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Microsoft’s free services won’t replace its commercial software and therefore won’t make a difference.
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Yearly Archives: 2005
In his Nerd’s Eye View column Microsoft Live: Dead on Arrival, Fred Davis points out that Microsoft is between a rock and a hard place with Windows Live and Office Live: Although Microsoft has done well with its copy-cat strategy … Continue reading
Mac takes bite out of Windows by Paul Andrews of The Seattle Times includes a few words from yours truly: Hardly a week goes by that I don’t hear from a friend or colleague with a monumental Windows problem. I … Continue reading
The recent controversy over Sony BMG’s copy-protected music CDs demonstrates how dangerous this technology can be for a typical Windows PC user. Mac OS X and Linux were immune to this particular digital rights management (DRM) mechanism, but neither are … Continue reading
Are copy-protected Sony BMG music CDs bad for your computer health? First, the good news: The Sony BMG protection scheme everyone’s upset about has no effect on Mac OS X or Linux systems — the CDs function as ordinary audio … Continue reading
You can’t make this stuff up: Microsoft demonstrated its Windows Live service to the top 200 journalists and analysts in the computer industry at a conference today [Nov. 1, 2005] in San Francisco, and the demo failed. Sometimes I wonder … Continue reading
Microsoft not only has plans to enter the anti-virus and security sectors of the software market, but also has plans to offer fee-based security services. This is bad news — simply by entering the security market, Microsoft could stall innovation … Continue reading
Would the switch to Open Source software — or for that matter, anything that’s not Microsoft — be as attractive or even more attractive to individual/home computer users than business users? ZDNet‘s Dana Blankenhorn thinks business users, and in particular … Continue reading
Two interesting stories about Microsoft hit the news today, and one wonders if they are related. First, Microsoft has sued 13 spamming operations that use zombie PCs to send out millions of spam. According to CNET News.com, Microsoft takes on … Continue reading
Controversy continues to swirl around ZDNet‘s George Ou’s blog report that compares OpenOffice.org 2.0 with Microsoft Office. Here’s George’s latest entry, Performance analysis of OpenOffice and MS Office: Microsoft Office came out very lean and fast while OpenOffice.org Office Suite … Continue reading