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- What really drives PC churn?
- Most of the regular contributors to the discussions here appear to have at least some technical knowledge in the computer field and even those who profess allegiance to Microsoft clearly have some experience with its products. In contrast the overwhelming majority of business PC users have no personal interest in...
- Tags: What users care about, Vistabulations, Productivity, Enterprise Policy
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
- Reflections on the command line
- Inspired by a Mike Cox click by shamming. Lets play a game: try to imagine having these two conversations. Version 1.0: You: "Nice day, isnt it?" Friend: "Did you say "Nice day, isnt it?"" ...
- Tags: Vistabulations, Security, General, Enterprise Policy, Disaster avoidance
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- x86 Security
- I, ah, blush to admit this - but when last weeks revelations about the Windows .ANI cursor hole appeared, I thought someone was pulling an April fools joke. Apparently not, but the mess led me to wonder just how something like this could happen. ...
- Tags: General, Vistabulations, Security, Enterprise Policy
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- What users want (5)
- Jacob Nielsen is probably the pre-eminent spokesman for research on web usability and much of what he says applies about equally well to other applications too. Among his discussions is one labelled Usability in the Movies -- Top 10 Bloopers. Some excerpts: From #3: "The 3D UI:"...
- Tags: What users care about, Vistabulations, Enterprise Policy, Development, General
- Blog posts 2007-03-02
- What users care about (2)
- One of the oddest things about a lot of discussion going in in media blogs like this one is that our stereotypical user is someone whose characteristics we all know, but no one actually defines. Why? because we know that real users arent like us: we care...
- Tags: Sun, Vistabulations, General, Development, Enterprise Policy
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- What users care about (1)
- When we talk about system or application performance, user perception of that performance tends to be the unseen elephant in the room. User perception is, of course, driven by three things: expectations, software, and hardware. Of these the hardware is the easiest to understand and expectations the hardest,...
- Tags: Apple, Development, Enterprise Policy, General, IT Retardants, Vistabulations
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- Decisions, Decisions
- Suns Piazza died, at least temporarily, with the MAJC desktop dream but has a nice interface: the video caller annoying you just kinda fuzes into reality on your screen and you can slam your virtual office door on him if you want to. Wish I had... ...
- Tags: General, Enterprise Policy, Vistabulations
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- What for 2007? guilt, monopoly guilt
- For 2007? Guilt Its that time of year when everyone sets out to assimilate the lessons of 2006 and make new resolutions and new predictions for the coming year. In IT the big changes for 2006 were foundational - theres sweeping change coming in both hardware and...
- Tags: General, Enterprise Policy, Vistabulations, information technology
- Blog posts 2007-01-01
- Microsoft Vista and security
- Microsofts pending "Vista" desktop OS release has a number of "in your face" "security" in the PC sense of that word features that cant be ignored on even the most cursory review. These may or may not prove effective in use, but certainly seem a little over the top...
- Tags: Vistabulations, Enterprise Policy, General, security
- Blog posts 2006-11-27
Additional Resources
- Response to financial crisis may mean more IT work ahead
- Governments all across the world are responding to the current financial crisis with a range of nationalization initiatives, and increased support of various parts of the financial services industry through guarantees and pumping in increased liquidity. You know what it means when there's more government involvement with...
- Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Industry, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Regulations, Financial Accounting, Management, Government, Finance, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Surviving the recession with Free Linux distributions (Part 1)
- Times are tough. You're a computer geek and you need to feed your PC with the latest and greatest applications. What's a frugal nerd to do? A group of industry peers was recently asked by a colleague the following question: "If an SMB...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Linux Distribution, Recession, Fedora Project, Novell OpenSuse, Debian, Times, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Debian Support Cycle, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Entellium's lost millions
- Larry Dignan outlines the main points of the Entellium fraud. Regardless of the final outcome, there are three glaring questions: How did the CFO and CEO overstate revenues across THREE financial years by a factor of four to five times without someone noticing the obvious problem of...
- Tags: Entellium, Board, Compliance, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of â89
- Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak β¦..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services
- Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...
- Tags: Fee, Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Look whoâÃÂÃÂs buying Vista Home Basic hint: itâÃÂÃÂs not home users
- Look whoΓΒ’ΓΒΓΒs buying Vista Home Basic hint: itΓΒ’ΓΒΓΒs not home usersMakes senseMakes sense. Your average small biz probably doesn't want very much. They just want something that works. If it runs the databases and the tax software, it's good enough. For a small business, a single PC is usually...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Vista Basic, Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista Home Basic hint, Vista Home Basic, Vista Home
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Robert Scoble and sexy enterprise software
- Big name blogger, Robert Scoble, has finally recognized that enterprise software is sexy. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Robert Scoble, PROJECT FAILURES ANALYSIS Robert, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- MobileMe
- MobileMeMobileME is KillingMeI cannot give it even one star b/c it is not usable.I am not exaggerating: this is the most worthless pile of junk I've ever been asked to pay for. If you do get an iPhone, save your money and look for another solution. I...
- Tags: MobileMe
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Anonymity and the Internet
- Anonymity and the InternetBecause of course...Anyone who registers on an internet site or forum always registers with their real name, address, etc.. aside from their "handle". The only thing to do now is find the John Smiths that live at 1122 B. Woogie Ave. MyHouse USA.It will probably come down...
- Tags: Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Apple's $800 notebook - Winners and losers
- Apple's $800 notebook - Winners and losersYou left out Apple as a choiceI think this will appeal more to the people who where allready going to purchase an Apple laptop then a less expensive Dell or HP.It may hurt Apple a bit in that the margins I would imagine, will...
- Tags: Notebooks, Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Apple Inc., notebook, OEM, Microsoft Corp., Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
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