I came across this comparison chart today that reminded me of the early days of the browser wars between Microsoft and everyone else. If you don’t follow such things, Microsoft has a long and sordid history of being unwilling to comply with standards that the rest of the world readily adopts. Internet Explorer (IE) is […]
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What’s Going On at Microsoft?
I read today with much disillusionment a recap of the speech of Kevin Turner, Microsoft’s COO, given at the Worldwide Partner Conference. In the speech, Mr. Turner ran through the company’s list of rivals in various markets, ridiculing them in turn. Of Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff, he said “We now have a humongous pacifier to stick […]
Windows 7 Was ( Not ) My Idea
I am sure you have seen the commercials where you have various “every man” characters claiming that their suggestions for Windows 7 helped to make it into the product that it is today. The commercials end with that catchy phrase “I’m Joe Blow, and Windows 7 was my idea.” I guess the message that we […]
What We’re Not Talking About
With the flurry of blogs and info being spewed out between yesterday and today about the coming of the Google Phone, the battle for mobile device supremacy is getting ready to escalate once again. Google is moving out of software and into the hardware business. What’s interesting to me is not that we have two […]