Linux Doesn’t Make Sense for Desktops By David Coursey August 31, 2004 Longhorn’s woes may open a door for Linux—a very tiny door—but Linux just isn’t a good choice for desktops. Instead, desktop Linux proponents should wake up and switch to the Mac OS.
Given all of the negative talk about the delay to WinFS I just wanted to say that I have thought since I first glimpsed it that Microsoft are really onto something with WinFS, I have discussed it before but its timely to give my top five reasons again: 1. It’s...
IT is becoming more accessible and more personal in many ways. The combination has many implications.
1. If I can get at the services others provide for me from anywhere
2. If I can customise the access to these services in a way that suits me
3. If I can aggregate the information that flows to and from these services in a way that suits me
and if I can do all of this from any device, and over any network then the power that corporate IT held over me declines and IT just becomes more like the rest of the world I live in, for example:
1. Most companies don’t specify which car a salesman has to use they just provide the money to buy it.
2. They don’t specify or fund the suit he wears, just the standards he has to comply with
3. They often don’t specify the pen I use, or the type of diary
As standards mature, security becomes more pervasive and applied to content, rather than container, (e.g. the content of the document is protected, rather than the directory it resides in), IT will go in this direction. …
Joe Beda has some very interesting comments on his blog about the impact of the changes in the Longhorn roadmap on Avalon. The most interesting snip for me was: Terminal Services and Remote Desktop. We were planning on remoting Avalon at a completely different layer. It is unclear how we...
Managing a team is always a challenge, but often great fun.
Peopleware is the best book I know of that talks about managing IT team and individual productivity. This article provides a fairly detailed analysis of the importance of personality types on team composition. If you are building a team for a really important task, I suggest you take a look.
| The report is in 3 sections: |
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| 1: Poor Performance |
| 2: Effective Personality Attributes |
| 3: The Optimal Team |
Here is the conclusion:
My company currently uses Plumtree and I must confess that I have not been a great fan of its portal. However I did like this posting which described the most successful application types that have been built using their Portal, and probably any other as well. Expert location/knowledge management workspaces...
Greg has just written one of the few posts that starts to discuss RSS and its impact behind the firewall. That is in a corporate environment. greg hughes – dot – net – More on RSS and how it can change the way we work and live I wrote extensively...
A book about the plague in England is not the most tempting of subjects. However this book pulls it off. Its loosley based on a true story about a village that isolates itself to protect surrounding villages from an outbreak of the plague. There is plenty of death and misery...
In an email message to all full-time employees on, Microsoft group vice president Jim Allchin said that the company’s customers “love our vision” but just wanted parts of it to be delivered sooner. He said that Microsoft will deliver the following in 2006:
“Our commitment to broad availability of the Longhorn client in 2006 and broadening the API set underscores our long-term vision for the Windows platform, and our desire to deliver high-quality innovations that our customers and developers are asking for in a timely …
Summary: The reaction to the news on Longhorn seems mainly positive
There is an enormous amount of debate on Microsoft’s decision to change the content and timing of Longhorn. I discussed it in brief yesterday. Since then there has been some very well informed discussions and links to these can be found on Robert Scobles blog. However Robert just provides a very long list with little opinion so here is my take. In a bit more detail.
By far the best place to start in understanding this debate is this interview with Bill Gates by CNet. It’s a fascinating piece with lots of snippets, a few of which I quote below:
We realized that we could do a lot of rich search capabilities in the OS without the full database, taking some of our text technology that’s been used by Office, and actually, MSN is doing some nearer-term local-search things, building on that same technology. So that’s why MS bought LookOut!
Then we have other groups, like WinFS, where we’re way out in front, and there’s nobody to compare ourselves to. Making sure that they see how we’re committed …