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2007 August 29

Tech Prognostication - Do Any Consultant Firms Get It Right?

Over the years I’ve been involved with any form of technology, one thing I can say is that most prediction of trends in any of the sectors of tech are wrong. Either the idea never takes off or the time frame is all wrong in the prediction.
Very early this morning, I happened to read a [...]

Microsoft Forces Autopatcher Site Down

Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, today, forced the Autopatcher.com site to discontinue its downloads area. For those who don’t know, this was a site meticulously cared for by a team of people whose only desire was to make the update of Windows 2000 and XP an easier task than using any Microsoft provided methods.
Instead of simply [...]

Larger Implications of WGA Meltdown

While I have read 11 different takes on the 19 hour disaster that was the Windows Genuine Advantage server outage, it was not until the very last one I read, this morning, that I got an opinion that agreed with what I had been thinking since I heard about the problem.
In an article titled “Don’t [...]

PC Mag Editor’s Blog Crystallizes Problem

This morning, the new editor of PC Magazine, Lance Ulanoff, put forth the idea that, technology is always good, and RFID is something we should embrace whole-heartedly, to the point that we should have the chips implanted in our children at birth.
In just the first minutes after the entry was written the amount of vitriol [...]

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