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Bill Gates still loves the Tablet PC

Bill Gates still loves the Tablet PCHP Compaq tc4400Dear Marc,you told us about your experience with you Lenovo ThinkPad X60 Tablet and other people using a Toshiba Tablet PC. I wonder, if you heard any comments good or bad about the HP Compaq model? I am thinking about buying a...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, tablet PC, tablet, Bill Gates Still, PC, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2007-03-15

Bill Gates still loves the Tablet PC

In his keynote at the Microsoft MVP Global Summit yesterday, Bill Gates and Rich Kaplan held a very relaxed and unscripted Q&A session following Gates address. A number of really fine questions were posed regarding the philanthropic work Gates is doing through his foundation, the role of technology in education,...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, PC, Bill Gates, tablet, tablet PC, Bill Gates Still

Blog posts 2007-03-14

Security firms put up 'Personal Firewall Day'

Security firms put up 'Personal Firewall Day'LEARN IT - LIVE ITbusinesses will hate the fact that their spyware is blocked, no call's home unless using a bolted into OS firewall, take control - just say NOPersonal Firewall Day NOTToo little. too late!My firewall log Sygate was 20+ blocked hits a...

Tags: Firewalls, Network security, Cyberthreats, Bill Gates Still, benefit, firewall, Personal Firewall Day, security, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-01-14

Additional Resources

Can (and will) Microsoft keep Silverlight compatible across platforms?

The better question is WHEN will it be better for Microsoft to keep it compatible across platforms, and WHEN or under what conditions might it not be better for MS to NOT keep it compatible across platforms.In other works, it is NOT a question of IF, but, at WHAT TIMES...

Tags: Web browsers, Web site development, Operating systems, .NET, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Internet Explorer

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Can Obama make science cool?

Give him a Nobel for Science for his science speeches!Please! Obama doesn't even deserve to be your President. All the promises he made have remained just that. What else can this world expect from a politician? And things are clear from his popularity ratings.Obama is good with one thing and...

Tags: Workforce management, Obama, education

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Google to demo Chrome OS; Detail launch plans

the windoze killer has arrivedChrome OS will put the final nail in M$ coffin!You really can't be seriousyou have to be a fake or something.Your posts are allways way off the mark.By like a continent or two.Windoze? Grow up, manI hope Chrome is good - because it will make...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Google Inc., operating system, Chrome OS, Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Apple's "force fed ads" patent more likely related to content, not hardware

Perhaps neitherHopefully you are right and they'll use this process to allow customers to earn free content. Unfortunatley I see this as being a way for Apple to increase its warchest by forcing its followers to view ads. Perhaps it'll be a blend - view enough ads to put $10...

Tags: hardware, O'Grady, advertisement, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

News to know: HP-3Com; AMD; Google; Blockbuster; Bing 2.0

News to know intro: Sam Diaz: HP announces $2.7 billion acquisition of 3Com; raises outlook Larry Dignan: Cisco vs. HP: 3Com acquisition ups the ante John Morris: AMD updates roadmap, promises "supercomputer in your lap" ...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca, Blockbuster Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, Games, Linux, Open Source, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-11-12

Remember when FrontPage seemed pretty slick?

My school teaches...... web design in the conventional way. Intro classes cover HTML, CSS, using JQuery modules or writing basic js. Advances classes teach PHP and such. None of the classes I know of cover CMS.I had a summer internship where I used Drupal. I didn't do any of the...

Tags: Content management, CSS, Enterprise software, KompoZer, content management system, Microsoft FrontPage, CMS system

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Verizon Droid ad attacks iPhone on features

I'm really interested in this phone. I hear it won't drop 30% of its callsThe ad is pure genius and truly highlights how terrible the iPhone is. The iPhone also has the dubious distinction of being the only modern cell phone to drop 30% of its calls, as admitted by...

Tags: Smart phones, advertisement, Verizon Communications Inc., Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Ballmer: Testers didn't ring Vista warning bells; Could the same happen with Windows 7?

Your average beta tester is a power userYour average beta tester is a power user. You don't get the same feedback as you can from an average user. Therefore, you can't extrapolate how their experience would apply to the masses.Ballmer's trying to dampen expectations a bit so that when Windows...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Will Windows Mobile jump back to number 2 by 2013?

Don't summon the marketing people...Win7 house party ads check cNet Buzz Report for a nice roast, Bill Gates shaking his posterior, and misleading Laptop Hunters ads...these are the people you want to sell people on WinMo?Personally I'd say to have MS do the same thing that they mostly do with...

Tags: Mobile operating systems, Operating systems, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Wireless and Mobility, phone, advertisement, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Windows, mobile, WinMo

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Critical iTunes flaw exposes Mac, Windows to hacker attacks

No trolls yet? OK, Let me start.If this software was open source, geeks like me could patch it ourselves without needing to wait for some company to do it or not. So at least we would be safer. Windows is a abomination of a 32-bit DOS clone, and OS X...

Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, flaw, Mac Windows, hacker attack, Apple iTunes, window, Apple Macintosh, iTunes flaw

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

The 10 biggest moments in IT history

Missing: Tim Berners-Lee?The Mouse, and the GUI ...... without the invention of the mouse or the GUI/WYSIWYG there would not be as many users as there are today, and I would hazard a guess that it would be restricted to business applications like accounting, and Data Analysis.LudoRE: The 10...

Tags: Mice, Strategy, Operating systems, GUI, PARC User Interface, mouse, Microsoft Corp., IT History, Xerox PARC, operating system, IBM Corp., information technology

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

Dell sells discounted Zune HD before it hits stores

waitfirst thing im going to do tomorrow is head out to best buy and try this thing out. the one thing i care about a lot is the browser, if the browser is as good as safari in the iphone then I might just on this. I browse...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Microsoft Zune, Zune HD, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Red Hat: Microsoft taking cloud back to the 80s

Red Hat should feel right at home then because using their software is like using something out of the 80's. I'll prefer a modern company like Microsoft instead of a company based on 30 year old technology such as Red Hat. My theory is that Red Hat is...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, NT-kernel, Microsoft Corp., Red Hat Inc., Linux, Unix

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Snow Leopard might crash your apps

This just has to be a Microsoft plot.LOL...LOL. :DRE: Snow Leopard might crash your appsNonsense, the latest mac hunter ad said we didn't have to worry about that and that a mac just works. Are you calling them liars?How did Apple phrase it in their commercials?That sure sounds like [i]a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux, PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, Operating systems, OS X., Snow Leopard, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-26

Google vs. Bing: The global battle

Huh, just 67.5%??I thought it would have been like 80-90% by now.Mr Dignan uses flawed statistics, the market is actually much more skewedAccording to Hitwise, who claims to have bigger and more unbiased samples, was Google's market share up at impressive 74%, i.e. ~14 times bigger than Bing, 4.5 times...

Tags: Google Inc., Bing, global battle

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

Bing, Wolfram Alpha agree on licensing deal

On Microsoft-Wolfram DealI think we are gradually seeing web dominance shifting from Google. Facebook now have bing search on their site, Microsoft has a search deal with Yahoo and now Wolfram. Rather than a dominante force that Microsoft once imparted on the Windows, peharps we would see a number of...

Tags: SEARCH, Bing, Wolfram Alpha, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., licensing deal

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

Where's the disruption from the Internet?

After leaving the Financial Times in mid-2004 to become a professional "blogger/journalist" I began to think intensely about the nature of media and its changes. Coming from the old world and now jumping into the deep-end of the new world, it triggered some very interesting insights into the nature of...

Tags: Internet, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-08-21