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Had a great weekend; we went wine tasting with friends in the Temecula area, north east of San Diego. The wine was unremarkable and the area seems more focused on tourism than winemaking, but we had a great time anyway, capped by a wonderful dinner at the South Coast Winery Resort (I will confess, we had Heitz Cabernet with dinner [from Napa]; it put the Temcula reds in their place). Okay, so back to the real world, let's see what's happening... More interesting than Microsoft's bid to acquire Yahoo is Microsoft's struggle to figure out what to do about Windows XP. Of course they had previously announced XP would no longer be sold after June 30, but millions of their customers would rather keep buying XP than switch to Vista. In fact Dell, HP, and Lenovo have all listened to their customers and are planning to ship machines "downgraded" to XP after June 30, exploiting a loophole in their license agreements with Microsoft. This situation pits Microsoft against their customers, it will be interesting to see if Microsoft blinks. I think how they handle this is more important to their future than the Yahoo deal.
Here's what happens when you don't listen to your customers: Firefox market share climbs higher. Safari is also doing well. Perhaps by the time IE 9 comes out, nobody will care.
Probably the biggest weakness of the iPhone is the keyboard, and the biggest reason is the lack of tactile feedback. Now C|Net rumors Apple to add tactile feedback to iPhone. "An anonymous Apple employee says company executives are in talks with Immersion to license its haptic technology for use in the iPhone, according to a report at Palluxo.com." That would be cool.
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