Posts by workrabbit

Outlook is poor for those still on Windows Mail, Calendar, People apps by end of year

Sugar not Stevia

Fine for a new Outlook which has bits and pieces from the Windows 95 Exchange and Schedule+ clients. But can it please be a real RibbonUX application and not some sort of pretend affair?

India flips the switch on three homebrew supercomputers

Does it have to be the fastest?

No, it has to be able to do the work which it is designed to do.

Fedora 41 beta arrives, neck-and-neck with Ubuntu – but with a different focus

A boring distro

And that’s why it’s so good. It generally gets out of the way and always allowed to focus on what I needed to do.

I would have a liked a distinction between Fedora and CentOS (which should be even more boring).

Kremlin-linked COLDRIVER crooks take pro-democracy NGOs for phishy ride

Re: NGO

Yep. While I don’t support Putin, this outfit is pretty flagrant, and will not really help Russia

If every PC is going to be an AI PC, they better be as good at all the things trad PCs can do

Windows only?

Yours truly wonders how other operating systems can, or even desire to, take advantage of the additional plumbing and microprocessor trickery. Did Linus make a statement?

War on Texas law requiring ID to savor smut online heads to Supreme Court

Trust no one

Don’t trust the government. Don’t trust porn sites.

Definitely want to keep this material out of reach of children but neither have any credibility. That’s my “free” speech.

Microsoft pulls the plug on WordPad, the world's least favorite text editor

Good riddance

The alternatives are plentiful, free, more reliable and have more feature. Remove the old junk from Windows.

Microsoft's code name for 64-bit Windows was also a dig at rival Sun

Windows XP on Intanium

Windows XP on Intanium was 64-bit upon release, in 2001.

'Return to Office' declared dead

Loud minority

According to the US BLS, office and administrative support occupations make up nearly 16 percent of U.S. employment as of May 2013. Imagine the brain surgeon, auto technician, construction worker, mass transit operator, site support personnel, not to mention retail and education, complaining about their employer’s work from home policies. Hilarious. We’re an entitled lot.

US govt pays AT&T to let cops search Americans' phone records – 'usually' without a warrant

The drug trafficking business is big business

Imagine the financial repercussions to funding of law enforcement agencies and their suppliers if most drugs were made legal.

Microsoft's 11-year itch: The uncelebrated anniversary of Windows 8

Ten years on, we’re still picking up the pieces

Windows 8 had some innovative designs, but the gamble did not pay off. It was easy enough to remove some of the nonsense (at least for non touch devices) with some inexpensive utilities.

Ubuntu unleashes Mantic Minotaur with 23.10 build

Before anyone complains…

This is quite amazing that given the quality it is provided away for free.

Ubuntu and Fedora clash in beta race, but who wears GNOME better?

All of this for free!

Amazing work by both teams!

Farewell WordPad, we hardly knew ye

A win32 demo only.

WordPad always meant to be a demonstration of what you could create with the Win32 API. That does not mean anything to modern developers so of course it will go away. The *cough* Microsoft *cough* Store has a number nominally free markdown editors, such as Appy Text. Also, OneNote can used for text of any sorts and it is also free. And as other have noted, LibreOffice, FreeOffice, and other will let you type for free. Finally, use the winget search parameter and look for ‘markdown’.