Day: 13 August 2008
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Software design strategies
Open Source and its community-based development model is starting to give some in the commercial world a bit of a headache. You’ll remember that I’ve blogged about the fact that I think all software development will go the OS-type way in future and it seems this is happening already. We’ve already seen behemoths like Microsoft…
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BOSD’s rule
Lenovo, IT providers to the Chinese Olympic Games, decided on XP as their choice of computing platform due to the apparent instability of Vista. It appears they forgot about XP’s instabilities as well – here is a nice BlueScreenOfDeath courtesy of Gizmodo.
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Microsoft, Intel, Negroponte and the OLPC – we’re all one big happy family
Bryan Appleyard from the Times Online recently wrote a brilliant piece on the trials of Nicolas Negroponte’s philanthropic venture, the OLPC. Briefly, Negroponte started out with the vision of having a cheap/low cost laptop-type device that could be used in countries where it was not possible to afford the IT industry’s normal costs. These costs…
