Comment No love for OS/2? (Score 1) 654
The Workplace Shell of OS/2 2.0 and above was much better than anything Microsoft had to offer at the time. Omitting it from this poll is a sacrilege.
Comment Re:Nothing. (Score 2) 400
The good old days when the only internet access you had at home was dial-up and you had to fight with your sister whether her calling her boyfriend or me being able to check
Boy, do I not miss them.
Comment Come on now.. (Score 2) 400
WebOS - for all intents and purposes a dead platform - has its own poll option, but Windows Phone 7.x doesn't? That's just ridiculous.
Comment Re:New Poll! (Score 1) 1521
You must be new here.
Comment Re:I have some difficulty understanding this (Score 1) 1521
Now now - Schumacher is performing as good as ever. (Save for the occasional bumping into other cars...) His problem in his second career is the lack of a competitive car.
Comment Another long-time reader saying thanks... (Score 1) 1521
... for creating a site I've been reading daily since 1997. As a matter of fact I made a habit of saving
Best luck for your future endeavours, and I hope to hear from you soon, Commander. Suggestion: Apply at Google, then port Google+ to Slashcode.
Comment The IE market share in the PRC won't last (Score 1) 158
because Baidu, the most popular search engine over there, is working on a browser of its own which guessing by the screenshots is based on Chrom{-e, -ium}.
DRM Drives Gamers To Piracy, Says Good Old Games 642
arcticstoat writes "Independent retro games retailer Good Old Games has spoken out about digital rights management, saying that it can actually drive gamers to piracy, rather than acting as a deterrent. In an interview, a spokesperson for Good Old Games said that the effectiveness of DRM as a piracy-deterrent was 'None, or close to none.' 'What I will say isn't popular in the gaming industry,' says Kukawski, 'but in my opinion DRM drives people to pirate games rather than prevent them from doing that. Would you rather spend $50 on a game that requires installing malware on your system, or to stay online all the time and crashes every time the connection goes down, or would you rather download a cracked version without all that hassle?'"
Comment Link to the actual article: (Score 1) 129
Submission + - Man upgrades Internet Explorer 1.0 to 9.0 [video] (winrumors.com)
FrankNFurter writes: "As seen on winrumors:
Some will remember the video of Andrew Tait upgrading Windows from 1.0 to 7. He did another one — this time installing all major versions of IE from 1.0 to 9.0."
Some will remember the video of Andrew Tait upgrading Windows from 1.0 to 7. He did another one — this time installing all major versions of IE from 1.0 to 9.0."
Comment Re:Debian6.0 squeeze screenshots Tour (Score 1) 250
It gets worse - Debian has a graphical installer now. I felt dirty using it to give Squeeze a try in a VM earlier.
Comment IP sold to MS-led consortium = UNIX? (Score 3, Interesting) 221
Think about it: Novell hold the copyrights and trademarks to UNIX. They would make for a nice addition to Microsoft's portfolio, don't you think?
The Future of Tech Support 105
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Christina Tynan-Wood reports on 7 emerging technologies and strategies that could make tech support less of a living hell for those in need of a fix. Augmented reality, self-healing systems, robot surrogates, avatar support — most seem the stuff of science fiction, but many are much closer than we might expect. 'As products become more and more interconnected, support itself will break off from the current model and become a product of its own,' Tynan-Wood writes. 'The same model has already happened in corporate IT, where technicians must orchestrate knowledge and skills across a variety of technology products. Even as the techniques and technologies used by corporate IT will change in the coming years, the shift in consumer tech support to an integrated approach will pose new opportunities for today's techs.'"
Submission + - Microsoft planning app store for Windows 8 (neowin.net)
FrankNFurter writes: "Microsoft is planning a Windows Store for Windows 8 according to documents leaked to the Internet on Monday.
The application store will allow users to discover and download trustworthy applications and have applications and their settings follow them on Windows 8. "Consumers get applications they want, that they can feel confident in, that they can use on any Windows 8 device" reads one of many slides detailing the new Windows Store.
Consumers will be able to search on the web or locally on a Windows 8 machine to access applications from the store. Microsoft also details plans for application developers to help reach millions of users. One of the goals is to ensure licensing and monetization for developers is flexible with a transparent on-boarding process.
It's clear that the 'Windows Store' will be a software service Microsoft provides and hosts fully in the cloud. The company will likely build the distribution model on Windows Azure to lure application developers."
The application store will allow users to discover and download trustworthy applications and have applications and their settings follow them on Windows 8. "Consumers get applications they want, that they can feel confident in, that they can use on any Windows 8 device" reads one of many slides detailing the new Windows Store.
Consumers will be able to search on the web or locally on a Windows 8 machine to access applications from the store. Microsoft also details plans for application developers to help reach millions of users. One of the goals is to ensure licensing and monetization for developers is flexible with a transparent on-boarding process.
It's clear that the 'Windows Store' will be a software service Microsoft provides and hosts fully in the cloud. The company will likely build the distribution model on Windows Azure to lure application developers."
Amiga Demonstration Helps Win Against Patent Troll 239
Amigan writes "Over on Groklaw, PJ is reporting that an actual demonstration of the Amiga OS (circa 1988) on an Amiga A1000 may have been the turning point in the lawsuit of IP Innovation v. Red Hat/Novell."
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