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Written By: Sol Young on January 15, 2009 View Comments

December Trends - from marketshare.hitslink.com

I described in December that Market Share for Apple would hit 9.5% at the end of December and break 10% in January. So far Apple exceeded expectations and reached 9.63% in December. That’s a 0.76% gain of the operating system market in one month!

Look for January to carry another increase and for…

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Written By: Sol Young on May 11, 2008 View Comments

 Ubu-Xu-dows

After converting my MacBook Pro in to a Windows developer dream, I wanted to have the same experience on a more portable, commodity hardware unit. Virtualizing Windows within Windows with VMware Server is something I’m familiar with. It’s something many Windows developers may prefer (and I recommend if you’re…

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Written By: Sol Young on March 25, 2008 View Comments

Red Planet

I got to catch up with the Windows 2008 Server ads today. The first thing that came to mind was AMEE from Red Planet. That was a scary malfunctioning robot…

Crouching Robot

Microsoft’s Win2k8 ad, Crouching Robot

As an IT professional, will you nickname Win2k8 ‘AMEE’?

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Written By: Sol Young on February 18, 2008 View Comments

Vistato XP

After reading this great, hilarious, post on upgrading to XP (yes, you read that right – this isn’t a Vista upgrade), I decided to take the plunge. I’ve been punished long enough for using Vista Ultimate in my VMware environment and portable laptop. It’s been a nice OS, but performance is in…

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Written By: Sol Young on February 17, 2008 View Comments

 Mac/PC Dev Environment

Developing PC applications on the Mac is great, contrary to what some believe. I too was once in the ‘build-on-the-platform-you-target’ camp. Forget that horse-puckie and get efficient:

  1. Get VMware Fusion: http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/.
  2. Make sure you’ve got XCode. This will be sixty percent of your development environment and you’ll be coding in OS X.

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