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Agreed - its a stinking turd, but at least it's not oscommerce :)

I think its a naive attempt at describing worker processes and application scope. if you have a worker process per endpoint which is common with .net apps and lots of endpoints, it…

Th problem is whatever you do you're locked into an ecosystem of some sort. Even open source software. Have you tried building a portable c program on windows, Linux and OSX? Java …

Businesses do go to war regularly against nations. Its pretty much how the mineral, precious stone and oil industries work. Afghanistan looks like a useless chunk of dirt until you…

Well what do you expect them to do? I think they would be batshit insane to do otherwise.

Are you serious? I wrote an x86 NT utility back in 1996 on NT4 (with no service packs). It still executes and works perfectly on an x64 Windows 8 machine. That's a mere 17 years ag…

This is welcome news. At least they are listening to people these days.

Yes but Microsoft activation can make than damn hard if they want to.

Actually this is not true on windows phone 8 and windows RT. The only requirement is that you use the native API which means the browser back end will need to be ported to it. This…

Seriously you can turn all that on if you want. My keyboard has a volume control. And use PowerShell ISE as your command line.

Agree with this. Surface RT is painful. Especially office.

Same thing, but I dislike Windows 8 in the same way I hated the bad bits of vista. I'll live with it if my ThinkPad dies big time though. The concept is really good but the executi…

Never had that problem!

I can't tell the difference in speed between a 2007 Lenovo T61 and a 2010 MBP. Works fine for apps. Windows 8 actually makes distinction between documents, apps and settings.

Which is still an issue for a lot of people who depend on them.

They already have been doing that for a long time. They are in compliance now.

I understand the premise of the fine, but how is this supposed to help the consumers and businesses who now have to foot the $50 bill per seat?

I don't think they can just cut off every Microsoft consultancy, every Windows user and throw them out of the EU. If they did, I'd be heading to Brussels with a pitchfork along wit…

What motivation have Microsoft got to pay this?

Sorry I will be 100% honest - I misread the first paragraph in the last message you posted. My apologies.

I think you are smoking crack. Our AD is on azure. Its not designed for http specifically. The azure web instances bit is but the whole platform is IaaS style. So hadoop with SQL s…

That's web sites. That's a fraction of the real world, which is my point. Most businesses don't run over HTTP. If most of the top 500 web sites disappeared, the world wouldn't stop…

Yep the consumers buy a laptop because it is pink or cheap which usually ends up running windows as its the only thing at the price point. When they buy a tablet, they buy a shit n…

Uptime is not a problem. Stuff breaks. Being able to contact someone, get a root cause of an issue and get help to mitigate it is what is important. In our case, a trial with Hetzn…

Because its not opinionated at all, allows you to do what the hell you want and has very good support. I've been burned by AWS and GAE support which is sometimes non existent. If y…