“War against Web tops music biz ‘screw-ups’ list”…
…as anyone living in the last decade with two eyes and a brain could have told you.
Archive of posts filed under the Business category.
Topics on businesses, good and bad.
“They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know.”
Windows Vista, how do I dislike thee? The New York Times counts the ways — using Microsoft’s internal e-mails from their own staff and board members to do it.
“How Hard Could It Be?: Inspired Misfires”
Joel Spolsky has an interesting article in February’s Inc. Magazine (readable online here). It might explain something I’ve never been able to figure out: why no one else seems to be seriously pursuing Project X, even though the idea behind it is hundreds of years old.
John Dies At The End To Be Made Into A Movie?!
Someone actually purchased the movie rights to John Dies At The End. In case you hadn’t run across it yet, John Dies At The End (JDatE) is a “ridiculous horror novel” from David Wong, the mind that brought you the Pointless Waste of Time website (and is now an editor at Cracked Magazine). Un-frickin’-believable. To …
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“Microsoft battles Vista perception issues with $15,000 prize”
This quote pretty much covers it: In what can only be described as an act of utter desperation to overcome Vista’s mostly negative public perception issues, Microsoft Australia has put together an online “Fact or Fiction†quiz all about Windows Vista. Un-frickin’-believable. Squared.
“HP signs up Sony Pictures for made-on-demand DVDs”
People have been predicting something like this for a long time, though I frankly expected the book-publishing industry to jump on it first… it’s hard to find out-of-print books (though not as hard as it once was, thanks to Amazon).
“Vista successor, Windows 7 to be released next year? | APC Magazine”
Great. If it reverses some of the truly bone-headed decisions that Vista was graced with — such as the Hollywood-friendly but user-hostile DRM stuff that’s built in — then it can’t come soon enough. And apparently even Microsoft secretly agrees… Pulling such a major release forward would be out of character for Microsoft. Could this …
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“Is the music industry dying?”
That seemed like a rhetorical question to me when I first read it. But after reading the rest of the article, I’ve changed my mind. The music industry is alive and well, and in fact is thriving — it’s just the existing music labels, with their extremely wasteful business models, that are suffering: EMI, recently …
“Blu-ray vs. HD DVD: I don’t care who wins!”
I’ll second that. Not that I plan to move to either in the foreseeable future — DVDs do the job just fine for me.
“Save Windows XP”
InfoWorld has started a petition to Microsoft, asking them to continue selling Windows XP after the June 30th, 2008, cutoff date. Even if you don’t use Windows yourself, think about the people you support… then go sign the petition, because being interested in computing is going to get a lot worse if Microsoft is allowed …