Craig Burton

Mary Jo Foley points the post by the WinFS team that puts a spin on the fact WinFS is really dead. WinFS was anti web anyway. Good riddance.

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My favorite research tool–Onfolio–was purchased by Microsoft in March. I missed that. Onfolio is now free and part of the Live Toolbar. I’m not so hot about the toolbar, but you owe it to yourself to check out Onfolio.

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Doc Searls overheard Jamie Lewis give the quote de juor at the Identity Mashup:

We need to incent the world we want rather than regulate the world we fear.
As usual, Jamie has a knack for clearly stating the obvious. Nonetheless, it is profoundly on point.

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Novell finally ousted Messman. I’m just afraid it’s way too little, way too late.

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Today Mary Jo Foley published a list of Microsoft’s top ten flops:

Microsoft Bob
Windows ME
Tablet PC
SPOT Watches
Microsoft Money
DOS 4.0; MS-DOS
Microsoft TV
MSNBC Partnerships
Live Meeting web conferencing
No Microsoft Linux!
An impressive flop list. However, it fails to include Microsoft’s–indeed the entire computer industry’s biggest flop–OS/2.
OS/2 did more damage to the progress of technology than any other innovation in history.

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Kim clears up the naming issues around info cards that has come up as of late:

Now, weíve tried to do what our colleagues have been asking for.  The name of the ìbig ideaî - Information Cards - is generic and belongs to the industry and the world.  The Identity Metasystem is something each of us contributes to in our own way.  [...]

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