The time for narrow-minded self-interest is over
Posted by Mike Halsey in cloud computing on 07. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
This week it came to light that there have been senior people at Microsoft who have blocked, or tried to block new products from the company on the grounds that they hadn’t come from their own department.
Now it’s widely known that different departments within Microsoft don’t talk to each other. Examples of this are SkyDrive [...]
If Windows 7 fails who will be responsible for it?
Posted by Mike Halsey in windows 7 on 27. Sep, 2009 | 0 Comments
There’s no doubting that financially, and that’s the only thing that matters really, Windows Vista was a disaster. Microsoft shareholders must not have been happy. But let’s examine exactly who, at least what groups, were responsible for this failure and ask the question if history can or will repeat.
Windows is a shell, a large one [...]
What will Windows 7 do for the hardware of tomorrow?
Posted by Mike Halsey in windows 7 on 23. Sep, 2009 | 0 Comments
I was thinking the other day about how I really don’t need to upgrade my PC this year. It’s now getting on for three years old and, with the exception of a RAM upgrade last Christmas, still has no problems running all my software and starting up swiftly and trouble-free.
Thinking on, PC hardware hasn’t really [...]
