June 6, 2011
We love to complain about software. It’s second only to the weather on most office hit-lists. And while there are lots of examples of present software glitches and headaches, we thought instead of slamming specific companies, it would be more interesting to take a look at a half-dozen more historical software flubs, flops, and failures [...]
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June 1, 2011
Around the late 1960s, in the heyday of Xerox (even before IBM really got going), the former gathered the nation’s top minds in computers together in one giant research campus. There, staff at Xerox invented nearly everything we now associate with the modern PC: desktop computers, the mouse, Ethernet, windows, laser printers, and more. Back [...]
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