Yet Apple's profit was greater than the other's combined
By the same metric: 1) Windows Server is absolutely killing Linux in the server market
2) IIS is absolutely trouncing Apache in the web server market
3) Visual Studio is the only winner in IDEs etc.
4) ???
5) Profit
Joel Spolsky has an excellent write up on why the Office file formats suck. A must read.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/02/19.html
He actually worked on Excel leading to funny anecdotes like this one
... on terms which you have accepted in using the service
Please read the article. The judge specifically said that the "terms are service" are vague and don't indicate that user profiles are being built.
The judge mentions this in her ruling:
...generating user profiles or to provide targeted advertisements.
Spam filters and mail virus scanners don't do that.
Windows login gif.
>. I should be able to charge whatever I want to license the patents I own.
Except that these patents were promised to be FRAND and hence were included in the standard implemented in hundreds of millions of routers and videos. Turning around and extorting based on those is breach of contract, plain and simple, which the jury agreed with.
Don't you think FRAND patents should have restrictions on them or should, say Nokia, be allowed to charnge $10B dollars for licensing patents related to your phone being able to talk to millions of 3G GSM towers around the world?
So this means Google is now officially a convicted patent troll.
Take Google, which just drops the new version of the Android SDK over the wall along with the hardware running the new version of the Android OS. I didn't notice any outrage there, perhaps because they don't allow comments on their blog posts(or they don't have blog posts). Or perhaps because if Google does it, it's okay.
The funny thing is that Google doesn't even release a beta or RC version for Android like MS did with the 8.1 preview. Where's the Slashdot story and outrage?
The Slashdot story "Linux Vendors Push For Open-Source In Hybrid Datacenter Clouds" has just 19 comments after 4 hours. Now most of Slashdot comments consist of lame karmawhores like tuppe666, tepples, MightyMartian and bmo competing with each other to post the most puerile anti-MS drivel and modding each other up in the echochamber and shouting down anyone who points out their over the top hate and idiocy. Sad, really, atleast earlier insightful comments used to get modded up, now they have no chance.
The devs can use Windows 8.1 preview and Visual Studio 2013 preview to make their apps.
Slashdot: Dupes for MS haters.
Funny to see a Symbian user call WP shitty. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJpEuMidcSU
A camera phone being similar to a point and a shoot is a good thing. Why compare it to DSLRs?
Since when is popularity the metric of good quality? By that metric OS X and Linux are very bad OSes.
Spoken like someone who think all camera tech is the same. It's not. Read the whitepaper http://i.nokia.com/blob/view/-/2723846/data/1/-/Lumia1020-whitepaper.pdf
Which phone camera has 6 lenses and physical image stabilization?
The cost of feathers has risen, even down is up!
