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- Simplicity isn't Simple
- In life, it is usually easier to say no than yes. But in product development the opposite is more likely true -- it's hard to turn down a major customer asking you to add more features to your product. Resist the temptation. Feature creep adds back-end...
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- Microsoft Pushes on Hosted Software
- Microsoft is trying to crank up the hosted software front because it has to. The company has been in a quandary for years, trapped by its own success, with roughly 80 percent of its sales still coming from Windows- and Office-related software. That means the corporations and its investors have...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Business World
- Reverse miniaturization SEATTLE NYT -- The word "bloatware" isn't just for software anymore. The new softcover manual Using Microsoft Office 2000: Special Edition has 56 chapters, 1,473 pages and weighs in at a hefty five pounds. (By comparison, the hardcover edition of the Websters New World Third College...
- Research articles 1999-08-27
- Six Ways to Make Your Netbook More Like a Notebook
- Ever wish your netbook had just a little more processing power, storage capacity, and battery life? In other words, does it sometimes leave you longing for a real laptop? Fear not: With a few simple tweaks, you can make your netbook run more like a notebook. 1....
- Blog posts 2009-02-05
- Acrobat.com Sends Large Files Straight From Outlook
- Need to send a large file attachment? We've long been fans of the YouSendIt plug-in for Outlook, which taps that service from within your e-mail client. Now Adobe is getting in on the big-attachment act with the Acrobat.com Outlook Plugin. Surprisingly, it's free, and you get 5GB of online storage...
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- Microsoft's Branding is Strategic Suicide
- Microsoft faces an existential threat. Internet-based applications are poised to clobber the Microsoft's PC-based market dominance. Microsoft's only hope for long term survival is to neutralize Google's growing dominance on the Web. Microsoft's plan: to use massive brand marketing to displace the Google search engine. It's...
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Big in Japan: Apple Retail Experience
- Jason Kelly submits: The Kelly Letter owned shares of Apple AAPL stock before I owned an Apple computer. Our thesis was that the internet has unleashed the freedom to work on any computer and that such freedom would lead more people to choose the elegance and power of Apple's...
- External links 2009-06-15
- Google's New Operating System Will Be Interesting to See
- Bruce Everiss submits: /strong So Google GOOG have announced that they are taking on Microsoft MSFT directly with what will initially be a simple operating system for low end PCs, an area where Microsoft are particularly vulnerable with their bloatware operating system. Windows Vista has been a disaster for Microsoft,...
- External links 2009-07-08
- Is Windows 7 Right for Your Business?
- There may be a lot of reasons to switch to Windows 7 at home, but what about at work? Naturally, businesses big and small have been thinking about whether to upgrade to the new operating system. Some analysts say it's inevitable for businesses that skipped Windows Vista and stuck with...
- News items 2009-10-22
- Win 7 student edition don't play nice with 32-bit Vista
- Regrets, we've all had a few, and sometimes Hell's pathway's paved with good intentions. This morning we're hearing all about the first emerging v.1.0 flaws in Microsoft's newly-released Windows 7.0 OS - and it looks like poor impoverished student PC users have been hit with the newest identified bug...
- News items 2009-10-23
- After 5 years, Firefox faces new challenges
- Mike Shaver, vice president of engineering at Mozilla(Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET)Five years ago, Mozilla made it clear that the browser wars weren't over after all.In the 1990s, Netscape had lost its dominance in the browser market to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and the Netscape-spawned open-source project called Mozilla had sunk into obscurity....
- News items 2009-11-09
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