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Submission + - ZDNet proclaims "Windows: It's over" 1

Submitted by plastick on Monday April 15, 2013 @09:37PM

plastick writes: "You can think Windows 8 will evolve into something better, but the numbers show that Windows is coming to a dead end."

ZDNet is known to take the side of Microsoft in the past. ZDNet's Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols explains "The very day the debate came to an end, this headline appeared: IDC: Global PC shipments plunge in worst drop in a generation. Sure, a lot of that was due to the growth of tablets and smartphones and the rise of the cloud, but Windows 8 gets to take a lot of the blame too. After all, the debate wasn't whether or not Windows 8 was any good. It's not. The debate was over whether it could be saved."

Submission + - Survey: 41% of Facebook Users Total IDiots (allthingsd.com)

Submitted by plastick on Sunday March 13, 2011 @07:54PM

plastick writes: In an experiment, 41% of Facebook users were willing to divulge highly personal information to a complete stranger. This according to IT security firm Sophos, which invited 200 randomly selected Facebookers to befriend a bogus Facebook user named "Freddi Staur" (an anagram of "ID Fraudster"). Of those queried, 87 responded to the invitation, among them 82 people whose profiles included personal information such as their email address, date of birth, address or phone number. In total:

72% of respondents divulged one or more email address
84% listed their full date of birth
87% provided details about their education or workplace
78% listed their current address or location
23% listed their current phone number
26% provided their instant-messaging screen name

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