Originally posted here. How to take how Google treats its employees and use it to your advantage. I had an opportunity to visit a friend of mine who works at one of Google’s satellite offices (not the main GooglePlex in Mountain View, Calif.). It was an eye-opening experience on several levels: the number of people [...]

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Originally posted here. Posted by Matt Asay And to think Microsoft used to be popular with the developer crowd…Not anymore. A recent report from Evans Data shows fewer than one in 10 software developers writing applications for Windows Vista this year. Eight percent. This is perhaps made even worse by the corresponding data that shows [...]

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Originally posted here. “Windows is too monolithic,” says Gartner Microsoft’s Windows operating system is teetering on the edge of catastrophic collapse. So say analysts at respected technology consultancy Gartner. Of course, since the release of the troubled Vista iteration of Windows, sticking the boot into Microsoft has been a popular sport for cranks and commentators [...]

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TAIPEI, Taiwan — June 3, 2008 — Today at Computex, Microsoft Corp. announced that following the success of Windows on netbooks, the Windows offering is being extended to include nettop devices. Netbooks are commonly referred to as ultralow-cost PCs (ULCPCs) and were originally intended for students and other first-time PC customers in emerging markets. Nettop [...]

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Aww crap, here it comes, since I use TWC for my Internet provider, this could really suck, but then that’s what work bandwidth is for right?!? Originally posted here NEW YORK (Reuters) – Time Warner Cable Inc on Thursday will begin testing a service that charges consumers of high-speed Internet service based on their usage. [...]

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