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  1. They could try dropping the price. Surely they must be easier and cheaper to make by now.
    12 points
  2. Windows 10 is now on over 1.3 billion active devices

    Ah yes, the ole' "things were better in the olden days, we should go back to that" argument. I've been working with computers for 40 years and not a year goes by that I don't observe someone making a similar argument to what you're saying here. If your Mac counterparts were to be believed in 2004, things were better in the Mac OS 8 / 9 days, too. The graybeards -hated- Mac OS X and its goofy visual style. It wasn't "serious". The multitasking "got in the way". A lot of flexibility in direct hardware programming was lost. And of course, FreeDOS exists because there were a ton of people who couldn't let go of their fondness for MS-DOS and wanted their computing life to continue down that road. The people who made it started chasing after adding multitasking, 32-bit support, USB and so on. We could talk about Commodore, too. See that thing recently where someone souped up a C-64 do to Bitcoin mining? Hilarious. Retro technology is fun. Sure. But we shouldn't collectively go back to it and stay there forever, just because we look back on it fondly. Microsoft has sunk ten full years of development into the Windows kernel since Windows 7 SP1. The list of changes and improvements is enormous. There's absolutely no well-grounded, technologically valid reason to throw all that way. If you don't believe me, grab the Windows Internals 7th edition book by Mark Russinovich, and you'll learn very quickly that fundamentally, Windows is still very much the same OS as it has been for 20 years, but the structure and organization of everything has improved. Now, if you don't like the Windows GUI, that's understandable, it's still a bit of a mess. I have the same problem with macOS Big Sur.... they sunk a ton of work into visually refreshing it, but it still has a major identity crisis and they've messed up many Mac fundamentals in the pursuit of bringing the iOS market to the desktop. I personally vastly prefer Mac OS X Snow Leopard.... so much so that I have it running on a 15-year-old iMac in the kitchen. So, yes, I get you -- but the better thing to do is to stop obsessing over the past and learn how to use the modern tools correctly. Inflexibility won't help you in the long run.
    12 points
  3. The brown fox is apparently no longer quick.
    10 points
  4. Windows 10 is now on over 1.3 billion active devices

    Never heard of it.
    9 points
  5. Display technology, and studies on eye care change. Fonts should change to take those into account. In 2007 No one was taking into account displays with 1440P, 4K+ resolution and technologies like OLED and mini LED.
    8 points
  6. Windows 10 is now on over 1.3 billion active devices

    So you're telling me that the only version of Windows that Microsoft has sold for the last six years is on even more new devices now? That's astonishing!
    7 points
  7. Windows 10 is now on over 1.3 billion active devices

    Of those active users, it would be interesting to know how many actual enjoy using the product. For many consumers, they just blindly deal with Microsoft’s BS.
    7 points
  8. Windows 10 is now on over 1.3 billion active devices

    How is that relevant?
    6 points
  9. Lol oops. This is what happens when youngsters are left in charge. Anyone over 40 would have caught that omission instantly.
    5 points
  10. Facebook gives $5 million to fund COVID-19 vaccines

    $5 million? What a joke. They probably are spending more money organizing and marketing it.
    4 points
  11. Calibri, the most powerful font in the world. It took down a prime minister for corruption
    4 points
  12. Windows 10 is now on over 1.3 billion active devices

    But come on man Windows 10 is so terrible that MacOS and Linux are going to take over the world! Sometime in, uhh, 2077 I assume.
    4 points
  13. Finally. Freaking finally.
    3 points
  14. Facebook gives $5 million to fund COVID-19 vaccines

    5 mil for a company that is Facebook size is nothing. Facebook's net income was $29 billion in 2020. This amounts to a donation of .000172% How generous of them!
    3 points
  15. Microsoft is working on a new default font for Office, replacing Calibri

    This really should not be a social media poll. Millions of documents will be generated with these fonts by users who just do not change from the default, and millions of people will have to read those documents to get information and knowledge. A font that is hard to read for some groups of people will effectively impede their access to information for over a decade. Picking the default Office font should be done responsibly, with dyslexic and low-vision people in mind, and backed by actual science on the cognitive load required to read, to make as many of those documents easy to read for as many people as possible. As with most topics, we should trust science instead of social media opinions.
    3 points
  16. No. Just MS's obsession with "change for the sake of change." MS just can't leave well enough alone. Their decade long history of mucking around with what used to be a good solid reliable OS is a great illustration. If you take this stupid argument to its logical conclusion, then Microsoft should've never released anything after Windows 1.0. After all, why keep "mucking around"? After all, we all make perfect choices the first time around, and should never EVER revise our thinking based on changing circumstances or new information......... right?
    3 points
  17. Facebook gives $5 million to fund COVID-19 vaccines

    Tax write-off as a bare minimum.
    3 points
  18. Microsoft is working on a new default font for Office, replacing Calibri

    Make Office great again, vote Comic Sans!
    3 points
  19. Why does it need to be changed though? Is there something wrong with it?
    3 points
  20. Nice, my 3080 will be worth even more now.
    3 points
  21. My thoughts exactly, I'm sure they would sell many more if the price was more inline with others on the market.
    3 points
  22. Windows 10 is now on over 1.3 billion active devices

    sure sure sure
    3 points
  23. Windows 10 is now on over 1.3 billion active devices

    World domination achieved again. Microsoft should ask every user via a Yes/No poll in the OS though if they are happy with Windows 10, especially the way it updates, and publicly show that info. And use that "data"/telemetry to improve the system.
    3 points
  24. Only fanboys and investors care. Also, competitors too.
    3 points
  25. Windows 10 is now on over 1.3 billion active devices

    How is that relevant? Both are OSes on devices? Shall I also call out how many Fords Sync3 is installed on? It’s an OS on a device, after all. Lets get Linux in here too. Oh, oh, and Haiku OS! Can’t forget that one.
    3 points
  26. News and Interests from the Windows 10 task bar, Finally!
    2 points
  27. I have had this issue since forever. Surprised that it took this long to be acknowledged as issue. Hopefully this fixes it for good this time.
    2 points
  28. Well, that escalated quickly. If someone thinks a font ought to be updated, they now inherently have no life? As opposed to someone commenting about said person on a tech blog article?
    2 points
  29. Facebook gives $5 million to fund COVID-19 vaccines

    Tax write-off as a bare minimum. Between 2010 and 2015, Facebook had pre-tax U.S. profits of $14.8 billion, on which it paid 16.5 percent in U.S. taxes —less than half the official U.S. corporate tax rate. [iii] And in three of these years, Facebook paid no taxes at all to the United States Treasury.
    2 points
  30. Well if it's up to social media then the winner will be Fonty McFontFace
    2 points
  31. I vote Bierstadt because it has beer in it.
    2 points
  32. been trying to build a new PC for months now and all stores local & online are either out of parts or they're selling at 2-3x times the price. this is a bad time to buy a PC, but there doesn't seem to be a good time anytime soon - stocks don't seem to be replenishing anytime soon, not at reasonable rates.
    2 points
  33. No. Just MS's obsession with "change for the sake of change." MS just can't leave well enough alone. Their decade long history of mucking around with what used to be a good solid reliable OS is a great illustration.
    2 points
  34. New decade, new font. Calibri just looks so 2010s.
    2 points
  35. Makes sense. Airpods "3" coming later this year so need to ramp down existing models.
    2 points
  36. GitHub adds HTTP header to block Google's FLoC

    Technically: selection, profile and discrimination do the same. The only difference is discrimination is "negative" because it considers some not-so-clear concepts such as race, nationality and sex, but also, cultural level, education level, economic level and such, so the line that separates those concepts is thin and it could vary depending on the case. Also, the solution to discrimination is more discrimination such as mocking people by their race (white), nationality (not foreigners) and sex (heteros and mainly males) but in this case, it is not discrimination, selection or profile but justice. In this case, it makes sense not to offer Tesla to people of low incomes but some people could consider it discrimination where the statistics (profile) say this group of people don't buy Tesla. * Employment: avoid targeting people that don't fit some specific educational level. * Housing: avoid targeting people that are unable to pay for it. Both make sense in the concept of companies don't want to hire somebody that does not know the job but it still could be considered discrimination or sell/rent houses to families that are unable to pay for it. IMHO, we will never solve the problem of discrimination if we don't have clear and fair rules. i.e. every measure could be considered discrimination, it depends on how loud are you.
    2 points
  37. Microsoft Teams surpasses 145 million daily active users

    But how many of these users have a choice? If they work for a company that insists that they use Slack/gsuite/jira..., then what can they do? You know full well that most companies will use Microsoft due to the integration of Office. i understand what you are saying, but MS is trying to show off about how many people are using teams, if most companies use Teams instead of the others than they are going to a higher amount of users. Myself i think it is all a load of poop, if these people are outside a building, I can see the point, in that these services makes it easier to communicate and send files and other stuff across. Also remember we are in a middle of a so-called pandemic, so more companies will be using these services. When/if we ever get back to some normality, lets see how quickly these use of these services will reduce. If you are in the same building, then i see no use for these services, and that includes Yammer, “So-called pandemic.” 🙄
    2 points
  38. Even the 2019 model already had USB Type-C.
    2 points
  39. Windows 10 is now on over 1.3 billion active devices

    you mean like macos, ios, android...
    2 points
  40. GitHub adds HTTP header to block Google's FLoC

    As I guessed now that they did so with GitHub, Microsoft also recently disabled FLoC in Edge for now as they "do not support solutions that leverage non-consented user identity signals, such as fingerprinting".
    2 points
  41. Windows 10 is now on over 1.3 billion active devices

    That's most of 10
    2 points
  42. Windows 10 is now on over 1.3 billion active devices

    Funny, people only remember the bad thing.
    2 points
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  44. Windows 10 is now on over 1.3 billion active devices

    Most people turn on their computer, open their web browser and click the X button on anything they don't understand or can't be bothered reading.
    2 points
  45. Windows 10 is now on over 1.3 billion active devices

    Grown user base yet organisations are still not going near the Microsoft Store. For example take a look at smart products how many have active Android & iOS development even have an app for Windows? Looking at established players in lighting - Hue/Lifx/Nanoleaf only Lifx have a Windows 10 app & it hasn't been touched in years
    2 points
  46. Windows 10 is now on over 1.3 billion active devices

    This may sound like an outdated comment, however, I still wish they use Windows 7 as base and incorporate the changes made in Windows 8 and Windows 10 and end Windows 10 development. Like how some of the changes/technological improvements made in Windows Vista were backported and included in Windows XP Service Pack 3. I regarded Windows 7 as the perfect Windows version until I saw the File Copy UI only available in Windows 8.x/10
    2 points
  47. Apple announces $430 billion in U.S. investments

    I like how people point fingers at Apple when they are just playing by the system. If yall want to be salty, someone gotta change the system. Otherwise, they are just playing by the rules. I call that smart THESE COMPANIES CREATED THIS RIGGED TAX EVASION SYTEM by paying off politicians in the US, Ireland, etc. in the first place. How do you not know this? If I pay off the judges and politicians to rule that "murder is not illegal" and then I shoot someone, how is that not still wrong in every sense of the word? I got away with it, because I paid off everyone, but I still killed someone, right?! Using your "logic", I was just "smart" in how I committed murder, right?! This money has been stashed by Apple for DECADES now. Part of the deal is that we give them infrastructure to ply their trades and wares AND THEY PAY TAXES on the profits. They have reneged on that deal, as many corporations have, for decades now. And WE'VE been paying the bill by paying back the loans and interest needed to cover this shortfall, ergo the annual budget deficit and the national debt. So, Apple is getting profits (no problem) from all of us and infrastructure from all of us that we have to pay off coming and going...and paying nothing in return.
    2 points
  48. Apple's rumored M2 processor reportedly hits mass production

    M1 is pretty damn good. I will be interested how they get more performance from the SOC. Is it going to be improvements/tinkering of the components that offer the performance increase (which supports the tech behind Apple Silicon) or just throwing more cores increases the performance. Most likely a combo of both but I'm interested to see how it comes out.
    2 points
  49. You must hate all customers ?
    2 points
  50. NASA Mars 2020 Rover (build and mission thread)

    I wonder why no one has updated this thread. Recently Ingenuity made its third flight, and it was really amazing. The distance it flew was 50 meters🤓. Moreover, drone managed to rise 5 meters above the Mars surface. I believe it's a big achievement for us.
    2 points