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1. Comment - Gartner: Most CIOs have their heads in the clouds

   (Jan 24, 2011 - 10:45 PM)

   True - BUT he was thinking about Apple when he wrote it.....

2. Comment - The Google-Verizon proposal is worse than evil

   (Aug 11, 2010 - 7:05 PM)

   Exile the top 100 executives of verizon & google to Afganistan as a present to the taliban to who they obviously belong. Perhaps bankrupting & breaking the legs of the next five hundred would drive the point home....

3. Comment - Again, it's over: Microsoft loses second review of Word appeal

   (Mar 12, 2010 - 10:20 PM)

   I suppose if you are storing the document data in XML - which Microsoft is - it does seem pretty obvious that you can embed other XML data within the document format. That the US parent office considers that embedding XML within XML might deserve a patent seems to me to be a fair comment on the essential stupidity of the entire process...
   
   Another example of 'American Exceptionalism' no doubt!

4. Comment - So, iPad will change the PC industry? Yeah, right

   (Mar 5, 2010 - 10:31 PM)

   You would like to use a tablet/smartphone in the workplace? Imagine responding to a complex email on one.. I don't think so!
   
   Their strength - it seems to me - is in transportability & constant connection. And the appeal is more for the consumer.

5. Comment - Did a Microsoft VP really suggest an Internet tax for cybersecurity?

   (Mar 4, 2010 - 9:39 PM)

   All this is a little too much coming from MS. After all - if they had forced the use of the Administrator / User model on the transition to 2000/XP and made auto updates the default things would have been a lot better from a security point of view.
   
   The real problem is that - despite some fairly impressive recent efforts (notably on Linux) - nobody has yet implemented an OS which combines usability & high security. And then there is the whole question of social engineering, which can usually nullify most security systems.
   
   Getting Washington involved seems unlikely to have any positive effects - and is pretty likely to have negative ones...