Lately Microsoft has been doing a lot to stay (get back in?) the game. Microsoft Live was released to compete with Google, the Zune was released to compete with the iPod, Vista’s 3D desktop to compete with Linux’s Beryl and Mac OS X’s effects, Vista’s new not-so-retarded desktop search to compete with Linux’s Beagle and [...]
Paul Graham, founder of Y-Combinator, posted an article about Microsoft being dead and Don Dodge, of the Microsoft Emerging Business Team, quickly posted a desprate response boasting Microsoft’s revenue growth figures as a rebuttal. Both article’s have pretty strong points but I feel like both are too extreme to be completely valid. Graham claims Microsoft [...]
I’ve been talking to a lot of people about Dell and the current state of desktop/laptop computing. In particular, my friend Phil and I were talking to some Amazon.com engineers and they brought up the sad fate of Gateway. Gateway was in the same position Dell is now, maybe ten years ago. They ruled the [...]
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Posted 29 March 2007
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Also tagged: Dell, Linux
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With Apple’s release of the iPhone, I realized something so obvious it made me laugh a little to myself. I’ve never had a good cellphone. I’ve never had a friend who had a good cell phone. I’ve never even heard of a good cell phone. What do I mean by “good?” A good cellphone is [...]
Mark Shuttleworth has posted a response to Dell’s Linux survey on his blog. He brings up two main observations: the first being “margins on PC’s are razor-thin” and the second being “free software fans are a fussy crowd.” Both of these observations are presented in a way which seems to say it will be hard [...]