I don’t mean to seem to be picking on Microsoft, but the Surface really is a case of too little, too late, being crushed by Apple (premium) on one side and Android (commodity) on the other. The current leaks about the Surface 2 don’t look to change the game any; Woody Leonhard over at Infoworld […]
I experienced the stack-ranking method of subordinate evaluation during my two years at PricewaterhouseCoopers and had very serious reservations about it. Now, in just the past few days, I’ve learned that Microsoft has been using stack-ranking for its personnel since before Steve Balmer became CEO: The stack rank was harmful. It served as an incentive […]
Over at IT World (via Slashdot) comes the news that Dell has stopped selling its Windows RT tablet without a keyboard (which had been priced at $299) and now only sells a Win RT tablet with a keyboard at $479: Dell made several changes to the RT offers on its website. By Friday evening it had […]
First, John Kirk over at TechPinions uses a great joke to explain why, in his opinion, the Surface is doomed: On a Saturday morning, three boys come down to the kitchen and sit around the breakfast table. Their mother asks the oldest boy what he’d like to eat. “I’ll have some firetruckin’ French toast,” he […]
Ashton’s Law: Whenever someone tries to do something for you, they usually end up doing it to you. — Alan Ashton (co-founder of WordPerfect), 1974 Alan made that statement in the first computer science course I ever took (CS 131 in the fall of 1974, at Brigham Young University); it remains one of the most […]
