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Windows 8 sales – yet to surface
(0)Microsoft’s distribution channels are leaking their frustration about lacklustre Windows 8 and Surface sales. Microsoft insiders appear to be blaming their OEM customer’s poor imagination on the dearth of interest. Is this lack of elegance the first real sign of cracks in their strategy? Enterprise sales of Windows 8 is going to take at least… Read More ›
Windows 8 – Does it matter anymore?
Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft, announced availability of Windows 8 yesterday “shattering perceptions of what a PC is” and “kicking off a new era” for the company. Having completely missed the smartphone and tablet movements (along with Intel), it certainly needed a good kick as it attempts to make its comeback with an operating system that… Read More ›
Virtualization – AC of the 3rd Millennium
I read with interest today Steve Wozniak’s skepticism towards “All Things Cloud”. He worries about security and a lack of user data control. Even though he raises important points, they seem a little strange coming from the Chief Scientist of Fusion.io – a company suppling servers to the Cloud. Where’s the vision? Some History Wozniak’s… Read More ›
Windows 8: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Microsoft will release Windows 8 to manufacturing in August and it will be generally available for sale in October. So IT managers will shortly be faced with the question of whether they should switch to it or not. In my view they should wait – as long as they can. Consumers buying new PCs on… Read More ›
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 ›
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 Future History of Computing
A fork in the road is rapidly approaching for those of you that develop and sell business applications. Don’t miss it or you may miss the future. One path leads to ‘Software as a Service‘ or ‘Cloud Computing‘ and it’s the latest thing since sliced bread. The other to self-destruction. Like the fashion industry, the… Read More ›
The Fourth Column 