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You're kidding. Microsoft has always been blamed for Windows being an insecure operating system that "gets viruses". The fact that there's a multi-billion dollar anti-virus industry for Windows, because people pay for it because they know they are vulnerable on Windows, should confirm that.

More like Blackberry "undertook" WP in US, since its decline rate has been much faster than WP's growth rate in US.

Sites like TheVerge [1] said exactly the same thing when it happened worlwide, that WP overtakes BB, even though this is how the market share charts were looking like back then:

http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/5192a95969bedd70220...

As you can see WP's growth was snail pace back then, yet it "overtook" Blackberry. We're seeing the same kind of misleading headlines now, I guess because they get more hits and shares from Microsoft fans. Journalism at its finest.

[1] - http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/16/4336298/windows-phone-over...

I hope so, too. Then we'll probably see an Indian-based search engine, like Yandex in Russia or Baidu in China, and it would be for the better for Indians.

But I doubt Google will quit. Google is trying to give people Internet in Africa, so they can one day be the main search engine there, too. Compared to that they are in a much better position in India, even if not everyone there has Internet now.

Coca-Cola is harmful for your health, so maybe they did the right thing after all. You're not supposed to choose things just based on how much money it can make you.

This seems a little extreme? I wonder if they're doing this because they want something else from Google that they know are not going to give as easily, such as helping them build the surveillance state in India:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A91idibgT0

Then again, I remember reading about Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Blackberry and others already giving in to their surveillance requests a couple of years ago, so they might've already done that.

One word: superb. You can hardly ask for better than this.

I wonder if Netflix realizes they could offer all of their content in P2P format, too, now (while still being a seed out of many themselves), and they could avoid the whole peering deals mess, too.

I enjoyed Assange's talk.

Thanks for making the world a worse place, Twitter, by giving in to the patent bullies, and setting an example for others. It's sort of "understandable" for small start-ups who would be ruined by the trial alone, but for companies that have billions of dollars in their coffers to do this is just plain pathetic and cowardly. Instead of fighting the problem, they become part of it and accomplices to it.

This also completely devalues the credibility of their IPA [1] patent thing. If Twitter gave in, why would everyone else who might've been interested in the whole IPA thing not do the same, too?

[1] - https://blog.twitter.com/2012/introducing-innovators-patent-...

But not secure enough.

> We are pretty sure that now that the info inside of Google is safe from prying eyes, including those of the US government

Well, that's a lie. The government can definitely get access to that data. Let me know when Google implements strong encryption for that statement to actually be true.

This actually used to be a joke about the Linux community.

Steve Jobs vowed to kill a lot of stuff.

No wonder not only NSA, but also FBI and probably other agencies exploit these like crazy by using fake towers or other methods.

Flash, Native Client, and now DartVM, too, all being built into Chrome. Is anyone else worried that Chrome may become too bloated, and more of an "OS on top of an OS"?

I'm not as worried about the file size as I am about the future performance of the browser itself, and becoming too complex and with too many bugs because of that.

Chrome for Android has already gotten a lot of flack for being too bloated and slow (as an app) compared to the previous Android browser, which was made for mobile from day one, while Chrome for Android just seemed almost fully ported over, which I think hurt its performance on mobile, and they're still working on fixing that and optimizing it.

That will always play a role in situations like these. However, you can see things are turning around in US, at least with the population.

I think the issue in UK is the old "boiling the frog" theory. They've gotten used to it, they've embraced it, so now they aren't particularly in a rush to throw stones at it.

But that's the population. The article already mentions why nobody in the Parliament says anything bad against it - the opposition started all of this, and the others are in power.

I do think the lack of a proper Constitution is also a major problem for UK. For example, in US, whenever someone tries to stop you from speaking, you can easily point to the 1st Amendment and say it's your damn right to say anything you want, even if it's scary law enforcement people. In UK, you don't really have anything like that, so people may "feel" something is wrong - but in comparison to what?! They haven't really put the principles on paper. It's all pretty vague and it's hard to get angry at a vague target.

Does it support WebRTC yet? IE always seems to be roughly ~2 years late in supporting some of the most important and future-forward HTML5 features.

Maybe they'll push WebRTC in IE12 (not guaranteed), but then it will be some key encryption standard that everyone else has decided on and they're supporting, but IE12 will be lacking. They need to keep IE more up to date with the implementation of the standards.

This seems to show the same thing (not a perfect test, but gives a rough idea about how far behind the IE team is in supporting new HTML5 standards):

http://html5test.com/results/desktop.html

We can visit up to a few tens of solar systems in a few hundred years, if we could develop a space-ship powered by a black hole, antimatter, or some advanced or innovative hybrid fusion engine (there were talks about one from the 60's around here).

Colonizing a few solar systems out of the 100 or so we can visit with such a ship that reaches a large fraction of the speed of light, should be "enough" for the next 1,000 years or so.

By year 3,000, we'll probably figure out something faster than that, to really begin exploring the whole galaxy.

It would surprise me if it had it, or if it supported it, because from what I noticed, the photos tend to have some focus issues.

I also think Google needs a whole rewrite for the Android camera app, by camera experts, because the camera is becoming a great competitive advantage, and I think the Android camera app/driver framework is keeping a lot of OEM's back. If they do rewrite it and make it very good for Android 5.0, they will hopefully allow it to be installed to other devices, too, like they already did for the keyboard and launcher.

Probably for the same reason most app piracy also comes from China and Russia. On iOS your competitors may be having paid apps, so if yours is free, they'll get yours, while downloading almost none of the paid apps from competitors.

The point is, people there can't afford to buy apps, so they'll get them for free (either from the store, or pirate them). Both countries have large populations, too, so you're more likely to notice the "surge".

It would be nice if they could secure communications end-to-end going through Facebook chat or Google Talk, too, but I'm not sure that's possible anymore, with both of them using pretty proprietary protocols or API's now.

Strange that they say "we", because in the previous interview, they said Dan Bernstein helped them to create some new 205-bit curve or something. Previously they were using the NIST curves in the SCIMP protocol. They should probably just use Curve25519, unless they think that's too overkill.

I doubt it. I think it was a mistake on QZ's part, maybe from bad translation. It must've been some other free office suite.

I'm sorry, but there's no way for Bill Gates to say that without sounding like an arrogant asshole. The world doesn't have to unite and spend all of its income on what Bill Gates says is the most important priority. There are at least other 100 priorities that could be put above malaria, and even those shouldn't be done exclusively.

They also have a Debian version now:

http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

I would hope so. It's time they learn there are consequences for (literally) selling their user-data en masse to spy agencies.

It's not a mixer.

It's too bad they didn't continue things with Meego. I would've preferred another open source OS to be the 3rd platform instead of another closed source one.

Windows Phone owes the vast majority of its success to Nokia anyway, because most of the early adopters bought Nokia phones because of the hardware and despite Windows Phone, which is why Nokia has like 90 percent market share of the WP market.

If this wasn't the case, the market would've been more decentralized. You could also test the theory another way - if Nokia would've quit WP for Android this year (if Microsoft wouldn't have bought them), Windows Phone would be dead almost immediately.

Plus, Nokia's phones actually looked nicer with Meego:

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/06/nokia-...

http://cdn.theunlockr.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Android...

If it's LLVM, that pretty much opens the door for running Native Client apps on Android, and possibly even merging Android with ChromeOS, right?

Yeah, they probably want to wait until Go 2.0 or something, before they commit Android to supporting Go (and support only 64-bit apps while they're at it, since from what I hear Go handles 64-bit much better than 32-bit anyway). So maybe in 2-3 years.

But I do think they should do it eventually, and move away completely from Java, because I think Java is a pain to learn, especially for new programmers who want to make Android apps. Being able to write Go apps for Android could make Android that much more attractive to developers.

In the meantime, this transition to ART apps, will be a huge benefit for users, as their apps will run better, especially on lower-end devices, which KitKat also addresses.

Someone benchmarked Dalvik vs ART, and it seems it's already 2x faster, and the performance is much more consistent:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnE-DX9Fbr9KdFZ...

Since this is still probably in alpha mode, I assume it could get even faster with further optimization.