The whole WiFi Sense "sharing" thing is a disaster just waiting to happen, IMO. How anyone at Microsoft thought "opt out" was sufficient for this "feature" is beyond me...
Actually, I bet they make more money on Windows server and all those crazy server applications with expensive client licenses than on Windows desktop software.
Commercial server revenue was up 5% while Office 365 grew 150%.
Xbox and games up 70% .
Cloud and Azure up 115%.
Phone up 14% in 4th quarter 2014 to 10 million units.
Windows bulk licensing down 2%.
This is interesting because of the EOL of XP. One would expect Windows licenses would be up not down with people replacing their old PCs.
Funny thing that revenue has increased dramatically over the past 4 years but the gross income has been flat.
This post is mostly off-topic (O/S upgrades), but I'm still too terrified to update my Yosemete which will replace my iPhoto with Photos.
I understand that my entire library (35,000 pix) will get dumped into a single album and just be there; hard to interact with, etc. etc.
Does anyone have a brown paper bag I can breathe into and calm down?
I know Photos is supposed to unify the Events/Albums into a single iOS-style construct, but I'm an iPhoto-Event addict.
What's to be done?
Can anyone talk me off the ledge?
- Scared
Jusy move it all into something like Lightroom. I have close on 300K images in the product. iPhoto and Photos have been disabled for the removable media I use so I hardly ever see them.
If you don't then just duy yourself a cheap USB HDD and archive it all.
This post is mostly off-topic (O/S upgrades), but I'm still too terrified to update my Yosemete which will replace my iPhoto with Photos.
I understand that my entire library (35,000 pix) will get dumped into a single album and just be there; hard to interact with, etc. etc.
Does anyone have a brown paper bag I can breathe into and calm down?
I know Photos is supposed to unify the Events/Albums into a single iOS-style construct, but I'm an iPhoto-Event addict.
What's to be done?
Can anyone talk me off the ledge?
- Scared
You shouldn't worry. I have a large photo collection that's dear to me too. Yet I took the plunge and it was seamless. All my separate albums and Events transferred just fine. Everything is not just stuffed into one universal album as you seem to think. Also unlike many people apparently believed from the forums I followed. Photos doesn't duplicate everything in your iPhoto file to the separate Photos file. But creates links to those photos that are in your iPhoto file instead, that's what's in the Photos file...the links. But it can be misleading, after you've finished upgrading to Photos and then check the size of the Photos file it will be similar to the iPhoto one, but it actually isn't! What ever you do don't delete the iPhoto file after everything has been transferred to Photos! If you decide to take the plunge that is. From here on though all new photos will be stored in the Photos file, not the iPhoto one that'll just continue to store your legacy pics.
I used to fall for the hype about Windows every time it was updated. New versions of Windows never worked with all my hardware, and there were always some problem or other. Then I changed to Apple and have never regretted. It seems that this latest Windows has some issues at release. Maybe it will be wise to wait a month or two before considering an upgrade. By then we should have a better idea how good it really is and if there are any big issues.
At this point, Microsoft has one platform left: Windows for PCs. That's what their focus is on and where all their resources are going, so it's going to be good.
Apple right now has OS X, iOS (phone and tablet), Watch, a car...
And MS will have on OS that runs on:
PC (desktops and servers), Phones, Tablets, Xbox One, MS Band (next version is supposedly using windows 10 IoT), and Hololens.
And with windows 10 universal apps able to target all of them from the same code base...
PC (desktops and servers), Phones, Tablets, Xbox One, MS Band (next version is supposedly using windows 10 IoT), and Hololens.
And with windows 10 universal apps able to target all of them from the same code base...
You forgot IoT: those cheap single-chip computers with the memory and processing power of a MP3 player. Microsoft won't stop until everything with a CPU is infected with Windows.
This post is mostly off-topic (O/S upgrades), but I'm still too terrified to update my Yosemete which will replace my iPhoto with Photos.
I understand that my entire library (35,000 pix) will get dumped into a single album and just be there; hard to interact with, etc. etc.
Does anyone have a brown paper bag I can breathe into and calm down?
I know Photos is supposed to unify the Events/Albums into a single iOS-style construct, but I'm an iPhoto-Event addict.
What's to be done?
Can anyone talk me off the ledge?
- Scared
If you have the latest iPhoto release, you can continue to use it on Yosemite. I am still using it. I simply ignored the invite to use Photos. If you launch Photos, it will prompt you to upgrade your iPhoto library. Simply decline and Photos will exit. If you're really paranoid about accidentally converting your iPhoto library to Photos, make sure you have a recent Time Machine backup.
If you did not get the latest release of iPhoto before it was pulled from the Mac App Store, don't panic. It's still available (similar to games on Steam or movies in iTunes that are pulled from the catalog: it's available for download by anyone who previously purchased it). If you run into any trouble upgrading iPhoto, search the discussions.apple.com boards for "iPhoto won't upgrade in Yosemite" and follow the instructions in that discussion thread. You'll see that plenty of people like us want to, and continue to use iPhoto in Yosemite.
Yea, I saw that shit via the Macalope. It's too bad I can't tweet at the author or make any comments.
How sad is it when what is *supposed* to be a premier mobile platform from a company with all those resources – that has been in the mobile market in earnest since 2010, uses a comparison to fledgling smartwatch sales as a means of puffery.
Does it surprise anyone that all these pro-Windows sites are trying to keep relevant themselves by giving pro-Windows 10 responses? Microsoft will stay relevant not because of their OS or any of their services but because they are so entrenched in US government and enterprise installations that it will be very difficult for these installations to ever change to something else. Microsoft doesn't really need to upgrade their OS to keep customers, in fact forcing companies to upgrade could be the only way they would change to something else.
I have been running the developer version in Fusion and for all those people who say it works better than OSX, they're crazy. It's still a mess figuring out how to change settings and every time I go through a new setting it comes up with a really strange, childish wording like the following:
Because Apple sites like this don't do the exact same thing?
Trying to remember one critical article in the last two years..... nope. Not one.
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Is it even possible to set the bar lower?
The whole WiFi Sense "sharing" thing is a disaster just waiting to happen, IMO. How anyone at Microsoft thought "opt out" was sufficient for this "feature" is beyond me...
Actually, I bet they make more money on Windows server and all those crazy server applications with expensive client licenses than on Windows desktop software.
Commercial server revenue was up 5% while Office 365 grew 150%.
Xbox and games up 70% .
Cloud and Azure up 115%.
Phone up 14% in 4th quarter 2014 to 10 million units.
Windows bulk licensing down 2%.
This is interesting because of the EOL of XP. One would expect Windows licenses would be up not down with people replacing their old PCs.
Funny thing that revenue has increased dramatically over the past 4 years but the gross income has been flat.
This post is mostly off-topic (O/S upgrades), but I'm still too terrified to update my Yosemete which will replace my iPhoto with Photos.
I understand that my entire library (35,000 pix) will get dumped into a single album and just be there; hard to interact with, etc. etc.
Does anyone have a brown paper bag I can breathe into and calm down?
I know Photos is supposed to unify the Events/Albums into a single iOS-style construct, but I'm an iPhoto-Event addict.
What's to be done?
Can anyone talk me off the ledge?
- Scared
Jusy move it all into something like Lightroom. I have close on 300K images in the product. iPhoto and Photos have been disabled for the removable media I use so I hardly ever see them.
If you don't then just duy yourself a cheap USB HDD and archive it all.
This post is mostly off-topic (O/S upgrades), but I'm still too terrified to update my Yosemete which will replace my iPhoto with Photos.
I understand that my entire library (35,000 pix) will get dumped into a single album and just be there; hard to interact with, etc. etc.
Does anyone have a brown paper bag I can breathe into and calm down?
I know Photos is supposed to unify the Events/Albums into a single iOS-style construct, but I'm an iPhoto-Event addict.
What's to be done?
Can anyone talk me off the ledge?
- Scared
You shouldn't worry. I have a large photo collection that's dear to me too. Yet I took the plunge and it was seamless. All my separate albums and Events transferred just fine. Everything is not just stuffed into one universal album as you seem to think. Also unlike many people apparently believed from the forums I followed. Photos doesn't duplicate everything in your iPhoto file to the separate Photos file. But creates links to those photos that are in your iPhoto file instead, that's what's in the Photos file...the links. But it can be misleading, after you've finished upgrading to Photos and then check the size of the Photos file it will be similar to the iPhoto one, but it actually isn't! What ever you do don't delete the iPhoto file after everything has been transferred to Photos! If you decide to take the plunge that is. From here on though all new photos will be stored in the Photos file, not the iPhoto one that'll just continue to store your legacy pics.
But... you're on an Apple shill site...
I'm not aware of AI ever claiming it was a general tech site. That's what Cnet and ZDNet claim to be.
Ars Technica has the most thorough review of Windows 10 I've seen.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/07/review-windows-10-is-the-best-version-yet-once-the-bugs-get-fixed/
My take is that Windows 10 corrects many of the flaws, in Windows 8, while introducing a few 'quirks' of its own.
I've tried to figure out the use of Windows at home for the last 3 days and still not been able to. I guess it's irrelevant to me now.
Windows 10 on my rMBP via Boot Camp...runs great.
I used to fall for the hype about Windows every time it was updated. New versions of Windows never worked with all my hardware, and there were always some problem or other. Then I changed to Apple and have never regretted. It seems that this latest Windows has some issues at release. Maybe it will be wise to wait a month or two before considering an upgrade. By then we should have a better idea how good it really is and if there are any big issues.
At this point, Microsoft has one platform left: Windows for PCs. That's what their focus is on and where all their resources are going, so it's going to be good.
Apple right now has OS X, iOS (phone and tablet), Watch, a car...
And MS will have on OS that runs on:
PC (desktops and servers), Phones, Tablets, Xbox One, MS Band (next version is supposedly using windows 10 IoT), and Hololens.
And with windows 10 universal apps able to target all of them from the same code base...
Click. Aww, damn it!!!
You forgot IoT: those cheap single-chip computers with the memory and processing power of a MP3 player. Microsoft won't stop until everything with a CPU is infected with Windows.
Yea, I saw that shit via the Macalope. It's too bad I can't tweet at the author or make any comments.
If you have the latest iPhoto release, you can continue to use it on Yosemite. I am still using it. I simply ignored the invite to use Photos. If you launch Photos, it will prompt you to upgrade your iPhoto library. Simply decline and Photos will exit. If you're really paranoid about accidentally converting your iPhoto library to Photos, make sure you have a recent Time Machine backup.
If you did not get the latest release of iPhoto before it was pulled from the Mac App Store, don't panic. It's still available (similar to games on Steam or movies in iTunes that are pulled from the catalog: it's available for download by anyone who previously purchased it). If you run into any trouble upgrading iPhoto, search the discussions.apple.com boards for "iPhoto won't upgrade in Yosemite" and follow the instructions in that discussion thread. You'll see that plenty of people like us want to, and continue to use iPhoto in Yosemite.
I should hope it's decent.
It's really the only market left for MS.
They've been shut out of mobile almost completely.
Same old same old. Windows and Office retreads.
Yea, I saw that shit via the Macalope. It's too bad I can't tweet at the author or make any comments.
How sad is it when what is *supposed* to be a premier mobile platform from a company with all those resources – that has been in the mobile market in earnest since 2010, uses a comparison to fledgling smartwatch sales as a means of puffery.
Wtf. Really.
Because Apple sites like this don't do the exact same thing?
Trying to remember one critical article in the last two years..... nope. Not one.