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.

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.

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.

What huge problems? Take Good for example. Email on the main system (blue screen) doesn't run, email on the container (red screen) works fine. I'm not sure how this presents a problem for anyone.

Apple has pretty good integration for MDM. It is possible to have hardware support and Good, MobileIron, MaaS360... make use of it. I think BES does as well. I'd agree that Samsung Knox is better but of course that's not across all Android but only some of Samsung's phones.