Multiplayer FPS Strike Vector of independent French studio Ragequit Corporation goes on January 28.

Strike Vector in creating Ragequit Corporation inspired games such as Quake 3 and Crimson Skies, and players with experience, it can also recall a series of Descent. First Strike Vector interesting very dynamic gameplay as on the market today has a serious deficit of fast-paced shooters. Besides the spectacular air battles, the developers promise players the ability to customize aircraft and hundreds of available combinations of weapons.

It is known that the game will not be distributed by the system free-to-play, but its price per page on Steam has not yet specified. According to preliminary data, navigate worth at the price tag of $ 24.90. After the release of the game developers are planning to support the release of free DLC.

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“Pincer” – one of the most famous and classic military attacks. It was first mentioned in the book of Sun Tzu’s “Art of War” and implies a simultaneous attack from various quarters for one common goal and thus blocking all paths for its retreat. In the end, the opponent shall either voluntarily or to the last trying to get out of this trap. However, it is almost impossible to make.

Greetings from Redmond

In 2013, the company’s revenue Microsoft has made more than $ 77 billion. Of this money, $ 19 billion technology giant has received a subdivision, Windows, and selling the rest of the software (basically, Office) brought him another $ 25 billion. Together they make up more than 56 percent of total revenue, so if Microsoft suddenly deprived of these two sources of their income, the corporation will have a very hard time.

If Microsoft wants to stay on the horse and continue to rule in the world of enterprise software sales, it needs to constantly develop something innovative. And, not least, to make these products as accessible as possible to the user.

Simply put, Microsoft is now locked in a large “box”, as it is very much dependent on your operating system and office suite. But she has no other choice. Microsoft can not produce such products, which would actually be interesting to the consumer. Zune? Windows Phone? Bing? The only one who uses it all – this is probably the technological journalists who need to be aware of all the new products.

Sooner complacent

More than 10 years ago, one company broke into the process “stage” as it did not have one. She was able to create a simple device with a green screen, which displays a variety of text messages, and the gadget is published notifying sounds very touchy. Recognize him? Of course, it is a pager – at one time it was popular not only among ordinary people, but even among well-known bankers and politicians.

Of course, the creators of this amazing device soon plunged into a sea of ​​money and fame. After receiving solid investments they began to experiment with mobile phones that are affordable for all, and combined the portability, convenience, and reliability that have been in the pager.

After a few months of hard work, they were still able to develop a mobile phone that is very different from the current models. Nevertheless, the company’s engineers knew that they produced a device intended to “blow up” the global market. Everyone knew it. And realize that access to a wide range of consumers with the handheld device is equivalent to entering the list of the most expensive in the corporate world.

And they were right.

But soon came the first problem. Immersed in the depths of his success, the engineers were afraid to experiment. The leaders were afraid to give appropriate instructions. They feared that if the gadget will change anything substantial, he would be no use to anyone. Involuntarily, they became prisoners of the same “box” in which Microsoft is right now.

They were doomed to failure. It just happened.

In 2007 the company introduced another revolutionary, in its view, device. People liked the new device, but the company that actually has been the first, it is not worried. Its leaders believed that such a gadget was simply “impossible.”

“Box”, which landed BlackBerry

Yet it happened. And BlackBerry – the company that created the very pagers, which were mentioned above – panicked. In 2007, Apple lowered the price as on the iPhone, BlackBerry that unwittingly found herself outside the market .

BlackBerry ever think about innovation as long as it is too late. And even when it seems to be trying to keep their “ship” afloat , the company closed a panic holes, and all that was in her hand.

Microsoft is locked in the same trap. Corporation is so dependent on new versions of Windows and a package of Office, that if they wanted to be able to get out of it.

The examples are not far to seek. In 2010, BlackBerry tried again to break into the market with a new product (like in the good old days), but again it was too late. The same goes for Windows 8. It is so different from Windows 7, users still do not risk installing it. In the first months after the release of the operating system update the number was incredibly small.

For comparison – a day Apple was able to extend exactly the same number of copies of OS X Mavericks , as Windows 8 have acquired a few months.

Irreversible changes

The basic lunge toward Microsoft from Apple was the free distribution of OS X Mavericks and iWork office suite with a full understanding of what its competitor can never crank out something like that. Returning to the analogy of “ticks”, you can compare them with iWork and OS X Mavericks , who hung over the only way out of the “box”, which lingers Microsoft.

Home to become more innovative than Apple, now again lost. 

But for how long?

Based on materials from The Michael Report and The Verge

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Typically, owners of Apple-devices always look forward to not only update gadgets corporations, but also its application. In most cases, the company’s engineers make its products even more enjoyable to use by adding new features, designers try to refresh the look of programs in such a way that an experienced user could quickly to understand.

Usually specialists always arrive on this principle (here had to be a joke about iOS 7), however, the updated package iWork triggered a wave of criticism from the customer the next day after the release, writes Mac Rumors. On the official Apple support forum users initiated a discussion on the 42 page claim that this time the application of Pages office suite company lost a lot more features than acquired.

Here is what one disgruntled user Pages:

Engineers Apple, seems to have decided to focus on “simplicity” at the expense of performance. They are not just “cut” the possibility Pages, bringing the program on functional content to Microsoft Word. They just took a huge number of features of the application, and did so without explanation.

Most owners of Mac computers fully agree with his point of view. Among the missing features they point out many keyboard shortcuts, you can not export the document to. Rtf, the lack of a custom toolbar, and more. In addition, users complain about the decrease in the number of pre-built templates.

Really do not understand why Apple has released such a “major” update to its office suite, but it took away many of the functions of applications. In the opinion of those who once purchased iWork for the full cost, the main reason may be two: either the corporation does not want to spoil the users as iWork now available for free with the new devices, or intend to bring together the best of desktop and mobile version of the package . The latter, incidentally, can not boast of a wide range of functions.

This is not the first time Apple has been criticized by Mac owners because of the updated application. A similar situation was observed in the distant 2011, when a new version of Final Cut Pro X to mount the movie lost some nice features. Then let Apple users dissatisfied return the money for the application, and launched a new marketing campaign in hopes to appease alienated customers.

The panelists did not lose hope for the return of the lost functions Pages. They have already sent more than a dozen complaints related to Apple to upgrade the program as soon as possible. Join them can be on a special page .

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Long time we did not talk about updating software, of course. Operating system does not count. But it’s nice to see that Apple is not only concerned with iOS-device and Mac, where you can earn a mountain of gold, but also, for example, the software package of iLife and iWork. Today, just for them are emphasized, as their and updated. And, it must be noted, updated quite well. Although, of course, this is not the most popular applications , but …

In general, all updated iLife suite of applications can be described with just one sentence. Since essentially only one updated design. But the new design is now not only in the application of the iLife suite for the Mac, but for iOS-devices, which is twice as nice.

Looks really cool. Particularly pleased that, for example, iPhoto attention now paid to editing photos and further “Sharing.” And in iMovie at all a new feature – iMovie Theater: creating video on one device, and it is immediately available to everyone. A sort of cloud sync. It’s great. And GarageBand now has a Drummer – drummer for creating drum tracks. In general, it is necessary to thoroughly delve into all of these applications to evaluate all the changes on the merit, because a lot of them, for which many thanks to Apple. Especially nice is that on the new Mac and iOS-devices are all available free of charge.

Applications of package iWork, ie Pages, Numbers and Keynote also received significant changes. The most dramatic change has suffered, of course, UI-design of these applications, which is not surprising: iOS 7 is sweeping the iOS-devices with incredible speed.

IWork package talked about for a long time. Again, you need to dig around and explore in detail. Generally speaking, the focus was on the design (as we have just said, and) for the convenience of editing documents, and of course, their future “card sharing”. Of course, all tied around iCloud – and Apple, and we love this cloud.

As for the price, it is all the same way as with the iLife: free on the new Mac and iOS-devices. Tale.

In general, it is necessary to observe each application individually. They have changed and very cool. Apple has taken into account all the wishes of users and did everything perfectly.

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The composition of iWork for iCloud includes three applications – Keynote, Numbers and Pages. They are endowed with the same features that are available in the same program under the operating systems iOS and OS X. This is very handy when you need to quickly edit a particular document, and your computer is not at hand. The only: pre-export documents should be moved to a remote storage iCloud, iWork as part of its composition.

In addition to Google Docs, iWork will have to compete with Microsoft Office 365. The functionality of all three solutions are similar, the principle of action – also, so the fight will not be easy. Apple immediately insure and optimized to work with the iWork “enemy” browsers – Google Chrome and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

IWork for iCloud now dubbed as “beta” in its title, but is available for all users by making a request to participate in testing. It is noteworthy that the icons of cloud service applications still maintain design programs from the operating system iOS 6.

The public version of iWork will be launched before the end of this year.

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