Should Microsoft Throw Away Vista?
advice.cio.com — Throw Vista away. That's what my colleagues at our fellow IDG publication InfoWorld have now argued that Microsoft should do. Give it a dignified resting place, as a stepping-stone OS, and come up with a replacement that's more sensible for enterprise IT.
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Chat with the Big Names of Open Source this week view story
6 votes- Submitted by eschindler
- 3 months ago
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CIO.com is running an online "panel discussion" this week in its blog section, regarding the acceptance of open source in business environments. There are some pretty darned recognizeable names here... and you can participate in the discussion.
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Open Source as An Easy Answer for Better Developer Visibility (and Career Opportunity) view story
6 votes- Submitted by eschindler
- 4 months ago
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Sometimes, there isn't much you can do to kick-start your career. IT professionals who aim to move up the career ladders should take advantage of one resource that's a win-win solution all around: get involved in an open source project.
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How do you answer an interviewer's question: What are your strengths? view story
6 votes- Submitted by eschindler
- 5 months ago
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One reason most of us hate job interviews is that we don't really have a good answer to "What are your strengths?" We tend to interpret it as "What do you work hard at?"--which is a totally different question.
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The changing definition of "rock star" view story
6 votes- Submitted by eschindler
- 5 months ago
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"Rock star," at least in IT and software development circles, used to mean "master of this domain." But is it coming to mean, "We want a miracle worker, because we have no idea what we're doing?
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Facebook Manager Talks About Hopes for the Platform view story
6 votes- Submitted by eschindler
- 5 months ago
- (http://advice.cio.com/c_g_lynch/f...)
Dave Morin, Facebooks' senior platform manager, delivered a keynote at the SNAP Summit 2.0 conference in San Francisco to an audience populated by many developers who have built applications on top of the world’s fastest growing social network.
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In Pursuit of the Technical Contact view story
5 votes- Submitted by eschindler
- 5 months ago
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Too many companies have forgotten that automation is intended to take care of the ordinary class of problem--and that humans are a necessary ingredient for uncommon scenarios. The result is poor usability.
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My Visit to Sun | Advice and Opinion view story
9 votes- Submitted by cyberarmy
- 5 months ago
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I was invited to speak at Sun a few weeks ago. They've started a new program to bring in outside luminaries to offer differing perspectives on topics important to Sun in an effort to avoid inside-the-beltway thinking (or, put more floridly, to avoid breat
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Should Microsoft Throw Away Vista? view story
20 votes- Submitted by pleeker
- 5 months ago
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Throw Vista away. That's what my colleagues at our fellow IDG publication InfoWorld have now argued that Microsoft should do. Give it a dignified resting place, as a stepping-stone OS, and come up with a replacement that's more sensible for enterprise IT.
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Hardcore Facebook Fans Join Apple and Linux Boosters as the Most Vicious view story
2 votes- Submitted by eschindler
- 5 months ago
- (http://advice.cio.com/c_g_lynch/h...)
Chris Lynch used to think Apple and Linux fanboys detested the business press most. But after watching last week’s excruciatingly painful keynote between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Sarah Lacy at SXSW, he's adding Facebook users to the list.
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Messy Desk, Organized Computer. And Vice Versa. view story
1 vote- Submitted by eschindler
- 5 months ago
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It seems like everyone who's a neatnik has a completely disorganized computer system. And those of us whose physical desktops are piled high with paper have computer systems with carefully designed folders, and every document neatly stored away.
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