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Saving Microsoft
The last few years have been trying times for Microsoft. Late to jump on the web bandwagon, they’ve never owned that platform the way they owned the desktop. Internet Explorer remains a decidedly un-sexy choice for web browsing, and Microsoft might never recover from the black eye that was Vista. Office now faces some really [...]
Ray Ozzie takes us back to Windows 1.0
This one is definitely worth a read: Image via Wikipedia I’m back. Be sure to check out the Windows 1.0 press kit that he scanned in. I can’t believe it’s been 25 years, and Microsoft has managed to add — what — Direct-X and muti-monitor support, I think. I love how “Paint” is a big [...]
More thoughts on Microsoft Lightswitch
A couple weeks ago, Microsoft announced a tool called Lightswitch, and the response in the development community has been almost universally tepid. One of these responses really caught my eye, though. It was from Bill Vaughn, who’s been the patron saint of Microsoft data access for as long as there’s been Microsoft data access. This [...]
A schizophrenic development platform
It’s an occupational hazard, I guess. The .Net development platform is moving at an absolutely dizzying pace these days, and there’s no end in sight. Ordinarily, you might think that this is great news for Microsoft‘s customers, because we’re getting more innovation than we can swallow. That’s good, right? Umm… Image via Wikipedia Aside from [...]
Thanks for the help
If you’re hypothetically considering changing the interface of your application so completely that users can’t find the stuff they need in the places where they’re used to finding it (Office, I’m looking at you…), you might be expected to have your users need to use “help” a bit more than normal. And if you expect [...]
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