#Microsoft Processors

[wemlygust]

If your Microsoft 365 Subscription Price went up, this is relevant to you:

Hoping this saves someone some $$$$. In short, Microsoft auto-upgraded people on the Basic tier of their 365 subscription to the middle tier that includes copilot (with no option to turn it off), renamed the middle tier to Basic, and renamed the original Basic tier AND hid it from the subscription types options, in hopes that people won't realize they've just been auto-"upgraded" to a more expensive tier that also allows them to train their AI on your work. If you contact Microsoft support and are stubborn, or possibly (according to some of the comments on that youtube video) if you turn off auto-renewal and then look at options for re-subscribing, you can still get the original Basic tier that you had before, for the same price as you had before. Given that they are obviously not trustworthy has a subscription service, though, I'd recommend instead trying the LibreOffice (my personal favorite) or OpenOffice software suites (including Word Processor software, Spreadsheets software, etc) - both of which are 100% free. And both of which can save documents in Microsoft 365 formats so that others can still open and read your documents using Microsoft products.

[xtruss]

Evelyn Berezin in 1976 at the Long Island office of her company Redactron. She developed one of the earliest word processors and helped usher in a technological revolution. Evelyn Berezin said her word processor would help secretaries become more efficient at their jobs. Photo By Barton Silverman/New York Times.

Evelyn Berezin, “Godmother of the Word Processor!” The Woman That Made Bill Gates and Steve Jobs Possible

Evelyn Berezin (1925-2018) was born in the Bronx to poor Russian-Jewish immigrants. Growing up, she loved reading science fiction and wished to study physics. She excelled at school and graduated two years early. Berezin had to wear make-up and fake her age to get a job at a research lab. She ended up studying economics because it was a more “fitting” subject for women at the time. During World War II, she finally received a scholarship to study physics at New York University. Berezin studied at night, while working full time at the International Printing Company during the day. She continued doing graduate work at New York University, with a fellowship from the US Atomic Energy Commission. In 1951, she joined the Electronic Computer Corporation, designing some of the world’s very first computers. At the time, computers were massive machines that could only do several specific functions.

Evelyn Berezin, “Godmother of the Word Processor.” Born: April 12, 1925, The Bronx, New York City, NY — Died: December 8, 2018, ArchCare at Mary Manning Walsh Nursing Home & Rehabilitation Center, New York, NY

Berezin headed the Logic Design Department, and came up with a computer to manage the distribution of magazines, and to calculate firing distances for US Army artillery. In 1957, Berezin transferred to work at Teleregister, where she designed the first banking computer and the first computerized airline reservation system (linking computers in 60 cities, and never failing once in the 11 years that it ran). Her most famous feat was in 1968 when she created the world’s first personal word processor to ease the plight of secretaries (then making up 6% of the workforce).

“Without Ms. Berezin There Would Be No Bill Gates, No Steve Jobs, No Internet, No Word Processors, No Spreadsheets; Nothing That Remotely Connects Business With The 21st Century.” — The Times of Israel (12 December 2018)

The following year, she founded her own company, Redactron Corporation, and built a mini-fridge-sized word processor, the “Data Secretary”, with a keyboard and printer, cassette tapes for memory storage, and no screen. With the ability to go back and edit text, cut and paste, and print multiple copies at once, Berezin’s computer freed the world “from the shackles of the typewriter”. The machine was an in instant hit, selling thousands of units around the world. Berezin’s word processor not only set the stage for future word processing software, like Microsoft Word, but for compact personal computers in general. It is credited with being the world’s first office computer. Not surprisingly, it has been said that without Evelyn Berezin “there would have been no Bill Gates, and no Steve Jobs”.

Evelyn Berezin Pioneered Word Processors and Butted Heads With Men! A ‘loud woman,’ she studied physics and found that to get to the top she had to start her own company. Evelyn Berezin later became a mentor to entrepreneurs, venture capitalist and director of companies. Photo: Berezin Family. Wall Street Journal

“Why Is This Woman Not Famous?” British Writer Gwyn Headley Wrote In A 2010 Blog Post. — The Times of Israel

Redactron grew to a public company with over 500 employees. As president, she was the only woman heading a corporation in the US at the time, and was described as the “Most Senior Businesswoman in the United States”. Redactron was eventually bought out by Burroughs Corporation, where Berezin worked for several more years. In 1980, she moved on to head a venture capital group investing in new technologies. Berezin served on the boards of a number of organizations, including Stony Brook University and the Brookhaven National Laboratory, and was a sought-after consultant for the world’s biggest tech companies.

She was a key part of the American Women’s Economic Development Corporation for 25 years, training thousands of women in how to start businesses of their own, with a success rate of over 60%. In honour of her parents, she established the Sam and Rose Berezin Endowed Scholarship, paying tuition in full for an undergraduate science student each year. Sadly, Berezin passed away earlier this month. She left her estate to fund a new professorship or research centre at Stony Brook University. Berezin won multiple awards and honourary degrees, and was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame.

[onlytiktoks]

https://www.wsj.com/science/physics/microsoft-quantum-computing-physicists-skeptical-d3ec07f0

[daemon-in-my-head]

Microsoft can suck my dick, they can choke on it in fact, but my very valid resentment aside;

Please don't fall for it. Even if your PC tells you you are not eligible for Windows 11—you can download, install and run it just fine. And you should once WIN 10 isn't continued anymore.

The upgrade is not any harder than if Microsoft wasn't such a bitch, and you most definitely do not need a new end device simply because they would like you to buy one.

I am testing it on an 8-year-old "throwaway notebook" rn (trust is good, control is better), that is not eligible for the update based on their own claims and I'm having absolutely no issues whatsoever.

[vulpinesaint]

What app do u use to write ur poems?

it's just screenshots of google docs! i use crimson text (or georgia. but the font in my poetry docs is pretty consistently crimson text) and pageless format and it makes it really easy :)

[river-taxbird]

Help me, writing/design Tumblr!

Microsoft Word sucks, there has to be a better way.

Edit: Word has this feature. It's called Linked Text Boxes. It's still word with Word's jank though, Microsoft Publisher has it, but it seems like Adobe Indesign has it with a better user interface.

I have been doing a lot of document layout work for my degree lately, and Microsoft Word continues to be just horrible. As a famous post once said, nothing about it works. So my question is, there has to be a better way, right? If anyone knows about writing software, is there anything that does the thing I want? (I do the bulk of my writing in Google Docs but the layout tools aren't good enough for the kind of design I need to do.)

My dream word processor (This may be hard to describe):

I want to be able to define specific boxes where body text is allowed to be. When one fills up, it overflows into the next.

Instead of word where you have the body text in the background, and it moves out of the way from the images, I would like text boxes that contain the body text. Like you lay out your images and static text boxes on a page, then you can fill the rest out with dynamic text boxes that contain the body text. I am sure you could do something like this with text boxes in ms word, but you couldn't do the layout as you write the body.

In my dream word processor, you could define blocks as Body Text 1, Body Text 2, and so on. If you added more text into Body Text 1, anything that is pushed out automatically goes into body text 2. If you delete text, excess text comes back into body text 1. Just like how text moving to the next page works in MS Word and Google Drive. Body text can only go into defined boxes, but it is dynamic. I feel like this could prevent the problem in word where moving one image destroys the formatting for your entire document because the body text tries to move out of the way.

Am I making sense? I am not even sure what to google to find something like this, but it has to exist, right? Magazines exist with very clean and nice layouts, they must be using something like this, but Microsoft Word doesn't do it that I know of. If it can, please tell me!

[scionshtola]

i wish i had the longfic writers temperament

[keeps-ache]

so Apparently a game i was running on my computer (without a cooler thing for a good minute there, because i guess i thought i was invulnerable to heat) may or may not have burnt out some parts of my machine. and it's been a couple months since i've played it bc it just stopped working one day and i just had to accept that lmao- but anyway i'm booting the game up again today, Surely this will go differently :3

[celiaelise]

Hey, friends. What do y'all use instead of Google docs? Specifically, the word processing element.

I started the switch to Firefox a while ago, but I don't want to log into my Google account on there, bc then I will be trapped logged in forever. (may or may not be true) So I still use chrome if I'm using docs.

I have a Surface, which came with the trial version of Word,(🙄) and obviously I don't intend on paying for the full thing. So, unless I'm missing something obvious, (possible) my only non-Docs options are WordPad on my tablet and, like, the notes app on my phone.

It would be really cool if there was an alternative that's online like Docs, but I will take suggestions as well for regular apps, as long as they are not too ginormous to run on my weak little tablet!!! (I do have a Dropbox account, so I could shift to using that more, if needed?)

Thanks, i love you!! 💕

[leam1983]

Or you can always use LibreOffice, OnlyOffice or other similar open-source suites at zero dollars.

[mfcl3780cdw]

none of you are going to heaven

[typebarmagazine]

The Digital Dilemma: Why Writers Are Abandoning Modern Word Processing Software

By Erica Hanger

In today’s world, it feels like everything is designed to be more connected, but not necessarily more meaningful. As writers, we constantly juggle the demands of productivity, technology, and staying focused. A few years ago, my gal pals complained about how difficult it was forging friendships as newcomers to Denver. Sure, there are meetups, community classes, or simply pursuing real-life hobbies, but striking up conversations with strangers can be intimidating (especially for my fellow introverts, I see you). 

So one “crafternoon,” I got my 1976 Gabriele typewriter (I call her Gabby) out, and with the hammer of keys, I created conversation starters, with a few cheesy pickup lines thrown in the mix. The task was to build confidence and empower my friends to talk to strangers at a bar or in a public space with crib sheets of witty one-liners in hand. 

When I provided my friends the fortune cookie-sized conversation starters, they laughed. They were open to testing this method in hopes of it leading to more organic conversation. They mustered up the courage to talk to strangers, typewritten conversation starters in hand, and I witnessed these strangers raise their eyebrows and instant laughter with every engagement. 

Laughter is a powerful way to build connection and rapport, reinforcing its authenticity, and what could be more authentic than typewritten notes? Bumble BFF? I don’t think so. There is much beauty in the lost art of the analog.  

In an era where technology promises to “simplify” everything with cloud saving and invasive AI tools, writers are increasingly turning away from – or at least growing skeptical towards –  modern word processing software and other digital office programs. 

Read more...

[manmishra]

🚀💻 Microsoft Unveils Majorana 1 Quantum Processor! 💡⚛️ A giant leap in Quantum Computing with Topological Qubits! 🌌🧠 ✅ Faster Processing ⚡ ✅ Fewer Errors 🛡️ ✅ Scalable Quantum Power 💽 This could revolutionize AI 🤖, Healthcare 💊, Cybersecurity 🔐, and more! 💯🔥 👉 Are we stepping into a Quantum Future? 🤯🔮 #Microsoft #QuantumComputing #FutureTech #AI #Majorana1 💻⚛️

[diagnozabam]

Microsoft lansează Majorana 1: Primul procesor cuantic bazat pe qubiți topologici

Pe 19 februarie, Microsoft a făcut un anunț revoluționar în domeniul tehnologiei cuantice: lansarea Majorana 1, primul procesor cuantic din lume bazat pe qubiți topologici. Acest procesor utilizează fermioni Majorana, particule speciale care sunt, în esență, atât particule, cât și antiparticule. Aceste descoperiri deschid un nou capitol în cursa pentru dezvoltarea calculatoarelor cuantice…

[a-passing-storm]

For some reason, Pages just does not work for me for creative writing. I just... every project I've started in Pages, I've stopped, but I will fairly easily write 40 page pieces in Word. It's weird.