Comment Re: Blackberry (Score 1) 445
... year over year grew by over 21.6%.
Blackberry declined. I can read. You anti MS zealots are something
... year over year grew by over 21.6%.
Blackberry declined. I can read. You anti MS zealots are something
I would mod you up if I could.
I am not a metro lover at all.
But Windows 10 is a big improvement. THe larger question is why should I leave 7? I hate the newer icons as they are all going 8 color is my only compliant so far. Give me a Windows 7 theme and I am happy as I spent my XP years with the Windows 2000 theme as I never could get used to that blue fisher price color set. It still took off.
Have you seen the Windows 10 beta at all?
These apps run on the desktop just like win32 ones. Metro didn't take off because no one used it as they clicked on the desktop tile and stayed there. Also 8 has a small 10% ish marketshare right now. That won't stay forever as Windows 7 in just a few years will go the way of XP with EOL. You will eventually use it at work in time and so will everyone else.
If the apps exist people will use it.
I agree with you that it's all about the apps. Unfortunately, Microsoft has a problem. Nobody is making apps for the phone because nobody uses Windows Phone because there are no apps for it. Universal apps aren't going to help, except for certain verticals, maybe. It's not like Windows desktop is a hotbed of development anymore (except for games). Excluding games, what's the last Windows title that was mildly interesting to the general public?
iOS and Android are all that matter and I can't see that changing in the next 3 years.
Here is the difference. Windows 8 no one really bought it besides Joe six packs whose computer just broke and he needs another.
Windows 10 will be like Windows 7 was to Vista.
Users with 8 always stayed on the desktop so no point of porting either. With 10 it is the desktop so your app will be there for your user. Windows 10 or 10.2 or whatever if I read the material correctly as 10.x = macosx.x where corporations buy the slow ring (even releases) while home users get all releases. So this means it will take 100% of all Windows marketshare eventually. Windows 7 EOL will come sooner than we think as the years go by.
In essence the situation is totally different. Your Windows Phone will run all your pc apps. It will have the full office. It will have spotify, it will sync your settings, cortana, and your Spartan web browser (finally killing IE) etc.
So I think MS might have a decent chance and it is growing but small right now.
Universal apps are what might make or break Windows phone 10.
Isn't this why they forced metro on desktop users in Windows 8 so people would write "Silverlight" apps for PC that could run or trivially port to Windows phone?
Unless Microsoft allows software to be installed without clearing it first with Microsoft and allows devices to be usable without requiring a Microsoft account and constant uploading everything to Microsoft servers with no recourse or option to stop then as far as I'm concerned windows phone has no future.
They have technically a good platform but they are killing themselves in a self-defeating quest to emulate apple and shovel their cloud shit down peoples throats.
Here is the kicker. Metro are not phone apps!
Infact you would need to have one app for Windows 8, another for Windows RT, and then make another for WIndows Phone. Meanwhile you write for IOS and you get both tablet and phone. Same with Android.
So if they make a fat binary like Apple did you target all unless you have specific assembly code or calls to some old api tied to win32 or x86.
Windows phone already has 3 times the marketshare and is growing. BlackBerry is dying
Universal apps are what might make or break Windows phone 10.
The OS really is good. It is light, intuitive, and bug free. With no apps and a requirement for developers to write to 2 different operating systems with niche market shares hurt both.
Google forked their own version of SSL called Googlessl. My guess is chrome would use this.
The big question is Googles implementation based on openssl or libressl? The bug might still be there if former
Great idea!
I'll tell my Mom to type that in a terminal right away.
I would say 98%
I have never heard of one who doesn't. One client still uses punch cards. if it ain't broke don't fix it!
Just Compromise an adserver with A flash exploit and You Can 0wn Tens Of thousands within hours.
Whoever thought to run executables on random websites was a good idea? More proof adblock not user education is needed for security. Gone are the days of not clicking meant secure
Easy the us constitution forbids states interfering with interstate commerce. Therefore the FCC has the right
Firefox was Mozillas spartan. Netscape code really bogged it down. Firefox was just better after the striping
Does it test implementation? Game pad support as one example was just now a proposal. IE doesn't support that therefore it is not compliant is not true as no standard implementation is agreed upon
IE 11 implements W3C standards better than any browser. Webkit might have more check offs from html5test but they are not implemented the same way as w3c.
Css 3 animations are a good example. Chrome does not do them right without hacks.
It is not IE 6 anymore and Sun and IBM subverted and changed proposed standards IE 6 used in development on purpose. It was not designed to break Web pages. Mozilla and Netscape were worse in 2001 believe it or not
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