Blog: Tea and Toast | Category: Web Development | By: Alex Brindal
Let me start off by saying I’ve had a lot more experience with Word'07 then I have Open Office (OOo), and I do agree with those who thinks it's unfair to compare a free product to a fee product, but the reality is that's the first thing someone thinks when...
Tags: office 2003 source 2007 word writer compare open microsoft ooo | Comments 1
Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
I no longer use any Microsoft software at all to perform my daily activities. Am now completely Micrsoft free! I've been able to be productive on both a Linux desktop as well as on a Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard desktop. Who would have thought it would be that...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
After a long wait, it finally arrived last week. I'm now the proud owner of an Apple Mac Book Pro. I had ordered close to the top of the line Mac Book Pro (MBP), 4GB of Ram, High Resolution 17" monitor, 7200 RPM 200GB hard drive. This meant that...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
My monitor blanked out on my Windows XP based IBM T42p Thinkpad. Worry crossed my mind, as I thought the machine had died. Quickly, I realised that the monitor had turned itself off for no reason. I rebooted (as it was a Windows machine) and the system came...
Tags: linux work apple productivity microsoft status+report | Comments 3
Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: SaaS | By: Nick Hortovanyi
As some reading this might know I'm a bit tired of Microsoft everywhere, so I apologize in advance if you perceive some negative sentiment towards Microsoft. I have been like that since 2001/2002, when .NET was announced/released and everyone came knocking on...
Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
A couple of days ago, I found an article by the Burton Group on the current excitement surrounding Microsoft Sharepoint. As I have a focus with WebSphere Portal, any article describing whats happening with Sharepoint is of interest to me. Especially, when...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
Its that time of year, when writing about your predictions for 2008 is all the rage. I've been tagging some by others on del.icio.us with prediction2008 . I've included my current del.licio.us tags in descending order of importance. It highlights the areas...
Tags: cloud java microsoft tag prediction2008 google ibm soa lotus+connections del.icio.us web2.0 opensource blog development architecture saas collaboration business | Comments 0
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