It’s Time For A Tech Industry Intervention To Address Misogyny
News junkie that I am, I see a lot of headlines. And four came in over the last 30 hours.
News junkie that I am, I see a lot of headlines. And four came in over the last 30 hours.
Are Microsoft and Apple using the mobile web to dictate how we use technology? And, if so, what does that mean for us? Last week, John Herlihy, Google's Chief of Sales, made a bold prediction: “In three years time, desktops will be irrelevant."
An award-winning friend of mine at NTEN referred me to this article, by Jeremy Reimer, suggesting that Word, the ubiquitous Microsoft text manipulation application, has gone the way of the dinosaur. The "boil it down" quote:
"Word was designed in a different era, for a very specific purpose. We don't work that way anymore."
For the past four years or so, at two different organizations, I've been evaluating Microsoft's Sharepoint 2007 as a Portal/Intranet/Business Process Management solution. It's a hard thing to ignore, for numerous reasons:
I’ve been pretty fascinated by the news reports about how the Obama staff reacted to the technology in place at the White House. If you haven’t been tracking this, you can read the full story, but the short story is this: the Mac/Blackberry/Facebook-savvy Obama staffers were shocked to find ancient systems and technology in use at the White House – Windows XP, MS Office 2003, traditional phone lines, and web filtering in place – in other words, the same stuff my org uses. I found myself both sympathetic and skeptical regarding their plight
This article was originally published on the Idealware Blog in October of 2008. This is the final post in a.
This article was originally posted on the Idealware Blog in October of 2008. This is part two of a three.
This article was first published on the Idealware Blog in October of 2008. Like many of us, I’ve been using.
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