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- Vista To Win in the Enterprise, The Ugly Way
- I came away from this week's Microsoft Worldwide Partner WPC conference convinced, finally, that the future of Vista is assured in the enterprise. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't because of anything Microsoft said -- the combined mea culpa/back atcha delivered by Microsoft's Brad Brooks, the Corporate Vice President in...
- Tags: Desktop, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- Gone fishing...
- Gone fishing...Gone fishing...Good luck! Make us proud with whatever big catch you get.RE: Gone fishing...Good luck and have fun.Enjoy! I myself am going tomorrow.......for a week in the Pfälzer Wald in Germany:http://www.pfaelzerwald.de/Woods, white wine and smoked trout. Fresh from the clear mountain brooks. The white wine we will buy...
- Tags: wine
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- Thinking -- Or Feeling -- Like A Computer
- So an unknown billionaire named Jeffrey E. Epstein has spent millions trying to develop a thinking and feeling computer. But winds up in jail instead. This sounds eerily like a wish to build a HAL 9000 computer that was the central character of Arthur C. Clarke's science...
- Tags: Thinking Machines, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Computer, Astronaut, Productivity, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- How many people does it take to fill Bill Gates' shoes?
- How many people does it take to fill Bill Gates' shoes?What's that about a camel?It will be interesting to see what kind of "horse" they come up with; I suspect that there will be ample confirmation of "apre Bill, le deluge." That, or Brooks was right all along.RE: How...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Torre, Charles Torre
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Graphing the triple constraints of IT failure
- Graphing the triple constraints of IT failureProblem with triple constraintsThe problem with applying the classic triple constraints to IT projects (and often other engineering-type projects) is that the trades are generally highly non-linear.Resources often differ in productivity by at least an order of magnitude and the productivity of resources is...
- Tags: information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- Microsoft OOXML opponents won't back down
- Microsoft OOXML opponents won't back downIt lies with the winner?Microsoft didn't win--it did it's usual thing of lying and cheating to steal a result it couldn't earn. E.g.,http://deepakphatak.blogspot.com/2008/05/this-is.htmlNot a standard, yetWith the appeals and the lack of publishing, it's still not a standard.OOXML is largely irrelevant and will "die"ISO...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Office Open XML, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- Microsoft's health vision is highly proprietary
- As more details emerge about Microsoft's health strategy, such as its Common User Interface, one thing that becomes clear is that its vision is highly proprietary. While the result is highly attractive, dependence on technologies such as Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation guarantees the benefits will...
- Tags: Vision, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Standards, Design Guidance, Quality, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- The cloud era and open source
- My co-blogger Paula has a great piece over at Dan Kuznetsky's shop this morning, concerning an open source cloud computing platform called Enomaly. Everybody has a cloud these days. Google has a cloud. Microsoft has a cloud. Sun has a cloud. Now, you can have a cloud...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Cloud, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- The Gmail password hijacking incident: When so-called helpful apps hurt
- An application dubbed G-Archiver backs up your Gmail account to a hard drive with a not-so-nice twist: It swipes your user name and password. Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror outlines a chilling tale as told by Dustin Brooks, one of his readers. I was looking for...
- Tags: Google Gmail, Password, E-mail, Business Ethics, Online Communications, Leadership, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- McKinsey and PwC On How Companies Think About Sustainability Management: All Hat, No Cattle
- Two separate reports show a massive disconnect on sustainability between C-level strategic intent and real world performance. In the report Confronting Corruption, PWC surveyed executives and whilst 80% reported their companies had an anti corruption management programme, only 22% were confident such programmes were effective. On climate change, the McKinsey...
- Tags: Sustainability, McKinsey & Co., PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Corruption, Others, Climate, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- Microsoft reorg: Who's in; who's out
- On February 14, Microsoft announced a corporate reorganization affecting many of its divisions. As with any Microsoft early-year reorg -- which typically occur after the company's fiscal mid-year reviews -- there are winners and losers. Check out my slideshow of who's in and who's out as a...
- Tags: Mobile, VP, Vice President, Microsoft Corp., Senior Vice President, Corporate, Vehghte, Lees, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Researcher+seeks+IT+failure+data
- Researcher+seeks+IT+failure+dataGood luck!Nobody likes to admit to failures much more emotionally satisfying to think of them as partial successes. You might want to check back later to see how he does.Cant access the linkCant access the linkRE: Researcher seeks IT failure dataI'm still not sure this research will get to...
- Tags: CANT ACCESS
- Discussion threads 2008-02-08
- Natalie Brooks - Secrets of Treasure House (exe)
- Is there a better setting for an adventure game than an old house full of secret rooms and hidden corridors? No! And Natalie Brooks: Secrets of Treasure House has plenty of these and more. Begin the journey today. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Treasure, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-02-01
- Top-selling artists of the last two decades: Garth Brooks, Beatles, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion
- Nielsen SoundScan published the list of top-selling artists for the era that SoundScan existed, 1991 to 2007. Top-selling artists, 1991 - 2007 Garth Brooks 67,402,000 Beatles 55,695,000 Mariah Carey 49,937,000 Celine Dion 49,692,000...
- Tags: Nielsen SoundScan, Artist, AM
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
- Relaxation Screensaver (zip)
- Free relaxation screensaver. This free screensaver features relaxing scenes including tranquil beaches, green forests, calming oceans, radiant blue lakes, waterfalls and babbling brooks for you to enjoy.
- Tags: Screensaver
- Software downloads 2007-12-13
- Study: 'Huge jump' in Microsoft flaws since last year
- Study: 'Huge jump' in Microsoft flaws since last yearComplete FUD...According to my rep, Microsoft software is completely secure. To prove my point, I have a Vista workstation here with Office 2007 and IE7. I removed the removable media devices and cemented the USB ports. We also removed the NIC. The...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Flaws, outsourcing, software
- Discussion threads 2007-11-29
- New research: "inept" IT management in UK
- New research: "inept" IT management in UKThree things to consider re prioritisationHi Mike,The above makes depressing reading. You might be interested in a recent blog I wrote called ‘Rolling Rocks and Landing the Catch’, where I touched on ‘prioritisation’.Here is a snippet:“…Working in IT, we're all rolling the rock...
- Tags: information technology, IT administration, NEW RESEARCH
- Discussion threads 2007-11-27
- Agile development, early warning, Darwin, and failure
- Agile development, early warning, Darwin, and failureUp The ChainI'm not sure identifying projects that are doomed to fail, either because they are too hard or have a delusional value proposition, are usually pretty easy to identify.But you do you convince the guy a few layers up that not only is...
- Tags: Development tools, Agile Development, programmer, early warning, Darwin
- Discussion threads 2007-11-25
- App will let you take document photos with your cellphone camera, then perform flawless OCR scan
- Of all the products and solutions I've seen at CTIA this week, not a one has captured my inner "oh wow" as ABBYYUSA's Mobile OCR SDK 2.0. A platform-independent, compact-codeversion of ABBYY's FineReader recognition technology, this technology will work like this. You take a...
- Tags: SDK, Cell Phone, Photograph, Camera, Font, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
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