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1. Comment - Will Office 2010 put Google Apps in its place?

   (Jul 13, 2009 - 11:39 PM)

   I'm glad you asked for a citation, here it is:
   http://www.betanews.com/...a-run-slower/1244848834

2. Comment - Top 5 obvious feature enhancements to Microsoft Office 2010

   (Jul 13, 2009 - 3:17 PM)

   All Office 2010 needs to be a huge success is to add a "classic mode" that makes it work just like Office 2003.

3. Comment - Will Office 2010 put Google Apps in its place?

   (Jul 13, 2009 - 3:13 PM)

   For users who do simple tasks with a word processor or a spreadsheet (90% of home users and at least 50% of business users), Openoffice.org has everything you need and can read and write to Microsoft Office file formats perfectly. For people who need the Outlook Calendar, 100% cross compatibility with more advanced features, more advanced graphs or the familiar Powerpoint templates, Microsoft Office is still irreplaceable. But, every person I know who has used both Office 2003 (or earlier) and Office 2007 dislikes Office 2007 and prefers the older versions. Adding a new interface is fine, but it was a big misstep for Microsoft not to offer a "classic mode" option that puts everything back where it belongs.
   
   Windows 7 gives back about half of the performance that Vista took away from XP. Vista was 25% slower than XP, Windows 7 is only about 10% slower. This improvent compared to Vista is more than enough so that people will warmly embrace Windows 7. All Microsoft needs to do to make Office 2010 a huge success is give back what they took away. If Office 2010 includes a "classic mode" to make it like Office 2003/XP/2000, it will be a winner.

4. Comment - Google Chrome OS: Too little, too early

   (Jul 10, 2009 - 8:56 PM)

   There is a huge market for netbooks, and Microsoft is not allowing netbooks with a screen size larger than 10.2 inches to run Windows 7 starter edition. Intel is making chipsets for CULV laptop/netbooks with 13 and 14 inch - these computers will cost under $300 in the long run. There is no room in the budget for those netbooks to reach that price point if they have to pay for a full Windows 7 license. Until Microsoft lowered the price of XP for netbooks, all netbooks ran Linux. If Microsoft tries to force up the price of netbooks by not allowing an inexpensive operating system (XP will only be supported until 2014 - it will soon no longer be viable to be buying new netbooks that will only get 4 years of support), they will make room for Google Chrome OS or some other Linux to take over the netbook space again.

5. Comment - Before it can tackle Windows, Chrome must leave Safari in the dust

   (Jul 10, 2009 - 7:05 PM)

   These tests would be a lot more helpful if they weren't multiplied by the Acid3 score. In the real world, even though Opera and Safari score higher on Acid3, the browser with the least compatibility problems is IE. Acid3 is nice as a club to encourage future development, and it is shocking and nice to see that even IE improved its Acid2 scores. However, when comparing the speed and even the compatibility of browsers, Acid3 is useless. Let's see some real speed scores that aren't distorted by Acid3 which has nothing to do with real world compatibility or performance.