The disruption from Microsoft's failures are only starting to be felt. Check out Frank Hayes' "The Pain Begins " column in the January 26th Computer World.
Corporate IT stubbed Vista. What will it do with Windows 7? And what's the fall-back plan if Windows 7 is bust and Microsoft does an …
more ...The article by Joe Wilcox in eWeek is actually really good -- except for the silly subtitle. See "No Enterprise Thaw for Vista ". It provides solid evidence that Vista is covered in FAIL. Not rumor or bias, but solid research on sales, adoption, conversion and the like.
The only flaw in …
more ..."There has been a lot of skepticism about the usefulness--and necessity--of the Ribbon, and I have to admit that I was among the doubters. Why change something that works? Because, according to Microsoft, the current interface has become bloated with too many menus."
Ugh. It's bloated, so we'll add features …
more ...Hobbit says:
more ..."Everything in the windows world does not directly work with the "rapidly-evolving" windows api's (for example, c# devs rarely concern themselves with api calls.) If there is such a lack of clarity in these API's causing a "barrier to innovation," why is windows still the easiest and most …
First, I've had some opinions on this "one language" ideal After PERL what?. We have a variety of languages for a good reason: the languages express different kinds of things. Shell command languages really have little to do with markup languages, database manipulation languages or "general-purpose" programming languages.
One of …
more ...MS AntiSpyware "free" beta http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx. Also, it appears http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2005/11/microsoft_antis_1.html to be called Windows Defender.
eWeek's slavish lack of clue http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1872253,00.asp; Paul Thurott's lack …
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