Random Bytes...by Ross Rader

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Monday, August 4

[11:37AM EDT] CNET is running a piece entitled "Battle of the blog". This turned out to be a moderately sensational piece, as far as technology reporting goes. What gets missed is that the impact on the end-user, unlike most standards battles, is largely incidental because there are already a ton of "stand-ins" that we already use to perform the underlying critical functions - ie, things like RSS itself.

This is not a "non-issue", but its also not the big battle that Festa makes it out to be. C | T (6) | #

[11:23AM EDT] "How to install Windows XP in 5 hours or less" wherein Mark runs into the fact that XP Pro is actually shorthand for "extremely painful process".

Not sure about his concept of the half-life - haven't seen it yet with any of my XP boxen, but then again, I do undertake moderately serious maintenance every six months or so. Not sure what his regimen is. XP Pro isn't really built for professionals. I wish MS would take a page out of Corel's playbook and ask you some question during install that lead you towards an installation that makes sense for what you need to use the OS for - ie XP for Developers, XP for hardcore office workers, XP for executive assistants. No instead we get "Photo Album wizards" in XP Pro.

I know there's a bunch of smart people at Microsoft, but why aren't they thinking? C | T (38) | #

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