Old grumpy software architect and engineer. I create, perform, and teach music. I´m married, have kids, dogs, dabble in fine arts, and talk psychology, culture, and politics.
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9·6 months agoThe Windows 10 equivalent, Timeline, got discontinued in 2021. At this point in time it is unknown whether Microsoft will retrofit Recall into Windows 10. Knowing Microsoft it is safe to assume they’ll try anything for profit.
Seconded: CryptPad and Obsidian.
I like CryptPad by Framasoft, for big stuff.
Microsoft has a history of doing so, both with Minecraft customers and others. They just don’t care.
9·11 months ago“Could”.
1·1 year agoRight! I totally missed that! Why is Jalopnik advertising for the Post?
30·1 year agoNo, they aren’t. You can switch to their Universe patches anytime, at your own risk. If you want Canonical to mitigate that risk for you, you pay. Simple, really.
The Post? Really? Half of that article is an ad for the Post itself!
With some of my smaller clients, the CIO is the same as the CTO and the same as the IT Director. There, IT is developers, too.
Enterprise will cause a boom in hiring VBA devs to migrate legacy apps to other programming languages, then hear Microsoft will extend support for a few more years, then fire all those VBA devs again. If Microsoft had some wits, they’d create easy tools to migrate VBA to C#.
Wouldn’t it face the exact same security issues as VBA, with drive-by installs of obfuscated malware and executions of arbitrary code?
Sure! It won’t comply, though.