Month: June 2012
Google’s Project Glass in Free Fall
In the race to trump Apple’s run-away success, Google jumped out of a blimp, mountain biked across the roof of the Moscone Center, ran down the side of its walls, right into Sergey Brin’s keynote speech, all to showcase Project Glass yesterday at its 2012 I/O developers conference. Project Glass is a prototype input and… Read More ›
Acer Founder Predicts Short Life for Surface
Acer founder Stan Shih claimed today that Surface is nothing more than a short term shot-in-the-arm for Windows 8 and that Microsoft will lose interest after a year, once the ‘bother’ of distribution and after sales support kick-in. ‘View it as free advertising and don’t worry’, is his message to fellow OEMs. If that is… Read More ›
Underground Project Surfaces from Metro
Clearly the powers that be at Microsoft got tired of Apple’s runaway revenues, profits and stock price. They got tired of their domination of the tablet and mobile segment. They got worried about Apple’s creeping enterprise market share and got even more worried about how cool enterprises viewed them at Microsoft’s expense. Something had to… Read More ›
Back to the Future – Metro is Retro
When Sir Jonathan Ive said of his competitors that they have “the wrong design goals,” I think he was thinking of Microsoft’s Metro, the new Windows 8 user interface, as well as the Android crowd. Isn’t Windows mostly about content creation? Users write documents, enter data, and so on; you need an efficient, full-size keyboard… Read More ›
The Fourth Column 