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Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

carry on then posted:

lol @ thinking 120 is vigorous tho

lol if your resting heart rate is above 50 bpm

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SO DEMANDING
Dec 27, 2003


:cawg:

Nagato
Apr 26, 2011

Why yes my username is the same as an autistic alien who looks like a 9 year old from an anime, why do ask?
:nyoron:

would i get access to his exclusive how to use windows 10 ebook?

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005


lmfao

univbee
Jun 3, 2004




here's the full survey

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/thurrott_twitter

bring back old gbs
Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
give me one oif your emails

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

what would you expect to get in this members-only area?

"writing above a fifth grade level"

theultimo
Aug 2, 2004

An RSS feed bot who makes questionable purchasing decisions.
Pillbug
Welp that was fun. I hope my answers to of get a job and install Ubuntu were fair and balanced

lampey
Mar 27, 2012

Sagebrush posted:

i don't know. are there any of those places where you can buy a grey-market key for like 40 bucks instead of 200?

if you have an educational email address you can sign up for dreamspark and then get the license information from onthehub.com and download the installers. this is separate from the office 365 version and imo better because it does not expire when your "subscription" expires. most schools are signed up where everyone gets office and a windows license but if you are in a computer related class you can get server licenses and a lot more stuff. you dont really need to be enrolled in computer classes you just have to email the right person to get you on the better list

lampey
Mar 27, 2012

duTrieux. posted:

licensing is structured such that, without going to volume licensing, it's impossible for small businesses to legally use access

office 365 e3 is fine for small business and it includes access 2016. you buy it straight from microsoft on the office 365 portal. if you buy it through a reseller like cdw you can get a small discount (~3%) and get bumped up to silver support if you would normally be too small for that.

there is a lot of stuff wrong with microsoft licensing but subscription based office is a huge improvement over having different types of server cals and software assurance and having to pay for pro licensing to get exchange archiving in outlook and per core licensing for sql when you have a lot of cores or a lot of cpus and are using virtualization

Amethyst
Mar 28, 2004

I CANNOT HELP BUT MAKE THE DCSS THREAD A FETID SWAMP OF UNFUN POSTING
plz notice me trunk-senpai
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/joe-belfiore-on-why-he-uses-an-iphone-2016-1

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008


our dogfood is poo poo so we're not going to eat it anymore

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011


lol. instead of saying "oops, hacked" like anyone else, in true microsoft fashion he's written a loving wall of text about it:

http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/26/10832284/joe-belfiore-iphone-user#356362075

complete with CAPS LOCK and bold text sprinkled throughout. it reads like a used car salesman caught looking at donkey porn.

also why is he only working 3 months this year jeez.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


PleasureKevin posted:

what would you expect to get in this members-only area?

"writing above a fifth grade level"

Juul-Whip
Mar 10, 2008

lol at this apologism.

quote:

Firstly, the man's taking a year-long hiatus from his day job, and there's no way he could ever feel like he was off duty if he was running around using devices and software that he could help change and refine.

im betting most Apple employees don't pick up a sarnsung when they go on vacation

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2016/01/26/surfacing-the-facts/

URL grey tea
Jun 1, 2004

IT'S A SAD THING THAT YOUR ADVENTURES HAVE ENDED HERE!!

more teams are turning to Surface tablets during the critical moments of the game because they can better quality images faster

pram
Jun 10, 2001

lol

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011


I’ve gotten a lot of questions about this outage so I thought it was important to not only explain what happened on Sunday:

[ proceeds to not talk about what happened on sunday and instead say how good surface is ]

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005


lol that microsoft would let a $400 million marketing campaign with the NFL be threatened by a single network cable "failure" during a game

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

mishaq posted:

lol that microsoft would let a $400 million marketing campaign with the NFL be threatened by a single network cable "failure" during a game
an issue that lasted long enough for it to become a thing, and that couldn't get resolved until more than 15 minutes into the game

Necc0
Jun 30, 2005

by exmarx
Broken Cake

carry on then posted:

lol @ thinking 120 is vigorous tho

chicken is clearly resting

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

mishaq posted:

lol that microsoft would let a $400 million marketing campaign with the NFL be threatened by a single network cable "failure" during a game

they can't say the real reason which is karma

You Am I
May 20, 2001

Me @ your poasting

PleasureKevin posted:

also why is he only working 3 months this year jeez.
Would you really want to work a full 12 months at Microsoft at the moment? Really? I mean it's no longer the evil buy out the competition Microsoft of the late 80s/most of the 90s, it's like the mentally handicapped brother

buttcrackmenace
Nov 14, 2007

see its right there in the manual where it says
Grimey Drawer

32MB OF ESRAM posted:

give me one oif your emails

satya.nadella@outlook.com

it was available :stare:

its mine now

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

buttcrackmenace posted:

satya.nadella@outlook.com

it was available :stare:

its mine now

ahahahahhahhaa

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



buttcrackmenace posted:

satya.nadella@outlook.com

it was available :stare:

its mine now

lmao

program666
Aug 22, 2013

A giant carnivorous dinosaur

buttcrackmenace posted:

satya.nadella@outlook.com

it was available :stare:

its mine now

lol

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

Joe here — I wanted to comment because I think it’s useful for anyone working in tech.. or ASPIRING to work in tech.. to think about the trade-offs involved in what somehow appears as a "dramatic" decision! I suspect the significant majority of you will land on the same side of the issue that I have…
My job for the last couple of years has been (1) to curate the PC experience for Windows PCs (including tablet devices) and (2) to curate the experience for Windows Phones. In both capacities, it’s very important for me to understand products like the iPhone and Android phones, which are heavily used by PC users around the world, and which represent the competition for Windows Phone. Consumers and business users expect their PCs and phones to work in concert— so to satisfy our customers we need to consider the devices they use AS WELL AS the devices we’d like them to use.
On a 9-month leave-of-absence, I have a HUGE AND UNUSUAL opportunity to get to know these products deeply. To understand the benefits and drawbacks of a full ecosystem like Windows, Android, iOS — you have to LIVE IN IT. You have to feel its strengths and weaknesses, be let down, be delighted. And you can’t do that just "playing around" with a device for a couple of days. You have to learn the UI, upload your photos, use cross-device apps and tools… all of it.
When we are developing a release of Windows, we MUST use it all the time, on all devices, in order to find the bugs, iterate the design. There’s really no choice or we can’t build Windows as well as we should. On a leave-of-absence, there are tons of talented people doing that every day, which gives me the possibility of spending depth time on other devices, and using Windows very much like you Insiders do, without full knowledge of what’s happening "behind the curtain".
Furthermore, there’s a lot of work happening at MS which integrates Windows PCs with iOS and Android devices— like bringing Cortana to these phones so your intelligent assistant can help you whereever you are. I want to experience and understand all that work deeply too.
So … I think Vlad has it right when he says "it’s OK". (Thank you, Vlad.) But, I’d go farther and say "it’d be CRAZY not to"! In fact, when I posted on FB that I was taking a leave, I did mention explicitly that I would do this… and (horror of horrors) I’ve followed through, spending a bunch of time using Google Maps, Spotify, Periscope, a MacBook, a Nexus phone, etc.
And.. in today’s Microsoft, this practical, customer-focused attitude is well celebrated and supported. (and.. btw… I love my Surface Book!)
That’s all from me. Back to quality time with my family, well, and thinking about the (still-obviously-so-entertaining) question of what I could do next with my hair…

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

those are the verbatim words of the senior vice president of a 12 figgie technology company who decided to post in the comments section of a verge article written as damage control

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

no meds = f4

qirex posted:

Joe here

joe here is a loving bitch and a fucktard and should be derided and canned instead of posting this worthless word salad for the world to read.

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

no meds = f4

qirex posted:

those are the verbatim words of the senior vice president of a 12 figgie technology company who decided to post in the comments section of a verge article written as damage control

its unbelievable, to me.

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

it's so bad it could only be real

what's unbelievable to me is that he was the champion of metro, the interface paradigm so unappealing it destroyed windows phone and did permanent damage to microsoft windows and he got promoted

brownie, you're doing a heck of a job

ADINSX
Sep 9, 2003

Wanna run with my crew huh? Rule cyberspace and crunch numbers like I do?

qirex posted:

On a 9-month leave-of-absence, I have a HUGE AND UNUSUAL opportunity to get to know these products deeply. To understand the benefits and drawbacks of a full ecosystem like Windows, Android, iOS — you have to LIVE IN IT. You have to feel its strengths and weaknesses, be let down, be delighted.

I'm ready for "delight" and "delighted" to run its course as buzzword verb/adjective de jour. I see poo poo like "you must love delighting customers" in job ads and it just reads really gross and vaguely sexual

RubberJohnny
Apr 22, 2008
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/64209/tripadvisor-windows-10-app-to-be-pre-loaded-on-windows-10-devices

quote:

TripAdvisor, a popular website for those looking for travel advice and reviews, will be releasing an app for Windows 10 this year. The product will be a true Universal app which means that it will work across all devices that are running Windows 10.

The app will support comparing hotel prices, booking hotel rooms, looking up restaurants, booking reservations at restaurants and of course you can view the reviews contributed by the more than 290 million members who use the site. In addition, the app will support ‘Near Me Now’, a tool that brings up nearby points of interest.

But, the interesting thing, or upsetting fact about this app, is that it is going to be bundled on ‘millions of Windows 10 compatible devices’. While the post does not explicitly state where the app will appear, it looks like this is going to be more bundleware like Candy Crush.

Reading between the lines, it appears that Microsoft is paying for, or offered up the opportunity to bundle the app with Windows 10, to get TripAdvisor to build the app for Windows 10. If this is the case, it’s not a great sign if Microsoft has to head down this path to get big name brands to build applications for the OS even with over 200 million installs of the OS.

windows literally had this whole "Signature Edition" thing about avoiding bloatware their lovely OEMs stuck on their PCs and now they're doing the same thing

RubberJohnny fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Jan 27, 2016

theultimo
Aug 2, 2004

An RSS feed bot who makes questionable purchasing decisions.
Pillbug
Holy poo poo lenovo, how low can you go


http://www.bestbuy.com/site/lenovo-...4&skuId=4475000

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005


lmao

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000


It actually looks a nice laptop. We finally have price parity with software, soon the hardware will be cheaper than the software.

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

no meds = f4

tax refund season, bitch.

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flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock


lenomarf

the netbook's makin a comeback boys get on that train

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