Software Patents

I'm pretty much against software patents, they have just become an increasingly gamed legal battleground for the big companies - and will hardly ever protect the lone inventor where there intentions originally lay.

Here is a good Joel on Software post describing the rejection of one such patent, and the game behind getting patent approvals:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2013/07/22.html

Microsoft Reorganisation

I do feel sorry for Microsoft - well a little bit.  For the first time in a long time they have some credible products, albeit playing catch up to other companies.  But no one cares for their platform or ecosystems they are building.  So what is a CEO to do, reorganise!

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2013/Jul13/07-11OneMicrosoft.aspx

Let's go guys!  I wonder how the minions felt at reading that e-mail.  Microsoft will not die quickly but there presence in expanding markets will decrease, so then will their revenues.  Seeing everything as an opportunity to have the Windows OS on it was a mistake.   You can call it something else, even if it is the windows kernel underneath.