Archive for October, 2005

A note on Microsoft Great Plains “notes”

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

Great Plains’ notes implementation is brain dead

What Microsoft doesn’t get…

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

Microsoft continually updates things by changing the interface or adding new, mostly working, functionality but hardly ever by fixing the brokenness of existing functionality. They might enhance functions but they seldom fix the primary brokenness. I grow weary of Microsoft’s continual upgrades that are suppose to make their software better — unfortunately they […]

Google global wi-fi/satellite based Internet ?

Monday, October 10th, 2005

This is what Google does best, searching decentralized file systems with localized caching, sort of a moon proxy/cache for lack of a better phrase.

OASIS: Sanity in a proprietary document wasteland

Monday, October 10th, 2005

Massachusettes Open Doc move is dripping with 21st century logic…