It was publicized that Microsoft sold 40 million licenses of its Windows Vista OS. The question is if this is for real or not?

For real:

• Microsoft's revenues during Q1 2007 were reported to be much higher than in previous quarters.

But more than 10% of those revenues are deferred income from the Software Assurance program, which is being recognized ( Read more... )

As someone who is interested in side businesses, I have a pet peeve in the form of certain businesspeople wannabes ( Read more... )

It was time to upgrade my backup capabilities by adding an external DVD burner to the computer hardware which I have ( Read more... )

After the end of this round of the Second Lebanon War, the Israeli newspapers are full of revelations and protests about the foul-ups in IDF. There are even calls for the current leaders to go home (but who can replace them in the helm ( Read more... )

Paul Graham, in his How to Be Silicon Valley essay (also discussed in Slashdot), mentions that a Silicon Valley requires that two types of people - nerds and rich people - live in the same city ( Read more... )

Few weeks ago I was informed about few software development openings in a startup. I figured that it may be good idea to work for a while for a startup, to peer with strong software developers, to pick up again the last word in the practice of managing software development projects, after few years of having been alone at top of the software ( Read more... )