Last week's discussion on store closures is already academic, the Putman deal has collapsed.

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Whilst questions as to the logic as to how some stores survived this initial closure but others didn't will depend on factors maybe not immediately obvious, the particular 5 they've closed in the pointy bit of the country are nevertheless...a bit questionable. Avonmeads, Bristol - unlike much of the...

Never in a million years did I think in 2003 that this place and collection of keyboard warriors would still be here after all these years!

Happy birthday Metropol!

Just saw a TV ad for Halifax bank, with what looked like an updated logo on it - it's no longer stripy and has a new font. I normally log in to Bank of Scotland's online banking, but had cause to use the Halifax-skinned version of it today, and see that they're still using the old branding on there...

I do get though a commercial private entity that doesn't want to pay Rick to sit behind a window selling five tickets per day, and twiddling thumbs for the rest. Where I do start to question the logic of closing quieter ticket offices is that these stations usually already don't have any dedicated ...

One more Tory scorched earth policy before they're booted I agree. There is rather a lot being made of 'replacing ticket offices with ticket machines'. Arguably, ticket machines themselves are fast becoming redundant. I would be interested to know, not just the percentage of tickets bought through ...

Philip wrote: ↑Fri 28 Apr, 2023 19.43 Nice to see this 9 year old thread still going strong.

Possibly not for much longer. Apparently 22H2 is now confirmed as the last release of Windows 10, only security updates from now on out until EOL in 2025.

Second in each category and gaining significantly. Not dead ducks. Not entirely sure what argument you're trying to have Will. Both are indeed second - a cavernously distant second - but that second position is with the world's largest software company spending years pushing them and still they're ...

TBH I think they got their dominance taken away, to a large degree. Thats true, but MS still made some pretty bad decisions which would only damage their market share. They left XP users stranded on IE8 5 years before it reached end of life and whilst it still had a big chunk of market share even t...

...Bing has 2.8% market share and Edge 4.9%. This rises to 7.2% and 11% respectively when looking just at desktop browsing (same statcounter link you posted). For two products that have been aggressively pushed for years. I think you'll have to concede that, if not dead ducks, they are decidedly unh...

In Microsoft's never ending quest to push the twin dead ducks of Bing and Edge, they are now rolling out an update which puts a floating Bing-powered Edge search bar on the desktop.

To think the shit they got in the 90's just for bundling a web browser and a media player.