Love Mel Brooks and I'm familiar with Engulf and Devour. I believe it was Art Buchwald who originally came up with the name to describe the ultimate corporation. Great image.

If you read my full...

11664I confess I'm not always kind to Microsoft. They stumble and bumble and often make bad decisions, and as such make a great target for a blogger like me, but looking back at the announcements...

I think you're mixing up the free online version and the regular desktop version. The desktop version will still cost a lot of money.

Nicely said and I agree. It would be next to impossible to completely reinvent itself and I don't expect that, but I would like the tools to do my job and MS is just giving me eye candy.

Thanks...

I read a blog post this morning on the Mini-Microsoft blog called Microsoft Has Turned the Corner (http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2009/07/microsoft-has-turned-corner.html) and it got me wondering if...

How come I can't let go?
I'm between two worlds
~Tom Petty, Between Two Worlds

As I watched vendors navigate the changing software world last week at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston...

Sherri McLeish from Forrester (http://blogs.forrester.com/information_management/2009/05/microsoft-office-still-owns-the-desktop.html) reports that 80 percent of enterprise customers still use...

I'm not so sure I would take it quite that far. There is room for machines with a hard drive in this category, but I would agree that the idea is that you use cloud-based apps for the most part. As...

That might be the case except the link you sent me indicates the dispute was settled. It's an interesting theory, but I think it's pretty clear that this about selling more copies of Windows 7 than...

Hi Paul:
Thanks for the comment and feel free to nit pick. :-)

You're certainly correct. It's about spin whatever angle you want to take on it.

Thanks again for taking the time to read my post...

Ah, Microsoft, that crazy company from Redmond, WA is at again. This time they want to rename the Netbook unilaterally to the...drum roll please..."low cost small notebook PC."

As first reported...

Cool. Let me know if you get your hands on one. Would love to hear about your experience.

And I know I'm not the only one
To ever spend my life sitting playing future games
~Fleetwood Mac, Future Games.

When Microsoft released Microsoft Surface...

Check out DeepBurner (http://www.download.com/1770-20_4-0.html?query=DeepBurner+Free&tag=404&searchtype=downloads). It's an excellent tool for creating ISO images.

Yesterday Adobe announced it would be laying off 600 employees worldwide, which represents, according to published accounts, 8 percent of the workforce. Reports suggested that Adobe was a victim of...

Microsoft products have always presented a paradox for organizations. On one hand they seem to be universally derided. On the other, they remain the corporate standard. Open source, SaaS/online and...

Many of the operating system tools that come with Windows are far inferior to free alternatives, and you can't beat the price. This post looks at some of my favorite free utilities.

Firefox ...

There’s an old saying, 'What do you want for nothing, your money back?' But the fact is there is lots of good free software out there. Much of it has a much smaller footprint than your typical...

Nice job, Eddie.

Fool if you think it's over
'Cause you said goodbye
Fool if you think it's over
I'll tell you why
~Chris Rea, Fool (If You Think It's Over).

Those two crazy kids, Microsoft and Yahoo! are...

Well there’s nothing to lose
And there’s nothing to prove
I’ll be dancing with myself
~Billy Idol, Dancing with Myself.

Microsoft is 30-something and that’s an elder statesman in personal...

Sometimes you're the Louisville Slugger
Sometimes you're the ball
~Mark Knopfler, The Bug

Technology moves so quickly it's a bit like the weather in New England. If you don't like it, wait five...

Hey Eddie:
Good post. I wonder even if Microsoft got Yahoo! if the resulting company would work or not. It's one thing to make the purchase (if that were to happen), it's a whole other thing to...

You could also try saving it as a text or Word document. It won't be perfect, but it should be enough for studying.

Microsoft is not old by corporate standards, but in the world of technology it is down-right staid. That’s why it takes a while for it to make major changes (or five years to roll out an OS). A few...