When something nefarious is pointed out, it doesn't mean its time to seek out nefarious activities of others to justify your own, it means its time to learn and do what is right.

The idea isn't to weaponize fake news, the idea should be to remove it. For the benefit of all.

Claiming that because we're raising the issue of fake news and its impact to American's doesn't mean that we're full on Venezuela Communist now and to assert such is assinine.

There is 0 evidence of this claim.

Snopes is independent. There is 0 evidence to support your argument.

The "Convington boys" were bused to an anti-abortion march and allowed to wear MAGA hats by their school. Many things failed to create the circumstances that lead to those boys feeling the need to do what they did and none of those failures were the media. Making boys as part of their school field trip decide the fate of women's reproductive rights was failure number one and failure number two as allowing school children to wear MAGA hats and incite the coverage they deserved their own own actions. Why would school bus boys from OK to protest women's reproductive rights and allow them to wear MAGA hats and then let them get involved in making political statements that they then sued to hide? Why would these boys or the school need a PR Firm?

What you are doing is projection. You're blaming others for your own actions as if being a liberal or having liberal media is the problem. The media reported on these kids and if they didn't want to be used for the propaganda they shouldn't have been sent for propaganda.

It's actually super relevant. A lot of people use it, i get ribbed for using it all the time but have no problems using it as my default search engine in the USA. I hear it can suck in foreign countries, but that's not a problem for me.

Lots of people enjoy bing.. great image search, great SERP design for common topics and they're continuously improving it. They have public conferences once a month where there are thousands of people on the phone hearing about new features and testing new services. It's huge, but written off by so many for reason i fail to understand. (again, unless you don't use US searches.. i can't speak for anywhere else)

Millions of people use it for bing rewards too.. its nice getting free music, games, xbox live points et all just for doing what you would normally do anyway.

You are correct in many ways, but let's not forgot, a lot of people simply don't comprehend Windows 10 and its depth/reach.

Windows 10 already has 150+ million installs, Windows 10 is the "UWP" - Universal Windows Platform. With a single development methodology to target Phone, Xbox One, Windows 10 on Tablets and Windows 10 on desktop.

I think a lot of people are writing off "mobile" on the concepts set forth by Apple & Android without thinking "Universal" where win10 already has a sizeable market share that it seems *absurd* companies aren't trying to monopolize especially considering how easy it is to enter this market. in Windows 10 UWP an app isn't "mobile" its "connected" and it works across a huge and growing platform base.

The open internet is one of the most democratizing things we have in a modern society, why is this even up for debate? What benefit would society have in enabling "Fast lanes" or "premium" connections or other nonsense? What do we get protecting commercial interests?

Right now the IoT OS doesn't include "WinRT" which is the app store windows runtime that "Windows RT" uses

Honest question, since when is windows not known as reliable? I have just as many problems supporting Linux on anything as Windows and to be quite honest, sometimes it may be worth paying the couple of dollars to license an OS that has great vendor support out of the box than to roll your own. Microsoft for example offers Windows 8.1 for free on Devices 9" screen size. I can't imagine this version costing much if anything at all - running similar to licensing of Android where some specific configurations may have costs.

Knowing Microsoft will have a "universal" app ecosystem and fully expecting that WinRT will be ported to IoT platforms fully (don't think it has been for 8.1 IoT platforms) it would be silly for an internet of things company to be concerned with OS when they can focus on Device - especially knowing Microsoft's long tail support of everything..

It's a shame the first few posts are complaints about virus's or other nonsense. Microsoft has had Windows 8.1 for IoT for a little while now and they have a great growing community of developers and devices that Windows runs on. It's pretty amazing that Windows can run on these devices. Raspberry Pi running Windows 10 with Plex should be a fun experiment if Plex makes a port and it will be exciting to see Visual Studio updated to have the Pi as supported device.

What are you talking about? Nothing is "exactly" as bad as "we" always said they would. There is nothing "right".. (rightness?? seriously?)

Surely you gest..

The MS antitrust case was nearly 14 years ago and people here still pretend it was yesterday.

Citation needed.

Microsoft licensing isn't really an issue, the OS is free on certain profiles such as small tablets and mobile devices and with everything hinted at with Windows 10 it appears that the OS will become further more affordable to consumers/end users. Schools also get incentive programs, discounts and free student/teacher licenses. If anything, Microsoft is embracing Android & iOS more these days so the biggest loser stands to be ChromeBooks in the end. Windows devices are price point competitive with ChromeBooks. Visual Studio being free, .Net going cross platform, Windows for "Free" on mobile/tablet platforms.. this all seems like nonsense.

Someone attending a 3 month crash course is going to be an intern/beginner developer. This is the point. They're going to start working at the bottom of the career ladder and work their way up. One could argue that after 4 years they would have improved especially if they're of the type where they know that programming is a never ending learning experience. One could also argue that a large problem with the university system is that a lot of graduates feel that once they have graduated they're accomplished and done.

I actually support whatever methods we can employ to get more people into development. Girl scouts often does 3 month crash courses to get girls coding, girls who code, the same. We have to start somewhere as the university system isn't for everyone and should NEVER be a qualifier for what is good in the day and age when we can all learn and share and knowing how to learn is the most important aspect of being good at anything.