Corruption at Dell
If you listen to this latest post by populist Jim Hightower, you’ll get the latest scoop on the corruption at Dell. It seems that they knew they were selling junk and were intentionally hiding the fact from customers… corporate customers. Yeah yikes. Talk about biting the hands that feed you.
Now they are refusing to release internal emails being requested by a court order, and they’re own lawyers want to sue them. Yeah, double yikes.
Who knows if this is enough to squash Dell, but it sure is a brand squasher.
Ironically, my work Dell is being replaced soon… get this… by an Apple. Not sure if that’s any better anymore. Have you seen the latest patent from Apple… spyware nicknamed Traitorware.
Maybe we should all just switch to Linux.
Microsoft is So Screwed
Now hardware builders like Dell are publishing notes for installing Google Chrome on their low cost netbooks. This little puppy runs Ubuntu Linux and while the install is still for geeks I suspect it’s only a matter of time before the open source community creates a installer for newbies. This will be followed by official pre-installed Google Chrome releases from the hardware makers themselves.
The key to all of this is user adoption of course and if Google has really build a no-nonsense operating system and the hardware costs stay low Google will stomp all over Microsoft in the personal computing market segment. Read my first post on Google Chrome to hear how I think Microsoft can survive Google Chrome.
