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Windows 11 launched last week, and since my career as an external analyst started at the same time Windows 95 did, I feel deeply connected to this platform In 1995, Microsoft spent a mint on demand generation for the platform but didn't spend enough on support and realized too late how vital drivers and hardware compatibility would be. Pre-launch W...
Qualcomm had a smart city event last week where they talked about the operational and financial advantages that those living or working in a smart city would enjoy Shortly after watching this presentation, I watched the movie "Free Guy" (I loved the movie), which unintentionally featured the concepts of a smart city done well and one done quite poo...
Microsoft last week launched its new Surface line, and elements of it better target Apple's weaknesses than any prior effort I've been covering Windows releases since 1994, when I first started as an analyst and was tied to the Windows 95 launch. Every release has those that get over-excited and those that get overly concerned....
Trust in sources that we depend on for business and personal decisions is critical. A platform that aggregates opinion and news should be held to the highest standard of trust and honesty. This need for trustworthiness is because, if it acts against its users, an aggregation service like Facebook can cause damage at a national or even planetary level by instigating people to act against their self-interest...
It is interesting that computer terminals were introduced in the 1970s and were largely obsolete by the end of the 80s, making their service life relatively short when compared to PCs which were introduced in the late 70s and remain our primary business computing tool for more than 40 years This suggests it is way past time for us to move to someth...
I was out to dinner last week, and at the table was a young lady with an education degree. She was expressing frustration that her younger siblings are far more prosperous than she is The company she works for is offering education assistance, so she's planning on getting an MBA to pivot her career and hopefully position herself for a more prospero...
Whenever a war like Afghanistan ends, a financial problem drives a country into the next war. The companies that build the weapons take a massive revenue hit because a country at peace doesn't consume many ordinances But this time, thanks to climate change, there is effectively another conflict doing far more harm. That is the war to mitigate the f...
Facebook is misclassified as a social media company. If it weren't, bringing out a VR product like Horizon Workrooms, reviews of which have not been kind, would have been better received Collaboration is a social process where people get together to solve problems collectively. But Facebook sucks at social. A more accurate descriptor is that Facebo...
Autonomous driving now forms the core of most of the efforts to create autonomous robotics. However, up until now there's been one rarely talked about but critical problem that remains unsolved: What do we do with those things that will share the roads with these self-driving cars and trucks that are not autonomous? The number of production vehicle...
The Siggraph virtual conference takes place this week and Nvidia is doing the opening keynote A few months back during Nvidia's GTC event, they shocked the audience by doing the entire keynote in a virtual environment using Nvidia's Omniverse that was so realistic it looked like an actual location....
Electric vehicles are driven primarily by early adopters these days because the technology isn't fully cooked yet. There are three big problems that are yet to be adequately resolved: Battery capacity -- needs to have a range of over 300 miles;...
Amazon last week held its Alexa Live 2021 developer conference, which would have been a lot more fun if during the event the Amazon Echo show in my office hadn't gone insane. During the keynote, they started rattling off all the new commands that the Echo products could follow. My Echo could hear and tried to respond to those commands. When they g...
It has been a sweltering summer for those of us on the West Coast of the United States. So hot that the lenses on my project car melted while it was in the shop I think we've gone beyond the point of correction and now must focus on mitigation. For those of us on the West Coast, that means massive water conservation efforts are about to dominate ou...
Those of us who grew up with Star Trek might remember a device from the series called a replicator. This was a 3D printer of sorts that could create almost anything, ranging from food to weapons, at the touch of a button. We are going in that direction, but it will be decades -- and most likely the second half of this century -- before deploying ...
I finally picked up an Oculus Quest 2 last month and have been exploring its capabilities. I'm impressed This untethered product is the first VR rig I've tested using the Qualcomm Snapdragon platform, and I was skeptical about how it would perform compared to the older Samsung rig I have connected to my PC. To my surprise, it didn't perform as well...
I've covered every Windows launch since that of Windows 95, and Windows 11 may be the most significant since the iconic introduction of Microsoft's first GUI operating system. The world has changed a lot since that 1995 launch. Microsoft has as well, and this will be the first major version of Windows conceived and launched under Satya Nadella.
HP this month announced the release of its Sustainable Bond Framework, which will be used to issue bonds to help the company finance projects for a more sustainable future Unfortunately, moving to a more sustainable model isn't cheap, and while the benefits to the planet are critical, funding the conversion is problematic.
Amazon Sidewalk is a new low-bandwidth networking technology that uses Bluetooth to connect Amazon devices. The goal is to provide a reliable, inexpensive connectivity solution that blankets large areas outside of the range of most users' WiFi networks Currently, there are tons of articles on how to turn this relatively secure service off, which wi...
Gift guides can be problematic because they are written at a specific point in time -- and time moves on. For example, a gift guide written for Christmas in 2010 will still show up in search results today, even though it's over a decade out of date and the product recommendations are often no longer relevant. But what is also often the case is th...
At Microsoft Build last week, Satya Nadella, Microsoft's CEO, opened with the benefits of collaboration and cooperation, how developers are now growing faster at non-tech companies than inside tech companies, how companies will need to advance, and how every person will need to begin preparing for a very different future Pretty much the entire even...
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