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Submission + - Coronavirus has led to a 775% increase in use of Microsoft Azure services (betanews.com)

Mark Wilson writes: This weekend, Microsoft has given an insight into the impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on its services. The company says that there has been a huge increase in Teams usage, and there are not over 44 million daily users.

In regions where there are isolation and home sheltering orders in place, Microsoft says that there has been a colossal 775 percent increase in usage of its cloud services. Despite the surge in demand, there have not been any significant service disruptions.

Comment Re:Not sure if it is for Pasta, but... (Score 1) 220

Ignoring the fact that Italians eat much smaller portions of pasta on average and usually only as a starter course. Most Italians aren’t eating mountains of spaghetti or gorging all-you-can-eat pasta bowls like in America.

Plus Mac ‘n’ Cheese isn’t anything like an Italian pasta dish.

Comment Re:Baloney (Score 3, Insightful) 285

Because you are not receiving 'a GPS signal'. You are receiving a multitude of GPS and GLONASS signals. From the time stamps and positional information encoded in these signals you then have to calculate your position. All these calculations are time-critical, so I guess they don't combine very well with power saving features.

Why there have beeen tremendous amounts in rendering speeds and all kinds of image processing, but not in the calculation of these GPS coordinates, that is a mystery to me as well.

Comment Re:All high-end PCs should have this. (Score 1) 99

ThinkPad professional series users (T and P series) are paying a lot of money for their machines compared to the $300 consumer junk at the low end of the line.

I bought one of those €300 machines for my son. Totally worth it: het dropped it on the floor within a month, and the charging cable bent the chassis. Thing wouldn't close anymore. But after unscrewing a lot of screws, and a small plier job, I managed to get everything working again! Even their consumer junk is built quite well I must say.

Best thing that happened to that machine was a failure of the Windows partition. I had to re-install Windows from scratch on a fresh formatted disk, and that left no trace of the Lenovo bloatware. Machine seems to be running 100% OK (but still as fast as molasses) on the vanilla Windows drivers.

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