http://www.theopensourcery.com/wordp1/index.php Watching IT Patterns Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:46:31 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss092 jbsurv@theopensourcery.com jbsurv@theopensourcery.com en Everybody keeps telling me that the mobile phone race is over - Apple has won the top tier and Microsoft-machines will clean-up on the low end. May be not. First, Nokia is open-sourcing Symbian with a consortia of manufacturers and major mobile phone services. With a good operating system going open more developers will be attracted and the minimal price versus $15/phone from Microsoft is right for margin thin mobile manufactures. Next ... http://www.theopensourcery.com/wordp1/index.php?p=796 HP has seen the light and is pre-installing the Windows XP downgrade from Windows Vista. And coincidentally, Microsoft has extended the downgrade privileges to OEM vendors of Vista for 6 months. Hmmm is Microsoft finally acceding to market demands and XPs 40% speed/performance lead ??? Is the Windows XP include the latest Service Pack 3 ??? Is DELL doing this ??? Stay tuned.... Meanwhile this says a lot about what ... http://www.theopensourcery.com/wordp1/index.php?p=795 Information in covering the Cloud Computing has spoken about how Cloud Computing was leading to the consumerization of IT (see their September 8 2008 issue etc). Even after reading I was not sure what Information Week meant by consumerization of IT let alone whether this would be a successful endeavor. However, after attending Word Camp 2008 in Toronto, I got a much better idea of what consumerization of IT might mean. Let ... http://www.theopensourcery.com/wordp1/index.php?p=794 There was a sculpture at this weekend's Nuit Blanche in Toronto that was so cleverly puckish it was bewitching. Immediately when I saw it I broke-out laughing so raucously that I flatly embarrassed my Nuit Blanche companion. Now in my defense I can say that we had just been discussing how both MacOS and Windows Vista were becoming so bloated and barnacled with spurious "features" which dragged down overall ... http://www.theopensourcery.com/wordp1/index.php?p=793 On the day after Labor Day I got a browser surprise. During my Windows XP updates (I always select user customized over the default because Redmond gives me stuff I don't want unlike on my Linux notebook), Microsoft offered me a chance to try the IE8 beta. But to my surprise (and no control) the updater ripped out IE7 and replaced it with the IE8 beta. Now I didn't want this ... http://www.theopensourcery.com/wordp1/index.php?p=784