I’ve got an idea for a site, it’s been knocking about in my head for ages, but I’ve never managed to find the time I’d need to get the coding and data source stuff done. The more I’ve thought about it recently though, the more I’m thinking I could get 90% of what I want […]
Author Archives: Tom Basham
Windows 7 next year?
An article on Techmeme is suggesting that Windows 7 might have moved forward a year and arrive sometime late in 09. Whether this is true or not who knows, but from my perspective as an enterprise customer it would make some sense – and probably make my life easier in the long run! Selling a […]
Clouds everywhere
I had an interesting conversation with a buddy of mine yesterday about his PC. It started out as one of those ‘hey Tom, you know about computers, what should I…’ chats. He’s basically filled up his hard disk at home and wanted to know how he should upgrade. We were looking at the prices of […]
S+S
I’ve been following the MS Software + Services stuff for a while now, and a post by Steve Clayton yesterday got me thinking about it again. Skydrive and Office Live Workspace seem to me to be great little products, and free ones at that. With Broadband now common place at home and services such as […]
What does S+S mean to the customer?
This is my problem for the next few weeks… S+S and the other software and services initiatives from Google et al may well take away a fair chunk of the work needed to manage an effective IS service. If we can do that we can devote our efforts away from the day-to-day ops and into […]