May

3

Microsoft pulls its bid for Yahoo!

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That’s right — no Microhoo in any of our futures. I’ll bet Google and Yahoo! will pull some sort of partnership out of the hat and make things even more interesting.

May

5

Microsoft

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You know what I want to see from Microsoft?  Innovation.  Microsoft has the resources to do a lot of neat things and while I’m regularly made fun of, by friends, for being a Microsoft fan boy, they’ve really disappointed me this go around.

They should be hammering companies like nVidia to have stable, feature-complete drivers ready for their $600 flag-ship video cards upon release.

They should be the first to release features like desktop composition, 3D accelerated GUIs, etc.  They shouldn’t have to play catch-up with Apple or Linux or anyone else.  It’s sad, really.  The best-funded company in the world has stopped innovating and brining new things to the table before anyone else.  Now, they just follow.

Of course, there are exceptions — the xbox brand, anyone?  They’ve done an amazing job with it, even if they’re not yet profitable.  There’s a lot of “neato” behind it, brand and content integration, etc.

My challenge to MS is to use all of the talent and resources they have — stop following and start leading.  Start innovating in the finest sense.  I suppose we’ll see what happens in the coming years, I suppose, as the Google-Microsoft-Yahoo hate-love-triangle heats up.

May

3

Infrant “merges” with Netgear

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I received an email from the president and founder of Infrant Technologies today announcing that Infrant would be “merging” with Netgear.  I want to know how this will impact my ReadyNAS NV+ and its future support — Netgear isn’t exactly open with their products so important features like SSH (promised by Infrant for some time now on the NV series) may never make it to market.  Hopefully they open up the NV+ a bit and give us that 2.6 kernel-based firmware for it.