A report from CNN serves as yet another reminder that my observations about Microsoft from a recent post are correct: Microsoft can’t buy a winner no matter how much money they trow at it (and their maintenance diet of oft-delayed Windows and Office upgrades doesn’t count). The XBox 360 and other devices division (think Zune, etc.) […]

The 80/20 Rule, or 80/20 Principle, or Pareto’s Law (or Rule), or "law of the vital few", or law of factor sparsity, or any of the other names that this idea has been named, is often quoted yet little understood when it comes to really thinking about it and applying it in depth. Just for some […]