Simple, easy to use, yet it allows for some of the more complex scheduling tasks. http://www.rockinsoftware.com/ It also does not load a bunch of garbage DLLs like Outlook does.
Let me summarize what the MS people in the article said.
Our software is so hopelessly intermingled due to the manner in which we tried to get around the anti-trust laws, that simple updates take far longer than they should.
Even better - continue to charge the users the monthly fee, but don't let the users connect to anything, and don't let anything connect to the users. This is a win-win situation. The users' PCs don't turn into automatons, and the ISP still gets the money.
When Microsoft continues to fund these highly biased reports and surveys, the Open Source community should be happy. It means that Microsoft considers Open Source to be a real competitor. In effect, Microsoft is doing more to validate Open Source and increase the visibility of Open Source than anyone could hope for.
I've noticed that DEC (and SGI) people like to blame the symptom (MS) rather than the disease (failed products).
A couple of points of clarification.
I'm not, nor was I ever, a "DEC person". I attended the user meeting because my manager thought I should, and it was a free trip to the left coast where I could visit a couple of friends.:)
I agree with your comment about failing products killing companies. How's Solaris' marketshare doing over these past few years? I know that our IT department is replacing the 8 Solaris machines with Linux ones.
Is it just me, or does "a single sign-on and identity management solution" sound an awful lot like Passport?
"Microsoft pens ID software"> "SOFTWARE GIANT Microsoft is building software it says will manage personal data and provide more secure identification in future versions of Windows.
Under the cunning plan, the operating system will have ID technology called "info-cards" which are designed to allow users to shop and access services online.
However, the technology appears to be similar to Passport and Hailstorm. Hailstorm was binned after privacy advocates complained that it put too much sensitive information into the hands of a single company...."
I remember attending the last DEC user meeting in LA (Oct 1998, I think) right before Compaq took them over. DEC was all agog about how closely they were working with Microsoft to make VMS more compatible with Windows and Microsoft's offerings.
Sun is on the verge of becoming irrelevant (if they haven't done so already). Their marketshare is declining almost as rapidly as their stock price. McNealy is looking around for a life boat, and he thinks he has found one in Microsoft.
Microsoft, on the other hand, needs to look more "open" and more "willing to play nicely with competitors". What better way than to find a half-dead ex-competitor, one that won't pose any serious challenge, and start cooperating with them. Maybe this will appease those EU anti-trust people.
None of them are mine. I filter my IP addresses out from the log files before I pass the log files to the analysis tool. Additionally, my usage would show up as Opera, not FireFox.
While I agree 100% with your comment, there is another factor here as well, third-party software. For example, I maintain the PC for my cousin's family. They run Windows XP with individual [non-privileged] user accounts, and one password-protected admin account that is used only when I'm on the phone with them.
It has been working OK, except for some thrid-party software. One example, Kodak's EasyShare. Everytime a user logs into their account, EasyShare puts up a modal dialog box stating that some features may not be available unless the user account is raised to admin privilege.
This causes two problems: I get questions about the presence of the dialog box, and I get questions about the missing features.
While it is often correct to blame Microsoft, Kodak is the problem in this instance, not Microsoft.
I run a website for information about a certain stock that I follow. Most of the people visiting the site are individual investors. The site is about a company in the drug testing business. I say all that, because I wanted to note that the people visiting the site are not what I would consider to be technical people or so-called early adopters.
FireFox has tallied up 15.52 percent of the hits to my site since May 1.
Mainly because M$ focused on 'the needs of users.'
Microsoft did not focus on the needs of the user, they focused on the needs of maintaining their monopoly. If that briefly aligned with the needs of the user, it was purely coincidental.
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Simple, easy to use, yet it allows for some of the more complex scheduling tasks. http://www.rockinsoftware.com/ It also does not load a bunch of garbage DLLs like Outlook does.
Our software is so hopelessly intermingled due to the manner in which we tried to get around the anti-trust laws, that simple updates take far longer than they should.
Looks like HP is losing its reputation as the printer technology leader.
One more fact you missed:
Dvorak had a column deadline to hit. He had to write something.
Even better - continue to charge the users the monthly fee, but don't let the users connect to anything, and don't let anything connect to the users. This is a win-win situation. The users' PCs don't turn into automatons, and the ISP still gets the money.
Find yourself a shellac disk, and cut the audio waveform into the surface of that disk.
I have a 78rpm version of this archive method that was created in 1910, and it still plays the music just fine.
Next time I won't take four minutes to figure out how to spell gluteus maximus.... :)
But what's an XBox about? Spending endless hours sitting in front of you TV.
Reward the correct behaviour.
I think I can... I think I can... I think I can...
When Microsoft continues to fund these highly biased reports and surveys, the Open Source community should be happy. It means that Microsoft considers Open Source to be a real competitor. In effect, Microsoft is doing more to validate Open Source and increase the visibility of Open Source than anyone could hope for.
The first time I ever installed OpenBSD I was able to do it. Yet I was not experienced. Paradox?
A couple of points of clarification.
I'm not, nor was I ever, a "DEC person". I attended the user meeting because my manager thought I should, and it was a free trip to the left coast where I could visit a couple of friends. :)
I agree with your comment about failing products killing companies. How's Solaris' marketshare doing over these past few years? I know that our IT department is replacing the 8 Solaris machines with Linux ones.
"Microsoft pens ID software"> "SOFTWARE GIANT Microsoft is building software it says will manage personal data and provide more secure identification in future versions of Windows. Under the cunning plan, the operating system will have ID technology called "info-cards" which are designed to allow users to shop and access services online. However, the technology appears to be similar to Passport and Hailstorm. Hailstorm was binned after privacy advocates complained that it put too much sensitive information into the hands of a single company. ..."
I remember attending the last DEC user meeting in LA (Oct 1998, I think) right before Compaq took them over. DEC was all agog about how closely they were working with Microsoft to make VMS more compatible with Windows and Microsoft's offerings.
Microsoft, on the other hand, needs to look more "open" and more "willing to play nicely with competitors". What better way than to find a half-dead ex-competitor, one that won't pose any serious challenge, and start cooperating with them. Maybe this will appease those EU anti-trust people.
You raise a very valid point.
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OK, Microsoft obtained the monopoly by illegal per-processor licensing of MS-DOS, and then leveraged that monopoly into the Windows environment.
There, now credit was given where it was due.
None of them are mine. I filter my IP addresses out from the log files before I pass the log files to the analysis tool. Additionally, my usage would show up as Opera, not FireFox.
It has been working OK, except for some thrid-party software. One example, Kodak's EasyShare. Everytime a user logs into their account, EasyShare puts up a modal dialog box stating that some features may not be available unless the user account is raised to admin privilege.
This causes two problems: I get questions about the presence of the dialog box, and I get questions about the missing features.
While it is often correct to blame Microsoft, Kodak is the problem in this instance, not Microsoft.
FireFox has tallied up 15.52 percent of the hits to my site since May 1.
Before Microsoft created Windows, I would say that Apple defined the users' needs, and Microsoft just copied what Apple did.
Microsoft did not focus on the needs of the user, they focused on the needs of maintaining their monopoly. If that briefly aligned with the needs of the user, it was purely coincidental.
There are no screws on the outside of an iPod.
http://www.abraxisoncology.com/products.htm uses albumin "nanotechnology" to transport the drug to the tumor with fewer side effects.