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How long can Apple dodge the antitrust bullet?

huh?I do not believe that your equivalence chart actually puts apples to apples. Third party software does not need to be approved before it is sold. OEMs dont need to have their software approved by microsoft before they install it. Way to attempt to make an argument...

Tags: Sales strategy, Desktops, Operating systems, antitrust, PC, Apple Inc., single source, Microsoft Corp., dominant personal computer, WinPC, operating system, sales

Discussion threads 2009-08-13

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Is Apple suffering because it has outgrown its Reality Distortion Field?

the RDFwas and is nothing more than a mythological construct created by non-Apple users to explain why nobody liked their products. It can be rephrased in layman's terms as:Our stuff really doesn't suck, Apple just brainwashes and cheats.Why should they care?They are making tons of money. Such is the...

Tags: XML, RDF, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

Battling for the Mother Of All Monopolies...

Despite their motto 'Don't Be Evil', Google appear to be making a pretty good effort at attempting to own your online data and computing world, and all at a low, no up front cost to you. The latest Google product, an operating system, adds to the already formidable...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Internet, Web Browsers, Thin Clients, Hardware, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-08

Why Linux is ready for the desktop today

Why Linux is ready for the desktop todayNot to be offensive, but....What does Novell's marketshare look like nowadays?This seems like a bit of wishful thinking from the 'Anybody but Microsoft' camp.I'm not a MS fanboy, but I think Novell is in about the same place that Mac is right now.......

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, desktop, Linux IS

Discussion threads 2009-06-03

Vista/7 more secure than Linux and Mac OS X

Vista/7 more secure than Linux and Mac OS XOfficially... NoIt has yet to be RTM'd. It's only been released as a trial.well said... the MS business model has created a coupleof cultures. The actual users of MS software and the folks that exploit it. Patch Tuesday was never...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Patches, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, software, Microsoft Corp., patch management, Linux, software repository

Discussion threads 2009-04-13

Is Linux only for the poor?

Is Linux only for the poor?Cost could be a reason to switch to Linux.But it wouldn't necessarily be the right one. If a district switched to Linux and Open Source in times of tight budgets would they switch back in times of plenty? Just because Linux is free...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, operating system, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-03-22

From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture

This is the 41st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Roots (2) In its present form this commitment to publication and peer review, originally derived from the core academic and scientific approach giving rise to the science...

Tags: Noorda, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-13

Outlook, look out - Gmail goes offline

Outlook, look out - Gmail goes offlineNot Outlook but...Outlook is a niche product. Gmail going offline is hardly any reason for Outlook to be concerned about. Clients like Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail and Thunderbird will feel the heat for sure.RE: Outlook, look out - Gmail goes offlineI don't have...

Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Google Gmail, Google Inc., Mozilla Thunderbird, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-01-27

Does Psystar have a legit argument in Apple countersuit?

Somewhere in the news coverage of Psystar's countersuit against Apple today, I was reminded of the car analogy I use to help friends and family understand how to buy a computer. Under the hood of a car, everything is the same. There's an engine, transmission, battery and...

Tags: Car, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Psystar, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-26

Google doubles its cookie tracking: Will you opt out?

Google doubles its cookie tracking: Will you opt out?Choice CNo need to opt out, I already block Double Click and will continue to do so.RE: Google doubles its cookie tracking: Will you opt out?I have doubleclick routed to nowhere in my hosts file.RE: Google doubles its cookie tracking: Will you...

Tags: cookie, Google Inc., DoubleClick Inc., advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-08-07

What if Apple had conducted the 'Mojave Experiment'?

What if Apple had conducted the 'Mojave Experiment'?AmenI agree. No matter what they do, people will still piss and moan.a lot of windows users are p*ssed.Windows users were told it would run fine on older machines. The RC was going to be faster than the beta, the gold would be...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Marketing research, Digital media, Digital music, Apple Inc., Mojave Experiment, Microsoft Windows Vista, MSFT

Discussion threads 2008-07-29

Literate programming

Literate programming*blink*Full time programers don't do this? I learned FORTRAN around 1980 and the text required "a structured and disciplined style." That may not be the same thing as "literate programming" but it seems close. I know I have a hard time getting statisticians to document their project specific analysis...

Tags: Development tools, programming, programmer

Discussion threads 2008-06-17

Thinking about multicore and software

Informit.com recently ran a fascinating Andrew Binstock interview with Donald Knuth touching on some of the same topics we discuss here - programming methods, the value of open source, and the links between programming and hardware change. I want to get...

Tags: Software, Job, T2, Multi-core, Hardware, Multi-threading, Tim Bray, Open Source, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-09

The spreadsheet love affair

The spreadsheet love affairThat's obviousbecuase it's not the "most elementary of tools", it's far, far more versatile then you want to give it credit for.SantayanaFor those who weren't around at the beginning of the personal computer era, it's worth remembering that it all began because a PC was cheap enough...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, spreadsheet, robustness

Discussion threads 2008-06-03

MSFT walks away from YHOO: The antitrust connection

It’s interesting that such a large part of Steve Ballmer’s letter giving up on the Yahoo deal focused on the antitrust implications of Yahoo’s deal with Google. In four separate bullet points, Steve explains Microsoft’s “particular concern” over the arrangement: undermining Panama, harming engineer retention, giving Google even greater dominance...

Tags: Antitrust, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-04

Noble goals and politics at the OLPC

The "One Laptop Per Child" project OLPC, the brainchild of Nicholas Negroponte, was envisioned as a way to bring the cost of computing down to a level where more in the developing world could afford it, either directly, or more likely, through purchases by governments and NGOs aiming to encourage...

Tags: Software, Open Source, One Laptop Per Child Project, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-04-25

NJ court: IP-related info is private

Someone broke into the website of Jersey Diesel, changed the physical address listed on the site to a nonexistent address and changed the login password. Who? Owner Tim Wilson thought he knew. Shirley Read was an employee who had just returned from disability and whom Wilson had just argued with....

Tags: Subpoena, New Jersey, Comcast Corp., IP, IP Address, U.S. Supreme Court, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Network Technology, Networking, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-04-22

UI guidelines: one reason the Mac shines, Windows sucks

UI guidelines: one reason the Mac shines, Windows sucks...KDE is an excellent example of Microsoft done right... simple, elegant, customizable AND not annoying with all the pop-ups and such. Toss in Compiz Fusion and you have a desktop UI that competes (well, beats the snot out of actually) with Vista/XP...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-03-26

Gnome 2.2 now available, planned for Ubuntu 8.04, RHEL 6, SLES 11

Gnome 2.2 now available, planned for Ubuntu 8.04, RHEL 6, SLES 11I do not like KDE at all, but, that is what is great about Linux -there is choice. With Windows, it is take it or leave it.RE: Gnome 2.2 now available, planned for Ubuntu 8.04, RHEL 6, SLES 11GNOME...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, GNOME, KDE, Gnome 2.2, SLES 11, RHEL 6, Ubuntu 8.04, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Discussion threads 2008-03-12

iPhone in your business: Pondering the ROI case

Apple has dressed the iPhone up in a business suit, but the real work is just beginning. Apple needs to convince chief information officers that there's a return on investment in a switch to the iPhone. The day after an Apple event is always the analysis day....

Tags: Apple iPhone, ROI, Apple Inc., Keith Bachman, Roi/Tco, Team Management, Handhelds, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-07