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Apr 19 2009   11:42AM GMT

Bill Gates keynote Presentation at ICTD 2009



Posted by: Yusuf Salwati
Windows Computing, Uncategorized, Business alignment

I had the chance to attend ICTD 2009 in Doha, and listen to Bill Gate’s keynote Presentation. Contrary to our expectations as IT professionals, Bill Gates presentation focused on how to fight poverty and improve health care using technology.

He talked about how the advancement in technology in the health care industry helped reduced mortality rates in children in last 15 years more than it did in 50 years.

He also stressed on the importance of electronic governments in fighting corruptions and the internet can be used as a tool to monitor governments’ performance.

Then he went on to talk about Digital Green, a research project that seeks to disseminate targeted agricultural information to small and marginal farmers in India through digital video. The Digital Green system sustains relevancy in a community by developing a framework for participatory learning.

He also touched on the growing importance of cell phones in providing various kinds of services.

This is a short summary of his presentation.

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Sep 12 2008   6:58PM GMT

Will Windows Vista put an end to Microsoft dominance of Operating systems?



Posted by: Yusuf Salwati
Networking, Microsoft Windows, Software Quality, Windows Security, Windows Computing, Productivity, Customer Service, Competitive advantage

If we look back at the early days of windows based operating systems we can see the huge enhancement Microsoft made to the Desk top operating systems, from DOS to windows 3.1 to win95 to win2000 and finally Win XP.

For many users, win XP was (end still) the best operating system Microsoft ever written, with SP1 and SP2, Microsoft fixed major bugs in the system and the users community was content with winXP.

Only when everything seemed to be working great with winXP, Microsoft released windows Vista, I personally, and I am sure as millions of users, was not ready to let go of winXP and start the journey to learn new operating system with its all new features.

Recently, I had to replace my company’s computer systems with new systems, I wanted to get new systems with XP, but the vendor told me they only can provide us systems with windows Visa. I was not very happy to migrate to Vista yet.

The transition from windows XP to windows vista is not as smooth as it should be, for the average user windows XP is more user friendly than windows Vista. One feature of windows Vista that I particularly find hard to understand for the average user is the Network and file sharing properties in windows Vista.
In its attempt to make windows Vista more secure, Microsoft made setting up network and resource sharing in windows Vista a bit hard to configure, there are many security features the user have to configure.

From a historical point of view, I can tell that Microsoft reached its full potential with windows XP, there was no need to release a new operating system at the time when windows XP was performing real well with the users.

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