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Microsoft maybe gets the cloud – maybe too late

By tim, on March 5th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a talk on the company’s cloud strategy at the University of Washington yesterday. Although a small event, the webcast was widely publicised and coincides with a leaked internal memo on “how cloud computing will change the way people and businesses use technology”, a new Cloud website, and a Cloud Computing

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Fragmentation and the RIA wars: Flash is the least bad solution

By tim, on February 25th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

The latest salvo in the Adobe Flash wars comes from the Free Software Foundation, in an open letter to Google:

Just think what you can achieve by releasing the VP8 codec under an irrevocable royalty-free license and pushing it out to users on YouTube? You can end the web’s dependence on patent-encumbered video formats and proprietary

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Google’s strategy unveiled: a little bit of everything you do

By tim, on February 17th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave a keynote address at the Mobile World Congress yesterday, which is worth watching if you have an interest in the future of technology or, well, human life.

The talk was an informative and open insight into Google’s future direction. It was centred on mobile; but since Google now regards the

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Eric Schmidt: we can literally know everything

By tim, on February 16th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I am watching Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s keynote at the Mobile World Congress today. I am only 10 minutes in, but I was struck by these comments, as he talks about improving connectivity across the internet:

Think of it as an opportunity to instrument the world. These networks are now so pervasive that we can literally

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Nokia Maemo, Intel Moblin gives way to MeeGo

By tim, on February 15th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Nokia’s Maemo operating system, a Linux distribution for mobile devices, is being merged with the Intel-sponsored Moblin distribution to form MeeGo, under the direction of the Linux Foundation:

MeeGo combines Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo projects at the Linux Foundation to create one open source uber-platform for the next generation of computing devices: tablets, pocketable computers,

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Miserable user experience continues with Windows 7

By tim, on February 14th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve just spent some time with a non-technical person who has just signed up for a £30 per month Vodafone internet dongle, which came with a “free” Samsung netbook running Windows 7 Starter Edition.

The user is returning it under the terms of the 14-day trial offer.

Why? Well, the requirement was for a small computer that

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Crazy Microsoft stuff

By tim, on January 13th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I have a theory that Microsoft’s Small Business Server (SBS), which is meant to be easy to manage, is actually more complex than a full-blown multiple server setup – though you can

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