Who needs a little joke today?

That explains alot

Not for nothing, PrintNightMare is nickname of the bug. And it tookā€¦ Quite a long for ā€œkindaā€ solve it.

Seems that a ā€¦ New player is on the patch. Sortof.

If your computer is not linked to the microsoft account, it will bug you again for connection.
And it worked, at least for my arrangement.

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Microsoft today disclose the will for some shopping.
Activision Blizzard. In cash. Close to 70 bln dollars.

No, itā€™s not because they think Activision is worth 70 bln - they did it just to annoy the LinkedIn guysā€¦

:slight_smile:

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Because they only payed 26 bln for LinkedIn?

Either way means more games on my game passšŸ˜ƒ

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And Skype was a ā€œstealā€ at only 8 blnā€¦ :slight_smile:

Or is ā€œHot Airā€ getting expensive?
Inflationary ā€œpromisesā€ā€¦

:slight_smile:

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Wonder how they valued the 70bln I mean what they have like 5 ips

The romans would say ā€œalea jacta estā€ (Translated: The dice has fallen, implying the decision is done), although I do doubt they actually used dice to enumerate the valuation in this caseā€¦ :slight_smile:

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Wouldnā€™t put it past them Iā€™ve often thought they decide if they will keep working on a popular product is to role a dice, toss a coin or maybe play minesweeper (if they make it to 5 they keep fundingā˜ŗļø)

MCSE Minesweeper Consultant / Solitaire Expertā€¦

:slight_smile:

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Donā€™t forget Klondike and Spiderā€¦ Anyway: IMVHO Skype was one of the worst acquisition for Redmond.

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@pike

Even then, itā€™s a believable reason to write off 8 bln for tax benefitsā€¦ :slight_smile:

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I canā€™t deny that maybe that reason was one of the considered one. Butā€¦

  1. MSN Messenger was dying
  2. Some green Messenger about an app rised really soon after that
  3. Microsoft started being payed for phone calls
  4. Literally the voice app + messaging was replacing somethingā€¦ than it was replaced once moreā€¦ And now itā€™s going to die under Teams foot.
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New day, new thief, new robbery.

Happy new flaw free monthā€¦
https://binarly.io/posts/An_In_Depth_Look_at_the_23_High_Impact_Vulnerabilities/index.html
Oh, cā€™mon. You must be kidding me!

Covid humor

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I feel a tremor in the Force. Or in something else.

Itā€™s only seems to me that silicon engraver wants to sell more siliconā€¦ during silicon shortages?


Okā€¦ seems a car insurance contract, more than an invitation for a meeting.
@alefattorini previous Generali experience?