@Dashrender said in Users Suggest Microsoft Losing Its Way with Skype:

@Minion-Queen said in Users Suggest Microsoft Losing Its Way with Skype:

@scottalanmiller said in Users Suggest Microsoft Losing Its Way with Skype:

@Dashrender said in Users Suggest Microsoft Losing Its Way with Skype:

I've rarely ever used Skype for business purposes. The only time I can think of that I did use it is for talking to NTG.

Yeah, and MQ claims it's the only thing that customers use, but I never talk to any company that has it.

I had 4 customer calls with it this week. 2 of them were vendors. People request it as an option. I would guess cause of Headphone for their desktop.

Not that I can see why this really matters - but are these customers still making calls over the PSTN? or via direct SIP to SIP connections with you/others?

I'm not sure where you are going. But the conversation was that customers use Skype for calling long distance. Every company everywhere still uses the PSTN, but lots like to avoid it especially for desktop sharing since that doesn't support that. Skype doesn't do SIP, so if the point was that they were making Skype calls, it means by definition no SIP or PSTN.

Good stuff, I've long been a Sparc fan.

@wirestyle22 said:

Do you think this inclusion is worth a legal battle should one ensue?

Hard to say, it's a marketing ploy. How much it convinces people based on the Cult of ZFS thing, is unknown. ZFS has a quite religious following, no real technical reason to exist on Linux, so Canonical's play here is to attract that crowd. Whether it is worth it or not, hard to say.

@scottalanmiller Thank you, thank you! I'll be here all week. I could resist sparking up a conversation that way.

Seems like maybe they should have noticed, but does not seem like the breach or issue was really all that big.

Lots of fake reviews, probably not the biggest deal.

If I had one still, I might consider it. But a combination of ultra slow performance and nearly unusably small screen (for windows) - I have no desire to even try.

@MattSpeller said:

@scottalanmiller I agree on @Dashrender with this one, production stuff should be on production gear unless it's a really tiny job

Well we pretty much know the size, if it runs in a VM on a Type 2, it's not big. And if we are just talking about some math, what's the purpose of production gear?

My dad used to do linear algebra for Eastman Kodak. He could use the mainframe when needed, but mostly they just bought him a high end laptop and let him take it home. Meant he could do his math modeling anywhere, anytime. Was much more flexible. Unless he had a rush job, no reason to tie up the mainframe.

Someone pass the popcorn, The Register is always good entertainment, even if they never get the news right.

@Dashrender said:

Though the courts often find that a company choosing not to perform a recall because paying out the lawsuits from deaths will cost less than the recall - how do you account for that in a business? Roulette wheel? lol

Sort of. It's generally a call for the lawyers to make. The business side figures out the cost of a recall, the lawyers figure out the cost of the lawsuit.

However, we are talking security, NOT safety. A company is ALWAYS allowed to protect lives and obey the law, neither of those must be compromised for profits.

@Breffni-Potter said:

Companies like Dell/HP/Lenovo are getting around the SSD issue by adding 200% markups to them 🙂

Don't get me started!!!

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/900545-purchasing-hardware-from-dell-a-well-intentioned-rant?source=year-in-review

(I was mad, which is rare... I think I had just gotten off the phone with my sales rep lol)

Over here TV is dominated by football. Netflix isn't so big, as it's mainly US series and the big UK series are all on terrestrial (free-to-air) TV. And TV, phone & broadband is generally sold as a single package. So most people get everything from either BT or Sky - TV, land-line, broadband and sports channels.

@scottalanmiller said:
Wow, I need to read a bit more... apparently skimming the article and the OP didn't help with comprehension.