Howard Yermish, human » microsoft http://www.howardyermish.com Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:41:27 +0000 en hourly 1 WorldWide Telescope http://www.howardyermish.com/2008/04/26/worldwide-telescope/ http://www.howardyermish.com/2008/04/26/worldwide-telescope/#comments Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:27:01 +0000 Howard Yermish http://www.pianoinsidemybrain.com/?p=143 As a kid, I wanted to be an astrophysicist. Watching this demonstration was pure joy.

And for good measure, more information is available from the WorldWide Telescope website.

]]> http://www.howardyermish.com/2008/04/26/worldwide-telescope/feed/ 0 Switcher Alert: Big Blue enters Infinite Loop in Research http://www.howardyermish.com/2008/04/17/switcher-alert/ http://www.howardyermish.com/2008/04/17/switcher-alert/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:00:36 +0000 Howard Yermish http://www.pianoinsidemybrain.com/?p=131 Something is rotten in the town of Redmond, Washington. IBM is using Macs.

And through the course of this pilot program, 86% of the users wanted to keep their Macs. A quote from the article…

“When presenting at customer or external meetings, I have been greeted with the ‘wow factor.’ ‘Where’s the ThinkPad, IBM uses Apples now?’”

Mr. Gates, it’s your Karma calling. Remember back in the 80s when you ripped off IBM? I guess its Ballmer’s problem now. Perhaps that explains the following Microsoft internal promotional video.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

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