Foe's comments

On: Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

[Foe]

Isn't Microsoft Recall also 100% on device?

On: Microsoft Loop Preview

[Foe]

And the iPhone copied the BlackBerry. Nothing is original. Everything is inspired by something.

[devmunchies → Foe]

There’s definitely more nuance and degree.

On: Alphabet Q2 FY2022 Earnings [pdf]

[Foe]

They're spending it on feeding their engineers with free food and massages.

On: Learn Rust by writing a small OS

[Foe]

Anyone know of anything like this for (modern) C++?

[jonpalmisc → Foe]

It's not a tutorial series, but you may get something out of browsing the source for https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity in the meantime. I'm also curious if there are any recent/relevant C++ OS development guides.

On: Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June ...

[Foe]

This is what I love about Microsoft. While Google is eager to go ahead and cancel Google Cloud Print and say "find an alternative before next month", Microsoft would be the company to announce it'll be cancelled in 2023, extended support lasts until 2029, and you can buy Extended Warranty 365+ for Business that lasts until 2067.

[hangonhn → Foe]

I think that's what happens when your root is in enterprise software or at least some of your heritage is in enterprise. I have no great love for MSFT but I agree with you about their willingness to support things well past their expected expiration. IIRC they even went so far as to detect programs that used some "bugs" in earlier versions of Windows and emulated those same buggy behaviors just for those programs.

[thatfunkymunki → hangonhn]

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_wind... comes to mind, which explains (at least partially) why Windows 10 came directly after Windows 8.1

[golergka → thatfunkymunki]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2281932

Microsoft has a long reputation of fixing bugs caused by other people's software and their incorrect assumptions about Windows.

[flatiron → hangonhn]

Too lazy to look but I believe someone in a vm went from windows 1.0 to windows 7 (with all upgrades in between) and some of their personalization options from 1.0 (or maybe 3.11) were still present in 7. Insane!

[stordoff → flatiron]

Windows 1 to Windows 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14 (set colour schemes disappear at XP, but programs continue to work)

Follow up - Windows 1 to Windows 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH1BKPSGcxQ

[datameta → flatiron]

https://youtu.be/l60HHWWo9z4

There are also timelapses for those not into having a multi-hour windows nostalgia marathon.

[TedDoesntTalk → datameta]

I clicked your link thinking it was the time lapse version, but it is over 10 hours.

[datameta → TedDoesntTalk]

Hah, I can see how my wording could be interpreted that way. The timelapses I saw had music or the stereotypical content creator greeting - couldn't post that here in good conscience.

[jefftk → Foe]

You're definitely right that Microsoft is better about this, but it wasn't "find an alternative before next month". Cloud Print's shutdown was announced with a bit over a year of notice, in November 2019: https://web.archive.org/web/20191121200236/https://support.g...

On: Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B

[Foe]

Since when was Skyrim a competitor to Microsoft Flight Simulator or Age of Empires?

[another_kel → Foe]

Microsoft also owns Obsidian, that recently announced Avowed[1] which looks really similar to Skyrim. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3QkO8fy3tg

On: Google isn’t happy with Microsoft over online news

[Foe]

Strangely, Microsoft is supporting a similar law in the USA where they would be affected by it.

On: Ask HN: Microsoft future vision presentation from ...

[Foe]

Is it this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1K6SsJ3UaQ

This? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6IKSpoMUMM

This? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvSmqAQL5Ek

[hoyd → Foe]

Weird, actually none of them. I remember the video being about small children in school presenting wirelessly to a bigger screen using a laptop, and people using a small handheld device to pay in stores wirelessly and at the same time contain digital versions of pictures.

On: Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for p...

[Foe]

It's happening with Azure Virtual Desktop.

[tonyedgecombe → Foe]

It just needs packaging in a way that doesn't require calling sales for assistance nor trying to navigate Azure.

On: Microsoft copied my blog post

[Foe]

It sounds like you made this post for the sake of promoting your blog on HN. Just post the blog itself on HN next time. This is petty as he has clearly given you credit.