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Comment No surprise (Score 1) 23

by TriCCer (#62477694) Attached to: Call of Duty Slumps Ahead of Potential Activision-Microsoft Deal
They duct taped together 3 titles into one monstrous "launcher" with regular massive updates to the newer titles bricking the older titles. I can't get a coop game working in MW19, haven't been able to for months. Why should I invest my time in a title they clearly do not want me to play? Here's hoping Microsoft treats it's franchises better, and scrap the Battle.Net launcher in favour of Steam (I can dream, can't I?)

Comment Re:Windows 10/11 (Score 1) 184

by TriCCer (#62103139) Attached to: What was the worst version of Windows?
Something that (I think) contributes to this mess is their mislabeling of what Microsoft now calls "Shutdown" or "Restart". Windows 8 and onwards now does "Deep Hibernation" when you select those options, which when you have corrupted services and other background processes isn't ideal to say the least.

Comment They were on the wrong side of a lot of things (Score 4, Interesting) 148

The Microsoft I trust will do this: 1. Have an excellent cross platform code editor (in progress - VSCode is really good) that doesn't expect you to buy an enterprise license for Code Coverage (Visual Studio - looking at you) 2. Be standards compliant in all of their stacks (none of that embrace, extend, extinguish crap) 3. Have Windows run on the Linux kernel and make it open source 4. Champion a single open standard for Office style apps - an open standard for documents, spreadsheets and presentations at the minmum - I don't care if the office apps themselves are closed source as long as they are 100% standards compliant. It is time Microsoft gave people a means to keep their data portable.
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Prof. Andy Tanenbaum Retires From Vrije University 136

Posted by timothy from the congratulations-and-good-wishes dept.
When Linus Torvalds first announced his new operating system project ("just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu"), he aimed the announcement at users of Minix for a good reason: Minix (you can download the latest from the Minix home page) was the kind of OS that tinkerers could afford to look at, and it was intended as an educational tool. Minix's creator, Professor Andrew Stuart "Andy" Tanenbaum, described his academic-oriented microkernel OS as a hobby, too, in the now-famous online discussion with Linus and others. New submitter Thijssss (655388) writes with word that Tanenbaum, whose educational endeavors led indirectly to the birth of Linux, is finally retiring. "He has been at the Vrije Universiteit for 43 years, but everything must eventually end."

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