Surveillance and Windows 8

[Charles Pegge]

A spying device in every PC

http://www.testosteronepit.com/home/2013/8/21/leaked-german-government-warns-key-entities-not-to-use-windo.html

[Edwin Knoppert]

Microsoft cooperates 100% with the government.
If your skydrive/email has (any) illegal stuff they will report it instantly.
Not a big issue but seeing the way MS assist the government i assume they may allow back doors as well.

No big deal to me, you are warned though..

[John Spikowski]

Does that include porn M$ isn't getting a cut from?   

[Patrice Terrier]

Windows 8 anyway is not anymore a PC OS 

[John Spikowski]

Windows 8 anyway is not anymore a PC OS

Could be why Linux is the most widely used OS on the planet.

[Patrice Terrier]

Could be why Linux is the most widely used OS on the planet.

Not arround me, none of my customers (who are professionnal programmers) have made the jump to Linux.

I have heard since more than 30 years now, that UNIX would be the panacea, but this never occured here

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[Peter Weis]

The Linux system on a PC are almost all dead 

[John Spikowski]

Every Android phone, tablet, ... is running Linux. There is more programmers servicing that market than any other. Try looking for a job.

Until M$ stops counting PC's that never get turned on any more, sitting in a closet or already in the trash, investors will still believe they have a market. Linux owns 90% of the server market and has out done M$ in that market for years.

[Patrice Terrier]

Once again a Tablet is not a PC, there is a big gap between the two.

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[John Spikowski]

That may be true for you and me but most folks are happy with a tablet/phone to check e-mail and buy stuff off the web.

[Peter Weis]

I work in a company with 50,000 employees and we have determined only 5000 PC alone there is on any PC running Windows 7 or Windows XP. We have but a few machines where Linux is it that man can count on a few hands. It does not work with any Smardfone!

[John Spikowski]

Do you think Microsoft can live on the corporate business alone? Individuals are more careful when spending their money.

[Patrice Terrier]

Home user market and the professional market are two different things.

Without a stylus, a tablet is almost unusable even for just browsing the web...

The only tablet i found acceptable is the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 (with 32-Gb, a stylus, and a quad core to perform a little multitask). But then the price is almost the same than a PC.

And for the same price than a tablet i prefer to buy a fast SSD for my PC 

[John Spikowski]

I don't get it. For me using the tablet means less storage and being acceptably slower than my laptop. I guess if you were a Linux developer, Android wouldn't seem that crippled to you. I compiled an OS (DOS) local on the device. Does that sound like a game console the kids play with in the back seat?