IE8 Beta 2 killed my McAFEE SECURITY CENTER!
Beware of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2. I have encountered a few major issues since I installed the latest beta. The last straw was when it messed up the most important utility on my computer, McAfee Security Center. This morning I noticed that my McAfee software was staring back at me blankly. It took me [...]
Origami Project
The “Origami Project”:http://www.origamiproject.com/ is Microsoft’s teaser website for the “UMPC device”:http://www.microsoft.com/umpc . For the uninitiated, UMPC is the four letter acronym for Ultra Mobile PC, a new product platform aimed at the mobile computing market. Microsoft, Intel and Samsung recently announced at Cebit their commitment to develop the UMPC platform. The UMPC is basically an [...]
Looking at Microsoft: Challenges on all fronts
This post has its roots in a series of discussions with a Microsoft employee about the mounting challenges that the company is facing and the implications on the company’s future. Naturally, like any good employee obligated to defend his company, he made some pretty convincing arguments for Microsoft which made me wonder if my enthusiasm for the Open Source movement may have prevented me from appreciating the extent of Microsoft’s dominance of the industry and its ability to defend itself and rebound with new products and strategies. I began to ponder and reevalute my views of Microsoft.
