Peachy Posted November 27, 2012 Posted November 27, 2012 An interesting analysis of how borked Microsoft is at the moment. Quote
crp Posted November 27, 2012 Posted November 27, 2012 I think "semiaccurate" is a good name for the url. Surface is a very good idea as the hardware OEM were not doing much in providing high quality and it does seem to have given a couple of them a kick in the pants to get moving with better designs and quality. For enterprises, WindowsServer is still an excellent option and the Microsoft Active Directory is best in class for an enterprise (and probably medium business as well though small business might be able to use other DC's). One cannot complain about Microsoft's lock-in policy and then praise Apple. Pick one, is it good or bad to have lock-in? Microsoft still has a lot of engineers with OS expertise and with the W8 head gone, lets wait to see how W9 comes out and if there will be a W7.8 for pc's. The Microsoft mobile is really worse than what the article describes. How can they put out W8-Phone with no AD communication available or possible? Quote
V.T. Eric Layton Posted November 27, 2012 Posted November 27, 2012 Wow! Long article. Anyway, I think MS has lost its focus over the last ten years or so. It was never the same after Uncle Bill retired. Maybe he should do a "Steve Jobs" and come back to straighten things out? Here's what needs doing: Fire Ballmer. Hire everyone fired during the Ballmer years. A total rework of that really cool Millinnium Edition. Quote
Peachy Posted November 27, 2012 Author Posted November 27, 2012 I would agree with the sentiment that Windows Server 2012 is very good. I've been playing with it at work this fall and it is the best server OS Microsoft has come out with. But he does have a point that Windows 8 is dead as a corporate desktop but Windows 7 is still useful. The idea that all the cool feature of Windows Server only work with Windows 8 clients is a red herring I feel. Quote
Guest LilBambi Posted November 27, 2012 Posted November 27, 2012 Yeah, but of course Windows Server 2013 maybe another issue entirely. But then they are upping the prices again, so who knows who will be buying into it. Quote
Guest LilBambi Posted December 5, 2012 Posted December 5, 2012 Nope, I am not jesting (and don't call me shirley*) *Quote from Airplane (the movie) Quote
Guest LilBambi Posted December 7, 2012 Posted December 7, 2012 That really stinks. There are many places that use silverlight for listening to radio and podcasts. How will those people deal with the wasted money. Sad... Quote
amenditman Posted December 7, 2012 Posted December 7, 2012 That really stinks. There are many places that use silverlight for listening to radio and podcasts. How will those people deal with the wasted money. Sad... By switching their entire operation to a standards based HTML 5 streaming service. At huge additional cost to them, no rebate from little Stevie and crew. Quote
mac Posted December 10, 2012 Posted December 10, 2012 That really stinks. There are many places that use silverlight for listening to radio and podcasts. How will those people deal with the wasted money. Sad... Ummm, I'm confused. From the ZDnet article: I asked a Microsoft what, if anything, the company planned to do to fix the myriad broken Silverlight links. A spokesperson emailed me the following statment:“In order to streamline access to online resources for the Silverlight community, we’ve consolidated our Silverlight content with the library of information on MSDN. On October 2nd, we communicated to our customers that we would be merging Silverlight.net with MSDN, and completed this migration on October 31st. "We realize that some of our customers may have experienced challenges accessing links to content that had resided on the original Silverlight site. We apologize for any inconvenience and we’re working to resolve these issues for our customers. "The consolidation of this content does not impact Microsoft’s Silverlight offering. We released Silverlight 5 in December 2011 and we’ve committed to supporting Silverlight into the year 2021.” That's 9 more years of support. And, I don't have a pony in this race as I don't use Silverlight. Quote
Guest LilBambi Posted December 10, 2012 Posted December 10, 2012 (edited) Very interesting. They haven't updated Silverlight since December 2011?! That to me is odd. But glad they haven't left their customers in the lurch. Where is the article that is from? The ZDNet address. Edited December 10, 2012 by LilBambi Quote
mac Posted December 10, 2012 Posted December 10, 2012 Sorry, forgot to post the link. Getting old is tough! :'( http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-pulls-the-plug-on-its-silverlight-net-site-7000008494/ Quote
Guest LilBambi Posted December 10, 2012 Posted December 10, 2012 (edited) Microsoft Retires Silverlight.net, Developers Concerned About Dead Links - Microsoft News On another forum, one person said they weren't surprised since Adobe Flash was now bundled in with Windows 8 now. Actually the way Microsoft was saying it is that it was bundled with IE 10, I thought. Early users of Windows 8's built-in Internet Explorer may find themselves at risk of exploitation via the Flash plugin, as the version included with Windows 8 is out of date. Adobe patched Flash on August 21 to resolve known security flaws, but the patch can't be applied to Internet Explorer 10. Internet Explorer 10 bundles Adobe Flash, with Microsoft taking on responsibility for shipping updates to the integrated plugin. One repercussion of this arrangement is that Adobe's patches and autoupdate mechanism can't be used; they can update the standalone version used by Firefox, but not the embedded version in Internet Explorer. The same is true of Chrome; it includes an embedded version of Flash, and the only way to update that is with a Chrome update. Adobe's updater can't touch it. There has been some chatter on Twitter about this issue since Adobe shipped its most recent patch. Ed Bott at ZDNet asked Microsoft about the issue, and was told: We will update Flash in Windows 8 via Windows Update as needed. The current version of Flash in the Windows 8 RTM build does not have the latest fix, but we will have a security update coming through Windows Update in the GA timeframe. Looks like they are keeping that up to date.... and yes, it was Mary Jo Foley's article at ZDNet that has the quote that Mac posted. Edited December 10, 2012 by LilBambi Quote
V.T. Eric Layton Posted December 10, 2012 Posted December 10, 2012 Getting old is tough! :'( It's definitely not for wussies. Quote
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