Having just been thinking about what a next generation Microsoft OS might be like, I do wonder if they would keep the Windows name. It’s served MS well for decades, but it brings with it a heap of baggage. A shiny new name would help give the platform the fresh start it might need. (What …
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Microsoft Midori Speculation
There’s been quite a lot of talk over the past few days about an project MS is running called Midori that may, or may not, be the makings of a new legacy free OS. The prospect of an entirely new OS is quite an exciting one, the world has moved a long way since the …
Windows 7 and Virtualisation
Yesterday I left a comment on a post over on istartedsomthing. The post was about a job advert for developers to work on virtual hard disks, and it’s implications for Windows 7 functionality. There seems to be quite a bit of focus on this line from the advert: "Consider the simplicity of backup using a …
Enterprise Apples
I was just catching up on what’s been happening on twitter this afternoon and I noticed that Jemima posted an article on the Guardian about Apple and its (non-)moves into the Enterprise space. I’ll let you read the post yourself (Jemima’s stuff is always worth reading), but the gist of the story is that Apple …
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 …