This perhaps 0.01% of the problems I've encountered for reference. I work in other ecosystems as well and there's just not as much crap to deal with by several orders of magnitude.
It's always been bad. I'm the chief technical contact for a system with 50 developers and about 11,500 users. We've raised 20 cases which we couldn't work around and had one officially released solution (bug in IE11).…
I know this is getting a lot of fanfare but let us apply four major costly problems I'm having with the CLR/Framework at the moment: 1. Microsoft.Build.Tasks (the bit that has been screwing with me all day) contains…
Transport in London is cheap and easy. The problem is if you have to commute great distances. A shit bike can get you around most places and as someone who walked to and from work every day for a bit (10 mile round trip…
That article is crazy: 1. I lived in a car in London for 6 months. It was pretty fine. McDonalds was my washroom. 2. These boats are rare. I mean really rare. This is not the norm. The boats and the moorings are damn…
Microsoft (and their staff individually) actually contribute to the Linux kernel so this isn't that crazy. You can already get office 365 for iOS. Not sure about android but it's logical. This appears to be the…
I hope not. Ovi was a right pile of crap.
Is this non-Microsoft Nokia or Microsoft's handset division. If it's the former, I will guffaw loudly in the direction of Microsoft!
Yes
I had CTS surgery on my left hand back in 1998. Pretty ok since but the thing that killed me to start with was a big old mechanical IBM Model M and Windows Alt-Tab. The only keyboards I've used since are Cherry value…
There will still be idiots. They won't respawn.
The immortals are only immortal from natural causes of death... History tells us that people will quickly use that to their advantage.
I find this hard to believe. After using 10.8 and 10.9 over the last year, the sheer number of bugs is embarrassingly high. Every day, something was breaking for me. They have a serious QA problem i.e. they're either…
Thanks for posting this - your efforts are appreciated :)
Exactly. My MacBook is now for sale. Back to my Lenovo T400. Trust = gone. Apple's policy of silence and denial don't cut it any more. At least Microsoft use proper threat modelling, disclosure and mitigation processes,…
This. Canned my MacBook Pro over this. It's been a bumpy relationship anyway. Just on Thursday Apple Mail stopped sending mail to my SMTP server. Final straw for me. It's mainly an SSH and RDP terminal anyway. OSX…
Snap! However, as an ex-beeb user now with children who have a Raspberry Pi, the beeb was considerably more reliable, better documented, flexible and easier to get off the ground. I'd argue it's still a better platform…
There goes 20 years of muscle memory...again.
It's probably like our dedicated UI team: cheap. Our head UI designer sent SPAM for a living before working for us.
That's a pretty poor assumption then.
Looking at that screenshot, one question: What do we drag stuff with now without setting off a menu?
There are other patents involved. That is just the poster-boy for it. I know an ex-J++ team member. The objective was to produce a Java IDE that didn't suck (do you remember 1996 Java)? Sun wouldn't license them the…
1. What negative impact? I assume you understand the purpose of patents. Also the patents licensed for the fee are not disclosed. I had a windows touch screen phone 5 years before the iPhone and way before Google even…
Yeah that sucks. I wish you luck with that and will keep my eyes peeled for issues here. We gave 50 seats so trouble like this would be nice to avoid.
My 2013 Pro from MSDN doesn't do anything like that. Edit: I just span up a copy fo the virtual machine snapshot and it didn't say anything even though that had been technically not used and has no network connection.
This perhaps 0.01% of the problems I've encountered for reference. I work in other ecosystems as well and there's just not as much crap to deal with by several orders of magnitude.
It's always been bad. I'm the chief technical contact for a system with 50 developers and about 11,500 users. We've raised 20 cases which we couldn't work around and had one officially released solution (bug in IE11).…
I know this is getting a lot of fanfare but let us apply four major costly problems I'm having with the CLR/Framework at the moment: 1. Microsoft.Build.Tasks (the bit that has been screwing with me all day) contains…
Transport in London is cheap and easy. The problem is if you have to commute great distances. A shit bike can get you around most places and as someone who walked to and from work every day for a bit (10 mile round trip…
That article is crazy: 1. I lived in a car in London for 6 months. It was pretty fine. McDonalds was my washroom. 2. These boats are rare. I mean really rare. This is not the norm. The boats and the moorings are damn…
Microsoft (and their staff individually) actually contribute to the Linux kernel so this isn't that crazy. You can already get office 365 for iOS. Not sure about android but it's logical. This appears to be the…
I hope not. Ovi was a right pile of crap.
Is this non-Microsoft Nokia or Microsoft's handset division. If it's the former, I will guffaw loudly in the direction of Microsoft!
Yes
I had CTS surgery on my left hand back in 1998. Pretty ok since but the thing that killed me to start with was a big old mechanical IBM Model M and Windows Alt-Tab. The only keyboards I've used since are Cherry value…
There will still be idiots. They won't respawn.
The immortals are only immortal from natural causes of death... History tells us that people will quickly use that to their advantage.
I find this hard to believe. After using 10.8 and 10.9 over the last year, the sheer number of bugs is embarrassingly high. Every day, something was breaking for me. They have a serious QA problem i.e. they're either…
Thanks for posting this - your efforts are appreciated :)
Exactly. My MacBook is now for sale. Back to my Lenovo T400. Trust = gone. Apple's policy of silence and denial don't cut it any more. At least Microsoft use proper threat modelling, disclosure and mitigation processes,…
This. Canned my MacBook Pro over this. It's been a bumpy relationship anyway. Just on Thursday Apple Mail stopped sending mail to my SMTP server. Final straw for me. It's mainly an SSH and RDP terminal anyway. OSX…
Snap! However, as an ex-beeb user now with children who have a Raspberry Pi, the beeb was considerably more reliable, better documented, flexible and easier to get off the ground. I'd argue it's still a better platform…
There goes 20 years of muscle memory...again.
It's probably like our dedicated UI team: cheap. Our head UI designer sent SPAM for a living before working for us.
That's a pretty poor assumption then.
Looking at that screenshot, one question: What do we drag stuff with now without setting off a menu?
There are other patents involved. That is just the poster-boy for it. I know an ex-J++ team member. The objective was to produce a Java IDE that didn't suck (do you remember 1996 Java)? Sun wouldn't license them the…
1. What negative impact? I assume you understand the purpose of patents. Also the patents licensed for the fee are not disclosed. I had a windows touch screen phone 5 years before the iPhone and way before Google even…
Yeah that sucks. I wish you luck with that and will keep my eyes peeled for issues here. We gave 50 seats so trouble like this would be nice to avoid.
My 2013 Pro from MSDN doesn't do anything like that. Edit: I just span up a copy fo the virtual machine snapshot and it didn't say anything even though that had been technically not used and has no network connection.