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Netscape keeps users; Vista struggles to grab new ones

Netscape keeps users; Vista struggles to grab new onesNew CokeNew Coke wasn't a perception problem.It tasted terrible.Ok......since Vista is 'struggling' with corporate adoption perhaps you'd be so kind as to compare its adoption rates with those of XP at the same point in its lifecycle.Just so we have something to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Netscape Communications Corp., Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

Windows Server 2008, it is

Windows Server 2008, it isIs Vista the New Coke?Last week a presentation on Longhorn was made in Olympia Washington where the presenter from Microsoft wondered if Bill Gates had checked with marketing on the name Windows Server 2008. This is because the kernel of Windows is Vista or to be...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Classic Coke, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, New Coke, marketing

Discussion threads 2007-05-29

Additional Resources

Google's favorite penny stock: Nexicon

Google's favorite penny stock: NexiconSounds like a competitor bitch to meWhile I'm not familiar with Nexicon or their product, 75% is better than nothing in a war that can't be won anyway. As for understanding the 'enemy' perhaps they do. While media companies treat the customer as the enemy a...

Tags: Nexicon, penny stock, favorite penny stock, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-11-06

How cut the nation's health care bill 12%

How cut the nation's health care bill 12%wellnessno smoking, no alchol, no beer, no bigmacs no fried foods, slipery slop, ya what else do they wantoh yea removed anyone over the age of 50 perfect world - get a real jobStressStress adds to obesity.Many factors cause stress.Instead of entering the...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Food & Beverage, Dana, health care, insurance, food

Discussion threads 2008-10-31

Starbuck's is the place to score

If you want that special someone to feel as you do, don't go out for a Coke or martini. Head over to Starbuck's, get a nice cuppa into their hands, and then make your move. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, Starbuck, Cup, Candy, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Blog posts 2008-10-24

Reading the Redmondian 'Live' tea leaves

Reading the Redmondian 'Live' tea leavesCloud computing and Coca-ColaMS wouldn't mind it if companies chose them to host their Exchange installations. Isn't Coke doing this with Microsoft? The students at my alma mater now have their accounts hosted by Google.Running Exchange from the cloud. Why MS is...

Tags: Operating systems, Redmondian, tea leave, Reading, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-20

Are you sure you didn't spill anything in your MacBook?

Are you sure you didn't spill anything in your MacBook?Hole ReinforcersI've heard that some users have had success with their mobile phone providers servicing equipment that had been dropped in water simply by removing the stickers and replacing them with the center part of hole reinforcer stickers (the stickers you...

Tags: Notebooks, Apple MacBook, humidity, cell phone, sticker, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2008-10-16

Obama appears on in-game Xbox 360 advertisement

Obama appears on in-game Xbox 360 advertisementAre you kidding me???Is there no end to that man's hubris?? I have to see his deceitful, lying, marxist mug on every news channel...and now in XBox in-game ads?? Time to send Baraq *Hussein* Obama back to Indonesia...or Kenya...or whatever country seeded...

Tags: Games, advertisement, game, Obama, game advertising, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

The top five reasons why Windows Vista failed

The top five reasons why Windows Vista failedSimpleDo you really think that MS decided to do that on its own? Would that really make sense for them to make it alot more complicated? MS did not want to do that, their own emails to each other prove that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Intel Corp., top-five, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-10-06

Five unfortunate ways the financial crisis affects your daily grind

Five unfortunate ways the financial crisis affects your daily grindJob SecurityWhile some of those points are quite good, I have to question " Skilled workers might not be spared". When was the last time skilled workers *were* spared? In the IT field, our jobs have been hanging on a...

Tags: Financial services, bank, financial

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

Jackson Browne and Copyright

Jackson Browne and CopyrightRE: Jackson Browne and CopyrightPosted to the wrong place. Moved here: http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11048-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=52418&messageID=988050&start=-9996?SO!WHO CARES WHOM YOU VOTE FOR!!!!!I agree. it should be the length drugs are givenDrugs take far more money and time to produce than movies and music. On top of that, they may...

Tags: Jackson Browne, Fair Use

Discussion threads 2008-09-26

Startup essentials: Dr. Pepper, coffee and accessories

Startup essentials: Dr. Pepper, coffee and accessoriesWater. Orange Juice. Red Wine.Title says it all :-)RE: Startup essentials: Dr. Pepper, coffee and accessoriesSorry Zoli - I felt you'd strayed too far off topic with that one ;) I even exempted my watercooler :) :)Why, do you prefer white wine? ...

Tags: Startup Essentials, accessory

Discussion threads 2008-09-26

Microsoft trumps Apple in battle of the brands

Microsoft trumps Apple in battle of the brandshow are they measuring this?I'm curious just what they are measuring when coke is number one and Microsoft is number three, but apple is forty-something on the list?It's certainly has nothing to do with quality, and appears to be entirely about quantity. http://www.learnucd.com/kevlar/why-is-the-iphone-popularRE:...

Tags: Branding, brand, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

Microsoft's rough start to a new beginning

Microsoft's rough start to a new beginningRough start? Maybe, but ...... what makes the Apple commercials so attractive is that they are endearing to the viewer. Not necessarily accurate but certainly clever.Bill Gates has never been 'endearing'. Instead, Gates has always come across as kind of "goofy"....

Tags: Goofy, His-Name, Bill Gates, rough start, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-09-15

Gates

Gates4:30?Gawd. Does anyone watch a TV show uninterrupted for 4 minutes and 30 seconds? Is this really a 4:30 commercial? And if this is the pace at which we get to find out what's so new and great about Vista, let's all re-emerge from our caves in 2011. Nice take,...

Tags: Ad campaign, Corporate America, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-09-11

Keep the faith: More Windows-specific consumer ads coming soon

Keep the faith: More Windows-specific consumer ads coming soonExtended Length Version of New Ad UpThere's already a director's cut of the 2nd installation online now:http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=20040177-aa27-4f24-a1ae-140c865c81f9Bring out the talking Coke tongues!!:-)RE: Keep the faith: More Windows-specific consumer ads coming soonThey missed a golden opportunity. We are in the midst of...

Tags: specific consumer ad, More Windows, consumer ad, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-09-11

SaaS market will 'collapse' in two years

SaaS market will 'collapse' in two yearsHe doesn't get itSo to summarize Debes (who comes off a little like Vinny from da mob or a coke dealer - his words, not mine):(1) SaaS and Cloud computing as a delivery vehicle has been tried before and therefore will fail (like all...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, software-as-a-service, SaaS IS, SaaS Model, Lawson Software Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Apple tops customer satisfaction survey ... again

Apple tops customer satisfaction survey ... againDellI have always owned Dell machines. Although I have never had to have one of them replaced, I have heard fro mothers that it was a painstaking process. So it makes sense that they are 10 points behind Apple. My friends that have had...

Tags: Linux, Product marketing, Operating systems, UNIX, customer satisfaction, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

Surviving a lightning strike: Shock and awe

Swaddled in air-conditioned comfort, sipping a Diet Coke I hardly noticed the late afternoon thunderstorm that blew in last Friday. They're a common occurrence in central North Carolina in the summer time; so I continued with my work secure in my technological web. In the background I could hear the...

Tags: Lightning, Tree, Mississippi, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Go MIT! (or should the students get a slap on the wrists?)

Go MIT! (or should the students get a slap on the wrists?)Government censorship is wrong...and UNconstitutional.Make no mistake, the MBTA is a government organization.The US Constitution states "no law abridging freedom of speech".The judge who issued the restraining order is:1. an idiot2. a d_o_u_chebag3. a fool4. retardedRE: Go MIT! (or...

Tags: Government, DC-metro, Government Censorship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrist

Discussion threads 2008-08-11