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.

Cold air comes from the floor, which stays at server height. Hot air rises. They don't cool the whole area. They contain the cool air using the plastic curtains, which then gets sucked in over to the "hot" zone by the server, thus cooling it.

Actually the United Federation of Teachers (the teachers union) have recommended the North American Union and "Other!".

Before Carly's time, HP was run by engineers. People who knew how to design and build things. Carly gutted the engineering staff, where today HP doesn't have the people to design anything.

I agree. HP used to make printers that just worked. Now, 99% of their printers are just junk and I no longer recommend them or use them, The downfall started on Carly's watch.

Aw, you must be one of the lusers who click Yes to the install the Fake Antivirus message which just makes a mess of your machine. Which you then further compound by uninstalling the legit antivirus, infecting the rest of the network. I've learned from experience. It is the luser who insists they need admin privileges who creates most of the problems in a corporate environment.