Market Watch (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Based on Microsoft’s history in advertising, John Dvorak starts with the logical premise that the new Microsoft advertising campaign with Jerry Seinfeld will stink.
Network Performance Daily (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Saying that your business should never, never, never use cloud-based applications instead of desktop or network/server based ones is about as ridiculous as saying that cloud-based applications will eventually replace IT completely . With an article that begins with “ Cloud computing apps are for suckers. If there is an alternative that runs locally on your own machine, it will always be better,” John...
Communications Breakdown (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
My second poll has ended. Time for some commentary and a new poll. Basically, it is Andrew Odlyzko v. John Dvorak (not to be confused with Anton). (Anybody care to make a Wikipedia entry about me?) 1. Outcome of Poll #2 What to do about illegal P2P file sharing? (multiple answers were possible) It's like shoplifting: learn to live with it. 8%It's illegal and killing ISPs: keep fighting...
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Microsoft's Silverlight is a direct attack on Adobe's Flash, and Adobe has to do something other than run away from Microsoft, writes John Dvorak.
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Dell wants to own the trademark for “cloud computing.” And it's creating bad publicity for the company within a blogosphere that wrongly thinks the term is public domain.
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
All the analysis and corporate posturing over the Vista publicity stunt miss the key point: Microsoft has to ask itself why it needs to do something like this in the first place, writes John Dvorak.
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The latest thinking in the Silicon Valley scene regarding the Microsoft-Yahoo-Carl Icahn Saga, which is not going away, might be about some sort of killer patent owned by Yahoo. Right now financial researchers everywhere are trying to figure out what exactly the patent is.
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Microsoft has posted continuous profits and great financial results over the years, including its whopper earnings report on Thursday. Meanwhile, the stock has done nothing for years and everyone must wonder why, writes John Dvorak.
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Yes he does. Every Apple launch, at least one tech journalist goes meta and calls out other journalists for being Apple shills. Meanwhile, PC Mag gives the iPhone a 4/5 rating with Editor's Choice,...
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
The good news is that a fix for an Internet flaw has been made. The bad news is the experts say that the fix only makes it harder, not impossible, for hackers to exploit the flaw, writes John Dvorak.
Rob Fahrni (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
CNet | The Open Road : "Columnist John Dvorak thinks that Adobe Systems has a Microsoft problem and that Linux provides a clear solution:" - This has already been done for Adobe , it's called Mac OS X . Now, the one cool thing about this idea is simple. If Adobe developed their own Linux OS we'd finally get a real end-user version of Linux. Do they need it, no, would it make for interesting...
Digital Media thoughts (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Don't you just hate it how, over time, hard drives fill up? I'm pretty strict about my data, keeping a tight reign on it (I should sit down with John Dvorak and give him some tips, he needs them ). On my workstation and media editing station, I have 150 GB Western Digital Raptor hard drives - very fast, but not especially spacious in comparison to the 500 GB drives that ship in even...
