On 07/08/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Nice. I especially like your phrase "Analysts flagged..." as another worthy successor to "Critics claimed that...".
hah! Note the references. In this case it goes that early in the article because it was so obviously crap from the second it was announced.
I also like the fact that after reading the article, you think "my god, what a stupid product", but the wording is perfectly NPOV, and there's nothing but the facts to tell you how misguided it was.
It's really not a bad idea on the face of it. But their mistake was not just making a terminal server client for a PocketPC, which would do the same job better. If only their licensing department hadn't utterly crippled the idea. Remember: proprietary software is not just evil, it's *stupid*.
- d.