pc support in comment and analysis
The McCue Interview: Nigel Underwood, CIO, DHL
Comment He says: "In the automotive sector or the technology sector it's not just the manufacturing of the car or PC that becomes important, it's the aftermarket to service that car or PC when it breaks. He then... [08 Oct 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Screen time
Comment But then it was the PC and laptop that took over, and lately the mobile phone and PDA. Spend more time on a PC than a TV? The big question in my mind is: will the little screen take over our attention in... [29 Sep 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: A game of two halves
Comment The approach was well beyond what the company has shown to date with Virtual PC and Virtual Server. The messages about Microsoft's first forays into SOA were a little muddled but at least there was promise through the... [30 Jun 2008]
Leading a horse to water
Comment One of the projects on the go is benchmarking the adequate PC. Notable trailblazers in this are the Cabinet Office sharing services with other, smaller departments such as the Department for Innovation, Universities and... [23 Jun 2008]
The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group
Comment Although Hamon now has a business-focused role as CIO at Rok she started out as a techie, studying computing at the London Computer Electronic School and working in mainframe and PC programming in her early days. [13 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…
Comment Except the PC manufacturers who sell the machine with one OS and have to support and provide drivers for a different OS. Being a long time PC user, I'm predisposed to dislike Apple. The... [01 May 2008]
Minority Report: Why I am a Mac user
Comment On the 10th anniversary of his Damascene conversion from the PC to the way of the Mac, Seb Janacek reflects on what it is that made him the sad little geek he is today. Critics pointed to the lack of Exchange... [17 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The one-box generation
Comment Instead they opt for a do-it-all solution - the PC or laptop. I'd put my money on human stupidity taking over and a PC viewer witch-hunt being declared, along with ISP controls to stop it all and... [26 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...
Comment I abandoned IT when it became uneconomic as PC desktops got too cheap! I was doing desktop and comms network support for SMEs and the tight so-and-so so's seemed to think that £70 per hour was far too... [20 Mar 2008]
The Naked CIO: Time to wage war on home users
Comment On top of that, once a company PC is in the home we in IT then have to support it, which often means going to a manager's home when a system is not working. A purchase order for a PC... [04 Feb 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Software costs under pressure
Comment Yet the one component of the PC that has gone up in price is the software - the operating system. One obvious flaw in the parallel Gartner draws with hardware is the humble but essential PC. The primary... [22 Nov 2007]
Minority Report: Apple's blues
Comment The fact Apple mocked the BSOD in its representation of a networked Windows PC in Leopard won't help. Apple's support lines and site were swamped. Apple's support note said it all: "You... [05 Nov 2007]
Q&A: Graham Linehan, writer and director of The IT Crowd
Comment While we were sitting together at my PC I asked him why don't you get more IT guys making home visits and he said: "Well, most of them don't have the people skills. It is frustrating when something goes wrong with my Mac... [12 Oct 2007]
Dear silicon.com... modern malware, Vista sales, Bluetooth ads...
Comment My PC has never been infected by a virus/worm/trojan, which you say is "lucky". I use proper antivirus (etc), updated hourly, so viruses arriving on my PC are detected and cannot cause infection.... [04 Oct 2007]
Dear silicon.com... Vista gripes, naked PCs, geek rage, nuclear fallout...
Comment Several large PC manufacturers are offering alternate OS options but it remains to be seen what the level of support is. If the user cannot contact the pc manufacturer and recieve useful... [27 Sep 2007]
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