Archive for May, 2005

With the lack of a clear roadmap for MFC it hasn’t been very clear for me and a lot of developers what the future of MFC will look like. For example, when I examine the statistics from my website, I see that a lot of people find my website by entering strings like “Longhorn and MFC” and “MFC not developed … Continue reading

It’s going to be interesting to see what Microsoft comes up with regarding their antivirus solution. They have already proven to be quite capable of delivering an antispyware solution. Microsoft’s antispyware solution currently is the best solution available for Windows. I think they’ll do a good job with antivirus as well. Their biggest competitors right now are Symantec and McAfee. … Continue reading

I was reading a blog entry today over at Robert Scoble’s blog, and noticed the following: 1) The company I work for MUST be judged differently than Google is. Why? Because of our market position. Yes, we have a monopoly. Even though Firefox has 25,000,000 downloads IE is still used on nine out of 10 computers out there. That makes … Continue reading

Michael Robertson explained in his recent Michael’s Minutes post how underpowered or limited products are not the solution for poor people in poor countries who can’t pay full price for the full product. To buy the computer, the family would take out a loan for $250-$400 and often assemble their own computer (or have it assembled by friends). They did … Continue reading

An interesting article has been published on Fortune talking about Google and Microsoft and the whole search engine “wars”. It’s a very informative article and overall a good read. Winning from Google is not going to be an easy thing for Microsoft. As is also noted in the article, Google is an entirely different company compared to, for example, Netscape. … Continue reading