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So the tool (in this case, Excel) was not the problem but it was the people using the tool. Cool.

and you're basically given to choose either stop backing up your iMessage or pay $1/mo for the extra 50gb

This doesn't explain the case when the author uploaded and downloaded a new file, and there was no big diff in file size. The file size diff only seems to be happening to the author's older video files.

This is happening not only in FAANG companies but also a lot (if not, all) of companies. Unless you are in a hyper-growth company, you are more likely to see this kind of performance management process to continuously review and cut.

But I think more public media should move their content to their own services (as a way to make a statement)and keep it free.

Technically, it's not free. Nothing is rarely free in this world. Our (people working in the US) tax dollars go to NASA and they use this money to build and support this new streaming system. Is this going to worth the effort and money? We will see.

I would love to understand the decision behind this when they have been "fine" with Twitch and YouTube all these years.

No it’s not, its the literally the name the government gave those plans.

Please re-read the article and my comment. Neither said anything about who named these plans. The fact is that the name itself is misleading people.

Also, the article gives a few examples how the private insurance companies _tricks_ people to think that MA plans are always better. I worked at one of these big insurance companies, and we implemented products and worded things in a way to ensure that we increase the growth of the Medicare Advantage plans. At the time, I genuinely thought the Medicare Advantage plans were always better but that is not the case. It's actually very difficult to choose which one would be better and the fact that it's really hard to change exacerbates the situation.

You don't have to agree with me. You are one of better people who can understand these plans better. Consider people with less education on this subject and have some empathy. You might think this differently.

The fact that these privatized plans have "Medicare" and "Advantage" in their names tricks people regardless of their original intention.

Probably worse for recruiters since they are the first ones to go in markets like this.

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I believe they are already throwing a lot more money to bring more apps. The investment in Cyanogen would be very small compared to how much they throw into app developers and companies to bring more WP apps.

That's what they mean. You are listening/reading into it too much. Every Windows has a number of years for support, and this number can change. The number has never decreased and has only increased in the past because people/companies were too slow at getting rid of old Windows (e.g. Windows XP). We do not know what the actual number of years Microsoft is going to support for Windows 10, but I bet it's going to be around 10 years just like other Windows.

Check http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle for the current list of Windows.

...yea it's easy to say when most people here should know how hard it is to ship any complicated system on multiple platforms. Actually, just making an app work for all major versions of Android could be a nightmare. And...what do you mean "they won't speed up their process"? Microsoft has released zero-day security bug fixes less than 90 days so many times before.

If Microsoft kills ActiveX in the new browser, it will force everyone to stop depending on ActiveX. You would be very surprised how many websites outside of the U.S. still depend on ActiveX, and these are critical websites like banking and government. Hence, killing ActiveX support is important to me.

I will give it a try if the new browser no longer supports ActiveX and has better extension supports similar to Chrome.

works perfectly fine on Chrome, IE, and Firefox.

Very interesting idea to make people contribute more contents...but I'm not too sure how this would change or contribute to the existing paradigm of mobile conversations.

I believe Hotmail/Outlook.com is free. Sure, they make you to pay to remove those ads, but if you use AdBlock on Chrome or Firefox, you shouldn't see those ads. Plus, SkyDrive is so much better than Google Drive. I had too many document compatibility issues with Google Docs that I kinda gave up and joined SkyDrive. Staying with Microsoft with their cloud services has been pretty good for me so far.

looks great on IE9 as well :)

As far as I know, every employee gets a MSDN subscription, which comes with tons of Microsoft software for FREE. Plus, they dogfood their own products. They dogfood Windows, Office, Hotmail (or Outlook.com), SkyDrive, etc, and dogfooding is "free". If you hadn't known, now you know.

When I talked about the retention rate, I was focused on employees who've been with the company for 3 yrs or less. In tech industry, especially in software engineering field, people switch jobs fast. really fast. All my colleagues switch jobs every 2-3 years. For companies like Microsoft, Google, and Apple, this is not good. They now have to spend money to find potential candidates, spend more money to interview those potential candidates, make full-time employees to interview potential candidates (5-8 interviewer per candidate), etc.

Plus, if they like it, they might buy a few for their family and friends for the upcoming holiday season!

It's definitely a win-win scenario (maybe win-win-win): 1. Every employee will implicitly/explicitly become an evangelist for Microsoft products. I'm not talking only about the Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 but all the services and apps that support the platforms and ecosystem. The marketing power and reach won't be as wide as Microsoft's actual marketing effort (there is a reason why Microsoft has a whole division of marketing), but this will certainly do a good job of sparking the excitement for the community. 2. Employee morale will definitely go up. Employees will feel that they are being cared. Employees will feel that they are getting treated well. This would essentially lower the retention rate of the company. If less people are leaving the company because they are unhappy, the less money Microsoft has to throw out to replace those people. 3. (maybe) People outside of Microsoft would start to think that Microsoft is a good place to be. People would start thinking that working for Microsoft is not a bad idea, after all. This kind of decision shows the cult of the company. I think Microsoft has a lot of wrong perceptions. They might have been correct a few years ago, but things have started to change since Windows 7. Then, I keep hearing more changes and more good stuff from Microsoft lately. Definitely, this is going to help making the Microsoft brand better.

Ask your boss. Not here.

The constant framework churning? Examples?

I personally believe having a robust framework that constantly gets updates and new features is a good sign for the development community. Just comparing the changes happened in .NET to Java frameworks, I would to know how moving away from the .NET is a better choice. Is there any other robust framework that you are considering? I don't know any other frameworks that are robust enough. Python and PHP certainly don't have the any comparable size of "ecosystem" when compared to .NET. I use other frameworks when I have to, and this usually happens when I'm developing mobile applications (Object-C for iOS and Java for Android). So far, with changes in Azure, I'm pretty happy with what .NET has done and where .NET is going.

Async/await is something I don't have too much experience, though. So far, I don't think the feature wouldn't be too useful for a complex system and expect the community to stick with how asynchronous programming has been done in the past (e.g. Begin/End methods and IAsyncResults) for such system. However, I think it's a really simple syntactic sugar that developers can take an advantage when they are developing rather relatively small applications, such as windows 8 apps.

We have seen this kind of competition everywhere. It's not about whether human eyes can tell the difference or not. It's about something of product A has higher number than that of product B. This has been the game everywhere (e.g. digital cameras with 10000000 MP). Don't hate players. Hate the game.

If I remember correctly, most of Modern UI apps won't be accessible without a Microsoft account.

You can do the registry hack to turn off "ALL CAPS MENU" http://www.richard-banks.org/2012/06/how-to-prevent-visual-s...