You just had to come and shit all over Microsoft and make the same point that you already made up thread because uhhh, you call it like you see it...right?
Bullshit. More like you can't deal with opinions that don't match your own, especially when it comes to Microsoft and Apple. You're nothing more than an pro-Apple, anti-Microsoft fanboi.
OK. Then you're an unpaid lackey I guess. Good for you.
> I'm 40ish, not some corporate fanboi in their parents' basement -- which yur kind of arguments seem to be meant for.
You're the one who comes into a thread about Microsoft's success and has to immediately start comparing them to Apple who doesn't even have a competing product in the iPad or the iWatch.
That's how 16 year old fanbois act. So, if the shoe fits...
> How is 1.3 billion in 3 months for Surface impressive, blah blah blah.
Gee, if making a billion dollars in three months isn't impressive to you then I don't know what would be. How can one company possibly be successful when another company is also successful?
There are actually multiple lap modes that both work great.
1) Like a regular laptop.
2) Fold the keyboard back and open the stand so it makes a right angle. Place the right angle so that the keyboard is parallel with your stomach and the Surface is perpendicular. Now the Surface is floating above your lap near the bottom of your chest where it's easy to read and write on.
3) Completely remove the keyboard.
I feel sorry for people who are using products from Apple's sterile and completely un-innovative product lines that are all moving closer and closer to the locked-down anti-consumer, anti-developer iOS business model.
Good. One less locked-down, anti-competitive player to deal with.
I'm sticking with Android for now since it offends me the least and I'll never, ever, ever use iOS (ever) since Apple is such an asshole to their customers and developers that I hate them with a passion. As a matter of fact, I hope Apple spends and loses all of their money on their car project. (Fingers crossed!)
Give me a phone where I have complete control please and stop trying to "protect" me. Until that time comes, I'll continue using only the most basic features of my so-called "smart" phone.
The person you were replying to did emphasized "wants to" vs "have to" though - so I think they were trying to insert the point about means vs ends. Anyway, whoever was trying to make that point - I think it's been made (however painfully).
I think you missed the point of the post you're replying to. What's the reason that you feel that you want to understand the "real technologies" that run the web? So that you can build better apps with those technologies, right?
So, what you really want to do is just build some apps, not learn CSS. See the difference?
Sorry to disappoint you but I am my IT department and I'm not having any issues...and neither are the IT departments from several companies that I work with.
And as a steady reader of that sub and of the Microsoft multi-sub, I heartily disagree with your observation. Both Win7 and Win8 had loads of "horror stories", just like WinXP before it. People are pretty much going to complain about any new Windows version.
Right and last year it was full of Windows 8 horror stories and the years before that it was full of Windows 7 horror stories. In other news - StackOverflow.com is full of programming problems so programming must suck. Point being - /r/sysadmin is where people go to complain and ask questions.
Also, it's empirically verifiable, not an anecdote - that Windows 10 runs all the same apps that I've been able to run for decades on previous versions of Windows without issue. That's what I call rock solid.
Did you even read the article? The arguments still hold up. It's clearly the case that it's not worth the effort to move VS to 64-bit.
- "First, from a performance perspective the pointers get larger, so data structures get larger, and the processor cache stays the same size. That basically results in a raw speed hit..."
- "The cost of a full port [due to the amount of code involved, not the quality of the code] of that much native code is going to be quite high and of course all known extensions would break and we’d basically have to create a 64 bit ecosystem pretty much like you do for drivers. Ouch."
- "A 64 bit address space for the process isn’t going to help you with page faults except in maybe indirect ways, and it will definitely hurt you in direct ways because your data is bigger...32 bit processes accrue all these benefits just as surely as 64 bit ones."
OK then let's compare VS to XCode, which doesn't even have half the features of VS and crashes twice as much. If not, which comparable product would you pick?
Bullshit. Allow an actual user of Windows 10 to correct your statement, since I bet you haven't used it at all: Some things are unfinished. Mostly the consumer facing stuff (think Metro apps).
Other than that, Windows 10 has been rock solid for the past 8 months or so that I've been using it on my main workstation and my main tablet.