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Tuesday, 20th November 2007

...and there are CHALLENGES !

It will be interesting to see how Microsoft recovers in the next 5 years from the release of Windows Vista given the current corporate backlash they are suffering from releasing a product which, in the corporate environment, does everything slower than XP.

First, however, let’s put this comment in context. I am personally an admirer of Bill Gates (and Paul Allen) because he is simply a business genius. There are sport geniuses, like Pele and Maradona in soccer, and that new wonder Brazilian soccerwoman Marta; there are music geniuses, enter Beethoven, Jimmy Hendrix, and a few more; there are mathematical geniuses, physics geniuses, and there are also the not so well recognized business geniuses, and in my opinion Bill Gates is right at the very top of that particular pile, in a class of his own. So I admire the guy – I don’t necessarily subscribe to all his visions, but I admire the guy nevertheless, and I like Microsoft products because, generally, most of their products are in the top 20% of their respective categories.

All of that said, however, Vista was a mistake, in my view, and I for one do not believe Bill Gates had very significant input on it. Search the web, collect all publicised Bill Gates inner beliefs about software, Windows, and the PC down the years and I would bet Vista does not pass any of his own past measurements. XP SP2 is a F.A.N.T.A.S.T.I.C operating system which needed evolution rather than backward revolution and, I guarantee you, Bill understands that very well.

So, back to my original statement : it will be interesting to see how Microsoft recovers in the next 5 years.

Why ?

Watch below for a vision of the very very near future – the day when it no longer matters whether your PC is running Windows or Linux as long as everything it runs is what you are used to using under Windows :

I don’t know about you but when a giant like Asus comes up with something this good as an alternative, it has to make you sit up....

—— (TUT) SpaceMan

Wednesday, 7th November 2007

The Best Tax Saving Tip (aka 'Crazy Laws') !

Right on. Here is a secret that only you, the reader, now know : I'm planning to get a side evening job at the downtown Sheraton. I'll make an extra $500 every night and I have no intention of telling the Taxman as I actually don't mind the Taxman knowing. That should save me a few tax bucks over the year. Why ? Because here in the UK you don't have to tell anything to the Taxman that you don't mind him knowing.

Don't believe it ? Check here.

I tell you : I don't care what anyone says, 1727, 1843, 1911, 2007, some laws are crazy in the context of ANY century !

—— (TUT) SpaceMan