The corporate world wont go anywhere near apple products and this is wry the mac dont count.

Right bellow all of this lies the reborn mainframe and while the cloud dont seam to replace consumer PC's there might be corporations flirting with the idea that they dont really need those big complex PC creating trouble.

When not even office is usable when the network goes down(the practical reality for most fortune 1000 companies) the benefit of the PC to the corporate word is gone

The thing about the macs is that MS can count on apple to screw up or at least manage to piss off the corporate world to the extend that they wont touch the macs.

With linux on the other hand were now seing companies like dell HP Novell and IBM starting to endorse linux in some areas and those companies have street cred in the uptown suburban areas where corporate ececutive types hang out this is wry MS at every instant have gone after linux much more aggresively then mac.

MS is the king of the gaming PC thats noone will take away from them but what about the internet browser? or the corporate desktop client in a world where everything shuts down when the network connection dies? What happens when the intranet replaces microsoft word templates as the tool of choice for every business process?

When it was just IBM novel and a few mid range server operators ms did not care today it's desktop hardware companies experimenting with linux on the desktop, along with an general tendency to move the critical app back onto the mainframes thats stating to apear. MS might be forced out of their current position, and into one wheir they have to fight for even a 33% market share.

Since there isn't a cloud it's all nonsense, there's a good old fashioned mainframe operator and a customer using the system the law and contracting models for those was laid down in the 70ies and just because the 3270 have given way to the AJAX enabled browser and everyone is talking community we don't have a different situation.

Stop treating the cloud as if it was something unknown and start realising how much it's just the successor to the mainframe and thing stats making sense.

I beleave the correct term is malwhare, ohh the hours lost dealing with files that have been corrupted by ms Words stupid and unintuitive way of not using styles in a coherent fashion.

If it had'nt been for excel and access we hadnt had to deal with that pile of spaggetti code.

The only good thing about web 2.0 is that were finally getting rid of attached doc files everywhere.

Yes but in practice you will end up with a crappy expensive deal with the horrors of IBM burocracy where your forever doomed to run poorly configured software that might have been modern 4 years ago.

The problem is that it's danm hard to make those deals on the national scale without getting into comittee hell and end up with something thats too much based on hot air and too litle on real products.

You're once again faced with the dilemma of profitiblity virtual worlds in the sense of eve online UO WoW and similar have their loyal userbase willing to pay but the content needs to be developed at huge costs before your service gets there, and you cant run for long without adding more content.

Every other web 2.0 service face the same dilemma, either you cut your prize almost below operating cost or you spend spend spend on content. both ways makes it look a lot less like the get rich now scheme the VC investors and me-too entrepreneurs were looking for

The enviromental impact of printing paper have a lot more to do with dumping bleach in rivers and burning a lot of oil then actually clearing forrest.

Because most of the early typing contest were won by people writing on qwerty and that the avrenge speed of user on qwerty keyboard is faster the lets say dvorak whem mesuared against real life people with existing skills. Actually wery few tests not performad by Dvorak hiself show the Qwerty keyboard as slower then any other design with the posible exeption of engelbrechts 5 key one.

The myth ithat the keys were araged to just slow speed is not actually the full truth. the real point of qwerty is to avoid that syncronisation of keys and roller should macth in a way so that letters placed next to eachother got entered after another(a problem that apeared with the abcd keyboard). and since back then the order on the roler decided the keyboard layout qwerty was what came out. qwerty did go down well because the qwerty machines did in fact allow faster typing then most it's contemporary competitors.

Down at your local bank you just write up the expected resale value of your house, and give that in return for a Aston Martin paid in freshly printed money.

But you better wait a few years until theyve forgotten how the 2008 crash happened to do it.