Category Archives: Tumblelog

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Sep 7th – 9am

Have you ever danced with your software?
If Windows, Linux, Ubuntu or Mac OSX were dance partners, how would they dance? Would they lead, or would you?
More importantly, would you accept a second dance if any one of them offered?

By Chris Messina | Also posted in Technology | Comments (5)

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Aug 7th – 11pm

I bet you could recast the whole Greeks vs Romans civilization clash as something very nearly resembling today’s Windows vs Mac relationship. There seems to be the Trojan horse (when Gates invested in Apple) and now, with OSX essentially cannibalizing Windows applications, we’re seeing the story come full circle (I certainly don’t see the visually [...]

By Chris Messina | Also posted in Technology, Untitled, unfinished, incomplete | Comments (2)

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Aug 4th – 1pm

…don’t look now, but sooner or later you’ll be able to run Windows applications right from within your Intel Mac’s OS. At one point, this wasn’t exactly obvious. Fortunately, the independent market can respond faster than the stalwarts. Whether they’ll be cannibalized later on remains to be seen.

By Chris Messina | Also posted in Technology | Comments (2)