Sunday, October 30, 2005

Common Sense for a Change

Rafe Needleman's c|net article Works for Me: Killing the killer app - CNET reviews provides an often missing balance to the hype about the web being all we need.

As rich and useful as Web 2.0 apps are, today we still need both local and remote applications on a daily basis.

Reports of Microsoft's End are Greatly Exaggerated, Way Premature, and Wishful Thinking

This article: Microsoft's 'big bang' could be its last - page 2 | Tech News on ZDNet is long on schadenfreude and short on reality.

Something like this comes out every time Microsoft announces a ship date (and they should be called slipped dates) for a new product or service. It ignores the one important fact, which is that Microsoft's biggest competitive problem is other Microsoft products.

Isn't it funny how those new capabilities eventually become a competitive necessity? They aren't the Borg, but resistance is futile, we will be upgraded.