My unconventional take: The early death of Home Server before the concept could really take hold is the most disappointing loss here. I often think modern computing could be superior today had more consumers become comfortable with home servers rather than relying on public clouds.
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#232What happened to Mixer? I remember some huge names like Ninja going over to it.
Streamers were offered contracts to exclusively stream on Mixer, and they all moved back to Twitch (or YouTube Gaming) after the contracts were up. I assume Mixer didn't have enough critical mass to keep people on the platform and MS shut it down.
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#233Contrary to Google, Microsoft often provide a migration path to another of their service covering the same usecases. Examples: Skype For Business => Teams. Microsoft Edge => Chromium Edge. Windows 10 IoT Core => It's not dead ??? Office Viewer => Web Based Office Kinect => It's not dead ??? Microsoft Anti-Virus for Windows => Windows Defender Come on, microsoft has big flaws but backward compat/keeping old product al…
>Kinect => It's not dead ??? Is it alive? It very much has an immensely passionate community of students and hobbyists using it in ways well past its intended use (e.g. it's some of the cheapest mocap hardware you can buy). But I don't think you've been able to officially purchase one for 4+ years now. Hard to call that "alive" in a business sense. Honestly a real shame that Xbox hasn't pivoted it into some other tea…
I think Kinect's technology of projecting infrared dots to figure out depth has been surpassed by better stereoscopic vision and lidar. I think. For example I know that Intel has a $400 desktop stereo camera and a $600 lidar puck which would definitely be the way I'd go nowadays for any projects. Kinect also had the body skeleton stuff built in, but you literally can get a JavaScript Open CV script to do that now.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-tec...
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#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://killedbygoogle.com/ contains Nexus. That was clearly replaced by Pixel. Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on anything related to this.
No... Sorry just no Nexus line was an Affordable/ value reference implantation of Android Pixel is an overpriced atrocity marketing platform for Google. Pixel IS NOT a replacement for Nexus
The "a" Pixels are pretty much in the same space as Nexus was.
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#235Any suggestions for alternatives to Microsoft Academic? Google Scholar is ok, Researchgate sucks, and I'm wondering about any other such services which I might not be aware about.
OpenAlex is being built. "OpenAlex is an open index of hundreds of millions of interconnected entities across the global research system."
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#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unless you have a Windows 3.1 vm kicking around just to support this, that seems unlikely.
No need for a VM. I'm running Windows 10. Setup is easy if you still have a drive that can read CDs: just mount the ISO (for example, with ImgBurn), copy all of the files to your SSD, and run AAMSSTP\APP\BSHELF96.EXE. The registry is never touched, so it's a very portable installation. I suppose that the ability to run this nearly-30-year-old program with ease is testament to Microsoft's commitment to backward compat…
> And if I wanted, I could probably run it straight from the CD, as people did back in 1996.
1996?
More like 1987: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBupNdYe08g
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#237Encarta is the only thing on this list that was meaningful to me in any way.
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#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Google list is absolutely aiming to shame Google. They break promises they made even just a few months earlier (Stadia is a recent example). Microsoft is a polar opposite: they kill unpopular things, monetize popular things, and provide ridiculously long support (and backwards compatibility).
What promise did Google break with Stadia?
One example: https://www.destructoid.com/google-stadia-facing-class-actio...
The subpar game library is another.
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#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Google list is absolutely aiming to shame Google. They break promises they made even just a few months earlier (Stadia is a recent example). Microsoft is a polar opposite: they kill unpopular things, monetize popular things, and provide ridiculously long support (and backwards compatibility).
Stadia is still alive afaik.
They are no longer making their own games or even trying to make it into a viable consumer product. They pivoted to a B2B product. It's only a matter of time before they just kill off the consumer-facing version.
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#240Windows Classic Theme should be on that list, IMO.