The Soul of Some New Vaporware
Tracy Kidder’s The Soul of a New Machine was one of the great nonfiction hits of the early 1980s, a gripping blow-by-blow account of how Data General developed the Eclipse… Read more »
Monthly Archives: January 2007
If your product key is stolen, part 2
Woody Leonhard continues to examine the implications of Microsoft’s product activation scheme from Vista and Office 2007. If your product key is stolen, part 2 – Office Watch The obligation… Read more »
What happens if your product key is stolen? – Office Watch
Woody Leonhard discusses the new product activation features in Microsoft Vista and Microsoft Office 2007, which allow Microsoft to remotely disable anyone’s computer at any time if they decide that… Read more »
Why XForms Matter, Revisited
Kurt Cagle argues (and I tend to agree) that the current fashion for AJAX is likely to result in a lot of nasty, unmaintainable code that probably will be full… Read more »