If you think that's bad, look carefully at the installer for MS Office 2016/365. If you do nothing, it still installs the 32-bit version by default.

You can see Microsoft's own 32 vs 64 guide for Office here:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Choose-between-the-64-bit-or-32-bit-version-of-Office-2dee7807-8f95-4d0c-b5fe-6c6f49b8d261

The 2013 version of that guide still recommends 32-bit for most people, and I believe until recently the 2016 version did the same.

Latency is a fundamental physical limitation. We'll never have technology that can fully beat it. But we can design competitions that account for and offset the problem. Eventually, some combination of three things will happen as eSports leagues develop:

1. eSports teams will travel for competitions, just like regular sports teams, so that playing fields are always more even (and sub-millisecond LAN latency to boot).
2. Teams will host their own servers, and every match will have a home team, with the home team having a massive latency advantage that's cancelled out by each team playing an equal number of home and away games. I don't see this sticking because it would confer too much advantage during any post-season play.
3. Teams will host their own servers, and each match will always have two halves, with each team hosting a local server for half of the competition.

I could see some combination of #2 and #3, where regular season events have a designated home team, but post-season play has two halves, or perhaps teams will travel only for post-season or tournament play, with either of option 2 or 3 used during a regular season.

It's not speed; it's latency.

Low-latency games typically don't need much bandwidth. They use lots of very small packets to frequently update minimal position and state info. The total throughput is normally fairly small. However, the *delay* it takes for the average packet to reach the server and vice versa matters a great deal.

I've yet to see a linux distribution supported for even 7 years, let alone the 10 minimum guaranteed by MS. Sure, you can in-place upgrade linux to a new version of the distro, but Windows allows in-place upgrades now, too. You have to pick your poison here. If you are updating, you're gonna have some of the same stability and migration issues on linux that you'll have going to a new version of Windows. If you're not updating, you're eventually running into the same security issues you get running old Windows. As far as *real* long-term stability goes, a linux server might run for a few years without a reboot, but IIS clusters well enough, and Windows can guarantee you a decade of security updates for a platform. I have to get it the edge here.

Additionally, if you're hosting yourself, and you run VMs, once you've licensed data center edition on the basic hardware, you can spin up as many Windows VMs on that hardware as you need at no extra cost. Really. The basic data center license doesn't cost as much as you seem to think it does. My last purchase was about $200. That's a rounding error even for a startup. I'm in the Ed market, so I get a pretty good discount, but this isn't that far away from the typical. Big customers get extreme volume discounts, small startups can take advantage of programs like BizSpark, and there's a reasonable plan for most of the rest in the middle.

If you're thinking pre-MVC web forms, ASP.Net is a whole different animal these days, and it's just about as nice as the author claims.

It's amazing in that comic how he's able to so clearly show a stick figure with no features has turned his head around.

Or bite the bullet, install a SystemD distro on your desktop so you can learn to live with it.

I'm not a fan, but it's obvious that systemd is where things are heading. Like it or not, the sooner I get on board and learn how to use it properly the easier things will go for me long term.

Happy SysAdmin Day from Microsoft. It's their gift to us all... no more annoying Windows 10 upgrade popups.

Who's to say this doesn't have some of the same types of economic value? For example, it's doubtful they've had time yet to study whether the newly CO2 injected volcanic rock also has useful properties as, say, a building material.

MS now has most of .Net out on Github, with more going up all the time. They'll let you download the code, and they've even accepted patches from the community. What they don't do yet is give anyone the right to make and publish their own fork. But they're making progress. The old Windows Live Writer code really is completely FOSS now. To my knowledge, that's the first MS product to ever achieve freedom zero. That *anything* made it out of Redmond like that is a huge deal.

Postgres maybe. MySql is awful these days. It just hasn't kept pace with other platforms.

fwiw, I expect they would qualify as a communications carrier when it comes to iMessage... but I agree that this won't apply for iPhone unlocking.

No, they don't. They have doctrinal statements for faculty and staff, and may have stricter conduct codes, but they are generally willing to enroll students of any faith/non-faith who are will to abide by the conduct codes

Ahhh hahahah hahahah!!.... ... so that's coming along.

If you work with multiple blogs on several servers, WLW allowed you to do all your writing/editing from one place.