It threatened the worst. Yesterday saw a month’s rain fall in the space of 24 hours. Today…Death by PowerPoint - slow and painful. What’s more all this taking place in an economic climate bleaker than yesterday’s British Summer.

I’ve just returned from a Sage Software Business Partner event in central London. Read more

As of June 30, large PC makers will no longer be able to sell Windows XP-based PCs, at least on mainstream notebooks and desktops. Retailers will also have only until their current supply is exhausted to sell boxed copies of the operating system. Despite a brief “Save XP” movement (and continued criticism of Windows Vista from many corners), it appears that Microsoft is not going to change the deadline, which is now just 10 days away. Read more

This week I attended a meeting within the offices of one of the UK’s largest software houses.  Having never been there before I was struck with how impressive the building appears as you approach by road.  It is an imposing and formidable structure, very angular and much glass.  This feat of modern architecture is in stark contrast to the barren “wasteland” that surrounds it.

Even before entering the building, everything about the construction speaks size.  Read more

Every business has a dream. If not, why bother spending so much time and effort on something which other people are doing already? The difference is some businesses are ‘living the dream’ whilst others merely ‘talk the dream’. Allow me to explain. Read more

Let’s say for arguments sake that Microsoft is successful in its takeover of Yahoo! Where does Microsoft see the end game? Granted that the biggest driver here is advertising revenue, but is that it? Will we get a Google imitation - just some software originally developed ‘the old way’, client-server and standalone products, others online apps? Read more

Where were you during the Winter Sales? In the street, online, or just at home - not bothered? With five consecutive interest rate rises, confidence undermined by turbulence in financial markets and the collapse of Northern Rock, retailers have warned for some time that things might become unstuck in the retail sales market this Xmas. Read more

Do you remember the days when the future of computing in this country was a small black box, television screen, small tape recorder - otherwise known as the ZX Spectrum.  How I idled away hours in getting the thing to repeat the words “Zeidman is Cool!!” a hundred times down the screen. Read more