Posts by phands

Microsoft: Here's what you'll cough up for Windows 10 next year

So - if I get the free upgrade now, do I pay next yer?

I haven't seen this explicitly asked and answered - if I do the upgrade now, will I get blackmailed in a year's time, or is it truly a perpetual license?

Microsoft: This Windows 10 build has 'NO significant known issues'

Given that w10 is just re-warmed w7, it ought to be fairly stable...but the idea of ANY windows release having no known significant bugs is just laughable....or casts serious doubts on testing.

Samsung Galaxy Note Edge: A side swipe at smartphone design

Re: Been using and Edge since they appeared in the USA.

I've had that functionality with the smart case on my S5, and the M8 dot case didn't appeal to me, even as the phone did.

I guess the definition of gimmicky is personal. I find it useful.

Been using and Edge since they appeared in the USA.

Nice review. I bought an Edge when they first came out in the USA last year, replacing an S5.

I use the Edge screen far more than I ever thought possible - it's one of those things that I wonder what we did without before it existed. There's also a Samsung smart cover for it, which does a lot to protect the Edge's edges (!) while leaving the edge screen visible for notifications. It's great to be able to cancel alarms or reject calls without opening the cover. They also got the edge screen sensitivity just right - I have never yet got a false activation by accidental touch, but it doesn't miss deliberate actions either.

In continuous use over the last 4 months or so, battery life is excellent, and I'm a demanding user. I have a friend with the Note 4, and the battery life difference isn't really noticeable, fortunately.

The cameras are great - rival my big expensive Canon DSLR in some cases!

The final thing I love is the S-Pen - the handwriting to text is just great for on the fly notes at meetings.

And....no, I'm not in Samsung's employ! I'm a techie in big data centres for a large cloud company.

3 spectastic Lumias for price of 1 rival flagship: Microsoft sells biz on cheapie experience

Big sellers?? I doubt it. Windows phone market share fell to a paltry 2.7% in 2014, and the few that sold are low-end....no margins. Even the older versions, like windows mobile had higher market share. And the windows phone UI is revolting - it looks like AoL kids around 1996.

Anyone making windows phones these days is betting on a loser platform.

Windows Phone will snatch biz No 2 spot from Android – analyst

Really? What kind of analyst is this? Windoze will snatch #2 slot from Android? Android has #1 spot already Apple is #2, and the awful windoze phone is #3, but miles behind. Even if the dismal windoze phone gets to #2 spot, it will STILL be miles behind Android. I wouldn't pay for this guy's opinions - they're not based in fact.

Microsoft to enter the STRUGGLE of the HUMAN WRIST

Yet again, microsoft copies the ideas of others....late and poorly. No doubt this will be as embarrassing a failure as windows phone, zune and RT.

Bing Maps COCKUP: Oracle UK HQ is 'Elvis Impersonators' joint

No one uses bing anyway....who cares

Since day 1, bing has lost money for microsoft, because no one uses it. Who cares if the maps are wrong?

British Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing receives Royal pardon

What a revolting travesty - Turing did NOTHING wrong

Mercy??? How is this mercy?

There was nothing to pardon. He should have been declared innocent, and the state should issue an apology.

I saw this comment elsewhere, which says it well....

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Perhaps worth remembering is that it doesn't, as some reports have said, "overturn the conviction".

He would be sprung from jail if he were in there and any fine repaid, but the conviction would still stand and he'd have to declare it if he were going to work with children.

He was, of course, convicted of exactly the same offence as Oscar Wilde was; many people think he should be pardoned too, along with thousands of other less distinguished men down the years under that particularly vicious homophobic Victorian legislation.

Desperate MS flaunts UNDEAD SPLAT TALLY to pep Xbox One fans

SO...M$ really IS spying on users.

If they can see those numbers, the XPox is sending all your info back to M$ all the time.

Facebook RIPS away your veil of privacy, declares NO MORE HIDING

That does it. I've had a facebook account for years, but hardly used it. I just deleted it. Goodbye FB.

SCO vs. IBM battle resumes over ownership of Unix

SCO destroyed all documents a while back...

The bankruptcy administrators of SCO (or "asset strippers", more accurately) got permission to delete and shred lots of paperwork a while back. Thus there will be no evidence that SCO have no case left. I can see the SCOundrels asking for a restart, including full discovery again.

They won't get it, in a normal world, but this is SCO - a parallel dimension where truth is mutable.