Comment Re:For a more detailed look (Score 2) 369
I suspect the Fortune 500 company I work for will contentedly continue using Office 2003 on Windows XP.
Comment Re:PDF import: Yes. "The Metro Look": No (Score 1) 369
"what the subscription model is for"
What it's supposed to be for? Or what it's actually for? Not the same thing, I suspect.
Among other things, doing away with installation DVDs ought to shut down an avenue for piracy.
Comment PDF import: Yes. "The Metro Look": No (Score 5, Insightful) 369
Subscription model: HELL, No.
Submission + - Google's Marissa Mayer becomes Yahoo CEO (nytimes.com)
D H NG writes: Marissa Mayer, Google's employee #20 and Vice President of Local, was appointed CEO of Yahoo. She was Google's public face for years, famously being responsible for the look and feel of Google’s most popular products: the famously unadorned white search homepage, Gmail, Google News and Google Images. Mayer resigned from Google Monday afternoon and will begin her new job on Tuesday.
Submission + - First Look: Microsoft Office 2013 (infoworld.com) 1
snydeq writes: "Ever since the first beta editions of Windows 8 appeared, rumors have circulated over how Microsoft would revamp its other flagship consumer product, Office, to be all the more useful in the new OS. Would Office become touch-oriented and Metro-centric, to the exclusion of plain old Windows users? A first look at Office 2013 provides the short answer: No. 'Office 2013 has clearly been revised to work that much better in Windows 8 and on touch-centric devices, but the vast majority of its functionality remains in place. The changes made are mostly cosmetic — a way to bring the Metro look to Office for users of versions of Windows other than 8. Further, Office 2013 has been designed to integrate more closely with online storage and services (mainly Microsoft's), although those are thankfully optional and not mandatory.'"
Comment Re:wow (Score 5, Funny) 158
There are few things more painful than a swollen kernel.
Submission + - Office 2013: A Cloudy Future (arstechnica.com) 1
benfrog writes: "Ars Technica has published an in-depth review of Office 2013, the largely cloud-based (plans don't include physical copies, rely on cloud-based storage, and the like) next version of Microsoft's venerable Swiss-army knife. Many changes are included in this version that largely caters to touch-screen interfaces. Ars also includes first looks at Excel 2013, Word 2013, and Outlook 2013."
Comment Re:Enough with the gimmicks. (Score 1) 273
Here in the US, nearly all of a theater owner's profit comes from those extortionately priced snacks. If he charged a non-insulting amount for them, he couldn't stay in business.
Comment Re:Why 2 Hobbit movies? (Score 1) 273
According to Jackson, film rights to "The Silmarillion" were never sold - and are unlikely to be in the future, given the Tolkien estate's dislike of the LOTR movies.
Comment Cue rage from Samsung fanbois (Score 0) 325
Oh, right... There's no such thing as a Samsung fanboi.
Comment "showed off a host of Windows 8 devices" (Score 5, Insightful) 343
Were journalists allowed to touch any of them this time?
Submission + - Apple App Store Encryption Glitch Causes Many New App Updates To Crash, See List (forbes.com)
Adelaideton writes: Many people who have downloaded new apps, or installed recently updated apps on their iOS device or Macintosh computer have had them crash immediately on launch. The issue was brought to light Wednesday by Marco Arment, creator of the popular read-later app Instapaper.
Comment Millions of years from now... (Score 2) 247
... Voyager will reach another solar system.
Mickey Mouse will still be under copyright.
Comment Re:With downfalls like that, who needs successes? (Score 1) 407
Fair enough. But history tells us that Apple's ability to make money doing something has zero correlation with Microsoft's ability to do the same.
Comment Re:"Microsoft's Downfall" (Score 2) 407
If you factor in profitability, it's cataclysmic.
