I don’t have Leopard yet … the IT guys think 10.5.1 will be a good, safe install compared to the initial release.
They may be used to initial Windows releases from Microsoft.
This showed up in a discussion of icon changes in the big Leopard review at Ars.
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review: Page 16
Apple was even nice enough to include an icon for (to quote the file name) a “generic PC.”
I’m not sure what “Maka-Maka” means, but from context, I gather it will make waves for Facebook.
Maybe Facebook had to drink the Microsoft KoolAid, if they expected to survive until an IPO.
Google’s Response to Facebook: “Maka-Maka”
The bigger vision is to combine all of Google’s apps and services through Maka-Maka. Google already has so much data on you, depending on how many Google apps you already use. It just needs to bring everything together. Your contacts are in Gmail. Your feeds are in Google Reader. Your IM buddy list is in Gtalk. Your upcoming events are in Google Calendar. Your widgets are in iGoogle. And don’t forget about your search history. Overtime, Google will connect all of these together in different ways, along with data about you from other social services across the Web, and give developers access to the social layer tying all of these apps together underneath. The real killer app for Google is not to turn Orkut into a Facebook clone. It is to turn every Google app into a social application without you even noticing that you’ve joined yet another social network.
The Next Version of Gmail Will Be Faster
* a new contact manager that will be shared with other Google apps (Google Docs, Google Calendar etc.)
What if it was the fox’s job to get an accurate chicken count to the farmer?
This article is pretty even-handed about looking at the current state of affairs, and GMail gets a nod.
» What’s the true cost of running email in-house? | Software as Services | ZDNet.com
“Amazingly, every company we talk to has a TCO for their messaging system that is far below the industry average, and uptime that is far above the industry average! I don’t mean to poke fun, but it’s become blatantly obvious to me that most companies do not understand the true, hard costs of their messaging systems, nor do they accurately measure their downtime. We assist companies in calculating these numbers, and they are often shocked by what they discover.”
