Posts by Mikel

The destruction of value is astounding

Mind boggling. Imagine what useful things they might have done with that money.

An oldie but goodie

The First Honest Cable Company. https://youtu.be/0ilMx7k7mso

At work you will want the headphones.

They lie

No matter what. They haven't got the truth in them to give.

Hopes Intel Skylake CPUs, Windows 10 will draw in punters

Mr. Dell, you might want to sit down. I have some bad news...

Dark money OMG

The number two privately held US corporation is in the top five for lobbying? You don't say.

The way their arch nemesis Microsoft throws political money around they had well better spend even more. If they don't want their products banned, that is.

Works with HyperV

Breaks VMWare?

Not gonna happen

I guess it's one way to get your name in print though. Used to call this sort a 'flackalyst'. Speaking of which, has anybody seen Rob Enderle lately?

Let's take a moment to appreciate

Somewhere near half of all Mankind now has constant control of a personal computer with always-on Internet. And it happened in a few short years. We whizzed right past "the next billion users" so fast we didn't even see it happening, and the third billion, and we're closing in fast now on "the last billion".

With that comes the ability to share, to learn, to communicate. To lift up ourselves and the people we care about, to do things we couldn't do before. And it becomes much more difficult for oppressive regimes to hide the truth from their people. It turns out that the people in faraway lands don't ride flaming dragons seeking to roast and devour small children. They are pretty much like us: striving to get by, to get along, and to get ahead.

So. Hurrah!

The disconnect

There is a rather fundamental disconnect between HP's Itanic marketing people and common sense. It is so extreme that is difficult to have meaningful communications with them. It seems that if you are not presold on the value proposition of their USP over price, performance and compatibility with modern technologies, they can't understand you either. And they don't want to understand.

It makes it hard to discuss issues such as distributed reliability with them.

Preparation is key

You will want to learn key protocols for dealing with the Redmond giant: https://rcpmag.com/Articles/2007/07/01/Minding-Your-Microsoft-Manners.aspx?m=1

And maybe look at what happens when you "win" a partnership deal: http://www.asymco.com/2011/02/11/in-memoriam-microsofts-previous-strategic-mobile-partners/

The sales drone was right.

Just buy another one. And a spare.

An exciting evolution

I can't wait to see what is available for Christmas.

A Chromebook Pixel with Kaby Lake, cellular data, GPS, Android apps and 4K for me please.

Ouch. That's got to sting.

To have such a close partner abandon their Windows client altogether in preference for a browser based solution available on every platform has got to hurt. No more Windows client lock-in from VMWare.

More and more houses are doing this.

Details would be welcome

I doubt they will be forthcoming. And Google won't be selling any of these fancy TPUs either. It looks like the rest of the tech world is going to just keep falling further and further behind.

Gas stations

All the way out.

Public money

You're not going to get public money for transit in the US without a plan to carry the Mobility impaired passenger.

The patient is terminal

Compatibility with your legacy software is the vulnerability. The fragile system itself, its vestigial remnants of once-hot ideas, the need to continue support of 20 years worth of false steps and strategic faults in order to preserve the function of business critical apps is the cause of this ailment.

There is no cure. Businesses come to the realization that they need to move on one at a time. Microsoft has no platform to take them forward because "there is only One Windows" and if they abandon the legacy compatibility all at once they lose everybody all at once. So they lose them one at a time.

There have always been more fundamentally secure platforms available, built on sound technology principles rather that the driving forces behind Windows' rise to dominance. We have known about secure software sourcing, surface area limiting, app isolation, secure development principles, least privilege, compartmentalization of utility, "do one thing well" and a whole lot more for much longer than there has been a Windows. This is not new. What is new is that ubiquitous mobile Internet has finally brought the issue to the fore, at the same time putting more rationally designed systems in every pocket as a conspicuous example that there is a right way. Everyone has experienced having a computing device that works well all the time, without continuously running three software firewalls, Symantec AV *and* McAfee Endpoint Protection. And they like it.

So one by one they port their data and business logic to open systems until they win free of their reliance on the legacy of horrors. And one by one they leave it behind. And there is nothing to be done. No way to excise Microsoft's diseased organs without killing the patient.

Not bad

I could watch these all day. Boring? Bore me!

Exciting times my friends, and for once it's a good thing.