Recently Microsoft announced that they would be opening retail stores. Presumably in an attempt to replicate the success enjoyed by the Apple stores. Now if you are wearing your jaded Apple fanboy hat this may appear as yet another daffy, half baked, rip off idea. Well fortunately Brennon Slattery at PC World has written an article [...]
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Posted: February 15, 2009 in general, securityTags: antique technology, HP Ergo 1600, SafeManuals, Sony SOBAX, technology, users manuals, X.org, Xubuntu
I’ll admit it – I love technology. I collect technology. Over the years I’ve managed to collect a fairly impressive amount of antique technology. The problem is that what I consider antique (like my Sony SOBAX calculator with Nixie tube display) and what the manufacturers consider obsolete and therefore antique (like Windows 2000) don’t mesh. [...]
PCMag.com has this article entitled 21 Great Technologies That Failed with examples split more or less evenly between Microsoft and Apple. Here is the abbreviated list. 10 Great Microsoft Technologies That Failed WebTV – 1997 Tablet PCs – 2002 WinFS – 1990s Sidewalk.com -1997 OS/2 – 1987 Passport – 2000 Windows Live Spaces – 2004 .NET [...]
