Why Windows 8 PCs Look So Darn Different
You can tell a Windows 8 computer from a Windows 7 model from across the mall. That's no accident, it's a critical to the industry's plan to…
Articles by Scott M. Fulton
Tue, 30 October 2012
Mon, 29 October 2012
27 Years Of Microsoft Windows Launches
Once upon a time the Windows logo was a flag - back in the day when the launch of a new operating system was something to celebrate. A…
Fri, 26 October 2012
Our Fastest-Growing Export: Big Data
Never has the divide between politics and reality been made clearer by the absence of any substantive discussion of the key success story of…
Tue, 23 October 2012
Next from Box: Embedding Storage in Your Apps
Working in the cloud means never having to say you forgot to save your work. Or at least it should mean that.
Thu, 11 October 2012
Could Restoring the Start Button to Windows 8 Fix Everything?
If Windows 8 truly is a pretty good operating system burdened by a poor marketing design choice, then you might think a little app that…
Fri, 5 October 2012
Top 10 Windows 8 Features #1: The Windows Store
Microsoft never has had to be the innovator in a given market to succeed. More often than not, it has followed a successful path set forth…
Wed, 3 October 2012
Microsoft’s TypeScript Fills a Long-standing Void in JavaScript
The latest language from the company once identified for its programming languages seeks to bring a higher class of developer into the Web…
Tue, 2 October 2012
Top 10 Windows 8 Features #2: The Microsoft Account
“Logging onto” Windows is something a great many users don’t do. Let’s face it, do we log onto our phones? If we’re okay…
Wed, 26 September 2012
How Iran Can Make State Censorship Into A Cash Cow
Anywhere in the world, the fastest way to make anything popular is to ban it. Certainly Iran, which actually is an Internet infrastructure…
Fri, 21 September 2012
Top 10 Windows 8 Features #3: Shared Media
If Windows 8 succeeds, it will be because its users come to embrace three of its exclusive elements as critical to the way they work and the…
Fri, 14 September 2012
"iPhone Fatigue" - What It Really Means
Just five years’ time, and already the tech press is declaring the iPhone era waning. Or more accurately, some elements of the tech…
Wed, 5 September 2012
Windows Server 2012 Puts Microsoft On Collision Course With VMware
The formal release of the final Windows Server 2012 this week sets up Microsoft for a showdown in the enterprise datacenter with its newly…
Thu, 23 August 2012
Top 10 Windows 8 Features #4: Windows To Go
The basic premise of Windows To Go sounds like it escaped from an alternate universe: Now you can take Windows home with you from work…
Fri, 10 August 2012
When and Where Will Windows 8 Matter For PC and Tablet Users?
Postponing operating system upgrades until the last possible moment, and even forestalling new PC purchases, is common among Windows…
Wed, 8 August 2012
How Much Will Windows 8 Matter to You?
At some point, you will need the next version of Windows. But that's down the road a ways. The question Windows users need to ask before…
Thu, 2 August 2012
Warring Senate Factions Punt Cybersecurity Bill Until After the Election
Today's failure in the Senate to end debate on the latest cybersecurity bill and bring it to a final vote will likely mean no action on…
Fri, 27 July 2012
Revised Cybersecurity Bill Still Faces Partisan Gauntlets
The U.S. Senate is about to deliberate a highly revised cybersecurity bill - one that last weekend won the endorsement of President Obama…
Big Data: What Do You Think It Is?
"Big Data" is the technology that is supposedly reshaping the data center. Sure, the data center isn't as fun a topic as the iPad…
Wed, 18 July 2012
Does Microsoft's "Forgetting" the EU's Browser Ballot Matter Anymore?
The world once debated whether Internet Explorer's dominance in Web browsers was fair in the wake of Microsoft's conduct against Netscape…
Tue, 17 July 2012
The New Office 365: Baby Steps in the Right Direction
Let's be clear about what was unveiled Monday afternoon by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in San Francisco: It wasn't Office 2013 - not really…
Thu, 7 June 2012
VMware's Database Play: "Disk Is the New Tape"
Virtualization technology made it feasible for databases of gigabyte or even terabyte size to be managed entirely in memory. This…
Wed, 6 June 2012
The Tortured History of Internet Protocol v6
Welcome to the new Internet! Last night, some 200 major service providers, including AT&T, Cisco, Comcast, Google, Facebook…
Tue, 5 June 2012
HP Reveals Post-Acquisition Plans for Autonomy
Last summer, when HP gave up on smartphones to place a $10.3 billion bet on semantic-search company Autonomy, then-CEO Leo Apotheker's…
Mon, 4 June 2012
The United Nations Could Seize the Internet, U.S. Officials Warn
Several emerging countries are rallying behind a campaign to have the International Telecommunications Union, the U.N.'s global standards…
