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Dramatic Vista: Show’s Not Over Yet
Randall Stross, in Sunday’s New York Times, described the story of Windows Vista as “a tragedy in three acts.” The voices of the chorus reveal that all is not well in Vistaville. For example: Jon…...
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Good News for Microsoft About Windows
You didn’t misread the title, and April Fool’s day is indeed 13 days behind us. The good news for Microsoft is that it has some customers who are passionately attached to Windows, some eager for the...
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Microsoft Won’t Acquire Yahoo!
To put it in a few other ways: Ballmer backs off, writes to Yang that “clearly a deal in not to be.” Yahoo can stop worrying about Microsoft, and start worrying about shareholder lawsuits. As Om puts...
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The Morning After the No-Deal
The biggest tech story of the year so far is the acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft, and the biggest current tech story is that the deal didn’t happen. Let’s review, from a few different perspectives,...
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Microsoft, Music, DRM, etc.
Here’s an interesting juxtaposition of stories from Techmeme. The WSJ story is one of many today about Zune 2.5. The link to WSJ takes you only to a couple of paragraphs and an invitation to subscribe,...
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Shiny New Chrome on Old Windows?
So, using Firefox 3.0, I tried to install Google’s Chrome browser. I was told that I needed to install Windows XP Service Pack 2 first. I admit that I should have done this a while ago on this...
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Oxite Doesn’t Excite
Oxite is an open source, standards compliant, and highly extensible content management platform, Microsoft’s Jeff Sandquist posted yesterday. So is this Microsoft taking on Google/Blogger,...
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Things That Aren’t (Just) Search
So, what isn’t (just) search? The last week or two has given us great insight into this question. Yahoo is not a search company. Good call by CEO Carol Bartz. I’m glad to see that the stock has gone...
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Google Gears and Microsoft IE6 Ride Into the Sunset
Two cowboys ride off into the sunset. The younger of the two was brought in to do a specific job for a limited time, while the older has been around for what seems like forever. I refer respectively to...
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Windows Live to Roll Over to WordPress.com
Web services close down all the time. TechCrunch, among the sources I subscribe to, is the most zealous at documenting such shutdowns. It usually uses the term Deadpool. But it just passed up on the...
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