Tag: Software
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 ›
HTML5 – Future Universal Client or Pure Marketing Hype?
I’ve heard some people dismiss HTML5 as pure marketing hype. For me this is just nonsense! Developers of business applications working to one or two year release cycles need to be thinking about HTML5 now! Of course it is going to take time to transition, but plan now. Some people are also moaning about the… 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 