"Hey hi" (AI) has been a common excuse for business failure; Salesforce is the latest to be done that. As a reminder, IBM Consulting was already impacted months ago, based on the "evil tongues" (word) ...

A slice of the design research I'm motivated by; from papers by Mark Weiser (Xerox Park 1994) to Paul Dourish, Hiroshi Ishii, and more fun HCI papers. This week I talk about readings from Mark Weiser, ...

A longtime reader (nearly 20 years!) wrote to inform us of the latest intervention in Europe. It's by the European Internet Forum (EIF), which contrary to its name is barely European*: ...

Based on his 'Microsoft resume' (Microsoft LinkedIn), he's not a bad person, but Sohidur Rahman can leave some readers with a bad taste in their months. People typically go to GNU/Linux in order to ...

3 months ago: Google's Debt Has Increased and 'Cash on Hand' Fell by 22.27% This Past Year ...

Counter Shows "WIntel" Chasing a Dying Market. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 05, 2025. Fewer than 20% of Web-connected devices in Africa are still desktops/laptops: Microso ...

The Debian Social Contract says "We won't hide problems" but it turns out the social contract is not honoured. What we have ...

LLM slop is a parasite. It lessens the incentive for people to do any real journalism or for companies to pay people to do so. Some former news sites have become slopfarms, but they aren't telling ...

A lot of people wrongly assume that because some people got very rich inside Microsoft, thae that means Microsoft itself is a big pile of cash. It's not. It's a pile of debt; speculative models try to ...

"Microsoft, the world’s most valuable company, declared a profit of $4.5 billion in 1998; when the cost of options awarded ...

Last year we momentarily saw it at 16% and 18%. Now it's about 17%: Looking at browser statistics in Ireland (statCounter is Irish), Microsoft is in trouble: When/if Windows market share goes down, so ...

Microsoft pays publishers to spread the illusion that the only viable option for developers and non-developers is "drugs" like Visual Studio and Microsoft Office, respectively Including attempts to ...