* Posts by MyVoiceIsMyPassport

3 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Apr 2020

New Workspace for your WFH office? Nah, it's just Google shooting G Suite with the rebrandogun

MyVoiceIsMyPassport

"Pricing is little changed"

Maybe ... but the licensing terms have potentially changed quite significantly depending on how you are using G Suite at the moment.

We currently have 353 G Suite Basic licences. For Google Workspace, that *excludes* us from their Business plan, which would have kept us on $6 per user per month. Instead, we have to move to the Enterprise plan ... at $20 per user per month.

So more than a 300% increase for us :(

Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches for a 'complete virtualization stack' with Linux and Hyper-V

MyVoiceIsMyPassport

Re: X server

According to https://fossbytes.com/linux-gui-app-on-windows-10-wsl2/, "Linux GUI apps integrate with Windows 10 using Wayland display server protocol running inside of WSL. Wayland communicates with a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) client on the Windows host to run the GUI app."

Lockdown endgame? There won't be one until the West figures out its approach to contact-tracing apps

MyVoiceIsMyPassport

"The end result is that a majority of Android phones will not be able to take advantage of these APIs. Furthermore, it may take a long time to see this patch make its way to individual users as vendors are famed for dragging their feet when it comes to software updates in normal times."

My understanding is that Google will release the APIs as an update to Google Play, thereby reaching a far wider set of Android customers and much faster than an OS update.