People today are using applications like streaming video to their television that use a substantial chunk of their bandwidth for hours. The percentage of available bandwidth used has gone up quite substantially in the last decade.

No it doesn't average out. Certainly there are higher and lower users but the mean usage is quite high.

Yeah, it pretty much is. The reason to go with something else, or in addition, is largely if you're in a business setting and you want to be able to push updates and monitor results. Also, I'm not sure about the current situation, but last I checked, MSE was free for personal use but not licensed for business use...?

But for home use, MSE is probably good enough. It also doesn't have popups, it doesn't break any apps or anything in the OS, and it doesn't take up tons of system resources. Ultimately, with AV software, you're choosing the lesser evil: having the AV take up system resources and break things is less evil than the viruses themselves, but if you can find an AV that doesn't do those things, go with that.

Deleware is depends a great deal where exactly and when exactly. I wouldn't judge the USA telco by Delaware it is an exception in many ways because of its proximity to major cities, government cheapness and the rural aspects.

I know. I've had this fight a million times here about how Verizon / AT&T / TimeWarner... are not making nearly the money people think they are. And no your $50 / mo does not cover what 2 Gb/sec of peer2peer would cost to provide....

Your sarcasm is well warranted.

It is worse than that. Regulation on copper meant that different companies had to own different parts of the process. For commercial competition exists so there isn't the same regulation. For home / small business the carriers are regulated monopolies.

SharePoint has versioning for Office documents. Git can't meaningfully do that.

I agree the heavy office users tend to love SharePoint. My experience it is clerical. I've seen it be used heavily for Sales for example where PowerPoint versioning matters (huge collections of decks) or contract management systems are being used. For developers I've seen it used for project documentation (not program documentation). Though the heaviest users are developers who develop for Excel / Office extensions.

No they are continuing to make phones and likely tablets with long battery life. But they aren't going to be on as long an upgrade cycle as computers.

I agree. I'm not sure if this is what you're referring to, but the worst thing was that Microsoft actually had a feature where it would hide menu items that you didn't use often. So you haven't inserted a page break in a few months? Well that's disappeared now, and you have to click some button to "show more options" in order to find it. It wasn't so bad if you understood what was going on, but as an IT support professional, I absolutely hated it because I would regularly get phone calls from people complaining that they couldn't find features.

Ultimately, the ribbon is an improvement. It's compact, and it gives you a lot of options right on the screen, without clicking through a bunch of menus, in a fairly well organized design. I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but I think most of the resistance to the ribbon was simply because it was new, and people weren't used to it.

Billy -

You are absolutely correct far more useful information shows up with the ribbon than with the menus. The number of menu items increased with the ribbons. Of course what Microsoft really needs to do is make the ribbon even more context sensitive and thus have many times more options than they did with standard menus and really take advantage of the medium. And I suspect that will happen with SharePoint and Azure's web enabled interconnections so that every web application managed though Azure can connect into the office suites.

Lots of their customers use SharePoint which is a rather large innovation as compared with what your talking about in terms of Office Suites in areas like collaboration. SharePoint is very much like what CVS or GIT provide programmers but even richer.

Things haven't stayed the same, but where they changed the most is in areas that their bottom rung of users don't notice. By linking more tightly with SharePoint they can easily show how far ahead Office is of the other office suites.

No the recent videos are higher end. More complex, betted editing and longer. That substantially raises costs.

Absolutely agree. We had lots of people going into STEM when the wages went back up. Congress has aggressively been involved in wage suppression

Sorry I was getting Jeff Sessions and Jeff Flake confused. Oh well.

We don't have to stop having inflation. We need a lower exchange rate.

Score one for the Republicans! I'm a pretty solid democrat, don't live in Arizona but I'm starting to like Jeff Sessions.