From The New York Times

We have a number of users of this blog that like to comment on PowerPoint

From the article: ““PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina. (He spoke without PowerPoint.) Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster, who banned PowerPoint presentations when he led the successful effort to secure the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar in 2005, followed up at the same conference by likening PowerPoint to an internal threat.”

We have Met The Enemy and He is PowerPoint

What do you think?  What do you think of “The Slide”?

From Baseline Magazine

Slideshow makes a series of observations  “What’s Wrong with Microsoft”

Do you agree?

Ok, so we had some fun with the Microsoft Surface Parody.

I recently read a FAST COMPANY article online , with a series of short videos on apps for the Microsoft Surface. 

What do you think? Innovative?  Will these apps help diffuse the technology?

In Stephen H. Wildstrom’s column entitled “Meet Cisco, the Consumer Company“  we red that Cisco, long a technology company is now becoming a consumer company.  It is taking its shot at “convergence” which we have discussed in some classes; convergence is is where computers, entertainment, and the internet come together.

We can already see that HP, APPLE, SONY, and Microsoft are working in this (convergence) space.  Is the wireless network the place to pull this all together?

CISCO is coming out with the “Conductor” a wireless home audio device.  Interesting.  I already have a Cisco wireless router in my home; seems a logical extension.  The article points out that Cisco is already working with the cable companies, it may have some trouble keeping both their B2B customers as well as their B2C customers happy.

What do you think about Cisco’s moves?   What are your thoughts on convergence?

In Stephen Wildstrom’s article “Windows 7: A Sight for Sore Users” he tells us that Windows 7 will address some of VISTA’s “annoyances”.  He tells us that they borrow from OS X (APPLE) and seem to feature simplicity (GOGGLE?).

From a product design standpoint, what can we learn from this?  What are the driving trends?  Will Microsoft get it right?  (I expect so, especially if they learn from APPLE and GOOGLE).

Wildstrom tells us that “printers should all work fine”, this is a relief.

What do you think?  Should they be innovating?  How?  Which direction?  Should they set the trend?