Oliver Erlewein on January 1st, 2009

I wish all readers here a  H A P P Y   N E W  Y E A R ! May 2009 be a if not prosperous then certainly a joyful year. We will see major issues coming up in the year so it certainly won’t be boring. Will the financial crisis be over in 2009? [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on December 30th, 2008

Have a read here: http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/12/29/53FE-microsoft-future_1.html InfoWorld has run a cheeky little article series of where Microsoft will go in the next 10 years. Interesting is that such an article would be unheard of only 5 years ago. Where could Microsoft go? Stupid question. The answer was always “UP”. Today Microsoft is like a boxing heavyweight [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on June 20th, 2008

Most of us working in the IT industry today forget where our roots are and the huge leap we have made in the last 50 years. Since the transistor has been invented it has been one big rollercoaster ride. And all of that would probably not have happened if the A-bomb wasn’t on the horizon. [...]

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