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by Scott Wilson on February 8, 2010
The concept of situational applications, software written to be "good enough" for a very focused, limited set of requirements, has been around for a long time now. Of late, with the rise of ...
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by Scott Wilson on January 7, 2010
That's a question coming out of the debate set off by Tim Bray's "Doing It Wrong" comparison of big IT projects with big Web 2.0 efforts such as Facebook and Twitter. The degree of w...
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by Scott Wilson on January 4, 2010
Industry observers have expressed concern over the proliferation of software process patents since they became generally accepted in the mid-nineties, and some of the most egregious abusers of the ove...
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by Scott Wilson on November 24, 2009
McKinsey has posted a recent interview with MIT's Andrew McAfee on Enterprise 2.0 adoption. McAfee recently published a book called Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for your Organization’s Tou...
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by Scott Wilson on November 9, 2009
Microsoft announced the general availability of the new version of Exchange today, Exchange 10. The clear focus in the press release is on efficiency and cost cutting, not a bad selling point in toda...
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by Scott Wilson on October 23, 2009
One of the most consistent patterns I have seen with the deployment, and subsequent failure, of social networking tools within the enterprise is that, whether of its own volition or having been hector...
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by Scott Wilson on October 20, 2009
It seems I am not the only one who considers mashups too great an idea to die. After a splashy debut a couple years ago, the approach has received short shrift in most enterprises, making little head...
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by Scott Wilson on September 3, 2009
A year ago, I was all about the mashups... an awesome, user-friendly, IT-controlled way to plunder the corporate data mine, safely and easily for the benefit of all involved. A lot of companies were c...
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by Scott Wilson on August 30, 2009
Since it's a Sunday and my proclivities in this matter are already fairly well known, I'm just going to put this link up as food for thought for the rest of you. The Operating System wars have...
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by Scott Wilson on August 25, 2009
I'm still catching up on my reading backlog after finishing up my vacation last week, so I just came across this article in Social Computing Journal touting the results of a recent Nielsen Norman ...
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by Scott Wilson on July 28, 2009
At first blush, the fact that Microsoft failed to provide direct upgrade options from Windows XP to Windows 7 didn't excite much comment; after all, the company has rarely stretched back two versi...
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by Scott Wilson on July 13, 2009
I'm not sure I want to hop on this bandwagon yet, but it sounds like someone is already trying to start up a "Skip Seven" movement in the same way that some of us argued for skipping Vis...
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by Scott Wilson on July 10, 2009
After the original explosion of Google Chrome OS related articles immediately after the announcement, today we get the day-after "thoughtful" posts exploring what it all means, and what will...
Read more of Chrome OS: The reflective phase
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by Scott Wilson on July 9, 2009
And the development project, much sought and speculated over for years now, has been hiding in plain sight the whole time: Google's Chrome web browser project.
Since Google has done little more t...
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by Scott Wilson on June 25, 2009
The exact product pricing announced by Microsoft this morning for the upcoming Windows 7 release in October may not mean much to various enterprise clients with separately negotiated volume licensing ...
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by Scott Wilson on June 18, 2009
Isn't it getting a little tiresome that Microsoft has to be taken to the mat over every objectionable, insensible licensing decision they make lately?
ComputerWorld reports that Microsoft has bac...
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by Scott Wilson on June 9, 2009
I would rate the Apple WWDC splash this year as "about average." In other words, not a lot of the unexpected, nothing really revolutionary, and not much in it for business users. The new iPh...
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by Scott Wilson on June 3, 2009
As I'm sure you've already heard, Windows 7 will become generally available on October 22nd this year, which is a good three months before Microsoft set their public milestone, but a couple mo...
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by Scott Wilson on May 19, 2009
I see Gartner is finally getting on board the "Skip Vista" bandwagon, a bit too late to be of much use to any audience which might have made productive use of the analysis, but anyway, you k...
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by Scott Wilson on April 30, 2009
It's usually a vendor that spills the beans, and in this case it seems to be Acer that is the culprit. Bobby Watkins of Acer UK is cited in this Pocket-lint story as saying, "23rd October is ...
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by Scott Wilson on April 14, 2009
My first reaction, on seeing headlines such as "84% will not upgrade to Windows 7 in the next year" or "83% of Businesses Won't Bother with Windows 7" (what happened to that ot...
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by Scott Wilson on March 27, 2009
It used to be an accepted truism that it was worth waiting for Service Pack 3 before adopting any new Microsoft operating system. In the last few years, they've managed to knock that back to SP1 a...
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by Scott Wilson on March 25, 2009
I don't have any particular comment on the prospect; I use Sharepoint for some solutions and like it a lot, and I find it cumbersome and outmoded for other tasks, but if you are a CIO looking for ...
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by Scott Wilson on January 14, 2009
What with one thing and another I hadn't quite gotten around to commenting on the zoo that the Windows 7 public beta release turned into last week. I don't think there's much to be read in...
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by Scott Wilson on December 23, 2008
Microsoft, having quietly thrown in the towel on the fight to convince die-hard XP proponents (or plain-old Vista haters) to upgrade before the release of Windows 7 some time in the next year or so, h...
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by Scott Wilson on October 29, 2008
I don't always agree with Ed Bott, but I think he gives honest, no-holds barred technical assessments of new Windows releases, and what he has to say about Windows 7 so far lifts my heart.
The fe...
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by Scott Wilson on October 22, 2008
Earlier this week I linked to a post on the Engineering Windows 7 blog called "A View from the Bottom" by Larry Osterman, a Microsoft veteran whose own blog is a pretty good read if you are ...
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by Scott Wilson on October 20, 2008
It's always easiest to notice new information which tends to support your existing beliefs or which somehow validates prior decisions or recommendations, and maybe that is why I am seeing so many ...
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by Scott Wilson on October 13, 2008
Well, "Windows Seven" if you want to spell it all out, but I imagine most people won't.
I like it. Another breathy attempt to be trendy like "vista" would have just been a bit...
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by Scott Wilson on October 8, 2008
I don't mean literal train wrecks... sorry, I suppose that's a rather tasteless metaphor at the moment. But it's the one used in this Silicon.com article, which may or may not have been qu...
