According to the most recent BSA Global Software Survey in 2018 ( https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgss.bsa.org%2Fwp-content... ), Russia is reported to be at 62% percent unlicensed software. Russia continues to account for the largest dollar share of unlicensed software in Central and Eastern Europe.

This is just going to further drive this figure upward.

Oddly I get calls from (actual) Google about every 3 weeks. Not fake Google scammers but real google. First question is them asking for my account number. I always tell them no, ask to speak to a manager, have some fight with them, and then eventually give in because they refuse to move forward without it. Why canâ(TM)t Google of all people understand that they called me

The only real solution is to hold the source network responsible, and after proper channels suspend access in. There is no motivation for service providers here and overseas to ensure quality customers. If you start abusing your Internet, service providers here will cut you off. If entire networks are spammers we stop accepting mail from them (unfortunately maybe taking legitimate email down with it). Start rejecting calls. These folks connect to the PSTN network somewhere and have an account somewhere

> a company that at present offers 8 different versions of Windows 10

They offer ?8? SKUs of Windows 10. There is only one Windows 10 code base and product. They add active directory domains and other enterprise features to charge more to corporations and provide a cheaper product to end users. Other than that the other SKUs are regulators doing their thing by unbundling Microsoft software (while allowing Apple and Google to do it).

Live tiles were well researched in both psychology and UX. It wasnâ(TM)t just to unify the phone and PC. This was an era when touch-screens were suddenly becoming a thing in laptops, and Microsoft was losing market share to the iPad for consumption of information (web surfing, newspapers, etc). So the Surface and Surface Pro began, in addition to providing touch services on general touch screen laptops. The resolution on touch devices wasnâ(TM)t even as good at the time, and so the tiles were maybe larger than they should have been.

Like most vendors at the time, everyone thought touch would be _the_ thing. In reality, touch is terrible for productivity on a PC, lifting your hands off the keyboard and mouse and reaching for a giant screen at an ergonomically inaccessible location.

This was a part of UWP- having universal apps for PC, touch PCs, tablets, lesser ARM tablets, and to a lesser extent the phones. Unfortunately since developers resisted Windows 8, the users never received the experience of Windows 8 that was intended.

That is how you register an enterprise device. By installing the certificate in it. That enables trusting of apps, configuration profiles, and VPN connections.

Which they give you for free?

Nobody cares about the audio port anymore. Apple saw the writing on the wall for Bluetooth headsets and connected devices (ie: spotify plays to Alexa, my amp, etc directly). They saw that it was the thickest item on the phone and a giant hole which you can't waterproof due to its springy internal design. They created a cheap dongle (in case you need extras) which they included one in the box for free to ease compatibility for those with old speaker sets.

Google who has now followed suit. The long term is that the antiquated phone jack designed in 1877 and made slightly smaller in the 1950s is too big to make a phone thinner, takes up too much internal space in the phone, and corrodes due to moisture in the pocket.

Let it go. The headphone jack was always on its way out.

So much negativity in these comments.
* Apple made an incremental upgrade to their phones which offered little new over the prior generation which was well purchased (the X and 8/8Plus)
* at a time when the overall phone purchasing market shrunk due to saturation
* at a time when consumer debt is the highest and consumer spending is on a decline due to uncertainty (partly created by media)

They saw the same decline everyone else did this year, but had a fantastic last-year. They also sold a ton of Apple Watches, iPads, iPad Pros. and iMacs.

This is the bigger issue of backward compatibility. How long should a vendor support a feature they no longer want to support simply because someone is using it?

How much legacy code is in Linux, Windows, and every single program? The bloat, the old compatibility APIs. Sigh.

The coding and API mistakes of the past haunt software forever. Itâ(TM)s why I donâ(TM)t blame vendors for making a major version which breaks compatibility every once in a while.

Ease of bending. Itâ(TM)s a feature thick phones lack.

It is all about thickness. The headphone jack limited making the phone thinner. Samsung hopped on the Android fan bandwagon and made fun of Apple to boost their own sales. Now they want to make the phone thinner and need to do the same

Google sees threats such as WhatsApp, Facebook, and so on and responds. Enter Google Plus. Enter Hangouts. They are not well thought out and are a knee jerk reaction. It is expected, because there is a link in gmail about them, that folks will hop on board.

Take google local as an example? A response to Yelp and Facebook adding place support. Still canâ(TM)t handle merging a multiple location business into one news feed. Still offers no useful interaction with followers.

Google needs to plan products or theyâ(TM)ll just be search and gmail, and itâ(TM)s only a matter of time before something better comes around with Bing getting better and better and Yandex and Baidu supporting more English results (gearing up?)

PlayStation 4 hasnâ(TM)t had too many problems with piracy especially as most games have a huge online component. Theyâ(TM)ve made it impractical to pirate games in their ecosystem. Possible, yes, but any online use and youâ(TM)re using the latest vanilla operating system.

People idolize the past. Romanticize it. Meanwhile everyone left there because it didnâ(TM)t offer something core to them that they were willing to uproot their entire life and everyone they know. Safety. Comfort. Employment. Opportunity.