Large Hospital Software Company Switches to Linux – OSS Ramblings
While I’m not as optimistic as my buddy Tony on the increase of Linux market share, I am definitely in line with him on the decrease of Microsoft market share.  As I continue my march toward converting to an all-Mac environment at home, Windows has been relegated to not much more than a gaming console.  Even that is somewhat doomed though, as I’m starting to discover some of the newest games have outgrown this almost 4-year old PC.  That’s fine, I’ll just start gaming on the Wii and continuing on with my old games.Â
Upgraded to Leopard on the work laptop yesterday… yes, I said upgrade. It brought some kernel panics with it in relation to Time Machine and Parallels. I’ll write more about that later.
But initially, what do I think?
I keep clicking on shit just because it looks coooool. God does it ever. Amazing.
What fabulous news to greet my Tuesday morning – Leopard ships on October 26th!
Time to spend some serious cash 😉 Oh, wait… I don’t have any…
Why Microsoft must abandon Vista to save itself | Tech news blog – CNET News.com
Good article. Go read. Now.
This morning I decided that I did not have anything to offer beyond what other Mac sites provide. I grow tired of sites rehashing news from each other or large print magazines and I’m afraid I wouldn’t have much more to offer beyond that.
That being said, the domain leopardcentral.com is up for sale. I’m smart enough to recognize how lucky I was to get that domain, so I’m going to hold on to it for serious bidders – either that or eventually, perhaps I *will* develop a site out of it.
…found via Slashdot. I’m not so sure how I feel about this. It’s a ballsy opinion, but usually consumers purchase computers with the expectation of having an operating system on it that is tied to the hardware. Microsoft loves it when the consumer goes to buy a brand new system with the newest operating system (so does Apple, let’s be fair). Without reading the full PDF because it’s 12:12am, I’m hoping that this think tank is only recommending the operating system becoming disengaged from the computer at the business/enterprise level. I don’t see this being a positive recommendation for consumers.
Microsoft Watch – Corporate – What Microsoft’s EU Ruling Means to You
Good work, Europeans. You’ve finally delivered what was needed. Too bad the U.S. government was too much of a wuss.
Folks in the cell phone and computer businesses need to wake up to what is going on outside of our country. Perhaps this is the first step toward that end. I congratulate the EU.
So this morning, I’m up way-too-early again, which means… yes.. Verm is getting back on a plane. The past two years I have traveled way more than ever in my life and it’s actually starting to feel like a career.
But you know your interest is piqued when you clamor to make arrangements to fly to D.C. just for one day to see a product demo. Yes, the technology is that cool and that interesting. It’s mainly interesting for our project, but I can think of two hundred billion applications for the technology we’re looking at today.
Bah, I had one more thought that I meant to express in that last post and I completely forgot about it. This is what happens when I don’t take notes.
Has anyone else noticed that Microsoft’s competition keeps drawing their attention away from their core business and running them in circles? Google keeps drawing them into the search fight. Apple keeps drawing them into the portable music device fight. Companies are pulling Microsoft’s meat in many different directions and they’re taking the bait. The corporate desire to be everything computing to everyone is such a disease at Redmond that they cannot resist the chum. They bite over and over, all the while chasing their tail and losing sight of the core business.
Sorry about being MIA for a while. I’ve had quite a bit going on, most of which centered around work. Last week I was on the west coast for some work in San Jose.
Excuses aside, I simply had to comment on the big announcements today from the fruity people. I think it goes without saying that the devices unveiled today are compelling and beautiful. Apple continued the trend-setting posture today. I won’t bother to go over each and every device because I’m sure that by now, you’ve read about all you can read on them – perhaps even purchased one or two of them.
