In this article about Bill Gates' transition, we find this gem: For much of Microsoft's existence, its two biggest money-makers, Windows and Office, have been firmly rooted on the PC desktop, where they enjoyed little meaningful competition. Wow. Someone...

Now, I've been reading Jonathan Schwartz's blog for a while now (he's CEO of Sun Microsystems), and always appreciated his candor and openness. But this announcement reminds me of this .

Not too long ago, Jan Miksovsky wrote about how confusing OpenID is to users due to the way sites expose it, and the overly developer-centric focus of the OpenID.net site. He makes a number of interesting points, most of which I agree with. In particular...

Regular readers * of this blog will know that I have a thing for definitions of program management (see mine , Chris Pratley's , and Steven Sinofsky's ). The Exchange team recently put up a recruiting site, called ExchangeYourCareer.com . On it, they...

Some years ago Chris Pratley, an Office GPM, wrote an interesting article that talks about some of the mid-90s competition in the word processing space from the point of view of someone working on Microsoft Word. The thing about these comparative reviews...

Now this is how powerful software gets made.