https://www.blog.google/topics/connected-workspaces/introducing-chrome-enterp...

OK, Google has just thrown down the gauntlet to Microsoft --- for $50 per seat per year you can integrate Chromebooks into your current business systems using the same tools you have been using for Wintel products.

$50 bucks per seat buys you ......




Once again, Google is pushing at businesses to change their IT business models.   This time, by offering a low cost FULL FUNCTIONAL Alternative which occurs at the same point in time that MS is just now starting to roll out their own $100 + dollar per seat plans that do not include all the third party optimizations (which will cost additional $$$ for MS's current networked approach)

As did Whirlpool and other businesses, complete replacement of MS systems is underway at some companies that are keying off the education developed IT systems that are already in place.

Will Chrome Enterprise be good enough to entice even more of the larger Fortune 500 companies ???    Yep, if your network system uses any of the key stuff mentioned, you'd be stupid not to use what you readily can out of the new Google Enterprise system.   Stuff like data entry and customer service which already run off of your intra-net are a no brainer shoe in as it is a natural for low cost Chromebooks already.   There are lots and lots of worker drone machines inside your business that can do likewise ....  

But not your engineer's CAD terminal nor your VP of Finance and his CPA's spreadsheet monster machines.   Them you leave alone and you jest pay the silly Microsoft tax.

Cost savings will be considerable over the first few years and will only get better in the years following as you roll more and more people over to Chromebooks and the Chrome Enterprise OS system.

Look to see a really really BIG MS FUD attack to be put on by MS with lots of advertising dollars spent on defaming Google and Chrome Enterprise System from now through the Christmas season and New Years fiscal period.    Watch the MS paid talking heads go at it, strongly, ASAP.

           

<DING>    that's the sound of round two beginning, with low cost local boy Rocky Balboa vs Mickeysoft's Very Expensive Monkey Butt Attack.  

Look to see them ugly MS arranged 3rd party nuisance lawsuits being cranked up about now as well ......



..... this is almost guaranteed to take Mickey's mind off his little underpowered Chromebook killers .....


     .... so, Google's response to MS's Chromekillers really was the Enterprise firing photon torpedo spreads
               followed by some Enterprise based phaser fire ....         

Windows.... walk to the light.

My wife just got the new death message for old windows machines that were moved over to Win 10 .....

"We are having issues with your Windows registration, please click here to fix"

Don't do it, close the message window without deleting or responding within it and just continue to use your machine until Mickey ratchets down his vice grips down on your nuts deeper yet again       yeeeowie !!

..... unless you bought your Win 10 from the Windows Store you do not have the "correct answer" to the string of stuff the Indian or Pakistani person on the other end of the phone is going to throw at you.

This time they didn't accuse my wife of being a software pirate, but said you had to register to "avoid the paying the costs of nightly maintenance".

Sounds like a sales pitch to me, you talk to them and you wind up "paying for nightly maintenance".

My wife is tired of the kindle. She's wanting a laptop . I don't know what we should buy.

Anything you pick would be wrong, and their picks would be "better", obviously.

That pretty much goes without saying..
And extends Well beyond the realm of electronic devices.

I'm gonna let my daughter drive this boat.. I don't want anything to do with Windows, the way MS sneaks in and loads junk on.
Being so illiterate in the language of computing, ignorant of the pitfalls, makes me an easy mark. I doubt my daughter is savvy enough to dodge a screwing, but I'll have her look here.
Expect to be bothered..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8rYed3RKZI

Watch this video, it is SECOND ATTEMPT at explaining about DynamIQ and it makes things a lot clearer.

Check the side bar and you will see other videos by the same guy explaining the new Cortex Family  (A75 big and A55 little) and a final set talking about Mali G-72 graphics and the use of new style pooled "permanent" memory.

I found that the first time I watched  the original series much of it went right over my head, but this time he explains it better using terms that now have more meaning to us all.

This second explanation series was put together after the one day of hands on at TechDay at ARM Holdings, so they got some much better instruction and some newer info that they are passing on.

It better explains why next year's Android 9 will be running on the same SOC stuff from all the big boys and why all the little guys may be crowding on to the stage by Android 10 or a wee bit sooner.

This is akin to the shift from 32 bit processing to 64 bit processing, it too was a must do "forced putt" when it occurred.

In the Mali G72 explanation video they go a good bit deeper into how the Mali G72 is a right considerable powerful processor all by itself and "in combination" with your main power cores and using the large amount of pooled memory that you will have on the phone that DynamIQ can go do AI learning right on your cell phone (when it is on charge and not in use) .... and then it can do that learned fast execution thing on any of your cell phone chipset's little cores.    

    AI in your pocket .....

Google can and will pre-learn all their stuff for you on their big Tensor Flow servers out in the cloud just to be convenient, but it is interesting that your new style smaller individual Play Store apps will be able to use your charger parked phone to learn something while you are asleep, then it is available as a fast execute item on your phone from then on.    

It is these fast executing "learned items" that execute so much more quickly that it makes your overall throughput 30 times faster than the old Wintel stuff could ever do.

New times they are a coming ......  



CHANGE, she comes.

Two Morons and a Dinosaur: Mayor Bill de Blasio and Jessica Tisch, police deputy commissioner of information technology tout new Windows Phones.
(Photo: Chad Rachman)

http://macdailynews.com/2017/08/28/nyc-mayor-de-blasio-deputy-it-commissioner...

36,000 fairly new Win 10 phones have been rendered as scrap by last week's Microsoft's decision not to support them.

NYC Prosecutor's office is investigating some ugly rumors of bribery and malfeasance.




..... go Mickey, go .....





To pour rock salt on the open wounds, this obsoletion occurs only weeks after Microsoft had finished re-writing all the MS contract sourced custom software that NYPD had ordered to go along with the phones.  

MS has not yet fixed all the bugs in the contract software that they ordered and had delivered so NYPD could use a Win 8.1 phone using Win 10 software .....



Somebody needs to go to jail over this one .....


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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/28/nypd_scraps_36000_windows_smartphones/



Tsk, tsk, Tisch

Well, according to department sources quoted by the New York Post, the procurement disaster was all down to Ms Tisch – who, it turns out, is the daughter of former Loews CEO and billionaire James S Tisch.

"She drove the whole process," one unhappy cop told the paper, name-checking Jessica. "Nobody purchases 36,000 phones based on the judgment of one person," he complained. "I don't care if you're Jesus fricking Christ, you get a panel of experts."

Which is a fair point, since we have no hesitation in saying that even an expert panel of one would have concluded that Windows phones were a turn in the wrong direction for a huge police department.

According to other sources, the reason Tisch plumbed for the Lumia was because the NYPD was using Microsoft software on its video surveillance system – a system that Tisch has closely associated herself with and, back in 2012, demonstrated and boasted about to the press, raising eyebrows.

You can see how an inexperienced IT manager might think that it made sense to go with Microsoft all the way. But then that is also why anyone who carries out IT procurement into an area they are not expert on gets a team of people to review all the possibilities before they spend huge sums of money.

"She was in charge. It was her project, no question about that," another department source told the Post.