I work in desktop out-sourcing, and am feeling increasingly uneasy as I see the rise of web 2.0 companies. The capabilities are increasingly compelling and new concepts like the live clipboard are starting to show how the integration benefits provided by the traditional desktop can be extended to the web. ...
Marc describes some of the uncomfortable realities on his great blog this week: You can rail all you want about standards and how Microsoft’s current Office document is open and how, evil empire that they are, they’ll find a way to poison the well with their new XML-based formats. And...
I have Office 2007 running now on my Tablet and Laptop, both running XP, but my desktop machine (2003 server) is not something I would risk putting Office 2007 on yet, mainly because I collaborate with too many people who are on previous versions of Office. At least that was...
I have been using NewsGator for a long time and I have always stuck with it despite using lots of different alternatives. However I have finally switched to use FeedDemon 2 which is just too slick for Outlook with an add-in to complete with. main reasons for the switch: Great...
Frustrated at the manual work needed to keep multiple machines in synch, then try Allway Sync, I use it to keep my Desktop, Laptop and Tablet in synch and it’s working great so far, what follows is a much longer description that might be worth reading if you like detail!...
Consumerization is a term that was coined by Doug Neal of CSC to describe the fact that enterprise IT is being disrupted by the combination of tech savvy employees who make high levels of personal investment in IT and have access to a whole raft of web 2.0 applications via...
Rod describes in this post the importance of posting content in HTML. He describes his experience of posting an interesting article as a PDF and then later as HTML. The PDF didn’t generate much traffic, when he converted to HTML the traffic went wild. I must admit that I downloaded...
The way you deliver applications to your clients is the fundamental issue of debate in this article. Web client, Server Based Computing, Smart Clients, Thin Client computing, Consolidated Client Architectures are all terms that are used and misused in this context. This article attempts to just cover the key concepts, talk to...
At every opportunity I complained to my contacts at Microsoft about the fact that restricting full Office 2003 XML support to Office 2003 Pro was a big mistake, and would not stimulate Office Pro sales, instead it would slow the adoption of the suite and the use of XML in...
It’s a simple idea, but I suspect that the VMware player is going to create disruptive ripples throughout the desktop computing industry, we thought we liked Linux Live Distro’s well imagine being able to download a myriad different pre-build VMware environments and run them on your normal PC, (memory allowing...