February 21, 2006
Microsoft finally decided on the number of differing versions for Windows Vista - and the number is 8.
That’s right. There are 6 main desktop versions with 2 that will meet EU regulations. With 6 versions in the U.S., it is inevitable that consumers will become confused and purchase the wrong version (or their requirements will change) forcing them to pay for the Windows OS a second time.
Already Microsoft has cost business customers money by having three main versions of its XP operating system while only one of these is suitable for a business environment due to feature issues. With 6 being released, only more confusion will result - and more market share for Apple.
February 20, 2006
Not just because Google fights against everything holy for business. Not just because Google’s senior leadership jets around in huge jumbo jets while telling the rest of us poor slobs that we should avoid SUVs….
…. But because Google is dangerous in the workplace.
Google finally admitted that they might have caused some security problems by allowing your employees to use Google desktop to upload proprietary company information to Google’s servers on the Internet for storage. Gee, what brilliant people they are.
If you’re a VP or Director of IS and you haven’t heard a peep out of your IT staff, you might think about making a phone call to make sure Google desktop is forbidden in your organization. If you haven’t done so already, you might have to answer for that one day in the not-to-distant future.
Protect intellectual property – ban Google.
February 3, 2006
As I was scanning the news this morning, the following quote jumped out at me in reference to the Danish newspapers’ printing of political cartoons that offended Muslims and the Danish government’s refusal to censor the media.
From the Financial Times: Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary-general, said he believed “freedom of the press should always be exercised in a way that fully respects the religious beliefs and tenets of all religions”.
The idol of modern society, tolerance, has been used for many years to destroy our God-given freedom. Now, the statists at the United Nations seek to make the end of freedom official.