I've been thinking about the problems of managing a complex company. As companies come out with their financials or run into problems (and a lot of that seems to be happening ), I'm asked for my opi... More >
I'm writing this from a Microsoft Technology Summit where Microsoft executive after Microsoft executive is talking and -- OMG -- listening to an audience of mostly open source folks. One of the folks... More >
If, before we went to war in Iraq, we listed the resources it would cost against a list of things the U.S. needed to do in the economic, infrastructure, health, safety and world influence arenas, I d... More >
I've been running the final version of SP1 for several months now, for the most part very successfully. With it now available for use, I thought I would share why I like it and when you should instal... More >
Like Netscape back in the mid-nineties , Google is planning to blindside everyone else with an aggressive rush to the cloud and a plan that encompasses everything from applications to transport ... More >
I was at the launch of Acer's rather attractive new line of laptops in New York this week, and one of the first things they said was that they had no desire to directly target large enterprise or g... More >
For much of this last week, I've been looking at a report titled, "IDC Digital Universe White Paper" (an update of last year's report), funded by EMC and created by IDC, looking at the growth of da... More >
HP is attempting a return to its past as a smaller company driven by innovation rather than a large company protecting turf . I, along with a pack of tech journalists, was on hand at HP's labs lat... More >
I think creating a new core OS could fix a problem that Microsoft started in the 90s and better respond competitively to the MacOS and Linux. Sound impossible? Microsoft is large enough to do anythin... More >
One of the most meaningful moments of Steve Ballmer's talk at the Heroes Happen Here presentation was when he asked the folks Microsoft had identified as heroes to stand. You got the sense y... More >

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