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Excel Supports JSON and s bunch of other stuff via PowerQuery which is the new way to do things.
Office Development is totally fine, but I would agree with you that development of Add-Ins is slow and there aren’t many I would use.
What is your suggested alternative?
Dragging my Switch everywhere haven’t had a single problem ever with my joy cons not with the pro Controller. Friends had problems, got their joy cons replaced - all good now.
The assessment is about Office ProPlus (actually called Office 365 ProPlus - I don't know why it's called "Office ProPlus Enterprise" in the article/assessment which doesn't exist as a product). The assessment also complains about Office collecting data so I wouldn't say it is fair to say that "Microsoft’s enterprise products covertly gather personal data on users" (which really includes a lot more products than just Office). The blog posts title is actually "Impact assessment shows privacy risks Microsoft Office ProPlus Enterprise" which is more specific than "enterprise products".
Tried multiple generic names as well as some random companies. Might I ask what you are basing your "blacklist" on?
I don't think you can categorize each bridge for its commercial or strategic value. Before it took you X hours to get from location Y to Z now it is less. It's not about connecting two potatoe farmers it is about connecting the county and modernizing its infrastructure.
If we had perfect encryption on all devices and no government would be able to listen in on anything (spoken conversation, mails, whatever) we would be pretty much back to where we were a couple of decades ago. I suppose the government would need to employee more real people to monitor other real people.
Is there any way we could have encryption / security with a state actor still being able to decrypt the data if needed?
I'm not saying that I personally am for the state actor, but I'm just imagining a scenario where all communications of bad actors would be via encrypted channels. No possibility to gather chatter, no possibility for rumors, everything encrypted and hidden. I mean this is the scenario state actors are afraid of, and frankly I would be too.
How would we live in a world with perfect encryption? More anonymous, sure. But safer? I'm really trying to see "the other side" (state) right now. Help me out and tell me how we can have perfect encryption, but don't undermine security / possibility of investigation.
My two cents: Congratulations on launching your product! There simply is no real good versioning system for Office files, so this is a step in a good direction.
I agree with others that ditching all the "Git" references would be beneficial, because your target market most likely doesn't care about Git. What is missing in the versioning market is exactly what you may provide: A clear way to see what has changed where and an easy way to merge things together.
I do believe that you are missing a valid comparison / valid take on what Office 365 / SharePoint Online / OneDrive versioning can give you. Your main argument against it is "necessarily want the real-time coauthoring experience offered by Microsoft SharePoint or Google Docs., this can inhibit your ability to determine who is responsible for specific changes to content". Comparing Co-Authoring to versioning is comparing apples and oranges. The co-authoring experience in Microsoft products is great! I can work on a document with multiple people at the same time and I can even see in real-time what part of the document they are working on and what they are changing. We're working with multiple people on important documents simultaneously very often and this is a life saver.
Versioning of course could be better: SharePoint only offers you a main branch and no tags. That means I can go back to a different version, also compare that version to my current version or any other version (!) - but I don't have tags or a method to know that "version 12.0 from 07:02" was the version I was looking for. However the versioning system is very robust and proven. With products such as OneDrive / OneDrive for Business or Office 365 I have said versioning out of the box plus 100 other features. I don't know whether your versioning would make me want to switch just for the additions you show.
What I can't see in your demo (and can't test myself) is how you handle complex changes and this is where the meat is. Changing fox to wolf... yeah... I have documents where all heading format changes from Arial to Times New Roman and the bullet points are arrows now instead of bullets. Also my colleague has added three images and right aligned two of my images, oh yeah and applied some pretty image borders around some images. Would all of that show in the "what has changed" view of Simul? It would show when using SharePoint versioning together with Word. Granted: I can't see all these changes in SharePoint - but Word does show everything perfectly.
Again: Love the way you are going with this. The existing versioning could be made better, but besides branches and tagging I don't see any benefit compared to regular versioning using Microsoft products.
Does this also mean that location accuracy is NOT improved when no Internet is available and iOS couldn't update its list of known access points around me? This would mean I could save battery while traveling by disabling wifi.
Patching 0-day issues usually is not hard in itself. Usually it is just little errors like missing checks for buffer overflows, or some input not sanitized. What is hard is making sure that everything still works after the patch. And "everything" is quite a lot in the case of this issue (gdi32.dll). You have to make sure that all still supported software depending on gdi32.dll is still working as it should, that includes multiple Windows versions, multiple Office versions, multiple Internet Explorer versions, multiple ... you get the idea. Microsoft has a lot of products.
Not saying that I don't admire this, but I don't know if any company would be willing to install "some patch" by "someone" with no guarantee that it won't break other things or open other holes. I would always want to install an official patch by an official vendor because I have support and warranty.
If we're talking about some legacy software with no support and no vendor taking care of updates - this is something I could get behind and I think is useful.
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Chrome makes it really easy to switch users. For IE development I have to use a workaround with Sysinternals "runas" and multiple Windows user profiles - at least the same workaround works with other programs as well e.g. Outlook.
It's an artist's project but he IS melting sand.
Will give OwnTracks a try but privacy wise Where Have I Been also is phone only.
The world changes slow in some areas, especially slow in the enterprise world. That is the world FTP thrives (plus your average joe we hosted).
I am with you that there are other solutions, but they are not easy to use for enterprise customers and that is where FTP still thrives. Rsync? Sysadmins maybe know this, but your marketing guy? BitTorrent? That's for illegal stuff and it is blocked on our company network.
You want to send a client (e.g. a newspaper) all your fancy videos and graphics (remember you are the marketing guy) to publish somewhere. The videos are of course 4GB per file.
What is the easiest way to share these files you have sitting in your "Marketing Campaign 2016" folder? Ask your IT department (just going by your suggestions): - HTTP? Our server cannot handle file transfers larger than 2GB and times out after that. Also most clients don't have resuming capabilities. And don't even start with public file sharers our data is private. - BitTorrent? Is blocked on our network. Also the client told us it is blocked by their ISP - rsync? What is that? I'm a windows guy. Also I doubt that the newspaper will know what to do with some weird command line commands...
Just set up a quick FTP server (or use the existing one) and send the link to the client. Everything works. Resuming. Large downloads. Easy to use. Reliable. "Known" interface as the client just sees folders and files. Many clients available or just the web browser.
I am not surprised at all that FTP is not dying, I myself have often advised customers to "just use FTP" instead of whipping up a custom solution. It just works. The cost is low, the benefit high.
Sadly there currently is no run of the mill solution to replace FTP that "just works" for the average joe.