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Microsoft’s New Coke Moment

Microsoft’s New Coke Moment

By Denis Pombriant on May 31, 2013

Windows 8.1 is beginning to make the pre-release rounds with the influencers as this post by Ed Bott in ZDNet documents.  Version 8.1 brings me back to the 1990s and 1980s for various related reasons because it is not unlike what happened with Windows 3.0 when it was followed by version 3.1. In the Windows […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Bill Gates, Coca-Cola, microsoft, Microsoft Windows, New Coke, Operating system, Start menu, Win8, Windows 3.0, Windows 8, windows 8.1 | 3 Responses

First Mammal to Lay an Egg: Mountain Lion by Apple

First Mammal to Lay an Egg: Mountain Lion by Apple

By Denis Pombriant on October 1, 2012

Are you kidding me?  Apple has outsourced operating system product delivery to third parties of dubious expertise, though with good intentions, I am sure.  Apple recently released Mountain Lion the latest version of their operating system for the Macintosh family.  That’s the good news.  I tried installing it and didn’t like what I found out.  […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged apple, DVD, Mountain Lion, Operating system, slow download, technology | 12 Responses

Looking for the Killer App: Imagining Windows 8 in the Enterprise

Looking for the Killer App: Imagining Windows 8 in the Enterprise

By Josh Greenbaum on July 19, 2012

I spent last week at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference with 16,000 of the company’s 460,000 partners, and Windows 8 was at the top of the agenda for the company and the attendees. As I’ve written before, my recent experience using a Samsung Series 7 running Windows 8 has convinced me this is a potential game-changing moment […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged killer app, microsoft, Operating system, Windows 8, Worldwide Partner Conference

Remember HP’s New Wave?  Here We Go Again!

Remember HP’s New Wave? Here We Go Again!

By Bob Warfield on February 15, 2011

Sam Diaz has gotten clarification on the future of Windows in the light of their Web OS announcements.  It should come as no surprise that Windows isn’t going anywhere, and certainly won’t be replaced by Web OS any time soon.  Instead, HP is saying: HP will integrate the WebOS experience into Windows, but not through […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Borland, Hewlett-Packard, microsoft, Microsoft Windows, mobile, Nokia, Operating system, platforms, webos

The badge of pride now should be how long it has been since you left your computer on overnight!

The badge of pride now should be how long it has been since you left your computer on overnight!

By Tom Raftery on February 5, 2010

I’m an IT guy. I love my (Mac) computer. Most other IT people I know love their computers too, be they Mac, Windows or *nix based. Of course you would when you are typically working on them 8+ hours per day. We take pride in our computers – how fast they are, the latest software/widget […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged computer, Energy, energy efficiency, hibernate, Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Operating system, power strip, shut down, sleep, windows

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