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+ - Windows 8 Won't Become Business Standard: Forrester->

Submitted by Nerval's Lobster
Nerval's Lobster writes "Windows 8 won’t become the enterprise standard, according to a new report from research firm Forrester. “Most IT shops are still too focused on migrating to Windows 7 to bother with Windows 8 anytime soon, if at all,” read the summary of Forrester’s report, which could have several Microsoft executives reaching for the Valium this morning. “IT won’t set Windows 8 as a standard, but that won’t stop workers from using it.” The research firm suggests that an operating-system version only becomes the “enterprise standard” once 50 percent of corporate-owned PCs actually run it. While Windows 7 passed that milestone, Forrester doesn’t think Windows 8 will do the same anytime soon, thanks in part to lower enterprise interest and the prevalence of Apple’s iOS on tablets. “Early enterprise interest in Windows 8 is half that of Windows 7 prior to its release,” the summary suggested. “IT decision-makers don’t yet see the new Windows experience as an improvement.” The firm also doesn’t believe that Windows 8 “offers firms enough savings in operations to make it a top priority.” Microsoft’s upcoming update, Windows 8.1 (known for quite some time by its codename, “Windows Blue”) will—if rumors prove correct—reintroduce some features deleted between Windows 7 and 8, most notably the desktop Start button. Those reinsertions could help Windows 8 in the eyes of longtime Windows users who like things to stay familiar; but whether those tweaks boost Windows 8 adoption within the enterprise remains to be seen."
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Comment: Re:Best thing about this (Score 0) 133

by jbernardo (#43610171) Attached to: Haswell Integrated Graphics Promise 2-3X Performance Boost

Anyone who bought one of those was simply a fool. Everyone gets to be a fool now and then so don't feel to bad if it bit you.

Intel fooled me once. They won't fool me twice, as I won't buy their chipsets again. My neybooks are AMD APUs, my tablets and smartphones are ARM. Good ridance!

Comment: Re:Best thing about this (Score 0) 133

by jbernardo (#43610089) Attached to: Haswell Integrated Graphics Promise 2-3X Performance Boost

I suspect a lot of the problem there has to do with Imagination Technologies (creator of the PowerVR GPU core in the Poulsbo parts) and how much Imagination Technologies were willing to let Intel release (either as binary drivers or as source code)

And you're probably right, in what respects to not releasing a open source driver for the poulsbo chipset. But Intel treated their customers with the utmost disrespect, only pretending to be working on a usable driver until it was discontinued and abandoned. No decent closed source driver was released after the first interaction, before the promise of the Gallium 3D driver. Users were lied to, and pushed from one team to the other looking for drivers. That wasn't Imagination Tech - that was Intel stalling and lying to keep the noise down.

Nothing assures us that it won't happen again.

+ - World's oldest hamburger looks the same after 14 years->

Submitted by mvar
mvar writes "A Utah resident bought a hamburger from McDonald's in 1999 and kept for 2 months, in order to demonstrate to his friends that fast food decays slowly. But he eventually forgot about the burger, only to find it 14 years later. The verdict? It seems fast food never really dies since, with the exception of the pickles that were long gone, the burger looks like it was just served."
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+ - German ISP Telekom to throttle bandwidth by 2016 - destroys network neutrality->

Submitted by Kentaro
Kentaro writes "Two days ago german ISP Telekom has announced that all new internet access contracts signed after the 1st of march 2013 will include a paragraph for bandwidth throtteling. Telekom says that the throtteling will not occur before 2016. The throtteling is very harsh. For the standard contract (16Mbit/s) it means that after 75GB the speed goes down to 384kbit/s. Of course — their services are not affected by this throtteling, i.e. their streaming music service "Spotify" or the streaming of TV/movies called "Entertain". This effectively destroys net neutrality. #drosselkom"
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+ - Not Selling Washing Machines Key to Kobo Overtaking Amazon - CEO->

Submitted by DavidGilbert99
DavidGilbert99 writes "Kobo, the Canadian-based ebook company is number two in the market, behind the behemoth that is Amazon. So what does the CEO Michael Serbinis think is the one thing which will allow them to overtake the e-commerce giant? "We don't sell any washing machines, we don't sell radios. We are not focused on the next server farm to offer data services. It is a question of focus."
Serbinis goes on to tell IBTimes UK: "From an organisation standpoint at Kobo, this is all we do. Everyone at Kobo, all we focus on is creating a great experience for book-lovers.""
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+ - Lightweight KDE Desktop, Codenamed KLyDE, in the Making->

Submitted by jrepin
jrepin writes "During Hack Week 9 at SUSE, a log time KDE hacker Will Stephenson has started working on a project codenamed KLyDE. This projects aim is to bring KDE Plasma to the lightweight desktop market. It applies KDE's strengths of modularity and configurability to the challenge of making a lightweight desktop."
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+ - Office delay gives Google a real chance, and not just Google Apps.-> 1

Submitted by rtfa-troll
rtfa-troll writes "Microsoft Office slideware for iOS and Android has been resisting many migrations to Google Apps. Although a number of the largest companies, from KLM to Disney have already moved to Google Apps, most large companies are still using MS office heavily and the majority of current Google users are smaller businesses. Now Microsoft has been forced to admit that its office suite for Android will be delayed by at least a year and Zdnet tells us that Google will be the big winner from that, however they say that QuickOffice rather than Google apps will be the main winner. Other Android app suites will benefit too, though currently The Android version of LibreOffice is only available as a dev build for sideloading and is having some difficulties packaging for Google play so may not benefit from this delay unless some more volunteers step up to help. Microsoft relies heavily on office for revenue so this may represent a real long term threat to the company."
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+ - Camelot Unchained Kickstarter Begins->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "The creator of the classic RvR MMORPG, Dark Age of Camelot, Mark Jacobs, is back with a new independent company and is promising to deliver the first RvR only MMORPG. That's right, no PvE! The Kickstarter started 10 days ago and has already reached over half of it's goal. The Kickstarter offers several tiers starting from $1 all the way to $10,000. Who has that kind of money to spend?"
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+ - Twitter now Tracking Trends in over 160 Countries->

Submitted by mugwandia
mugwandia writes "Twitter has introduced its trends topic discovery feature in 160 countries and cities around the world in an effort to make the site more useful to its users.

Twitter trends is a feature which allows people to see what others are publicly discussing about on twitter such as news, celebrity, events, a viral video and more. Trends will appear on the left hand side of the screen for users accessing their accounts via a computer, if you are using mobile app please check the supporting article."
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+ - SPAM: Zen Ultrafone 701 HD Phablet Unveiled

Submitted by thakr
thakr writes "An Indian Manufacturer Company, Zen has unveiled their Flagship smartphone denominated as Zen Ultrafone 701 HD. The latest smartphone has entered into the league of budget Quad-core phones with high-end features. The..."
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+ - How Open Is Your OpenStack Platform?->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "There have been reports that the OpenStack cloud computing platform is becoming overly fragmented for some time, and now it appears that the OpenStack Foundation is going to take aim at some players in the OpenStack space who don't seem to be following interoperability guidelines."
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+ - Firefox 20 Arrives With Per-Window Private Browsing, New Download Manager

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla on Tuesday officially launched Firefox 20 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The improvements include per-window private browsing, a new download manager in the Firefox toolbar, and the ability to close hanging plugins without the browser hanging. The new desktop version was available as of yesterday on the organization's FTP servers, but that was just the initial release of the installers. Firefox 20 has now officially been made available over on Firefox.com and all users of old Firefox versions should be able to upgrade to it automatically. As always, the Android version is trickling out slowly on the official Google Play Store. The changelogs are here: desktop and Android."

This fortune is dedicated to your mother, without whose invaluable assistance last night would never have been possible.

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