Cloudy Thinking

A New York Times article by Saul Hansell hints at why AOL and Micrsoft’s MSN web portal and ISP may be strategic.

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Dear Usama Bin Laden,

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A colleague at work writes: “We should all urge Bush to send most of the FEMA and “Homeland Security” people to Iraq to replace National Guardsmen at the checkpoints. They could bring back the National Guard to do disaster aid and homeland security. Part of the deal would be that the National Guardsmen would be paid what the bureaucrats were being paid and vice versa. “

I am NOT a “Microsoft hater.” In fact they are a great company, and Bill Gates is one very smart guy. But next year’s planned transition to the new Vista version of DOS (sorry I meant to say “Windows) is the perfect time to Just Say NO! Here’s why:

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The San Jose Mercury News article about Microsoft Vista, MS Office 12 and MS Internet Explorer 7 is worth a read.

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There’s a good article in The New York Times about eBay’s deal to buy Skype. This quoute caught my eye:

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I’ve been using a beta of OpenOffice 2.0. (my build is version 1.9.125). I’ve used Writer (MS Word equivalent), Impress (Powerpoint) and Calc (Excel) so far, and they just work. Unlike (multiple) instances when I tried earlier versions OpenOffice I now plan to adopt it for routine work.

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Quote: “April 21, 1864 - William Sellers, a tool builder, began the “Standards Revolution”; that is, he wished to standardize screws, nuts, and bolts made by American tool builders. The speech he gave that day was called “On a Uniform System of Screw Threads.”

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This bit from Hitachi (who would have figured?) is simply brilliant. Go forth and watch/listen.

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The New York Times has an interesting read today: “Kevin B. Rollins, Dell’s chief executive, has an unusual playbook for a C.E.O. When revenues were lower than predicted, he blamed himself.”

Microsoft Word is almost certainly the single “most used” business application. You owe it to yourself to read this article that highlights the “Word misuse” issue.

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This PC World article is packed with good stuff about 20 things vendors don’t want you to know. I’ve already downloaded a freebie that let me recover my long lostWindows XP license code. How cool is that?

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