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Monday, November 15, 2004
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Control the use of PCs at work -- Comment()
Many employees bring their own photos and music to PCs at work. This is a grave security risk, which must be controlled. Fortunately the new security systems will end this undisciplined practice - and stop piracy at the same time. My net column on this topic just appeared (in Finnish, Kuria tietokoneiden luvattomaan ja holtittomaan käyttöön).
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Novell sues Microsoft over WordPerfect: "Novell has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, accusing it of unfairly eliminating competition for office productivity applications at the time Novell owned the WordPerfect and Quattro Pro applications." [Computerworld News]
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Cleaning up the software mess -- Comment()
The True Story of Audion: "iTunes was, of course, and I'll say this now, brilliant. It single-handedly taught us an entirely new philosophy on software design. Do you really need that Preference that 1% of your users will use? Can you find a better way to design that interface than having each function in a separate window? Can you clean this up, even if it means it's a little less flexible? iTunes blazed the trail for clean, efficient software design for a broad audience, a design philosophy we practice actively today. It was a way to take a complicated digital music collection, and make it easy. Sure, it was limited, but man was it easy."
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