Category Archives: Windows

“Win Reviews”

Posted on April 23, 2013 by

Another review of a Microsoft product (or in this case service), another black eye.  The most recent controversy is over Bing, but let’s face it, a lot of the problem with Windows 8 is how the preponderance of reviews didn’t … Continue reading →

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Touch Hate

Posted on April 8, 2013 by

There is a lot of hate for “touch” out there and I thought I’d talk about it a bit.  I can tell when I’m reading an unreasonable discussion because there is always something about having to stand there all day … Continue reading →

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PCs are the new Mainframe, and not in the good sense

Posted on April 4, 2013 by

Every time I write something about Microsoft’s strategy, and suggest the classic desktop PC (and the desktop, indeed the WIMP model itself,)  is becoming a niche offering, I get inundated with comments challenging my position.  Now this just in from Gartner, … Continue reading →

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Windows Blue Buzz

Posted on March 28, 2013 by

With the leak of a build (apparently of development milestone 1) of Windows Blue the blogosphere is abuzz over what is coming in the next few months.  Most of that buzz is about nice modest improvements to the Modern (yes, … Continue reading →

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Does Windows RT have a place in the sun?

Posted on March 23, 2013 by

There have been a lot of articles/posts lately questioning the future of Microsoft’s Windows RT.  My biggest problem with the anti-Windows RT thinkers is that they take such a short-term focus.  Windows RT, just as the Windows RunTime (WinRT) it … Continue reading →

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WinFS, Integrated/Unified Storage, and Microsoft – Part 4

Posted on March 10, 2013 by

I knew that the Cairo Object File Store (OFS) was in trouble my first week at Microsoft.  I’d been asked to attend a design meeting for OLE DB that would start at 6PM.  On Friday.  Why such a seemingly important … Continue reading →

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What if Microsoft had done Windows 8 differently?

Posted on March 7, 2013 by

A comment Matt Rosoff over on CITEworld’s re-publication of my post on Microsoft’s current approach to developer (and other customer) engagement inspired me to do a thought experiment.  What if Microsoft had approached “Windows 8″ differently?  There are a number … Continue reading →

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Now I get it, the Consumer guys at Microsoft are just plain wrong!

Posted on March 5, 2013 by

I’m an Enterprise guy.  In the mid-70s I set a career goal of dethroning IBM from its then total dominance of the enterprise computing space.  By the end of the 80s I needed a new goal, and it’s always been … Continue reading →

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WinFS, Integrated/Unified Storage, and Microsoft – Part 3

Posted on February 25, 2013 by

Although there are several ways to interpret the phrase “integrated storage” (or “unified storage”) one of the most important ones to focus on is that it creates a single store for Unstructured, Semi-Structured, and Structured types of storage.  The differences … Continue reading →

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WinFS, Integrated/Unified Storage, and Microsoft – Part 2

Posted on February 14, 2013 by

Hopefully Part 1 gave you some idea of the scenarios that Integrated Storage was intended to address and why you would want support in the storage system to help address them.  And yes, I barely scratched the surface of what one … Continue reading →

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