Cringley makes me laugh

I like reading i, cringley because it makes me laugh. Does someone really get paid to put together supposition, rumour and hear-say with some really paranoid conspiracy theories. He’s obviously a much smarter man than I am.

The last post on Apple and it’s domination strategy and the fact that he thinks buying Adobe would bring it to fruition was great.

You’ll have to read the article to understand some of the things I am rabbiting on about here.

He says that he is talking about an application strategy – which he equates to an ‘Office’ strategy. Wow, what a mistake.

‘Office’ capabilities are a huge set of the capabilities that people use day-to-day, but having been involved in desktop transformations since there have been desktop transformation I can tell you that the volume of applications other than ‘Office’ are the issue. In order for Apple to overcome this ‘inertia’ they need to be able to guarantee, and I mean guarantee, that all of the applications are going to work with whatever compatibility technology they are going to make available. That is a massive risk for most businesses and not one that they will be willing to take on.

The other point he makes is that ‘Windows is far more vulnerable today than it was then from a security standpoint.’ That’s an interesting view, most other people seem to be tackling this from a different perspective – Windows XP SP2 is good enough. And just because Windows is vulnerable it doesn’t make Office vulnerable. OpenOffice has been around for a good few years now, but it still hasn’t built anything like a dominant position even though it’s free.

Anyway it made me laugh.