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Internaut! posted:yeah physical copy protection that wrecked/de-aligned drives even when working as intended was fun to deal with on the c64 was it elite that churned the drive so hard for its copy protection that it would knock it out of alignment half the time you played it
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Sep 18, 2014 19:34
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One of the casualties of the latest round of job cuts at Microsoft is the Microsoft Research (MSR) Silicon Valley lab. On September 18, Microsoft officials acknowledged the company would be cutting 2,100 jobs across the company worldwide as part of the previously announced layoffs of 18,000 disclosed in July 2014. Of today's cuts, 747 are in the Washington state area, and 160 total in California, a Microsoft spokesperson said. Derek Murray, a Microsoft Research researcher in distributed systems, tweeted that "Today they (Microsoft) announced that the lab in Silicon Valley will be closing, effective Friday." Microsoft Research's Silicon Valley outpost, located in Mountain View, Calif., was founded in 2001 and currently employs close to 50, a company spokesperson said. The MSR Silicon Valley lab is primarily focused on distributed computing research, including "privacy, security, protocols, fault-tolerance, large-scale systems, concurrency, computer architecture, Internet search and services, and related theory," according to the web page for the lab. MSR Silicon Valley is managed by Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Roy Levin. Microsoft operates a number of Microsoft Research labs worldwide, including labs in Asia, Cairo, Cambridge (UK), Europe, India, Israel New England, New York City and Redmond. A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed the Silicon Valley research lab is closing this Friday, and noted that an undisclosed number of those researchers will be offered jobs at other Microsoft Research labs. The spokesperson characterized the closing as a "consolidation of the west coast labs." He noted that Microsoft still has 2,500 employees working for the company in the Silicon Valley area including individuals working on Skype, Yammer, Bing, Outlook.com and Xbox. He said the cuts today do not mean Microsoft is backing away from its research commitments or necessarily closing any of the research projects that are run out of the Silicon Valley lab.
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Sep 18, 2014 20:45
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 and there was a press release about it
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Sep 18, 2014 21:01
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the purchase of minecraft for 2.5 beeellion is just sweet irony. cut research and buy minecraft--i wonder how much longer nadella has to start producing results before the board acts
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Sep 18, 2014 21:01
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closing the r&d labs wtf????? like is that even saving money? who did this calculation? does microsoft not have access to basic spreadsheet software like Microsoft Excel? ?????
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Sep 18, 2014 21:21
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Shinku ABOOKEN posted:closing the r&d labs wtf????? it would not surprise me for a second if i were to find out that ms charges its departments for office licenses.
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Sep 18, 2014 21:23
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msr spends billions and billions a year and their only visible work is: OG giant surface table photosynth an onlive thing where it renders multiple button presses then send the right one down a video stream
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Sep 18, 2014 21:25
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qirex posted:msr spends billions and billions a year and their only visible work is: kinect was MSR initially right?
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Sep 18, 2014 21:35
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mod sassinator posted:kinect was MSR initially right? I thought they bought it from another company
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Sep 18, 2014 21:37
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I guess they don't need to work on fault tolerant systems now that they own Minecraft
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Sep 18, 2014 21:38
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jonathan carlson (microsoft research redmond) gave a neat talk at my university about modeling the evolution of HIV and new machine learning techniques that were required since it evolves so drat fast
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Sep 18, 2014 21:40
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all i could think of during his talk was "his slides look like metro"
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Sep 18, 2014 21:41
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"but satya we're just hours away from a cure for HI-" "shut it down" "this could save lives" "I SAID SHUT IT DOWN"
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Sep 18, 2014 21:41
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Blackula69 posted:"but satya we're just hours away from a cure for HI-" 30 seconds later "alright guys, throw that supercomputer modelling the HIV virus into the trash and move the new mind craft game people in. time to really make a difference"
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Sep 18, 2014 21:51
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qirex posted:I thought they bought it from another company the software was Rare and the hardware was an Israeli company now owned by Apple
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Sep 18, 2014 22:03
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could someone who is actually smart about computers read this interesting thing about windows 3.1 and tell me what it means http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2014/09/12/10557431.aspx
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Sep 18, 2014 22:05
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ctrl alt del made the kernal try to ask stuck processes to quit, then made it try to quit them itself, then told it to restarted everything depending on if you kept mashing it/the process was still stuck
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Sep 18, 2014 22:24
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Blackula69 posted:could someone who is actually smart about computers read this interesting thing about windows 3.1 and tell me what it means before windows 3.1, in MS-DOS if you hit ctrl+alt+delete your computer would restart immediately you also only had one program running more or less in windows 3.1 they've added multitasking to let you run multiple programs at once, and that is basically an explanation of how it handles ctrl+alt+delete in various situations if it's a MS-DOS application it just kills it immediately if it's a windows application it set a value to 0, asks the program to check in by setting the value to 1, and if it does then it's still in a working state, if after the 3/4 second it's still at 0 then something is up after that it starts to quit programs by force
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Sep 18, 2014 22:24
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Blackula69 posted:could someone who is actually smart about computers read this interesting thing about windows 3.1 and tell me what it means whatever windows 3.1 application has focus owns a sort of synchronization token of which there is one system-wide copy. no thread can block whatever owns the token so even if an application is "hung" it's trying to make progress on whatever it's doing. every time the windows scheduler had the token, it set a magic register to 1. every time it lost focus, it set the magic register to 0. this allows the ctrl+alt+delete handler to know if something's hung or not. when you ctrl+alt+delete, the ctrl+alt+delete handler checks if the running program is an MS-DOS program. if so, it terminates it immediately. if it is a windows program, the ctrl+alt+delete handler sets the magic register to 0, tells the scheduler to inform it when it is available, and waits. if the ctrl+alt+delete handler was never contacted by the system, then a device driver is hung and it pops up a blue screen saying that will give focus to whatever owns the token when you press a key so you can respond to it. if it was contacted and the magic register is 1, then the token is being passed around properly. nothing is technically hung and it'll pop up a blue screen saying that no application is hung, go gently caress yourself. if it was contacted but the magic register is 0, then a windows application is hung and won't relinquish control to the windows kernel. it told device drivers to finish up their current tasks, waited about 3 seconds, and popped up a blue screen saying the system is busy or unstable. finally, if no device driver is trying to accomplish a task, then it pops up a blue screen saying a specific program is hung. if you tell it to exit, it just waits for the CPU to be executing that program, and will trigger a DOS interrupt for the running program to immediately terminate.
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Sep 18, 2014 22:31
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:it would not surprise me for a second if i were to find out that ms charges its departments for office licenses. you would think so but employees can download/install pretty much whatever microsoft makes. there are very strict rules about acquiring third-party software, though, particularly if the company responsible for that software is on the internal poo poo list
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Sep 18, 2014 23:47
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duTrieux. posted:you would think so but employees can download/install pretty much whatever microsoft makes. can we get a copy of this poo poo list? 
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Sep 18, 2014 23:53
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1. apple
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maybe microsoft bought minecraft so they could use it for free
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