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The echo chamber misreads another Windows 7 survey

The echo chamber misreads another Windows 7 surveyVista after one year.....was about the same as XP after one year.http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=352Excellent article, Ed!Thanks for the great article! Just shows how biased many news sources there are on the 'net!unfreakingbelieveablethese writers are either terribly ignorant of how this stuff works or else...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 survey, Microsoft Windows Vista, adoption rate, Microsoft Windows, survey

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

Windows adoption rates: a history lesson

Windows adoption rates: a history lessonThe past is a fairly reliable prediction of the future.Hi Ed,Yes, I agree. All of this is both expected and par for the course. The naysayers aside, the majority of *home* users only upgrade their operating system as part of a new purchase...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, BSOD, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, adoption rate

Discussion threads 2007-12-31

More thoughts on Mozilla adoption and retention numbers

More thoughts on Mozilla adoption and retention numbersYou mean ...... like the Yahoo toolbar bundled with Adobe Reader asnd that sort of thing ... Hmmm, given that Firefox = $$$ for Mozilla, I thinkl that the parallels with spyware-like behavior would tarnish their image of security. Anyone else with...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Web browsers, Groupware, Mozilla Corp., adoption rate, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Visio, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2007-08-09

Active Directory: adoption rates reveal extent of pervasiveness

Active Directory: adoption rates reveal extent of pervasivenessOK, so businesses have upgraded their serversI bet that most of these businesses haven't used most of the features of Active Directory, they're just using it for user management.Still a Third Rate DirectoryIt doesn't matter what MS says. AD is still a...

Tags: Directory services, Operating systems, Novell NDS, advertisement, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, pervasiveness, adoption rate, Novell NetWare

Discussion threads 2004-11-17

Additional Resources

AOL/Facebook in the Enterprise

In 1994 America Online trailed Compuserve and Prodigy, a third subscription option in how you hooked your modem up to the internet to go cyber surfing. What propelled AOL to global dominance by the end of that decade was their proprietary 'rainman' platform, which enabled partners...

Tags: Facebook, America Online Inc., Shop Logic, Business World, Internet, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-18

February 2013 - The date when Firefox could pass Internet Explorer

RE: February 2013 - The date when Firefox could pass Internet ExplorerThat does assume that everything remains constant, which it won't. If someone creates a new browser that could disrupt it, or when either company releases a new version of their browser that is also going to throw things...

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic"

RE: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are One report has at 4% market share the weekend of launch so im sure its past that already.Has Windows 7 marketshare eclipsed total OS X marketshare yet?Just wondering. :)MSFT: 1/2000 = $56. Today, $28.40Win 7 may not be the catastrophe the last...

Tags: Sales strategy, Businesses, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, stock split, Win7, recession, Steve Ballmer, sales, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

How long until Windows 7 market share beats Mac OS X Leopard/Snow Leopard?

RE: How long until Windows 7 market share beats Mac OS X Leopard/Snow Leopard?snow leopard is 10.6 the figures don't even mention that!!!???!Years if you look at adoption ratesBased on percent of existing users. RE: How long until Windows 7 market share beats Mac OS X Leopard/Snow Leopard?One week.RE: How...

Tags: Operating systems, Windows 7 market share, Mac OS X Leopard/Snow Leopard, Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Schmidt: Worst of recession is over; Google is hiring

Google exceeded Wall Street's expectations for the third quarter by reporting net income of $1.88 billion, or $5.89 per share, on revenue of $5.94 billion, up 7 percent from the same quarter a year ago. Excluding traffic acquisition costs, Google's revenue was $4.38 billion. Wall Street analysts had been expecting...

Tags: Hiring, Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Advertisement, Mobile, Recession, Investment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-15

Mono-mania: It's risky business

M$ must give away its patentsIf M$ want to have its technolgies adopted by FOSS it must give up all its patents and GPLed the code.Until then we must stay away from any code that resembles M$ technologies and support Stallman and FSF in their fight against software tirany.RE: Mono-mania:...

Tags: .NET, C#, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Development tools, Operating systems, Programming languages, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mono, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

The state of US workforce technology adoption

"35% use laptops and 76% use desktop computers?"Really? Sure you don't want to check those numbers one more time?That would add up to 111% of workers who ues a computer.People use more than one computerKeep in mind that some use more than one computer. I have both a laptop...

Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, laptop computer, desktop, workforce technology adoption, monitor, computer

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Real-Time Protection for Hyper-V

Computer virtualization has come a long way in a very short time, triggered primarily by the rapid rate of customer adoption. Moving resources to virtual platforms have allowed IT departments to consolidate and better utilize computer resources. However, many methods for system protection that were tried and true in the...

Tags: Double-Take Software Inc., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Virtual Machine, Computer, Computer Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Productivity, Hardware

White papers 2009-10-01

Perks for all workers: remote/metro, small/large firms, etc.

Leveling the playing field for workers' perks I’m on the board of a firm with operations throughout the United States. About half of their workforce and plants are in major metropolitan areas while the other half are in some pretty remote areas. Management is challenged to find...

Tags: Employee, Worker, Next Jump, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-25

Scareware scammers hijack Twitter trending topics

Researchers from F-Secure and Sophos are reporting on an ongoing scareware serving campaign abusing the popular micro-blogging service Twitter. Hundreds of tweets using four different URL shortening services are currently spammed through the automatically registered Twitter accounts, relying on a pseudo-random text generation using Twitter's trending topics....

Tags: Twitter Inc., Spamming, Spam, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-23

Torvalds calls Linux "bloated" and "scary." Is he right? [poll]

Why have you ignored the key conclusion?You're not simply intending to start a flame war, are you?Matt Asay concludes in the article you mention:"Has Linux failed?No. Of course not. It has simply grown as its adoption has expanded. This is the problem with success: you get pulled into an ever-widening...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, desktop virtualization, Linux, Linux IS, Torvalds, kernel

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

Stanford's open-source camera lets the public choose camera features

What happens when you get Linux developers designing physical objects....You get a camera with no case, a motherboard sticking out, a huge lens on a dinky cellphone cmos chip, a built in USB hub, and some guy talking about making it "programmable" so that some other university eggheads can use...

Tags: open source, camera, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

USB 'SuperSpeed' 3.0 logos to appear on certified devices

In 3 Years, Apple Will Take Credit For ItOne of my FanBoy friends, who died a couple years ago, swore that Apple invented the USB. Not really any different than Apple's commercial advertising now.Oh well, give me more speed, no matter what !Sweet...been waiting for USB 3.0 to hit the...

Tags: USB, USB 3.0, SuperSpeed

Discussion threads 2009-09-02

Hollywood studios offer 'download to own' DivX movies online; Film Fresh the new iTunes?

For the first time ever, movie titles from Lionsgate, Paramount, Sony and Warner Bros. will be available for download online in the DivX format. DivX, Inc. and movie site Film Fresh on Wednesday announced that Film Fresh will offer titles such as The...

Tags: Hollywood Studios, DivXNetworks, Movie, Apple iTunes, RB, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-08-26

Goldman goes ga-ga for Google, cites YouTube, Europe and display ads

Goldman Sachs figures Google will come out of the downturn with revenue growth rates in the mid-teens in 2010. Goldman Sachs added Google to its "conviction buy list" with a 6-month target of $560. Overall, the investment firm sees Google excelling in Europe as travel and e-commerce...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Advertisement, YouTube Inc., Goldman, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-20

Microsoft decides not to push Windows 7E on Europe, after all

Microsoft decides not to push Windows 7E on Europe, after allI have doubts"Is there anyone who still doubts that Microsoft?s 7E plan was a stroke of diabolical genius, and designed to force the Commission?s hand ? and had nothing to do with Microsoft wanting to do the ?right? thing?" ...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows, Opera Software ASA, Web browser, Web Standard, Web Standards, Windows 7E

Discussion threads 2009-08-03