Posts by Strahd Ivarius

Microsoft 365 boosts prices in 2026 … to pay for more AI and security

Re: Different planet

The next step in AI transformation:

You: How can I remove Copilot from my system

Copilot: You can't without moving to Linux

You: Can you do it for me

Copilot: Sure, let me start downloading it

Is a CVE a feature now?

Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches

To summarize

All memory and ssd will go to AI datacenters, leaving nothing for end-users devices.

So, soon, nobody will have a working personal device able to use the new AI instances.

Won't it end with a crash of the AI bubble? and perhaps faster than expected?

Nice move, raiding an office for memory and then selling it back for a big profit.

UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B

There is no "smart" phone with a removable battery available anywhere anymore...

Re: No it wouldn't

"was"...

Re: Our is different...

He'll only have to ask his pal at the White House to already get hold of it, since it will be likely stored on a US cloud...

Windows keeps obsolete strings forever to avoid breaking translations

Re: Windows is sh••

When home users got the Minitel in France in 1983-84, some models had an "abcde" keyboard.

Nobody complained then, since they were typing with one digit anyway, unless they were secretaries accustomed to the standard "azerty" layout.

The next iterations all used the "standard" layout.

With the latest versions of Win11, MS introduced the new AFNOR-designed layout as the "standard", relegating the current layout to "legacy" status.

So anyone not paying attention will have a surprise entering passwords the first time...

Of course, nobody is selling that new standard keyboard as far as I can say, and the manufacturers I am in contact with are not aware of its existence.

(and I didn't find any either on the Microsoft store)

Microsoft appears to move on from its most loyal ‘customers’ – Contoso and Fabrikam

It is a sad day for Microsoft

when your most loyal customers decide not to follow you on the road to AI...

Canadian data order risks blowing a hole in EU sovereignty

Re: obvious solution

Go after the strategic maple supply!

Canada will fold before you can say "Maudit niaseux".

Re: A clear case of not doing your homework

OVH was likely expecting that Canada would follow the existing treaties.

Not to go full Trump on the matter.

Re: Hang on

And where are held the keys?

On a public GitHub repository, as per the current standards?

US Navy scuttles Constellation frigate program for being too slow for tomorrow's threats

Re: Destroyers for bases in reverse?

Send the Type 23 frigates to Washington and blast the White House like it is 1812 again!

(and do it before Donald does it first)

Russian spy ship theories sink after Orkney blackout traced to wind farm fault

Re: On the plus side

I didn't know it would take so much time to get new lambs...

HSBC spies $207B crater in OpenAI's expansion goals

Re: Money trees

AI doesn't know anything about the meaning of 42.

But everything about the one for 45 and especially 47 (lots of money for the right people).

Re: Funny money

Zimbabwean dollars I presume?

Microsoft exec finds AI cynicism 'mindblowing'

Re: Blame the customer

Windows or anything coming from MS is a security breach...

Windows boss defends 'agentic OS' push as users plead for reliability

Re: Hey, Mr Davuluri

Your choice:

[ ] Yes, I want Agentic OS right now!

[ ] No, I can't wait for Agentic OS

Re: Re Nadella needs a new Ferrari!

This one always do the trick, no back pain.

Why Elon Musk won't ever realize the shareholder-approved Tesla payout

Re: "The cold hard numbers, though, tell me he can't do it. I don't think anyone could."

Do spin doctors offer conversion therapy to have electrons spin the right way?

Retail giant Kingfisher rejects SAP ERP upgrade plan

Re: That should be where you start

"We are currently paying £xxx per year for your product. How much migrating to your new system will remove from our bill?"

Bitcoin bandit's £5B bubble bursts as cops wrap seven-year chase

If they want to go after fraudsters

When do they indict the US sitting president?

Meta can't afford its $600B love letter to Trump

He just has to redirect all the great big nuclear warheads to target Democrat cities, and press the big beautiful red button, and voila!

No more USA, no more elections...

Re: People to do the work?

Will a quantum computer run Doom?

Until it does, what it its purpose?

Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control

Re: PS: Let alone the MS AI-translated articles

Or syntax colors not working any more in Teams for powershell code, since it is now detected and tagged as "power"

Re: Microsoft quality has always been questionable since Win95

On NT4, there was a registry entry to move from Workstation to Server edition.

And if you edited it, you got a popup stating you were naughty...

Mcrosoft: where Agile is Agilest

Break things so fast and so often that you can't move fast enough to catch with the issues.

Re: Microsoft gave up all pretext of caring about QA/QC ...

Should Elon take over?

(although he may start by suing to get listed as a founder)

Re: Program / Programme

Visual Basic for Applications, circa '97

True and False are localized (e.g.: Vrai / Faux), making code incompatible between localized versions of MS Office...

You'll never guess what the most common passwords are. Oh, wait, yes you will

Re: Well, that still needed a forklift truck to be broken...

No panther was sighted either.

Re: Most Popular Password : 123456

Or Thales

Re: Password rules make for weaker passwords

¿ Ll4nf41rpwllgwyngyllg0g3rychwyrndr0bwllll4ntys1l10g0g0g0ch?

'What the hell, Microsoft?' Users hit with incorrect ESU and LTSC Win10 out-of-support messages

Re: Which number base ?

You mean "you don't get any disservice on Feb 29", so your computer is working fine that day (but only if the moon is full and it is a Friday)

Tesla board wants to grant Musk $1T in stock, Norway wealth fund says nope

A car that transforms itself in a humanoid robot?

I think I already saw some documentary about this...

Microsoft 365 business customers are running out of places to hide from Copilot

I am waiting to see Copilot taking over the logon screen, with the bonus that when MS mothership is not available (around 80% of the time), Clippy will tell you "I am sorry, I am afraid you can't do that".

Colorado launches lawyers at Trump admin over space base relocation

Re: Senator Tommy Tuberville

Isn't there a law that states that military installations can only be named after dead people?

Is the Donald already dead and they are concealing it?

Azure's bad night fuels fresh calls for cloud diversification in Europe

You forgot that when asking for new cloud services, you have to make a request, have it approved by your manager, then since he won't see the automated mail by his manager, who will ignore it so the request will be cancelled, repeat the process 2 or 3 times, then have the guy managing the licenses approve the request (if he sees the mail), then have the new licenses purchased at the beginning of next purchase period (anything between 2 weeks and 6 months), ... and then have the license applied to your system, if your are not dead yet.

Microsoft just revealed that OpenAI lost more than $11.5B last quarter

Re: Copilot flying into the ground

There are reports that show how often someone use Copilot.

Of course, they are available only when MS front end is not down...

Re: quote: a sum that won’t hurt Big Daddy Redmond too much

One notable exception being Tesla, where shareholders are required not to be able to read...

Microsoft Azure challenges AWS for downtime crown

Why would MS keep American white collars managing the DoD cloud, when Chinese (not Taiwanese) ones are cheaper?

Re: Reverted to last know good.

redirect traffic from Azure Front Door to their own servers

2003 being the last time they had their own servers...

Blinded by the light: Tesla fixes glaringly bright Cybertruck headlights

Re: FFS...

When UK goes back to the EU, besides adopting the Euro, it will have to drive on the proper side of the road...

Senators accuse Smithsonian of 'illegal lobbying' over Discovery squabbles

Easiest way would be to strap it to a Starship rocket from SpaceX, wouldn't it?

Re: Other issues? Ballroom

An independent contractor has estimated to cost of creating a new ballroom at $8.07, taxes (local & federal) included.

I wonder who made the extravagant estimation of $250 000 000 for that work.

Where will the money go?

We're all going to be paying AI's Godzilla-sized power bills

Re: Energy

The Nutrimatic dispenser delivers a cupful of liquid that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

Re: Energy

You can have UK either modern or civilized, choose only one...

Lloyds Banking Group claims Microsoft Copilot saves staff 46 minutes a day

Re: The golden rule is don't use it

AI assistant can be useful, like this:

Find me when I sent the mail asking people to follow this process.

And then it gives you the date, a link to the mail, and manages to somehow make an error on the year in the summary.

Fortunately, I knew I couldn't have sent the mail that year, since I was not at the company at the time...

Company that made power systems for servers didn’t know why its own machines ran out of juice

Re: Being a techie site....

SNMP?

Does it have something to do with a political party somewhere in the north?

I prefer connecting the metal switch to a 40.000 V line, to ensure nobody will try a repeat...

Britain's AI gold rush hits a wall – not enough electricity

Re: The obvious solution?

Another map