Treating multiple open processes as simply "tabs" makes it really hard to get around.
My workplace has about 30k chromebooks in use, and the "tabs" is a source of complaint for some web apps because Chrome will suspend those tabs (regardless of settings) and require a fresh login to re-connect the setting. Cookies don't work for everything, esp high-security stuff.
It was called Windows ARM or something.
Maybe read the linked article...
And it failed miserably.
Yup.
...so what happens to all tech that now depended on them? There must be some future protection, right? How does it work?
Patent sharing doesn't mean all the code built on the patents becomes open source. They'll still keep that source code closed.
Speaking of Bing... now that Google's shutting down Google Plus rather than endure bad press for a product that will never compete with FaceBook, I wonder if Microsoft will similarly accept that Bing will never compete seriously with Google. Different markets, I know. Bing vs Google doesn't have to deal with the network effects of 'everybody's already on Facebook'.
VERY different markets. Bing's search technology is getting expanded on and used within Office/Azure tenancies. I think MS announced something about this at Ignite last month. I see Bing as more of a tech experiment than an actual Google rival. Maybe MS captures a share of the search engine market, but I think their real aim was to learn how to build a better search engine, one that they could use elsewhere.
It makes everything worse. Less control over your possessions is always worse.
Yes, because companies that either delay or outright refuse to update has brought us such wonderful things. Why, if everything was updated properly, we'd miss out on the wonders of botnets, and exploits that were patched 5 years ago raging through hospitals.
It's of limited utility so long as
And on the 'you have to have admin rights', there is something deeply wrong with the Windows userbase. I made an app for Windows and made it available to some testers and went to see what they did. About 7 out of 10 of the test users right clicked to 'run as administrator' without even *trying* to run it normally. Even after telling them as the developer of the application that it does not need admin rights, 2 of them refused to run it normally, because they didn't believe that it could work without it.
That's why we (or at least I) deny users administrative rights. Expect your users to be useless in regard to security, and harden your systems accordingly.
From the License:
"The software may collect information about you and your use of the software, and send that to Microsoft."
Telemetry is built into so many things now, it's a losing battle. Do you have a phone? With an app installed? It's tracking you more than VSCode ever will. But you keep wearing that tinfoil hat, and we'll keep doing what the aliens tell us with their brain rays.
Starting with a scripting language such as Ruby or Python might be up your alley as neither requires compiling and both are pretty easy to read and understand. See if you like the idea of coding for long periods of time and banging your head against the desk in frustration.
If you work in a primarily Microsoft IT department, I'd place powershell on the top of the scripting language options. It's built on top of DotNet, which means you can be simple and get around, but you can also call up DotNet, or import other libraries built upon it. You can even do some C# code right in powershell, and use it in your scripts, so it's a language that can grow with you, and one that sets you up for jumping to C#.
There's also the details about DotNet and Powershell having their open source versions so you can take that knowledge set to Mac and Linux.
If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers. -- Swami Prabhupada
