http://www.thedigitaldecade.com Are we in it? Or is it still ahead. Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:17:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en “Take a behind the scenes look at the next generation of Windows. TalkingaboutWindows.com offers IT professionals genuine insight on Windows 7 from the Microsoft engineers who helped build the product. Listen as they talk about why product decisions and feature trade-offs were made. Also, get real-world commentary from ... http://www.thedigitaldecade.com/2009/08/14/talking-about-windows/ Mobility Today is having a great 2009 Giveaway. Check them out. Link: http://mobilitytoday.com/news/009201/mobilitytoday_giveaway_2009 Participate and win! The time has come and we are ready to have some fun. Starting today January 12th til Sunday February 1st we will be giving away over ... http://www.thedigitaldecade.com/2009/01/16/mobility-today-giveaway/   http://www.thedigitaldecade.com/2009/01/14/couple-of-logo-ideas/ The early years Gates, born on October 28, 1955, had a passion for computers right from his school days. He made money from software even while at school! Bill Gates and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen studied together in high school. In Lakeside ... http://www.thedigitaldecade.com/2008/08/26/a-success-story-called-microsoft/ At the end of the month, Bill Gates is stepping down as chief software architect of Microsoft, and retiring from his day-to-day role at Microsoft, the company he co-founded and led for most of the past 30 years. Michael J. Miller, former PC Magazine Editor-in-Chief, sat down with him to ... http://www.thedigitaldecade.com/2008/08/26/exclusive-the-bill-gates-exit-interview/ Microsoft's cofounder says he'll do charitable work after he retires this month. But we have some other suggestions: driving instructor, expert witness, and circus clown for starters. And Bill has experience in all of them. For more than 30 years he has roamed among us, a strange hybrid of ... http://www.thedigitaldecade.com/2008/06/16/10-potential-second-careers-for-bill-gates/ http://www.thedigitaldecade.com/2008/06/10/live-blogging-from-teched-keynote-2008/ Lest we forget the turgid history of some other horrifically bad promotional videos from Microsoft that will forever be burned into our brains. Here are some of my top picks: 8. Steve Ballmer Sells Windows 1.0 Do plaid suits make you think of Crockett and ... http://www.thedigitaldecade.com/2008/05/20/the-top-8-worst-microsoft-promo-videos/ Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen were all smiles in 1983 just after delivering MS Dos for the Tandy laptop and signing a contract to write MS-DOS for IBM. 1975: Bill Gates and Paul Allen create a partnership called Micro-soft. ... http://www.thedigitaldecade.com/2008/04/05/april-4-1975-bill-gates-paul-allen-form-a-little-partnership/ You rarely hear about a new OS causing people to panic. But IT consultant Scott Pam says that's exactly what his small-business clients are doing when they install Windows Vista on new PCs and run smack into compatibility or usability roadblocks. Pam's clients are not alone: Since InfoWorld launched ... http://www.thedigitaldecade.com/2008/02/15/why-people-hate-vista/