As we speak, Microsoft is instructing its European "business partners" to give a certain French city a shitload of really cheap Office licenses.
Either that or members of city council wake up with severed horse heads in their beds.
I'll be darned. Cheapest product sells more units. I wonder who's making the most money?
But don't you really mean "who has the most to lose when sales volume dries up?"
One of the big complaints that modern publishers have about releasing their games on Linux is that they can't do the same things with DRM on Linux that they can with Windows, therefore no one will pay for their games and everyone will pirate instead.
Which just demonstrates how clueless and out of touch modern game publishers really are. DRM does not stop piracy on Windows or even slow it down. As a rule, Windows game DRM is cracked and DRM-free copies are widely available for download within hours of release, sometimes even before release.
This may actually be a killer OS. It is the next version after a bad one!
Actually, all versions of Windows are bad, if you have ever experienced something decent. It's just amazing the crap that Windows users put up with, because they have never known anything else and think that computers are supposed to be flaky with fiddly controls. You have bad versions of Windows and really bad versions of Windows, that is the range, there is no such thing as a good version of Windows. So maybe a bad version of Windows will follow this really bad version, and maybe that will be enough to slow down Microsoft's slide into irrelevance for a while.
Yet the greedy Wall Street pricks aren't happy with a 20% profit.
That's because those pricks know about Microsoft's 90% gross margin and they want to know how the missing 70% got pissed away.
There is sure to be a Dead Sea effect and MS's long-term prospects cannot be great if they have lost / will lose their best people
Having lost control of the mobile market to Apple and Google, Microsoft can now look forward to its sunset years, slowly rotting away. Microsoft employees can look forward to more cuts, sooner rather than later. The one constant will be the backlbiting culture, which will increase as the concentration of rats on the ship increases.
It's not too late for Apple to see the light and switch iWork to ODF. Except that Tim Cook is kind of dim witted.
What does "human readable" mean for you?
This is normally understood to mean lines of printable characters.
For what it's worth, ODF is XML, which nominally human readable. So is Microsoft's OOXML, a perversion that demonstrates clearly that "human readable" doesn't always mean what it says. The main difference between ODF and OOXML is that ODF actually is a credible attempt to be open and portable whereas OOXML is designed to achieve the opposite.
And for an even more limited definition of "natively".
The vast majority of their users aren't especially smart when it comes to technology. They're essentially office workers - they don't give a stuff about the underlying format, they only care about being able to do their job.
So true. And therefore we should be thankful that some knowledgeable people who do care about such important matters are willing to step forward to do the right thing.
If they had actually identified the trajectory of the missile from a satellite, they would also easily know which side of the Russia/Ukraine border it originated on... which they do not.
That's what you think, is it? It seems that the launch site has been rather precisely determined. Perhaps you missed that memo.
Everyone seems to forget that this entire affair started because of a European/US backed coup overthrew and elected pro-russian government.
We all forgot that, perhaps because it is not true? I seem to recall a murderous kleptomaniac thug being evicted from power on the strength of popular protest.
Kleeneness is next to Godelness.
