I don't think they will switch. Don't know what it is but Microsoft seems to keep their corporate customers. There's just no other competitor in this space. Everyone else is too small and doesn't have the name recognition for people making the big decisions. They play it safe by staying with Microsoft. We switched in 2015 and there's no end in sight. Not unless someone with charisma comes in IT and sways the non-technical bigwigs towards some other alternative.Then in 3 years from now they'll decide they want to switch to another solution.
I don't think they will switch. Don't know what it is but Microsoft seems to keep their corporate customers. There's just no other competitor in this space. Everyone else is too small and doesn't have the name recognition for people making the big decisions. They play it safe by staying with Microsoft. We switched in 2015 and there's no end in sight. Not unless someone with charisma comes in IT and sways the non-technical bigwigs towards some other alternative.
They recently switched to O365 at work too, not a fan of it but w/e it's just work. Not something I'd want at home though, I rather my data to be 100% on prem. Although it still appears to have an actual local client, and you can still open files, but not really sure how it works, like if the files are just pointers and the actual data is in the cloud now. I downloaded our work schedule from sharepoint and tried to make a temporary change and it was warning me that I was editing the live copy. That's the other thing they've done is they're trying to force everything to sharepoint/cloud now. They killed off our user drive a while back and recently set our department drive read only, and it looks like they will remove it soon. We have TONS of documentation and stuff, not all of it is office documents either. Some executable programs and what not as well. Doubt we can upload that to sharepoint. It would be insane trying to input all of that to sharepoint one by one anyway. Then in 3 years from now they'll decide they want to switch to another solution. So spend all that time only to have to do it over again. They never leave stuff alone.
Windows App is available for Windows, macOS, iOS and iPadOS, and web browsers.
Multiple monitor support for iPad and Mac.
soon you’ll see AI playing even a bigger role.
Well, I use OneDrive to store my photos online and the family package is a good offer. Currently using 227GB.
AI George Carlin comedy performance
Ford Motor Co. hired one of Midler’s backup singers to sing on a commercial – after Midler declined to do the ad – and asked her to sound as much like Midler as possible. It worked, and fooled a lot of people, including some close to Midler. Midler sued, and the court ruled that there was a misappropriation of Midler’s right of publicity to her singing voice.
The bottom line: Midler’s singing voice was hers to control. Ford had no right to use it without her permission. That lesson cost Ford a tidy $400,000. [my note: inflation calculator says that's just over a million bucks in today's money]
Decision
The appellate court ruled that the voice of someone famous as a singer is distinctive to their person and image and therefore, as a part of their identity, it is unlawful to imitate their voice without express consent and approval. The appellate court reversed the district courts decision and ruled in favor of Midler, indicating her voice was protected against unauthorized use.
Significance
A voice, or other distinctive uncopyrightable features, is deemed as part of someone's identity who is famous for that feature and is thus controllable against unauthorized use. Impersonation of a voice, or similarly distinctive feature, must be granted permission by the original artist for a public impersonation, even for copyrighted materials.
Real-time, low-skill generatively-based creativity. Incredible:
Wish they would give the option of a sleek, minimal resource hungry UI like the old gmail.
It's never long-term thinking, it's always about short term gain.
That's really it...even $7 a month for a single premium personal account gets you a terabyte of cloud storage, easy photo integration, and all of the Office apps on your phone, tablet, web browser at another computer, laptop, desktop, etc.
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Man that *IS* cheap if I consider the costs to run my server rack, so I can kinda see why companies are doing it. I would never want my personal stuff hosted off prem, but from a financial standpoint, it almost makes sense. My last NAS storage upgrade cost me around 2.5k, and my server rack costs maybe around $40/mo in hydro to run (very rough estimate). Mind you, I have like 40TB of storage and room to add more, and hosting lot of various environments that would be a pita to try to use via cloud, so I would never even consider cloud, but I can see why some people do it.
Storage is crazy these days. You can get a 22TB USB drive for four hundred bucks these days:
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Backblaze offers unlimited storage (online encrypted backup) for $9/mo lol:
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OpenAI just announced their new text-to-video feature: https://openai.com/sora
Not sure how much I like this since we already live in a time full of misinformation, but if the masses have easy access to a tool like this, it's going to be a headache to regulate.
At the risk of sounding like the anti-AI thread, this is purely going to prove the adage true that a lie can be halfway around the world before the truth can tie its shoes. Isn’t there another “law” that says it takes like an order of magnitude more effort to disprove BS than to generate it? I fear that we’re going to be so full speed ahead on AI that no one is accounting for the 10x more FLOPS needed to regulate itself.Sora is really, really scary:
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