Good Clouds
Posted on October 1, 2008
Hot on the heels of our post on opposition to cloud computing, Microsoft’s Ballmer today talked about a soon to appear OS to help developers write apps for the web.
He calls it “Windows Cloud.” I’m sure it will have a different name, but it is definitely not connected to Windows 7 which is under development. Read more
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Evil Clouds
Posted on September 29, 2008
So I have written about the coming out of a great cloud computing suite, Zoho, and then again about GE choosing Zoho for 400,000 desktops.
I have lauded the merits of such tools being available on the Internet and for free at a basic level, and how they measure very favorably to the likes of Microsoft Office. Read more
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Windows 7 Pre-Beta
Posted on September 25, 2008
As we speculated recently, Microsoft has confirmed that those attending two upcoming conferences (PDC and WinHEC) will receive an early beta of Windows 7 for evaluation. Read more
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GE Chooses Zoho
Posted on September 22, 2008
I mentioned some time back a new company called Zoho and their innovative product suite which provides via cloud computing many of the desktop apps (and then some), everyone is familiar with through the Microsoft Office package. Read more
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Can You Use a TB?
Posted on September 19, 2008
We’ve just got to get used to talking about TB’s instead of GB’s. We’ve pretty much quit talking about MB’s already except for individual files like MP3s, images, etc. So it appears we’re getting pretty close to making the next transition - Read more
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Ads About Nothing
Posted on September 18, 2008
Just like Seinfeld’s show proclaimed, so also should the Jerry-Bill ads that have been running the last couple of weeks be named.
Thankfully, the ads have stopped (at least for now) as Microsoft begins today the next phase of a huge campaign Read more
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Posted on September 16, 2008
No, this is not a critique of PKD’s 40 year old SF work…
Perchance you have been hiding out today, it is now official. Google’s Android is about to go public. A week from today, in fact. Read more
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Windows 7
Posted on September 16, 2008
The highly-anticipated successor to Microsoft’s much-maligned Vista may arrive ahead of schedule.
With Vista getting so much heat after its launch, it wasn’t long before Microsoft was hinting at a ramp-up to version 7 as early as 2009. Read more
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Video Ban
Posted on September 14, 2008
Google has recently placed a ban on certain videos being uploaded to YouTube and GoogleVideo.
I don’t know if we should feel any safer now that these types of videos have been rejected but there are a lot of crazies out there and no sense ‘arming’ them with information. Read more
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Digital TV Test
Posted on September 12, 2008
There has been plenty of concern over the past year that the FCC isn’t really prepared for the shift from analog tv signals to digital tv signals that will happen early next year. Well, they have finally had a chance to see with a recent switchover test in Wilmington, N.C. Read more
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