Archive for the 'Microsoft' Category

Open Document Format: “The” Document Interchange Format

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

Every once in a while you come across a good Idea. Tonight, I just read one. David Berlind, on ZD.net posits the idea of Open Document Format (ODF) could be a transport mechanism for moving content between different wikis.
Could ODF be the Net’s new, frictionless document DNA? by ZDNet’s David Berlind — […]

Critical Windows patch may wreak PC havoc

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

A story on news.com speaks to the problems that Microsoft continues to have in regards to regression testing on their patches. After the “no patches” last month, to the 9 this month, (what a joke, 9? Did you look at the number of updates downloaded by WSUS? Also, they never talk about the […]

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 […]