The September issue of IS Decisions Wire, our bimonthly E-newsletter is out.
We designed it as a tribute to Windows 8 and the Metro-UI and made sure
you can read it from your desktop and/or your smartphone.
Last week was pretty exciting! At BUILD, Microsoft unveiled Windows 8 and we must admit that what we have seen so far about this new OS is pretty impressive.
A lot of IT journalists and bloggers have started writing about Windows 8, a bunch of videos and screenshots have been published, and as usual, the best and the worst coexist in that steady stream of information.
We therefore tried to separate the wheat from the chaff and here are our favorites:
If You Already Hate Windows 8 Then You Hate Technology
Windows 8: BFD — Big Forking Decision(on Monday Note, by Jean-Louis Gassée)
4 things Microsoft must do to make Windows 8 work(on PCPro, by Barry Collins)
Windows 8: The ultimate guide to BUILD and more(on Neowin, by Owen Williams)
What’s New in Windows Server 8 Active Directory(on Windows IT Pro, by Sean Deuby)
10 best new features of Windows Server 8(on InfoWorld, by Doug Dineley and Brian Chee)
What’s new in Windows Server 8(on Mark Minasi’s Windows Networking Tech Page)
And saving the best for last, here is the silliest article ever written about Windows 8:
EXCLUSIVE: Corp. America to Microsoft: We’ll Pass on Windows 8(on Fox News, by John Brandon)
and the delicious way Ed Bott crucifies it:
About that Fox News Windows 8 “exclusive”(on Ed Bott’s blog)
