Comment Re:Niche market (Score 1) 390
Netcraft measures only usage, not profit. Microsoft is leading in profit even the competition is free.
Netcraft measures only usage, not profit. Microsoft is leading in profit even the competition is free.
Those patents are a complete failure. There is nothing to watch out. Motorola even got sanctioned for patent trolling.
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/09/06/apple-google-motorola-patent-troll/
Motorola continues to lose billions.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markrogowsky/2013/04/30/motorola-googles-12-billion-road-to-nowhere/
http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/21/4853808/google-motorola-losses-moto-x
Apple and Microsoft will retaliate by adding a entry to the hosts file that redirects Google.com to Bing on all PCs, Macs and iDevices.
-- apk
Care to imagine what that will do to Google's ad revenue?
Is Wikimedia counting unique hits or total requests?
For example, lets say you visit Wikipedia with your iPhone and browse 100 articles. Your friend with an Android phone browses only 1 article. Will you be counted 100 times more than him? That's how Statcounter works, by the way.
The 4.1% stat is for Nokia smartphones running Windows Phone, not dumb phones.
Please RTFA, instead of jumping in to make your regular obligatory karmawhoring anti-MS BS FUD post.
Yeah, from my perspective I can't help but to notice the huge boner most people on internet have towards market share and mainstream market acceptance, regardless if it's for smartphones, computers, game consoles and accessories or services. People just seem to forget that business are about making money. Having a huge share may have some help with it, but that is not always true.
Now apply that logic to the following comparisons.
1) Server market: Windows Server vs. Linux
2) Web server market: IIS vs. (Apache + nginx)
3) Small and medium database market: SQL Server vs. (MySql + offshoots + PostgreSql)
Looks like Microsoft is kicking ass in all of the above. But according to Slashdot, Linux beats Windows Server and Apache beats IIS.
Well, at least he doesn't straight out lie like the anti-Microsoft Google shill SJVN who claims Chromebooks are selling 25% of all computers.
http://www.zdnet.com/intel-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop-is-here-7000020849/
That doesn't make any sense. How is it lock-in when it's trivial to switch to another backup solution? How is switching away from Azure Backup more difficult than switching from a 3rd party back up service? TFA talks about how signing up for Azure Backup makes it easier to use other services. DUH. It's like having a Gmail account makes it easy to upload video to Youtube. Doesn't mean that you're getting locked into Gmail.
This happened to me too at work on Opera 12, but not on Opera 15+ at home.
1) Do not use Microsoft products 2) Rinse and repeat. Don't tell me it's unavoidable because that's bullshit. There is always a choice, you are just too comfortable and/or inflexible to use an alternative.
These days Microsoft is the "alternative" and Linux is the incumbent. A vast majority of large data centers run on Linux. Microsoft is the outsider trying to break in, but without any compelling story beyond pure spin and with a chronically horrible brand reputation. I sense that a few diehard Microsoft-addled PHBs will go the Azure way nonetheless, and hilarity will ensue for everyone except the victims.
Operating systems run on data centers, not vice versa.
You can run Linux on Azure.
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/linux/tutorials/virtual-machine-from-gallery/
Stop the lame FUD, it only makes you look stupid and uninformed.
You can run Linux on Azure.
>Microsoft's Tradelect electronic trading platform
What? Accenture built Tradelect. Not Microsoft.
This is like blaming Linux for OpenOffice's bloat.
Stop the silly FUD.
Does iCloud let you provision a Linux VM server in minutes?
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/550abded8a10_CEC4/image_17.png
Perhaps you're thinking of Skydrive.
The article was 2006 talks about stuff that happened back in the nineties. The cruft from then is still present in modern day Word. Calling it outdated is like saying your grandfather's recounting of his childhood is outdated.
The first article that's more relevant to this discussion was written in 2008 and covers the new XML version i.e OOXML. The spec hasn't changed much since then and ALL the points that he makes are still valid even today.
Can you tell us exactly what is outdated about the articles and what is not relevant today or to the FTA? Or I'll have to assume you didn't read the articles.
8 Catfish = 1 Octo-puss
