Why arn't you just suspending/hibernating? Laptops are why those features were invented in the first place.

I really hope Microsoft doesn't gain traction on this because they simply cannot be trusted.

Anyone who lived through the IE6 days will know that this is nothing more than a marketing ploy, trying to tap into a wave of consumer anger.

Their handling of Windows 10 should have demonstrated, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the contempt in which Microsoft holds users data and privacy. And they've shoved telemetry into every single product they release now. Even their SDKs and OSS tools like Visual Studio Code.

It doesn't matter what technology Microsoft shoves into their browser. I trust a technology from Microsoft less than I can affect the direction of a black hole.

I like how you just assume that backups happen by a magic snap of Thanos' fingers.

Backups require effort. They require active maintenance.

If the higher level staff order the IT staff to do this that and the other thing, and they prioritize those things above doing backups, then what is the IT Manager going to do?

It's entirely possible that the IT Manager was simply incompetent. But past experience tells me that there is far more to the story, and that he was probably scapegoated so that the people above him could safe face for not giving him to means to do his job.

It's that dangly thing at the back of your throat.

You know, it amazes me the efforts you go through to twist the truth. You're like an unrepentant abusive boyfriend who compulsively gaslights everyone.

If you had even bothered to read _the very first sentence_ in the article, you would have read that iphones sales _fell_ a whopping 15% over the year previous. That's a massive drop!

1.4 billion active devices is a statistic Apple came up with to divert attention from the fact that their sales are tanking. Their product lines have become, at best, stagnant. Most of their new products are breathtakingly overpriced garbage. It's all about silly gimmicks, forced value-adds and locking now.

I work at a company who loves bleeding edge, non-mainstream stuff and literally nobody is happy with Apple anymore. The single most positive comment I can find is, "At least it's not Windows." When your only claim to fame is that you're not quite as shitty as an even shittier product, that's not a ringing endorsement and it points to a catastrophic future. That's probably why Cook is so focused on building up Apple's warchest. Because Apple is running full tilt into a repeat of the 80s and 90s where they became an industry embarrassment, and they need as much money as they can get to hopefully survive long enough to complete a proctocranialectomy.

I no longer push Apple products at work. We've gone from "Yeah you can have a Windows machine but wouldn't you rather have an Apple instead?" to "We'll only buy you an Apple if you have an explicit and specific business need."

Apple's products are NOT competitive hardware-wise. They are NOT competitive service-wise. Their software QA has gone down the toilet. Price-wise, I can buy similarly spec'ed dell for well below 50% the cost of an equivalent macbook pro, AND get on-site service and accidental damage protection to boot. Apple won't even offer on-site repair *because their laptops arn't repairable*. They won't even offer a temp replacement without yet another absurdly priced fee.

So do everyone (and yourself) a favour and stop lying. You. Arn't. Fooling. Anyone.

It's not that. It's just that caucasians are just too damn tall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Huh. This is honestly the first time I've ever come across that. TY!

Um.... no?

Capitalism has nothing to do with it. Fair labour laws are what did it. If it wasn't for those, you probably *would* be working on a farm. Or an assembly line factory. Or a mine. And not just you, but your wife and children too. And a substantial number of the people you currently know would be dead due to mistreatment or accident because things like safe practices get *in the way* of capitalism.

Also, if robots are doing said jobs, that means humans arn't getting paid to work. That means they have no money to buy these ultra cheap products you are so happy about. Not everyone has the ability to be an aerospace engineer. And even if they were, the world can only absorb so many aerospace engineers. Or heart surgeons. Etc.

So maybe it's time to lay off the Kool-Aid a bit and maybe look out the window, hmm?

Given the wilful blindness of so many comments I've read up till now, I honestly can't tell if you're making a joke or an ignorant sarcastic comment.

Not to mention even if people ARE college/uni educated, it's not like your experience and knowledge will translate to another job. *Especially* if your entire field has been wiped out and you need to go into something completely new.

Now you need extensive retraining that you will have to pay for yourself unless you are lucky enough to find a gov't program to help you (assuming there even is one), and you will be starting on the lowest rung in your new field with comparative pay.

I am just in awe of how willfully blind so many people are of the economic difficulties of a shifting workforce. *Especially* so when we literally saw it happen in front of our own bloody eyes, in real time, with the automotive sector.

Wow this comment is breathtakingly myopic. You are assuming perfect globalization where everything is equal, all jobs are equal, and there are no differences worth mentioning. The only way you can make that assumption is if you purposefully ignore all known reality!

You make it sound like if Avg Joe Blow loses his job as a machinist in Mexico, then no prob! He'll just move to Canada and get a job as a Cisco network admin! It's the same thing, right?

Since you've clearly forgotten, or perhaps the US education system has really become that bad, but the world is made up of different countries. A lot of them. Most of those countries speak different languages. They have different cultures. They have different levels of economic capability and stability. They have different levels of opportunity.

Someone from China can't just pick up roots on a whim and get a job in the US. That costs money, visas, learning a new language, etc etc. Similarly, someone in Canada can't just pick up and move to Argentina, for the exact same reasons.

The ultra rich love globalization because they have the freedom and ability to move their capital wherever they feel like it and have the clout to force people to accept it. Average Joe blow does _not_.

Moving costs money that people increasingly do not have.
Retraining costs money that people increasingly do not have, because companies have discovered that they can get away externalizing these costs.
Education has become prohibitively expensive in the US as to now be effectively unobtainable to the majority of citizens.
Salaries are NOT keeping up with inflation.

I could go on and on about all the reasons why just in the past few decades economics have become measurably worse for literally everyone except the rich but considering how gobsmackingly ignorant your comment was, I am probably not going to change your opinion on the matter. If you had spent even 5 minutes actually thinking about the situation, you wouldn't have posted what you did in the first place.

HRTDFA? I tried googling it but I can't find a definition for that acronym.

Actually, there's a very easy explanation.

XMPP is significantly more difficult to set up. XMPP also requires maintenance, and coordination between multiple parties if you want to do federation.

With XMPP, you need to know the server, the port, set up an account, etc. And lets not get into the various feature capabilities that one node may have that another does not.

The problem with XMPP is that it is made by geeks that assume everyone else who would use it is also a geek. Guess what? Geeks make up a very tiny portion of the population. And even if someone has the skill to work with it, they also need to be willing to devote the time to it. You need to set up a server to handle your node. Don't want to set up a server? Then just join one someone else has set up. Which one? Hell if I know. Now we need to google search. Our lives are already very complicated, and having to take precious moments out of our day *just to set up an XMPP server* is simply not acceptable to a whole lot of people.

With Slack? You enter a workspace name in their setup wizard. Boom. You're done. Want someone to join your workspace? Send an invite. They put in their email and a password. Boom. They're done.

You can have a fully functioning workspace on Slack in literally minutes. XMPP, no matter which way you slice it, cannot achieve that. Ease of getting started is a massive barrier to overcome.

It's the same reason why, say, MySQL's usage numbers blows away Postgres. Postgres is grossly superior to MySQL in every reasonable measure. But MySQL is trivial to setup. With Postgres, you need to make a number of changes to the config files before you can access it. This is why MySQL's usage dwarfs Postgres' by orders of magnitude.

Yes, Slack is centrally curated. Yes, Slack monetizes your own data back to you. Slack has all sorts of down sides. But all that doesn't matter because for the average person, Slack is trivial to set up and they have far more pressing concerns in their lives than how their communication system works.

I have to say that this story absolutely terrifies me in just how ineptly their infrastructure is being managed.

There is no way one infection should have been able to cause that kind of damage if their infrastructure had been configured properly. Properly segmenting your network and implementing reasonable permission management alone would have been enough to prevent this from happening. Throw in regular backups, anti-virus protection, etc, and the impact would have been minimal.

They either have grossly incompetent IT staff or, more likely, grossly incompetent management that allows for next to no IT budget so corners need to be cut all over the place just to keep the lights on.

It's funny/sad to see how hard they're trying now to get people to use their edge browser. Everyone pokes fun at Apple's RDF, but Microsoft seems to have one just as large, because they are completely oblivious to what people genuinely think about their products.

Unless you are very young, you know exactly what happened during the IE6 years, and I for one will *never* use another browser made by Microsoft. Ever. I don't care if has the ability to make gold bullion shoot out my USB port. The way they have managed the entire Windows 10 rollout has demonstrated very clearly that Microsoft hasn't learned one blessed thing and are still as arrogant/obnoxious/greedy as ever.

I use Windows 10 because I have no choice. But I'll be damned if I'm going to let them get a toehold anywhere else.