MICROSOFT FLOUNDERS

Windows 7 is a staggering achievement. Microsoft delivered exactly the right product at the right time and will completely dominate desktop computing for the foreseeable future. Microsoft shows no signs of being able to do anything similar in any of the other areas...

THE SHRINKING OF THE LONG TAIL

A full-scale war is brewing between Amazon and Wal-Mart and it’s not completely obvious that consumers will be the winners. Prices are not the only thing that matters; we will all be poorer if we have less variety available as a side effect of the war. Wal-Mart...

Black Friday

Have you noticed how the Thanksgiving shopping experience has changed in the last few years? Until recently, merchants tried to build excitement by keeping the Friday sale prices secret until the Thursday ads appeared in the newspaper. An online cottage industry grew...

LEXISNEXIS KILLS BILLING MATTERS

Billing Matters, the LexisNexis law office billing and accounting program, was killed last week. This was circulated Thursday and appeared in the TechnoLawyer newsletter. "Effective September 1, Billing Matters® will be placed in maintenance mode. During...

MICROSOFT DROPS OFFICE ACCOUNTING

  Microsoft is now completely out of the accounting software market, following Friday’s announcement that it is dropping all of its remaining Office Accounting products. At one time it appeared that Microsoft was going to be a player in accounting software for...