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What’s Up With Microsoft?

By WallyDay on Friday, April 12th, 2013 | 16 Comments

This is a rant, and at least partially inspired by a discussion I had a couple weeks ago.

Nearly every day I read some sort of new article about the failure of Windows 8, or how the replacement product, currently called “Blue”, is in the works. Why? Are they just trying to repeat the reboot of Vista as Windows 7? I just don’t get what’s going on in Redmond?

Rebooting Vista

When Vista first came out, it was labeled trash, and everybody hated it. Then Windows 7 came out as a replacement, and was universally seen as “What Vista should have been”. So now, Windows 8 comes out, everybody hates it, and everyone is saying Blue is “What Win 8 should have been”.

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Google Glass. Super Cool.

By WallyDay on Saturday, February 23rd, 2013 | 10 Comments

Remember the Terminator movies – how “Arnold” (the Terminator) would look at stuff and get all kinds of dials and gauges and instructions that appeared in his field of vision? But they didn’t block his vision in any way? Wasn’t that cool?

Google is announcing “Google Glass”, and implementation of this kind of technology, will be available before the end of 2013. And, even though it is Google and not Apple who is announcing it (right now, anyway), the technology will work with iPhones as well as Andoid devices via Bluetooth.

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Marissa Mayer: Saving Yahoo?

By WallyDay on Wednesday, July 18th, 2012 | 12 Comments

Is Marissa Mayer Yahoo’s savior?

Back in the day, I was a Yahoo freak. This was back when AOL was spamming our mailboxes with their crappy little disks (I must have collected about 50 of them), and there was no such think as a “homepage” if you weren’t part of AOL’s little “network”. That is, until Yahoo came along.

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