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- Yo-yo'ing on Millennials
- Larry Dignan's post earlier in the week asking whether Millennials will re-invent IT struck a chord with a few of my Irregular friends. First up, Larry's conclusion: I remember this generational stereotyping with the Generation X crowd. Job market stunk. Generation X was different–they were pissed. They were wearing...
- Tags: Information Technology, Generation, Millennials, Hindsight, Ross Mayfield, Susan Scrupski, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Gates to look back, ahead on tools in his last Microsoft keynote
- Gates to look back, ahead on tools in his last Microsoft keynotehmmm.....So many things to do = so many things that will fail.Gate$ will be better off at his 'foundation' when deadlines will slip and the losses will mount.I pitty the sacrificial lambs tasked with continuing his grand ambitions.Maquito net...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Leadership, tool, MSFT, Microsoft Corp., WinMobile, Even Bill Gates
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- HD DVD post-mortem: why did Toshiba fail?
- HD DVD post-mortem: why did Toshiba fail?It's all contentWhichever way the studios went, that would be the future. Toshiba was depending on the lower cost of both production and consumer machines to sway the studios, and from a money standpoint, it seemed logical.But the counter by Sony to put...
- Tags: HD DVD, Consumer electronics, Hindsight, storage, HD-DVD, Toshiba Corp., disc, DVD, Sony Corp., disk
- Discussion threads 2008-02-19
- Mass hysteria? It's not like Skype's died. It's just a really bad hangover
- Of the million or so I told you so's that have already been written regarding eBay's confession that it might not get the return on its investment in Skype that it originally thought it would, I like Nicholas Carr's the best. Carr reflected on the words of eBay Meg...
- Tags: Meg Whitman, Acquisition, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Nicholas Carr, Hindsight, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Networking, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- Rewriting Vista history
- Rewriting Vista historyVista Vista Vista.....after using the RTM for a month here is what I think of it.1. UAC isn't annoying this WILL vary from person to person but I am a power user and do more than most I might get a UAC prompt once a week and its...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Gawd, Aero, Hindsight, Microsoft Windows Vista, UAC, Mary Jo
- Discussion threads 2007-01-23
- Bill Gates stumps for robotic future
- Bill Gates stumps for robotic futureGates on RoboticsGlad to see that Bill is involved in this area and taking the lead. I don't think I'll sell my Microsoft stock anytime soon . . .Seems very Matrix to meEverything in the robotics space is to enable higher productivity. This being...
- Tags: Robots, Hindsight, robotics, Microsoft Corp., robot, Bill Gates
- Discussion threads 2006-12-19
- Windows Live Search ready to go live
- Windows Live Search ready to go liveWindows Live Search ready to go liveOne word: Competition! And Microsoft has the manpower and name recogintion to bring it. This will keep Google on their toes and hopefully give them the swift kick they need to actually make a decent...
- Tags: Word processors, Hindsight, Corel WordPerfect, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, Google Inc., search engine, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Live Search, Microsoft Windows Live
- Discussion threads 2006-09-11
- Parody By Hindsight?
- Parody By Hindsight?Satire is what closes...... on Saturday night. People just didn't get it. Works for me, too.
- Tags: Parody, Hindsight, satire
- Discussion threads 2006-09-04
- Rails users urged to fix flaw immediately
- Rails users urged to fix flaw immediatelyyouwch....either he's overreacting is they screwed the pooch pretty badly.Hackers can just reverse engineer the changesIt doesn't matter if the company keeps the details to itself -- a hacker can examine the patch compare it to the unpatched version to see what it fixed.Obscurity...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, hacker worth, Hindsight, Ruby on Rails
- Discussion threads 2006-08-10
- Itanium sinks again in supercomputers
- Itanium sinks again in supercomputersItanium?What, is it supposed to be "XTREME to the MAXX!!!" or something?Itanium?What, is it supposed to be "XTREME to the MAXX!!!" or something?Hindsight is for prey species.AMD saw the obvious: To plan for the future, you must provide a competent upgrade path. To do...
- Tags: Processors, 64-bit, Hindsight, supercomputer, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel x86, Intel Itanium
- Discussion threads 2005-11-14
- AMD preps high-performance chips for desktops
- AMD preps high-performance chips for desktopsmmmmmmyummy! cant wait to get my hands on some of those.... but I'll wait until i can get an nVidia nForce4 chipset, so i can run 2 PCIe Geforce 6800s in SLI :-)Don't hold your breath for a 3.46 Gig. Pig 4 any...
- Tags: Desktops, Leadership, Processors, Santa Claus, Hindsight, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., desktop, Inhell, high-performance
- Discussion threads 2004-10-15
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- My 15 minutes with Bill Gates, and how the Web was born
- My 15 minutes with Bill Gates, and how the Web was born BG Saw It ComingIf Bill Gates saw the Internet & the World Wide Web coming well in advance of everyone, why was his company the very last to do anything about it?The real truth is that Bill Gates...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Digital media, Web, Bill Gates, software
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- The lighter side of Bill Gates
- As you all probably know, considering the 2 year lead-up to today and the considerable press coverage, it's Bill Gates' last day at Microsoft. I'd like to take a slightly different spin on covering his career and life, by pointing out the stupid stuff, in the hope it will appeal...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 95, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Sales, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Bill Gates' web experience: Byzantine, idiotic logic
- Analyzing IT program management failures with the perfect vision of hindsight often leads the observer through a senseless and convoluted maze of past decisions. Studying the Byzantine and idiotic logic behind many IT failures, one wonders, "How did we get here from there?" Bill Gates experienced this Tower of Babel...
- Tags: Web, Microsoft Windows Update, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., MovieMaker, Zoliblog, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Federal charges in MySpace suicide case
- Federal charges in MySpace suicide caseIndictment Sad Misplacement of JusticeYes the suicide was tragic. There is no ignoring that fact. And yes Lori Drew acted improperly, but where is the line drawn? The line between being a mean person and being a criminal has now been blurred...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, MySpace
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
- Canon's new Vixia HF10: The best (and first) camcorder I've ever owned
- About a month before my wife gave birth (which explains where I've been the past few weeks), I got a great piece of purchasing, errrr, parenting advice, from my friend Joe via IM: "though you prolly already have this covered, use this as an excuse to buy photo and...
- Tags: Camcorder, Video, Canon Inc., Video Quality, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Targeted spear phishing attacks
- Targeted spear phishing attacksFederal Subpoena email spamIt is kind of a whaling attack targeting big fishes in corporate offices like CEO’s, top executives and managers.“This is one of the best phish e-mails I've seen in the past 6 years” quoted by Mr. Steve Kirsch, a well known Silicon Valley entrepreneurRemember,...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, SECURITY, e-mail, phishing, Abaca Email Protection Gateway, attack
- Discussion threads 2008-04-17
- Salesforce and Google team to conquer the enterprise
- Salesforce and Google team to conquer the enterpriseWhat a ContrastThis is a deep and insightful post, not a lot to add on the details of the announcement. But I did want to draw a contrast to the old world. Microsoft and SAP with Duet attempted something similar and...
- Tags: Sales force management, Google Inc., Salesforce.com Inc., Google team, team
- Discussion threads 2008-04-14
- Crazed supermodel pissed at Heathrow T5 failure
- Crazed supermodel pissed at Heathrow T5 failureWas she dressed like this at Heathrow? :-).RE: Crazed supermodel pissed at Heathrow T5 failureGiven her job is modelling and the missing luggage contained the clothes she was being paid to wear, I have a certain amount of sympathy.I would probably have Fedexed or...
- Tags: Heathrow T5, Heathrow T5 failure
- Discussion threads 2008-04-06
- Wayback Machine: Microsoft's shot to kill Quicktime video
- Ten years ago, give a week or so, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced QuickTime 3.0 to the National Association of Broadcasters' convention. Behind the scenes in the months before the introduction, Microsoft was playing hardball with hardware and software vendors over its new A/V APIs along with demands to kill...
- Tags: Software, Apple QuickTime, Apple Inc., Mr., Video, Microsoft Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
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