@nadnerB said in Windows Phone Apocalypse Has Begun:

@momurda said in Windows Phone Apocalypse Has Begun:

Some of the WP10 updates broke things. There was one that left me unable to use any Hotmail contacts for about 7 weeks. They disappeared after one update, then a bit later came back wouldn't open and I couldn't use them to text/call/email people. Another seemed to lower battery life to less than a day.
Since late summer though there have been no problems I have noticed.

That doesn't instil faith in their abilities.

He's talking about during the beta. I haven't heard of these issue since the RTM of Windows 10 Mobile.

@Dashrender said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@Dashrender said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@Dashrender said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@Dashrender said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@Dashrender said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@Dashrender said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft disbands the band:

@wrx7m said in Microsoft disbands the band:

I would imagine that it has to do with the fact that nobody wanted to use it and nobody knew it existed. I was like, Microsoft Band?

And that people associated with the dead phone platform. We all just assumed that they had died together or that the Band would be crippled on any current phone platform.

I'm not sure why you say people associated it with a dead phone platform, no one even know MS had phone platform.

They did, enough to think that the Band was part of it. And honestly, wasn't it?

All the literature I saw specifically mentioned about how the band worked with iOS, Android and Windows Phone.

Worked with isn't the same as "did everything the same" on all platforms.

Does anything?

They talked about this in Windows weekly. And Mary Jo Foley (tech writer) said the same thing I did. To her, MS wasnt considering the band linked to Windows Phone.

I don't care if anything else does, nothing else is from Microsoft. That all the features were on a dead useless platform was the concern. I don't care if my Apple Watch only works with iOS because I use iOS. If the Band is for Windows Phone, then it's useless.

But it's not.
I have the band tied to my Nexus 6P. I get everything I had with Windows phone with the possible exception ( which I just haven't tested) of send SMS from the Band via Android.

That's what I was asking.... does the Band with fully or almost fully with other devices? MS did nothing to assuage fears of that, which likely did a ton to cause the product to fail.

Yes it worked nearly feature complete on all three platforms.
MS never really advertised the Band. It's like it was more of an experiment than a real product launch.
They put no real effort into promoting it.

Like the Phone. Just a failed experiment. It never felt like they were serious about it. That's exactly how it felt when I tried one. It was half finished and half assed and they just seemed to give up.

It was probably that way in Windows Phone 7, but Windows 8 and 8.1 (only versions of the newer OS that I used) seemed pretty complete - though I'll admit I never tried to do VPN on it - I know that was a huge sticking point with version 7, not sure if it still was on version 8?

I used it post 7. It was 8 or 8.1 and just like the desktops that they made in that era, it felt like an internal joke. It was pathetic and the features that they raved about were stupid and things you would want turned off. It was really sad.

@Dashrender said

LOL he said made in America.

Yes he did 🙂

@Dashrender said in Unable to connect to RDP:

@JaredBusch said in Unable to connect to RDP:

@Dashrender said in Unable to connect to RDP:

@JaredBusch said in Unable to connect to RDP:

@Dashrender said in Unable to connect to RDP:

Does it work from a computer on the same network at the server?

Looking to see if it's an ZT problem or a Server problem.

Same error over normal IP also once I brought up my IPSEC tunnel

OK but you still haven't tried from another PC on that network - i.e. no VPN.

Does not matter. No one connect on network. Also two differnt IP protocols do not work. Issue is not whatever the hell you are driving at.

two different IP protocols? 😉

/sigh... IP subnets.

@BBigford said in Raspberry Pi Ships 10,000,000th Unit:

That's awesome. One of my favorite cases is still the Ninja Coupe. Only as much case as needed. Super low profile and very slick looking.

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Nice, I like that.

While a good idea, they should...

Stop blocking the existing functionality for this, because it is there, they just disabled it. Make Skype actually work first.

@JaredBusch said in The Marriage of Microsoft and Linux:

Also, the macOS version of Office 2016 is near completely feature consistent with the Windows version.

And macOS is a `Nix derivative.

I "think" that they use native libraries there (Cocoa) so that it's a port that would have to be replicated to go to native on Linux. Maybe now that 2016 is out they will just get the JavaScript version on Mac OSX and be on parity right away and be ready for Linux, too. That's another big piece of this puzzle, going to web apps is going to allow MS to now just remove the cost of making and maintaining the Mac version, but get the Linux version for free, and stop the cost of making the secondary online version. All three current versions plus the future Linux version will collapse into one. That's a massive cost savings.

@Breffni-Potter said in Windows 10 Anniversary Edition May Delete Partitions!:

Apple trash Windows and Linux installs on OSx frequently,

I have high-lighted the bit you quoted in bold. How is this a problem exclusive to Windows if OSX can and has broken installs as well?

Also I'm sure Linux installs can break the Windows partition as well, through carelessness or a bad bit of software installed, you can break that storage. We don't know how or why this happened exactly with Windows 10 but I'm willing to bet some kind of cleanup script was run at the end of the install which for reasons unknown, decided to terminate this partition. We don't know why but it's rubbish to say Windows is the only OS in history to have done this in the specific scenario of having more than 1 OS installed on the same storage.

@scottalanmiller said

That the most common use case that Windows fails during is caused by dual booting intention doesn't change the fact that the issue is not exclusive to dual booting scenarios.

Where are they saying that on the article though?

Where did I say that Windows was the only OS in history to misbehave and kill storage? And I don't see how OSX being less than ready for prime time (something very evident to me from having tried to use it) excuses Windows from being stable?

I understand, Linux is great and everything else is crap. Linux definitely tends to take data integrity much more seriously than Windows. But why does this need to be about who is better or worse? This is about Windows having a data integrity issue right now that people need to look out for and be aware of and they should not be mislead to think that it is anything except a Windows data integrity issue - it is not reliably handling its own partition table.

The XX concurent users only comes into play if the licensed application offers such a thing. In the case of something like Office 2013, you'd definitely need 300 license...

But for Something like... Raiser's Edge, or a Student Information System... You'd only need to license for the expected number of concurrent users.

IE: Raiser's Edge can be installed on every computer on my campus... But only 15 of us can log in at one time.

@scottalanmiller Thanks. I got it. I overthink everything. 🙂

@Mike-Davis have you noticed any new features have appears that should not be there in the E1 version?

@coliver said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products:

@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products:

@coliver said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products:

@tonyshowoff said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products:

@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products:

@thwr said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products:

My major concern about using Microsoft software is not about the quality or the price. It's about managing all the licensing, which really is a PITA and nearly impossible to overcome for just a one or two men show.

I am often amazed to find SMBs unwilling to consider the licensing overhead aspects of software choices. It can represent a massive cost. When people talk about the "hidden" costs of open source, they normally mention things that are equal with closed source, but they universally overlook licensing which is the only unique cost between the two and often one of the largest.

"You git what you pay fer" - Every anti-Open Source salesman. Every once in a while I still hear that from regular IT people who shouldn't be in IT. It used to happen more often, about 15 years ago I used to constantly hear "Linux? You get what you pay for!" and of course quotes from Robert Heinlein novels about neoliberals on the Moon.

I heard this from financial VPs at a company I used to work for. Even when I would give a list of open source products that we used.

that's when you come to NTG and ask us to "sell" any open source product that you need, at 20% above the cost of whatever closed source product you are looking at instead. Problem solved.

Haha, oddly enough I did exactly that. Worked like a charm!

Once "highest price means best deal" happens, all logic is out the window and some weird things happen.

I saw this yesterday - I don't have any users in my SfB and I'm the only person in my O365 account - so hopefully it will just STFU and stay quit now. 🙂

http://news.microsoft.com/2016/06/13/satya-nadella-email-to-employees-on-acquisition-of-linkedin/

@Minion-Queen said in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016:

@JaredBusch Hmmmmm Might have to go to CDW on that then?

They don't sell it, you can buy CALs and upgrades for the initial install you have to go with a provider/partner for dynamics that can help you with the installs. Microsoft provides no other purchasing avaune

@Dashrender said in Windows 10 Build 14342:

@BBigford said in Windows 10 Build 14342:

I use a variety of boot tools to check hardware (mostly all found on HBCD). Definitely not going to sign them on every incoming PC. I usually just disable SB. 🙂

This is a personal choice - how secure do you want your environment to be? Hiren could definitely sign his CDs and make them compliant with Secure Boot, I'm guessing he just doesn't have people requesting it, and doesn't see the value to cost as worthwhile.

Just start here.

Then read about how pointless it really is.

I mean, it can't be that bad, right? You can't need a different signing key for every kernel and kernel module! Try again.

Yeah, with the latest Asus no-more-boot thanks to a windows update bug, not even Microsoft can stay compliant with their own system.

I could go on and on with reference pages.

Looks great !!

Thanks for the doc.

@Danp said in Microsoft Announces PowerApps:

Just ran across this again. Any actually do anything with PowerApps?

We've not touched it.