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Speaking to Windows Weekly, Microsoft Marketing chief Chris Capossela explained that users who choose Windows 7 do so “at your own risk, at your own peril” and he revealed Microsoft has concerns about its future software and hardware compatibility, security and more.
[...] There’s only one problem with Capossela’s statements: they are complete rubbish. Windows 7 is no less secure than Windows 10 (it will be supported until 2020) and no less compatible with new hardware and software. In fact its far greater market share means it is developers’ priority and has greater compatibility with legacy programmes and peripherals. If Fallout 4 won’t run on your Windows 7 computer, it will be upgrading your components not installing Windows 10 which fixes that.
As for fragmentation, the only issue that creates is for Microsoft and its target of getting one billion devices running Windows 10 within 2-3 years of release.
Original article from Forbes. Article is behind annoying ads and JavaScript.
(Score: 5, Informative) by xpda on Monday January 04 2016, @10:31PM
I got a blank page, too! I'm glad to see it wasn't just my version of Firefox.
Forbes.com has made two strategic blunders recently. First, they block web traffic that doesn't conform to their rules. Traffic that doesn't see ads is still very valuable, as it could earn Forbes a link in Soylent News or even 4Chan. Second, their site is now full of clickbait headlines attached to information-deficient articles. They have thrown away any competitive advantage they once had with the name "Forbes".
http://www.networkworld.com/article/3018879/microsoft-subnet/microsoft-exec-makes-bizarre-claims-against-windows-7.html [networkworld.com]
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Tuesday January 05 2016, @12:18AM
Thank you for that link which also contains a link to an audio of the interview. All it takes is a bit of google-fu. I guess the poster and the editors all subscribe to Forbes which is in all likelihood plagiarized from Network World.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 3, Informative) by martyb on Tuesday January 05 2016, @09:59AM
I can understand this conclusion based on your perspective, but it is misinformed. Here is a summary of some of the steps that I took:
Saw this story come up in our #rss-bot channel on IRC [soylentnews.org]. Looked interesting and wanted to submit it, myself.
Went to look at the article, encountered the same adblock warning as others have posted here. Got a blank page (thanks to NoScript). Permitted forbes.com and forbesimg.com — saw that it required another bunch of domains to be enabled, none of which I wanted to permit on my system. Had run into this on forbes.com before, had no interest in going down that rat hole again.
Spent well over a half hour searching for other coverage of this story. No joy, as the story had *just* gone up. Punted on the idea of submitting the story.
Next, saw that an AC had submitted this story. There wasn't much to go from (follow the Original Submission [soylentnews.org] link.) Performed another search and found some coverage. As I had not seen the Forbes story, I could not tell if they were the same. Made a note on the submission for the other editors:
Submission was picked up by another editor and queued to go out as a story on the main page. (Above comments made to the submission got dropped (possible bug) when the submission was promoted to be a story.)
NOTE: The story was originally posted at Forbes, it was not until *after* it had been queued out as a story here that it finally gained coverage at network world.
tl;dr: It was a real eye-opener when I became an editor for this site and saw how much more happens "behind the scenes" to get a story out. There is MUCH more here than meets the eye! Hopefully the foregoing has given some idea of what is involved and a new perspective on which to base conclusions in the future.
(Please pardon any typos / errors — it's barely 0500 and I need to go back to bed.)
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday January 05 2016, @02:36PM
A lot of stories these days are sourced from the Soylent rss-bot [sylnt.us]. Forbes starting showing up a lot a month ago or so, but there are other sources there, too. Check 'em out. If you see something good, copy & paste representative paragraphs in <blockquote> </blockquote> tags, put a title & category on it, and submit it. You can do more than that, of course, but doing the aforementioned is easy and takes under 5 minutes.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 05 2016, @04:51PM
also "drupal" has a built-in RSS-feed FETCHER (it has a built-in RSS feed MAKER too).
just find some atom/RSS link on some newsworthy website, example: http://feeds.reuters.com/ReutersPictures [reuters.com]
put that link into drupal and set it to reload and drupal-fy the data.
(here is reuters RSS category overview link: http://www.reuters.com/tools/rss) [reuters.com]
of course you never know if somebody hijacks the RSS-feed providing website and then "makes the RSS data
go bad" in the mouth of unsuspecting drupal ^_^"