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Very interesting thoughts:
"I make fun of Kinect, but it's important to see this as what it is: The incredibly unsophisticated predecessor of tomorrow's Skynet Terminator robots. On that note, I hope they don't remember what I said about them."

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The article (by Dick Brass, a vice president at Microsoft from 1997 to 2004) is almost 2 years old, but just as relevant after the news of the demise of the Courier tablet. Also makes you wonder whether Microsoft's strategy of focusing on software is becoming its Achilles heel.

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That's hitting the nail on the head

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"The Favorites tab was created by using customer feedback on the commands used most frequently in Microsoft Office programs. You can use these customized ribbons as is or as a starting point to personalize the ribbon the way that you want it."

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A very interesting & visionary memo from Bill Gates to the Microsoft employees written in the mid 1990s. Quite a lot of his vision has come true. Too bad that Microsoft could not capitalize on them.
via http://gizmodo.com/5805140/bill-gates-he-got-the-big-stuff-right-and-never-let-go

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Interesting article on commoditization. Microsoft did it pretty well in the PC era, while Sun shot itself in the foot by trying to commoditize both hardware & software. Wonder what happens in the mobile computing (smartphone\tablet\netbook) era. Will the app marketplaces do the trick?

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Pretty good for a company that was practically written off in the 90s. However the more interesting bit is about the business:
'By 2010, Apple had firmly established its dominance (in mindshare and innovation, if not in absolute numbers) in three areas: c

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A recompiled 32 bit version of SkiFree is available for download by the creator.

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It's called a spoiler tactic. You take your competitor's biggest cash cow and offer a free alternative. Everybody from Linux to Google has used the tactic against Microsoft. So who can fault Microsoft when it uses it against Google's advertising cash cow?

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As Bill Gates retires, Joel Spolsky recalls what it was like to work for the world's most successful entrepreneur

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So, yes, the version after IE7 is IE8

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