Let's just jump ahead a few years -- maybe more than a few, maybe not -- into
a world in which Software as a Service (SaaS) has made the operating system
a commodity, if not totally obsolete.
This doesn't really take that much imagination, does it? What with Google
Chrome lining up against IE and Firefox (and Safari, we suppose), it's clear
-- and has been for a while, really -- that the forthcoming battle in the software
industry won't be over software at all but over online applications, SaaS, cloud
computing ... whatever you want to call it. So we're not going too far afield
here. We all know that this is happening.
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Posted by Lee Pender on September 04, 20081 comments
Despite what we've been telling you here for months -- and, to be fair, the
vast majority of e-mails
we get still bash it -- not everybody is unhappy with the forlorn Vista operating
system. We've run tons of negative e-mails on Vista, and we've received some
more very good ones recently.
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Posted by Lee Pender on August 28, 20081 comments
With the news that '90s icon and TV syndication legend Jerry Seinfeld is going
to help Microsoft
try
to rescue Vista
, we asked you this week to name your ideal Microsoft spokesperson.
Here's what we got:
Brad gets us off to a potentially controversial start:
"I suggest one word, or really one letter: W. After all, he'll be
looking for work, anyway. Maybe the copy could read something like
this: Hi, do you know me? Or maybe I should ask, 'Do you loathe me?' As the
leader of the free world, I had to make some tough, unpopular decisions. So
that's why Microsoft asked me to be their spokesman..."
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Posted by Lee Pender on August 28, 20080 comments
Apparently the shaky economy might be affecting IT hiring, but it's
not
causing a downturn
in IT spending. Go figure...
Posted by Lee Pender on August 27, 20080 comments
So, Forrester Research is out there now saying that Vista
might
just conquer the enterprise
after all, and maybe fairly soon.
Well, maybe so. But we've heard
this sort of thing before, haven't we? Vista's always just around the corner
from breaking out and becoming the next XP (just as XP eventually became the
next Windows 2000). If it's true that one-third of Vista licenses end
up being downgraded to XP, we won't hold our breath on Vista taking over
the world.
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Posted by Lee Pender on August 27, 20080 comments
OK, it's sort of funny, isn't it? Linux superstar Red Hat
got
hacked
. Yeah, it's funny.
Posted by Lee Pender on August 26, 20080 comments
We don't want to pile on here, but the last week in August might be the slowest
news week of the year outside of the last two weeks of December, so here goes:
We love "Seinfeld" reruns here at RCPU, just as we love TV Land, classic
tunes on our iPod -- uh, we mean Zune...ah, to heck with it, we do mean iPod
-- and movies that remind us of years gone by.
But we're weird that way here. Your editor DVRs old episodes of "WKRP
in Cincinnati" (although he already owns all 90 episodes on DVD with the
original music -- just with poor video quality) and watches them with the same
gusto with which he downs a full Southern (or English) breakfast. On a brief
road trip this past weekend, more than a few Creedence Clearwater Revival songs
figured among the tunes of choice -- and we still have no idea who the Jonas
Brothers are, although we keep seeing their images on T-shirts. Just today,
we read that someone named Daddy Yankee had endorsed John McCain for president
and wondered why George Steinbrenner would be so interested in the race for
the White House.
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Posted by Lee Pender on August 26, 20081 comments
It's kind of been
(bash)
Vista week
again here at RCPU, so we might as well carry the theme to its
undeniable conclusion: reader e-mails! Hey, we wouldn't run these if we didn't
get them. And we'll run pro-Vista e-mails...as soon as we get some more of them.
In the meantime, Ronald is up first:
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Posted by Lee Pender on August 21, 20086 comments