Good for Linux ecosystem. Now open source developers can focus on Linux GUI only and ditch parallel development and builds for native Windows GUI.

Ever noticed on BBC:

"Earthquake in the U.K., Government in action to help the victims." (Factual)

"Earthquake in the U.S., let's see how the Government helps the victims." (Inferiority complex)

"Earthquake in India, will the government help the victims?" (Superiority complex)

Read some articles and verify yourself. Also, BBC covers surface news only, often for real important details about an event I have to Google for other sources esp. local news outlets.

As long as Microsoft keeps holding on to closed source software like Windows OS and MS Office etc, what's the point of draping itself with OSS while its privates are still visible.

The following code works in C++, definitely after implementing the class "let", macros "def" and "print", and a couple of overloaded operators:

let a = 10;
let b = 20;
let c = {a, b, "hello"};

auto squareFilter = []() { return def(x) { return x*x; }; };
c | squareFilter() | print;
//Prints: [100, 400, "hellohello"]

let s = "";
auto concatFilter = [](let& t) { return def(x) { t+=x; }; };
c | concatFilter(s)
s | print;
//Prints: 1020hello

https://www.straitstimes.com/s...

Great news. Now I can hope that in a year or two the entire gamut of Microsoft's products will be copylefted and open-sources and the world will be a better place!

So shall we assume that in a year or two, the entire gamut of Microsoft's products will be open-sourced and copyleft in spirit, like FSF?

Hog the memory, memory hog.

I cant believe that the management couldnt anticipate that their product was like a movie, initial sales peaked, followed by a sharp decline. Now just like movie productions they should be satisfied with royalties and the prestige that comes with it.

Nice PR stunt by Bill Gates to divert our attention while Microsoft works hard in the rear to make Windows 10 as a service making the traditional view about intellectual property less relevant. The traditional view started to develop 300 years ago (Statute of Anne 1710) during advent of printing industry that made copying easier and cheaper, and revised in 1980's for the software. Why rent about that now when (thanks to recent advances in network speed which made it possible) Microsoft is strongly pushing for its products like office application and OS as an online service?

Can you switch to Linux?

For last 12 years I have been living in a parallel universe where Microsoft exists but not as a developer of an operating system.

There should be some reasonable limit to the admissible frequency of safety recalls or software patches and the article barely touches that making the article incomplete. The article doesn't change these two truths:

1. Oil change is a natural requirement. Safety recall is 'man made' due to somebody's shortsightedness.

2. Harassment is harassment.

My intention is not to be stringent, but to be open to negotiation. I believe more than an average of one software patch every 2 months (your tolerance may vary) is reasonably a harassment and a symptom of lousy testing.

Prediction of the appearance of things of future has always failed miserably when the future actually becomes present. Philosophical themes provoke the viewer to run a mind experiment which need to be physically possible or an accurate depiction of reality or future but a though provoking piece of entertainment that at the same time challenges our cognitive faculties to the greatest extent.

I relish such movies and this is the greatest among them.

https://www.cs.colostate.edu/~...

You can embed images and videos. And if you don't have enough time to prepare a presentation, just use the notes. Who will figure out the difference?