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Out to Pasture Windows 10: Releasing the hounds
I look back at the history of this latest version of Microsoft’s new flagship operating system and I find myself hopeful. Surprisingly hopeful...
Out to Pasture Windows 10: A Sys Admin’s Preview
I eagerly await how the actual delivery of these features turns out, but this very well could be the turning point that takes the public scorn of Vista and 8-8.1 out of the public consciousness and replaces it with something business users and managers have been anxiously awaiting over a decade.
Feed Store The fleecing of Idaho: A prescription drug coverage scheme
If you’ve had to get your own healthcare, then you’ve seen Mountain Health Co-op; the newest addition to the Idaho marketplace. Unfortunately, they are playing an all-too-familiar game with their…
Fence Line Memorial Day: 2015
All through the ages our proud men & women have served and fought as well as did their families who also served by supporting them.
Pecking Order Obama Sits Upon His Throne To Watch The World Burn
This President has abandoned this nation as no other before him has ever done. Carter? Obama outpaced Carter’s idiocy years ago.
Out to Pasture A new direction: Technology Advocacy
My goal today is to take IT Consulting in a bold new direction by abandoning the “Value Added Reseller” model which just doesn’t allow for the flexibility required to serve customers more effectively.
Fence Line Before the Berlin Wall Fell: A Parting Shot
The base motor pool began to thunder with the sound of massive engines as every tank and Bradley Fighting Vehicle crew began loading up a full fighting load of arms and men. Downs Barracks in Fulda West Germany had gone from silent to a war footing in mere minutes.
The Dog House Speaker John Boehner: A Spine At Last?
So now what? We’ve won the House again and the Senate… We still have the weakest leadership we’ve ever had and just because we have control doesn’t mean the same fools who squandered it before won’t turn around and do it all over again.
Fence Line Abraham Lincoln: A Fearless Revolutionary
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. -Abraham Lincoln It shouldn’t be a surprise that…
Out to Pasture The aftermath of Windows 8
They (Microsoft) had no clue how attached people had become to their beloved start button and the comfortingly familiar desktop. "Hey, look! Here's a cool new touch feature to play with!" Would have gone over so very much better than the "Hey look! We took away everything you like and replaced it with a cool new (mandatory) feature most of you can't use!" we all received.
Out to Pasture Microsoft Windows: You took away my what?!?
Most of us have a very personal (-ish) relationship with our computers, we connect to people through them, we pay bills and explore through them too. So, when Microsoft turned our familiar Windows on its head, the public let loose. The tile interface idea for Windows 8 by itself wasn’t all that bad; for users with touch laptops and tablets it works just fine, but then Microsoft went a step beyond. They took a nice innovation for touch devices and inexplicably shoved it into the desktop realm.
Out to Pasture Has Microsoft Learned its Lesson?
When you can't get more than 12 percent buy-in on a flagship OS after nearly two years in a market you nearly monopolize, you've made some earth-shatteringly bad assumptions about your customers. What were they? Has Microsoft learned anything from it?
