There was only one decent reason to buy a PC in the months leading up to the launch of Windows Vista: the Express Upgrade program, which gave buyers of new PCs with Windows XP a free or cheap upgrade to Vista. The "Express" part of the upgrade is turning out to be a bit misleading for Dell customers, with the upgrades arriving on a first-come first-served basis in as many as 6-8 weeks, plus a website that’s experiencing nasty downtime, bugs, driver issues and other kinks.
Time to Schedule Your Pay-Per-Click Ads
The WSJ tackles a reader question about the best time to schedule PPC ads. Of course, WSJ knowing nothing about the subject, turns to recent comScore data for its answer.
Vista On Schedule Says Microsoft
The long-awaited operating system to replace Windows XP should reach customers as expected by Microsoft.
Microsoft Says Vista Is On Schedule For Release
After delaying the release several times, Microsoft now assures the world that Vista will meet its slated launch date of January 2007. Vista represents the first major overhaul in five years for the venerable Windows operating system. Windows is used on about 90 percent of the world’s computers, and its sales account for about one-third of Microsoft’s total revenue.
Simple Schedule
I often get asked for web-based scheduling programs. I’ve done quite a few of them over the years, sometimes using scripts available from the web, but more often writing my own simply because I don’t like modifying other people’s code.
Lee Begins Google Job On Schedule
A flurry of reports have Google’s newest executive, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, the center of a non-compete lawsuit controversy, beginning his duties on schedule in Beijing despite squawking from Microsoft’s camp. The hotly contested president of Google China had a busy day Monday, working to get the research center off the ground.
Stop the Press – Software Delivered to Schedule!
What if writing and delivering software were like publishing a newspaper?
After more than fifty years of practicing software development, the experts of our trade are now agreed: we are still useless at it.
Reduce Schedule Pressure for Greater Employee Satisfaction
With the dot com burst of 2001 companies now demand more
tangible ROI from each project that they approve. In order
to remain competitive in today’s feature-rich products’
world, companies need to complete the implementation of even
complex features in record time.