To Microsoft's credit, they publish reasonably interesting root-cause-analysis after each significant failure, where as Google seem to have a canned response (so far). Their response to the Outlook.com outage and their response to the recent Azure outage caused by an expired SSL certificate.

Messed up the tags: Nokia Rich Recording in Nokia Lumia 1020 [audio / video competitors comparison] @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKvbIqEO0i0

Lumia 920, 925 and 1020 have HAAC (High Amplitude Audio Capture) mics and I believe the 1020 has stereo HAAC. For a demonstration (a Nokia made one) against iPhone 5 and SGS4, check this out: Nokia Rich Recording in Nokia Lumia 1020 [audio / video competitors comparison]

Rising are a Chinese company listed as an anti-virus partner by Microsoft.

"Mr Trkulja had incorrectly filled out a form for reporting offensive material by not including the URL of the content to which he objected."

Hello, Google? Yes, you know that image, I want it taken down as it defames me. Just do it and don't ask me these frivolous questions

For starters, you'd probably had a crappy diet being a poor student and skipping meals. I doubt McD's had anything to do with your reflux apart from the fact it was food. And I know it's hyperbole, but if you're projectile vomiting for 3 days, you need to go to hospital.

Totally agree. The OP is clearly a troll trying to incite Microsoft hatred by posing as a Microsoft shill. It's worked quite well.

Solar panels are abundant throughout Udaipur, a city in the affected state of Rajasthan. Rooftops are scattered with them here but I don't know or believe the rest of the country has them as widely installed.

Sounds like a crypto nerd's worst nightmare: https://xkcd.com/538/

I'm in a regional (not rural) district and every suburb here has ADSL2+ connectivity. If you can't get ADSL2+, you can still get the pricey ADSL1 8Mbit through Telstra or Telstra wholesaler.

Even though I get 13Mbit~ at a good price, fibre is still very necessary as we're already starting to push the limits of what's available to us today. What I try and explain to people is that this is infrastructure that all communications will pass through for decades to come. It's one of the first times in my life where I can think of the Australian government really being ambitious with infrastructure development. The applications for this will be huge, it's much more than just triple-play. There's the possibility for telemedicine, telesurgery and of course, more telecommuting than ever before.

In 6 months they'll be starting NBN roll-out in my neighbourhood, and I'll be able to get 100/40 for what I think is a reasonable price that will only fall in the years to come.

Indian would be very hard to understand, considering it doesn't exist.

Wrong, the Commonwealth Bank (bank in TFA ) offer 2FA hardware tokens (à la SecureID) as an alternative to NetCode (the 2FA used in this instance). They offer this primarily to customers travelling overseas (and can't/don't want roaming) or those who are frequently out of coverage zones.It's free, too.

Android vs Windows Phone free apps - A case study: Part II. Free apps are yielding great returns on WP7 because the market place is that much less saturated. Although WP7 is far from "critical mass", in 30 days WP7 revenue for this free app was $108.55 with 114,920 impressions vs. Android's $3.44 of revenue and 11,606 impressions. This is just one case study and there are a lot more. Decent money is being made now, even with 3-5% marketshare.

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