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Some People (& Companies) Never Seem To Learn

There is a time honored statement that “Those who don’t learn from history, are condemned to repeat it.”  Some people must have never heard that, or taken it to heart.
The people who write the Open Office software are generally  smart people, and do what it needed to make their product better, and leave things that [...]

Will You Shop At A Microsoft Store?

Note that I did not say buy. No, I am wondering if you would be brought into a Microsoft store by curiosity, or perhaps the ability to examine a piece of Microsoft hardware close up. No matter how egregious the mistakes made with software, I believe that Microsoft has consistently made the best mice in [...]

Microsoft to Australia "You’re Not Using Enough of Our Products!"

That must be what they meant when the company started the search for $10,000 by having to use Internet Explorer 8. Now I see that around two weeks ago, the company had another promotion going, to further bolster the company’s image in the land down under. (Don’t worry if you did not hear about it, [...]

Why Are Bluetooth Mice Proliferating?

Bluetooth is one of those half-baked technologies that was allowed to get through because it was designed by committee, and none of the members could stand to think their progeny should be either rethought, or euthanized.
Yet, with all the problems, mice, headsets and other products continue to be manufactured, which only proves that P.T. Barnum [...]

Death of the Mouse?

I have just finished going through a small slide show from NetWorld, showing that someone there believes that the marvelous little rodent, that most of us could not live without, might soon be dead.
Perhaps in time, but not very soon, says me!
There is an article that accompanies the slideshow, but the slides speak volumes that [...]

Lamentations of 2008

John C. Dvorak, from PC Magazine, talks in his article this week about the problems of the industry, the problems of the economy, and the nation, and the relation of all of them.
It is no secret now, that PC Magazine is no longer in print. Not only was the money not there, I would say [...]

Microsoft Hardware – Has This Division Lost Focus Too?

Until the past year, or thereabouts, Microsoft, no matter how far afield the operating systems and office divisions went, the Microsoft hardware was amazing, and solid.
Microsoft mice and keyboards have always been well made, durable both in looks and operation. Now, within the last year, the mice designs coming from Redmond are looking less [...]

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