I was watching your video on youtube and i overherd you saying your a windows beta tester, i just wanted to know how do you sign up to be a beta tester. me and my family are somewhat computer geeks and i think we would be a big help.

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Nope, I for one don’t think your an idiot. The world is full of names for things that don’t exist like any term or phrase that could be labeled as “corp speak” for example since anything “corp speak relates to absolutely nothing. I have to agree that anything WEB 2.0 is the same with the slight possible exception of a way the layout/theme/skin of a new online or local program looks as in some of the ‘Windows Live’ offerings and a few of the blog themes and templates out there. These can be said to have the WEB 2.0 “look” but only when used a a label for a type of appearance.

I’m definitely not going to touch anything that could be called WEB 3.0 but it will be interesting what “they” come up with that may fall into that category. If anything it’s a good study in human behavior. :D

http://london-to-la-rochelle.blogspot.com/2007/08/web-mee.html

As far as terminology, I’ve abandoned the idea that the term Web 2.0 will ever be used in a context that I agree with – there’s too many chefs now. Sure, I’d love to go with the original definition established by the folks who supposedly coined the term — if everyone would actually use it the same way.

And as you’ve pointed out, they won’t. Even the ones who are supposed to be more on top of these things than we are.

Now, it’s just really happening full steam.

First, you had Netscape’s built-in Composer for WYSIWYG web page creation, then a slew of web mail, calendars, contacts (who would need Outlook?) — now you have full word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, image editing (Picnik, for example), CRM, accounting, ad infinitum — the new version of Office “whatever” doesn’t do you much good if you’re 1,000 miles from home. As long as you have an OS, web access and a browser plus, say, a slew of Google Apps you can do biz from anywhere.

Most people use a fraction –really — of what most software is capable of, even web apps. This is and always will be what large software companies, in particular MS, are afraid of. That one day, the consumer at home and work will wake-up and realize they just don’t need/use what XYZ company is offering, esp. at $150-$500 a pop! Economics 101 — FUD no longer works.

And thats was my 2 cents.

microsoft should of thought about making drivers availible for people who have differnt OS’s and they should of spent more time making it i know it costs loads of money its not comin out of my back pocket but people who go out and buy dont relise that when they do install windows vista it might not be compatible with there computer hardware (ect) to avoid all this because they have all ready released it they should think hard about the updates they want to be providing for peoples computers like as you said your scanner “i think it was” wasnt compatible with windows vista

bob,
brea ca.

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