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PuTTY riot: Nov 16, 2002

SO DEMANDING posted:

people are flocking to iPhones...which they use to check their email from an exchange server. iPads are also popular...and are being used to check email on an exchange server and as dumb terminals using poo poo like citrix. and anyone who does anything even remotely important is still using office

i mean yeah ok microsoft has made some terrible loving decisions and hilarious fuckups over the last few years, but ultimately they are still absolutely enormous in the enterprise and it will take many many more years of constant fuckups and bad decisions to seriously erode that market share

if ballmer was still at them helm, yeah i could see that happening, but now i think theres a chance microsoft will pull some of its hydra-like heads out of its rear end and realize that enterprise is where they excel (hah) and make money, while consumer poo poo is just not a strong point worth pursuing

yeah

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 22:13

PuTTY riot: Nov 16, 2002

Internaut! posted:

I just watched this documentary about the Large Hadron Collider and the discovery of the Higgs boson

amongst the many revelations in that film is that virtually every one of those folks uses a Mac from the most pie-in-the-sky theorists to the magnet janitors to the administrators and everything in between, and plenty of iPads and iPhones besides

in other words, people with advanced degrees in hard sciences from the best schools at the top of their respective fields, whose careers depend on computation and can choose any platform they want to, overwhelmingly choose Macs to work on

but

can we hear more from some more bottom rung computer janitors about how Macs just can't be used for real work

wow u mean maths people who do specific research and probably use unixy poo poo and aren't part of a corporate infrastructure prefer macs and it works for them? wow, its like that has anything in the world to do w/ suzie the loan processor.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2014 21:07

PuTTY riot: Nov 16, 2002

ask cortana to close explorer.exe

# ¿ Jan 23, 2015 21:47

PuTTY riot: Nov 16, 2002

Luigi Thirty posted:

i'm upgrading vmware to see if there's a new vmware tools that works better with win10. in the meantime, here's the new authentically digital settings menu

what does control panel look like

# ¿ Jan 23, 2015 22:00

PuTTY riot: Nov 16, 2002

pseudorandom name posted:

Is that search box permanently there wasting space or can you turn it off?

this is a dumb thing to care about

# ¿ Jan 23, 2015 22:00

PuTTY riot: Nov 16, 2002

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

wrong

how many things do you have open jesus christ

# ¿ Jan 23, 2015 22:05

PuTTY riot: Nov 16, 2002

bitlocker killed my ssd

# ¿ Jan 23, 2015 22:29

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 22:13

PuTTY riot: Nov 16, 2002

FMguru posted:

i remember an article about ballmer from 2-3 years ago where they said he did all his work on a giant hdtv touchscreen running windows 8 metro in his office

i guess that was the prototype for the surface hub

# ¿ Jan 24, 2015 00:50

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