drinkydoh - Slashdot User

Submission + - Windows 8 Is Ready (theverge.com)

Submitted by drinkydoh on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @12:41PM

drinkydoh writes: In an announcement today, Microsoft has finally said that Windows 8 is now complete. Microsoft has begun delivering RTM versions to manufacturers and the general availability of the tablets and computers using Windows 8 will be on October 26th. "Microsoft's final milestone concludes almost two years of development for its new Metro inspired Windows 8 software and marks the beginning of the release phase. Microsoft says MSDN and TechNet customers will be able to download it from August 15th. Windows Store will go live on August 15th. Developers will be able to access the final tools and submission process for Metro style apps at the Windows Dev Center later this month".

Comment Successful ad campaign is successful (Score 5, Insightful) 244

by drinkydoh on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @12:15PM (#40843575) Attached to: Critics Blast Apple's Cheesy New Ad Campaign

They even got their ad campaign freely detailed on Slashdot and by all those different critics. Can't be more successful than that.

Submission + - EA Origin Hits 21 Million Users (joystiq.com)

Submitted by drinkydoh on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @11:46PM

drinkydoh writes: EA has reported that Origin has officially hit 21 million users. 9 million of this includes mobile members. This means a dramatic increase from numbers given in May, when the company reported Origin having 11 million members. EA stated recently it had 12 million downloads and supports 50 publishing partners catalogs and 57 independent developers.

Submission + - FCC Approves $22.5 Million Fine For Google (theverge.com)

Submitted by drinkydoh on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @11:38PM

drinkydoh writes: FCC and Google have approved an $22.5 million fine for Google's part in circumventing Safari users' cookie privacy settings, and now FCC has voted to approve the fine. Official announcement will follow in a few days, but Google has refused to comment on the issue. The privacy violation occurred from a discovery that Google found a way and was deliberately circumventing Safari's option to block third party cookies from advertising networks. These cookies allowed Google to uniquely track users between different web sites and was mostly used to display advertisement for products and services the user had previously searched for or visited. One example being searching for help to personal diseases where after the user would see such ads across the internet.

Comment Re:Microsoft is suddenly scared? (Score 1) 126

by drinkydoh on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @03:54AM (#40826121) Attached to: Microsoft, IBM Want to Seal Patents Agreements With Samsung

So why doesn't Linux Foundation do the same for Microsoft and Windows? Or doesn't Linux use any advanced technology?

Comment Re:No (Score 4, Insightful) 181

by drinkydoh on Monday July 30, 2012 @03:43PM (#40821333) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Are The Days of Homebrew Gaming Over?

Homebrew isn't over, it's just been replaced by indie games. It's somewhat similar to shareware games from the 90's and early 2000's.

Comment Re:threatened? (Score 5, Insightful) 132

by drinkydoh on Wednesday July 18, 2012 @09:27AM (#40685089) Attached to: Judge In Kim Dotcom Extradition Case Steps Down

Well, he made the right decision right? I don't get why so many people on slashdot is saying it's the wrong decision. If this was judge who commented against dotcom in similar way Slashdot would be outraged if he didn't step down.

Submission + - Office 15 Announcement Today (theverge.com)

Submitted by drinkydoh on Monday July 16, 2012 @10:09AM

drinkydoh writes: Today Microsoft will announce Office 15, the most popular office suite on planet.

Comment Re:Partisan content? (Score 0) 209

by drinkydoh on Monday July 16, 2012 @07:16AM (#40661517) Attached to: NBC Purchases MSNBC Rights From Microsoft

Both Microsoft and Facebook will, however, profit from this greatly. NBC is now letting Facebook stream olympics for free. Microsoft is a major shareholder on Facebook. Magically shares turn back to their owner.

Comment Re:Partisan content? (Score 1) 209

by drinkydoh on Monday July 16, 2012 @07:11AM (#40661503) Attached to: NBC Purchases MSNBC Rights From Microsoft

You're being overly paranoid. Newspaper and websites want eyeballs so they can sell advertising and make money. Now, individual authors and writers might have their own point of view, but so does everyone.

Comment Re:Africa (Score 1) 189

by drinkydoh on Saturday July 14, 2012 @02:57AM (#40646729) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Building a Personal FOSS Cloud?

You save their music by providing food and shelter. You know, in some places people still listen to live music.

Comment Re:The big difference here is (Score -1, Troll) 679

by drinkydoh on Sunday June 10, 2012 @09:00AM (#40273765) Attached to: History Will Revere Bill Gates and Forget Steve Jobs, Says Author

"what were they thinking when they dared to include an 'embrace and extend,' proprietary network platform in their OS so that people might actually be locked into their ecosystem (despite the pre-existence of browsers based on open standards). "

Fixed that.

Based on this comment you weren't around then. Netscape (now Firefox) was the one breaking all the standards and IE and Opera tried to play nice and according to standards.

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