231–240 of 284 posts
MS is changing, and make no mistake, this has started with Ballmer. If you watch(ed) the press conf, it's quite apparent. App store for Android, Office for iPad, AD for Azure.. quite nice stuff, that's what we expect from a software giant: just release stuff for everything, everywhere, and make things be able to work with each other nicely. Good to see that, competition is always good for the users, and Apple, Google…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Office 365 website offers a free months trial.
Ok, but it may be completely different from using the actual app. For example, GMail app is way slower and irresponsive in the iPad than accessing directly from gmail.com in Safari.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This isn't the 1990s anymore where Windows is the dominant platform. It's always easy to see who's in the bubble.
it speaks to the amazing power of marketing. People are always blown away when they find out that apple has less than a 10% market share and that their market share has actually gone down over the last 10 years.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep, we're listening, and it's actively being worked on. See this: http://msopentech.com/blog/2014/02/25/vagrant-and-hyper-v-pr... , and there's more like it still to come.
That's a step in the right direction, but don't make us use Hyper-V when most of us are already using VirtualBox. That's one more thing to add to my stack that is different than my tooling that works with all other operating systems I test on. Most developers using vagrant use VirtualBox. Now I have no problem if you make things work with Hyper-V, but please make things work with VirtualBox as well. Does hyper-v even…
VirtualBox can be godawful at times. What's not working for you?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does she use VMware for?
she has been an avid user of PC Gourmet (Big Blue Disk 39) since the eighties. I have never been able to extract the recipes easily and she has been using it pretty much constantly for 20+ years so there are too many to do by hand. It worked ok in xp but won't run since windows 7/8 so ... vmware
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I suppose a fringe benefit of open-sourcing .NET would be an eventual reduction in this phenomenon. I mean, it doesn't really even make sense to have a closed-source application programming language in this day and age, where the community building and maintaining it is entirely employed by a single company. It just isn't efficient enough, the maintenance is intractable, and you end up with false starts because the w…
I suppose a fringe benefit of open-sourcing .NET would be an eventual reduction in this phenomenon. Why do you think that would be the case? When I think "open-source" I think "fragmented, lots of utterly terrible things, lots of half-finished false-starts".
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does she use VMware for?
she has been an avid user of PC Gourmet (Big Blue Disk 39) since the eighties. I have never been able to extract the recipes easily and she has been using it pretty much constantly for 20+ years so there are too many to do by hand. It worked ok in xp but won't run since windows 7/8 so ... vmware
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mac Office has often surpassed Win Office in many ways; in usability for example. It is at least a different product, not better or worse.
"It is at least a different product, not better or worse." The very fact that it's different makes it worse for me. I can use Excel 2010 for Windows without thinking about the tool. Small differences like startup behaviour, position of things on the ribbon, and keyboard shortcut force me to think about how to use Excel for Mac, rather than focusing on the task at hand. Some, but not all, of this is down to difference…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
In a limited way. Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, and Communicator (i/o Lync) are available for Mac, but they are not even close to the Windows versions in terms of feature parity. VBA support has been on-and-off. Access, Infopath, and Publisher are not available at all. They're written in Cocoa and on a different release cycle. There is no Office for Mac 2013, current version is 2011.
For 95%+ of their user base, Word, Powerpoint and Excel have feature parity on the Mac/Windows. Outlook and Lync are significantly superior on the Windows Platform. Excel had a pretty nasty regression on the Macintosh in Office 2004/2008 (to the point at which I no longer used it on the Mac in 2008, it was pretty horrid) - but they returned it to (mostly) feature parity as of Office 2011. Sharepoint, on the other han…
I've been using it in enterprise for years and never found a missing feature.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah there is a fascinating income bias at play there. Think about it this way, if you are an engineer and you make over 75k a year gross you are in the top 15% of wage earners in the united states, if you make over 100k you are in the top 10% of wage earners. So if you are in one of those brackets chances are your company is spending a good chunk of change on you and doesn't mind springing for a nice laptop to keep…
Would developers write better software if they had to write on slower, older machines with less memory and storage?