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You know, what gets me is the dichotomy that exists with WS08. It's actually more about Microsoft than WS08 though. I absolutely LOVE WS08 as far as technical features go. It rocks. It's truly an amazing product. But, and there is a "but"...
This is going to be an exercise it getting my mind off of job hunting and the stress of the unknown. I'm going to try to keep posting to avoid falling into a funk and letting people down. The title of this post probably sounds really bad, at least to...
I've been a staple user of Linux for years. I've made many attempts at "switching" from Windows to it and had mixed results each time. I tried getting my kids to use it and had mixed results. My younger kids like it (Ubuntu mostly) because they could...
I'm a big, no, HUGE, no wait: GINORMOUS fan of competition. As such, I applaud the work the open source community has done and is doing to keep pressure on the so-called "vendors". The net result is constant improvements and reasonable prices (ok, sometimes...
Talk about a mixed bag of feelings and perceptions. Vista garners more diametrically opposed feelings than almost any other software product I've ever known. I remember when XP first came out and everyone (read: EVERYONE) was whining about how you should...
As much as I like Linux (some flavors thereof, not *all* Linux distros), it still irritates that living *** out of me how they ceaselessly continue to copy ideas from OSX and Windows. This is why many non-Linux folks refuse to "switch" to it for a desktop...
Warning, this might offend some people who have no sense of humor... It's amazing how many geeks I meet that have such devotion to a chosen software "platform". Not the casual admiration or respect mind you. I'm talking about outright religious extremism...
I've taken heat for this topic many times but I have come through yet another week of dealing with customers which has given me yet another perspective on this whole digression. The issue is what are the chances Linux or OSX will take hold in "enterprise...