Saturday, August 23, 2003
Microsoft's entrance to spark corporate IM. Riding a tide of desktop domination, Microsoft's latest foray into presence is expected to kick-start corporate adoption of IM. Lateness to market, however, has analysts skeptical as to how the offering will compete against those of longtime collaboration players such as IBM. [InfoWorld: Top News]
10:33:55 PM    
According to Google, what percentage of Web users are still running Windows 98?  Answer:  30%.  Interesting given XPs relatively low hardware requirement.  Now, what percentage of users will be running Lonhorn in 2007 (2 years after its release) given this hardware requirement:

This means Longhorn is going to have some heady requirements, at least compared with today's Windows. The bare minimum Longhorn system will have to be able to display at least 1024 x 768 with 32-bit color, and it must include a hardware accelerated 3D video card with at least 64 MB of RAM. But this is the base requirement: To take advantage of the fun eye candy Microsoft has planned, you'll need advanced video hardware with at least 128 MB of RAM.

[John Robb's Weblog]
10:32:38 PM    

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