This comment shows exactly what's wrong with open source nuts like you. I use Linux solutions wherever I can, but informing clients and getting them off of Microsoft solutions can be a daunting task. Many of them will tune you out completely if you even mention Linux as a solution. Tell them instead that they can save $1000 per machine in software costs without ripping out what they have, and they become your next best bud. It's an easy buy-in to install open source software on Windows desktops side-by-side with whatever they currently have. once you have weened them off the Microsoft tit, then they are ready to wholesale switch to Linux. Especially now that Microsoft is turning the PC in to a walled off garden.

I guess nobody told them what a Von Neumann machine is. Changing the software doesn't change the machine. There is over a hundred years worth of precedence regarding this class of ideas, from looms to player pianos. Software patents are just corporate interests trying to lock up much of the already invented technology so that they will have monopolies for the next 100 years.

Under HIPAA and other electronic health records laws and initiatives, your medical records do not belong to you, and you have a very small say so in what happens to them. There are laws that dictate how long a doctor must keep your records on file. The direction of the healthcare industry is to move towards a clearinghouse model for medical records. It will be the clearinghouse who dictates who has access and to their final disposition. Obamacare just speeds this up through the use of insurance exchanges. Massive data warehouses are currently being created in order to do data mining on the medical records.

You don't know what you are talking about. Yes you can file by paper, and they will take up to 3 months to pay you. They will tell you that they never received your claims, cheat you and then pay only a fraction of what you're entitled to. If you relied on paper, you would be out of business in a heartbeat. I guess you don't work in the healthcare industry, because if you did, you would know that there is a massive undertaking to move away from paper to all electronic submissions.

And NaviNet is the web portal for over 50 different insurance companies. It includes Aetna, Cigna,Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Horizon, Oxford, Medicare, UnitedHealthCare, and many others. This site is required by doctors, not individuals. If you are a doctor, and accept any one of these insurances, you must do all of your account maintenance using this site. It is mandatory. It is stipulated by the doctor's contract with the insurance carrier. They use this site to check for eligibility, for financials, check information and even electronic prescribing.

As for the illustrious US government, access to the PECOS site can only be done effectively through Windows and IE. This site is used by the doctors to manage their Medicare and NPI enrollments. If you are a doctor, and wish to accept Medicare, you must deal with this site. I have on numerous times, tried to use other browsers on these sites, but they don't work.

I guess being a shill for Microsoft doesn't give you a whole lot of time to read the news. Microsoft has spent tremendous amounts of money in the healthcare industry. It has even formed a joint venture with GE who is a major player in that industry. It has given millions of dollars to the insurance carriers to lock the industry into Microsoft technologies. This is an undeniable fact.

This lockdown is digitally restricting me to using proprietary systems and is preventing me from choosing other technologies. Whether or not it is using encryption to accomplish that is immaterial. It is still DRM.

It is defective by design. I must only use MicroShaft solutions. Locked in to one vendor. Digital Restrictions Management. DRM is not just encryption. It is any technique used to restrict me from exercising my choice. My choice of operating system, my choice of browser and my choice of networking technologies .There are web standards that they could use to develop for a wide ranging os's and browsers. Instead, they use proprietary/DRM'd technologies causing me to be at the mercy of Microsoft. They are restricting me to one crappy vendor's solutions. Why? As much as Microsoft doesn't like it, the tech industry is more than just Microsoft. And now with the Win8 and Win9 Microsoft lockdown, it is more imperative that I move my clients off of Microsoft's solutions as much as possible.

The UK for one. Here ya go. The US also, Almost all of the US healthcare requires mandatory use of IE.Even the US govt is on this. Most of the govt healthcare websites (Medicare, Medicaid, etc) for fee for service physicians will only work with Windows and IE. No other operating system or browser is supported. Most US insurance carriers web portals such as Navinet require IE and ActiveX. They could have developed their portals using web standards and allowed different browsers and operating systems. Instead MicroShaft has thrown alot of money in the healthcare industry in order to DRM lock it into it's own proprietary junk.

From Microsoft themselves. They basically came out and said that they were abandoning a whole slew of technologies including Win32, .NET and Silverlight. They said going forward that the only API recommended for apps is the new metro WinRT api. This is setting the for the eventual elimination of the desktop.

It's called the Peter Principle. I for one, am glad they promoted her. Maybe the next version of Windows will be worse than Win8.

Businesses are going to have to rewrite their applications anyway. Microsoft basically announced that they were dropping every API they ever used in favor of the WinRT APIs. They will continue to maintain the old APIs but they won't be enhancing them. At some point in the future, stories about Microsoft removing the desktop environment will be true. So if they have to rewrite them, why not rewrite them for a different platform? That's the math most of my clients are going through. Rewrite the app using Java, webify it, or use a multi-platform API like wxWidgets. The last thing they are thinking is to make a Win8 only app.

They are already listening. When they are told that win8 locks them into a locked down store that takes 30% of their profit, astronomical price increases of existing software as a way of forcing you to buy into their subscription offerings, replacement of perfectly good machines in order to implement touch, and outrageous retraining costs with very little productivity improvements, they don't need much additional convincing that it may be time to get off the Microshaft merry go round. In fact, many of my clients have started pilot projects to see if Linux is viable for the desktop, and what would it take to move to it should that is. They have been feeling more comfortable with Linux because many of them have been running it on some part of their servers for some time. All without my recommendations.

It was blown from the beginning by the stupid FOX managers who aired the episodes out of sequence. I originally saw that first episode and said WTF? and gave upon on it right away. Years later when it arrived on Hulu, I gave it another chance, and saw the episodes in the right order. Loved it right away! If you miss that critical first episode, you are lost as to the whole meaning of the show.

Actually, MicroShit has all but abandoned .net and win32 in a big time sacrifice to the tablet alter. This just further signals the demise of the crap called windows

I guess you haven't seen M$ recent price increases on every bit of software it sells to the enterprise. From new Office 2013 licensing to Windows server 2012 cals cost increase, to SQL 2012 price increases, M$ is basically pricing themselves out of the market. Many of my clients who are ardent M$ users, are beginning to ask about the viability of open source software. One of my recent clients was beginning a new database project base on SQL 2012, and once they saw the pricing they decided to go with a different option.

Well if I have to rewrite the application, why wouldn't I rewrite it for Android or iPad? With Surface, I still get to pay for the rewrite and incur a much bigger expense for the tablet.My deployment expenses have gone significantly with Surface, because overall it is a less capable tablet than the Androids. Then why build for Surface at all?

And a surplus when he left.