Interesting article on SOF's (w10's) impact on pc's

On 04/30/2015 04:01 AM, mechanic wrote:
On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 12:34:07 -0700, T wrote:

When I write SOF (w10), I always write in parenthesis what I mean,
so those not familiar with my writing can tell.

I suspect many of those familiar with your writing have consigned it
to the killfile so no worries there.


Hi Mechanic,

Some questions:

1) so why haven't you? If I did not know better, I
would think you like my writing.

2) when did you lose your sense of humor?

:-)

-T

On 05/01/2015 03:23 PM, Michael Logies wrote:
On Fri, 01 May 2015 21:53:02 +0000, Stormin' Norman
wrote:

Many cloud applications are just that, the application runs from the cloud but
your data is still local. I am not sure how Intuit does it, but if you don't
trust Intuit with your data online (backed up locally) then it would also make
no sense to trust an Intuit application with your local data.

Local data without a working cloud app is almost useless. What do you
do with your data when Intuit goes out of business and you have no
local software as Quicken or Quickbooks for reading and analyzing this
data? In a VM I can easily move data and local software through many
years.

Regards

M.


Hi Michael,

I find the "cloud" to be a bit creepy at times for the
reasons your outlines.

I think our bet bet is compilers that spit out
all three at the same time. Qoppa's PDF Studio
is one of these.

-T

On Fri, 01 May 2015 23:40:00 +0000, Stormin' Norman
wrote:

It sounds as if you are a fortunate man, thanks for sharing.

I don`t trust Lexware, either. ;-)
My point was, that with local software you can choose how paranoid you
want to be. With a web app you can not.

And web apps take an important feed back mechanism out of the hand of
the consumer: If I don`t like a new version of a local software, I
don`t buy it, I don`t upgrade. And I have often stick with old
software versions for various reasons. With a web app the seller can
force on me what I have to use.

I like Android for being able to go back to old versions of apps,
because I can keep them locally when updating (automatically with "App
Backup & Restore"). When I left iOS, this was not possible there and I
believe, this is not possible with apps for Windows Phone?

So I think users of iOS may miss less when switching to a Windows
Phone with Win 10 and "Continuum" for their computing at home with a
big screen, keyboard, mouse. They both have to be happy with simpler
forms of computer use - I need more. As the sellings statistics of iOS
show, there is a big potential market for Microsoft for simpler
devices, simpler computer use. But Microsoft has to excel in execution
now, not only in concept.

Regards

M.

On Sat, 02 May 2015 00:16:20 +0200, Michael Logies
wrote:

On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 12:45:10 -0700, T wrote:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/291...ve-the-pc.html

As far as I remember: Gruman is a Apple fan boy and was ridiculously
wrong about the development of the market share of Android.

I stopped reading him after this article (but sometimes he can do
better):

http://www.infoworld.com/article/261...e-know-it.html

The end of Android as we know it

Given three major threats brewing, it's hard to see how Google's
Android sustains its momentum any longer

InfoWorld | May 1, 2012

Android devices account for more than half of the smartphones sold or
at least shipped; sales figures are, to say the least, suspect. Yet a
growing number of signs indicates that Android has peaked as a
platform and will do a slow fade into either irrelevance or the kind
of anonymity the operating systems powering "regular" cellphones have
long known.

There's no single reason why Android seems to be on the cusp of a
decline -- and that's perhaps the most worrisome sign of all.
Precisely because there are multiple, independent factors rather than
a single Achilles' heel, Google can't address the issue with a single
silver bullet. I won't be surprised if in 2015, Android has faded to a
third or less of the smartphone market. I'm all but certain that
Android will be nearly nonexistent in the tablet market, (...)

On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 01:51:20 -0400, ". . .winston"
wrote:

Whether we like it or not how we communicate has changed. Email is too
burdensome and slow and counterproductive in the Enterprise environment

Here I liked Gruman. ;-)

http://www.infoworld.com/article/261...eplace-it.html

Email forever! Why social apps can't replace it

Social app aficionados want to kill email, but their solutions are
worse than the supposed disease

InfoWorld | Mar 22, 2013