@SachinEE, you won't catch me discounting the importance of reading but the fact is that there are many different literacies that a person must have to function in western society and it's time we spent time recognizing...
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Charlie, I appreciate this article -- I'm still coming up to speed on the continer marketplace. My learning process leads me to ask the following question: Do you see a real market threat from an open source container option...
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@mak63 I can only imagine what the Windows 10 tech version is all about.
Matter of fact I would rather just imagine. : )
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Microsoft's PR probable response to this question of business case.
" What does business have to do with it ?"
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@gnaggett75002 I am with you. I don't like this apparently chic concept that our data should be available on every device. So in the case we are compromised everything is affected. MS has...
In reply to: Re: Data Security and data usage across apps.
In the past, my organization has been ripe with the "we've always done it that way." Actually, it was worse. One long-time employee used the phrase, "If we've done it twice, it's tradition." Not only is innovation stifled...
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Should be interesting to watch this evolve. There are not many industries with as much data - and data transfer as healthcare. Hopefully this project can serve as a beacon for other fields struggling with standard development....
In reply to: It's time!
Great idea on separation of duties. That is one of the most effective process controls any business can use to protect itself from a single individual trying to do harm (or accidentally doing harm). While people can collude,...
In reply to: Re: People can reform
@Charlie, I heard several teachers mention this point as an advantage of Chromebooks. In particular, they liked the idea that they could create a set of research bookmarks and have them propagated across a classroom (or...
In reply to: Re: Maintenance is in the cloud, not the class
It can be viewed as sort of neutral in that it would put all mobile operating systems on the same playing field, theoretically. In reality, this is a shot in the dark by the CEO of an all-but-failed company. No one...
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I would venture a guess that any CXO that made the mistake of replacing the mainframe for the sole purpose of cost savings probably isn't a CXO at that same company anymore. Hopefully, as they've moved on, they've learned...
In reply to: Re: IT Vendor Hype and "The Emperor's New Clothes"
@GarY_EL Good catch. How could we forget the effect government efforts have had on tech ? I won't hold it against Google, thanks to Microsoft I am used to companies calming things they did...
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Doug, that's good news for customers. Whenever you hear about any large company "embracing open source" you have to wonder whether they're engaging in the IT version of green-washing. It's always nice to hear that such is...
In reply to: Re: The most surprising part of the announcement is...
Always interesting to hear about these moves. GE made a similar (major) investment in a Silicon Valley software center, and the thinking is often to try to inject the Silicon Valley culture -- of speed, of software-driven...
In reply to: Silicon Valley culture
My staff has been running it on a number of monitoring and administrative machines. Everyone likes it so far. I'm waiting a bit on my main machine, but have dabbled in a VM. This release looks to undo all of the headaches...
In reply to: Re: Windows 10: A Free Upgrade
I installed Windows 10 on my Surface Pro 3. What a disiaster. Save yourself the trouble. All it did was continually crash my operating system. I feel fortunate that I was even able to roll back...
In reply to: Windows 10 Nightmare
Although I am growing to like Windows 8.1, I can't wait to get my free upgrade to Windows 10, since Microsoft has promised to make this upgrade free to those who install within a year of its release. A preview is already...
In reply to: Windows 10: A Free Upgrade
I do think Revolution is a good fit. Microsoft has been using a lot of R internally and most recently it introduced the cloud-based Azure ML service, which makes use of R. What they lacked was a platform and tools for data...
In reply to: Re: The most surprising part of the announcement is...
In 1957 on the farm we still had a wooden wall phone with a crank on line 42 of the Bealsville Telephone Company in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Our telephone number was Bealsville 42R13. 42 was the line number,...
In reply to: Where are the crank wall phones
Dave, I cant imagine what the 20th century could have been without telephones. Now we are actually killing them, we basically dont call anymore, except marketers... Just recently I received a press release about a new...
In reply to: The end of the phone call?
Doug, do you think that Microsoft saw qualities in Revolution that made the company a particularly good fit, or was it just the first real target of opportunity in the space? And how important do you think the reliance on...
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