Your comment is applicable mainly to the enterprise. Most consumers do not rely on Exchange, SharePoint, or even Office. Moreover, few organizations are going to standardize on smartphones, tablets, and PCs; BYOD makes for...
In reply to: Re: Seeing the tablet through the trees
I agree with the article. Windows 8 needs a game that could be the new solitaire. That game should be fun, educational, addictive and only require a finder. Guess what! There is such a game in the Windows 8 Store. It is...
In reply to: What Windows 8 needs
It's not a question of seeing it in its proper context. It's a matter of recognizing that it's not the right tool for other contexts. I'm happy to use it in some environments. But I'm not going to replace my PC with a phone...
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Not only that, Windows 7 was only one release earlier and one of the features was a push toward multimedia. Is a user with a home theater PC expected to leave the couch, walk up to the TV and slide his finger across it to...
In reply to: Re: Unification
The real benefit of cloud for these Enterprises will be that they can use it to fill the holes that come from operational or resource deficiencies. Have issues with maintaining IT assets? Great, outsource it to a cloud...
In reply to: Cloud as an enabler
So if the key issue with Amazon's services have been related to the shared hypervisors and systems going idle, shouldn't that raise flags that the more customers start using these services, due to the more attractive pricing,...
In reply to: Is cheaper really better?
It's funny to see the mixed reactions to Microsoft's Win8 strategy. The reality is that unless you actually use the devices in their proper context, there is no way to understand the true benefits of this platform....
In reply to: Seeing the tablet through the trees
Point number 5 is probably the most crucial. Some hosted video solutions are really quite optimized for search engine use. Some of the better paid solutions allow SEO optimized embed codes which include not only key words...
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It's nice to see PayPal helping to promote the benefits of PaaS. While many might argue that PaaS is best used for app testing and managing an environment that can be easily managed, and rolled back as needed, the...
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There are a whole lot of organizations and CIOs that really trust VMware for production work and are really skeptical of everything else out there. OpenStack is a nice fit for them, because it can be a bridge to ditching...
In reply to: Re: More of the PayPal approach?
Personally, I find both the cattle/puppy and electricity analogies to be profoundly helpful in understanding (a) how many organizations and individuals fail to take advantage of the cloud (while still arguing they are "on...
In reply to: In Support of Cloud Analogies
Microsoft's attempt at unification between the mobile world and the desktop world is deeply flawed. In the mobile world, you're dealing with a handheld device and a small screen. Here, the touch-enabled Metro UI in Windows...
In reply to: Unification
As a marketer, especially one working in the cloud space, I agree...some of these analogies make me want to drive a sharp object through my brain. The truth is that like a lot of tech marketing, especially complicated...
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I was using windows 8 for my pc. But what i think the Windows 8 is not made for professionals. We should love and use Windows 7.
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Because nothing can improve Windows 8's prospects, except Windows' market momentum of the past 20+ years. People buy into Windows 8 largely because they don't have much choice; they may be wedded to Microsoft's ecosystem...
In reply to: Windows 8 Needs Nothing
employers/potential employers are attempting to use gender and age to discriminate. even at the gov level they're discriminating against mature, experienced people. the gov adopted 'Sustainability' as a policy. this...
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@virsiingh211 even at $680, it is still over quadruple what it was this past summer, so anyone who bought it back then still has a most impressive return on the investment.
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"Many businesses still miss the valuable insights hiding in data on consumer behavior," I like this quote. Many business cannot understand the gravity of these data and what sort of actions they can take based on these.
In reply to: Re: Aircraft industry isn't dumping data
@Amicksha, certainly Apple would sell a ocean-going shipload of tablets if they put the iPad Mini on a similar $99 / $199 firesale deal. I certainly wouldn't expect that to happen this year, though, as they are holding around...
In reply to: Re: Good deal at $99, otherwise...
Ultimately I think one of the biggest problems windows 8 has with it's interface is that it looks and works less like Windows we all knew and loved than Android or even iOS. Neither Google nor Apple strayed so far from...
In reply to: iOS and Android look more like Windows than Windwos does
Even if it was possible to come up with a Solitaire, Minesweeper or Angry Birds for Windows 8.1, it wouldn't help, because the problem isn't that users must be accustomed to touch interface, the problem is that a touch interface...
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InformationWeek December 2013 Special IssueHybrid cloud standards promise a more open future, free of inflexible ties to vendors.
Multicloud Infrastructure & Application Management
Enterprise cloud adoption has evolved to the point where hybrid public/private cloud designs and use of multiple providers is common. Who among us has mastered provisioning resources in different clouds; allocating the right resources to each application; assigning applications to the "best" cloud provider based on performance or reliability requirements.
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