Microsoft’s new bizarre revenue model? Behave like a petulant four-year-old. “He’s touching me! He’s touching me!”
Uh, guys? We hate your stuff. With a passion. Why on earth would we steal it?
Friday, March 28, 2008
Sharepoint, how I hate thee
Yesterday I spent several hours creating a SharePoint Datasheet page that I could have created in ten minutes in a Wiki or a CMS. As if this wasn’t annoying enough, this morning I read how SharePoint is earning Microsoft a ton of money. How irritating.
Friday, March 21, 2008
Whoops! They did it again.
Microsoft’s latest foray into things that might possibly have a small chance of not sucking is their new MOSS offering – Sharepoint as a service. Now I know what you’re thinking: has That Software Guy lost his mind? Actually using a low quality, buggy, insecure Microsoft service?
Relax. I’m just doing it because I needed a laugh. And sure enough, I got one.
The marketing ploy is, “use MOSS because you won’t have to provision your own capacity to run Sharepoint – we’ll do it for you.” But then when it comes to actually trialling the service, you get a pretty blue dialog that says,
* The number of available trial accounts has temporarily reached its limit.
ROTFL!! Boy, that’s sure a confidence builder.
OK, so why would someone who wasn’t clueless use a closed-source content management system? Why would you choose to be at the mercy of a single vendor with such a lousy delivery record? And has Microsoft finally solved problems that everyone else figured out decades ago, such as managing multiple simultaneous updates to a single resource? (The Sharepoint 2003 answer was “last one in wins with no notification of impending overwrite.” Nice!)
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Microsoft Announces “Super Standards” Mode
How hellish that you should have to instruct the browser to behave (approximately) the way everyone has agreed it should. This reminds me of the story of the magic switch – except in this case, the switch would be labelled “broken” and “more broken.” 
