Pushing beyond standardization
October 30, 2011
Why knowingly breaking standards may be the way forward.
Windows 8 is Microsoft’s bet on the future
September 18, 2011
Microsoft unveils its future OS.
Which company are you: the Attacher
September 4, 2010
When a single product become an anchor.
Google unveils web-based OS
September 2, 2008
A product long rumored and whose very existence was long denied by Google itself finally launched: the Google browser, aka. Google Chrome. There are a number of things that are good and a few that leaves one scratching his head but ultimately, it is very clear that Google is working very hard to ensure that it can […]
Googling Netscape
February 1, 2006
The Google stock is getting hurt in after hours trading as the company’s earnings disappointed Wall Street. It was to be expected but now is the time for executives at Google to look at history and, hopefully, not repeat it. The history I am talking about, in particular, is that of a company that was in a similar […]
Metrics — Weighting the Metrics
October 20, 2005
Metrics weeks continues with a review of how to weight metrics. So far, I’ve looked into who, in a company could benefit from metrics. I then delved into two different types of metrics: hard metrics, which can easily be measured, and soft metrics, which cannot. Today, I’m going to try to figure out how this all weights out. […]
Modular by Design — Software
August 14, 2004
So far, we’ve talked about the impact of a modular approach on existing business models outside of the software industry. Today, we delve in on the industry most associated with modular design: software. Certain software companies have been suffering from the advance of modularity in software design. The main one, to date, has been Microsoft with […]
RSS changes for the blog
October 29, 2003
If you’re reading this entry in an aggregator, it means that you’ve already changed your link to TNL.net. Part of the logic for the change (over which I agonized for a while as I believe in backward compatibility) is the fact that until today, the main feed and the section feeds were generated in different ways, making it […]
AOL-Microsoft Settlement: The Future
May 30, 2003
AOL and Microsoft have announced an end to their feud. It seems to me that there is a lot in there that needs to be dissected and pondered about. It will impact the development of the Internet for years to come. IM : One of the conditions for the AOL/Time Warner merger was that AOL open its […]
Microsoft and AOL: Friends again
May 29, 2003
Microsoft and America Online settled their browser lawsuit, putting an end to speculations that AOL would dump IE from its leading client. As part of the deal, AOL receives a seven year royalty-free license to include Internet Explorer and will get an early peek at anything new in Redmond. Most interesting to me in the different […]
