The physical phone is not needed you can simply run a soft-phone on a PC/Laptop.
But a headset/handset/speaker(phone) is essential unless you hardly use it, it's just these are plugged into a computer instead of the handset
Note both Skype and mobile phones have very bad audio quality compare to copper or properly setup VOIP
No it means that if someone can steal the password hashes then your passwords are known
Why is the database of passwords on a machine that is capable of being stolen in the first place, this is like the soldier having a list of challenges and responses written down where anyone he challenges could potentially see the entire list
The solution is for the user facing machine not to contain the hashes just an API to check individual passwords as needed
It depends what you do with exchange, if it is just an email server then it is vast overkill
If however you use it properly and completely then it is difficult to find an alternative, but many of the "properly and completely" features are integration with MS active directory, MS windows, MS Office, MS Sharepoint etc
If you can tell the difference between an iPhone4S and an iPhone5 then you have one
What are the advantages of the iPhone5
No it does not help the customer who are in the majority
The real issue is not their competitors or even the market, but the single question "Can I run xxxx on it" the xxxx is currently a Windows application and so the only system that can answer yes is Windows
Microsoft will only fade when people ask about apps that will either run on other system or will not run on Windows
Microsoft are trying to reinvent themselves as Apple but seem not to have notices that Apple have sewn up that position already....
This occurred in the UK, we don't have free speech enshrined in a constitution
...Old Persian, a language that has not been spoken for 2000 years
And ic cyðe eow, æt ic wylle beon hold hlaford and unswicende to godes gerihtum and to rihtre woroldlage...
All electronic voting machines have the issue that they are a black box where votes go in, and results come out and mysterious stuff happens between which the company who makes them tries to prove that nothing untoward can happen
Putting a mark on a piece of paper and counting them works, has worked for many years, is at least as secure as any voting machine, and scales to electorates much much larger then the USA
Apple makes money selling the device, and from each App, and from the OS, and from any content you download
Amazon makes money only from the content
.NET is not a language C# is and is Java the Microsoft way
Ruby is Perl updated
ADA is what it is...
Lisp/Scheme is a good basis for a language in the same way that most systems are still actually complied in C/C++ regardless of what they are written in
Haskell - 22 years old and counting
Ruby - 17 years old and counting
Younger workers have not yet learned that long hours cause burn out that will not get them advancement, older workers have learnt that the people who do long hours are not the ones who get advancement anyway
Each new batch of younger workers are also the ones that make the same mistakes over and over that the older ones have learnt to avoid
An app that asks for access to your addressbook when it does need to does not get installed on Android, on Apple you install it then block it
I like the take it or leave it, an app that asks too much is not installed and so cannot do anything,
on Apple you install it ban it from some things, then much much later discover what else it was doing?
"Never give in. Never give in. Never. Never. Never." -- Winston Churchill
