Long live Flash It’s time for another Enterprise Dish, which Brad and Aaron begin with an oft-repeated, but now very real announcement: Flash is dead! Long live Flash: the Adobe plug-in that won the late ’90s/early ’00s internet with animations, prototypical viral memes, and shock sites to chill your bones. This technology was how rapid-fire […]
read more »Microsoft acquires Nuance for $20B As Brad and Aaron discussed Microsoft’s recent $20 billion (all-cash) purchase of Nuance Communications, I experienced a moment of speech recognition…recognition. The company name didn’t leap immediately to mind, but as they began discussing the company’s Dragon speech recognition software, it all came flooding back. Eleven years ago, on my […]
read more »Oh, Hafnium. Why couldn’t you remain a lustrous, silvery-gray, tetravalent transition metal whose characteristics were so irrelevant to our daily lives (except when it comes to semiconductor fabrication, amirite folks?) that they could’ve remained a perpetual Wikipedia search away for most of us? Why, instead, did you have to reveal yourself as the namesake of a suspected […]
read more »Hello, World! It is a new year on the same planet, and there is a light at the end of the COVID tunnel. Windows10X: an OS for budget devices In this month’s Enterprise Dish episode, Aaron and Brad reconvened to discuss Windows 10X, which is looking less like a rumor and more like a fully-formed […]
read more »It’s November 2020. The election is over (or over-adjacent), Washington State is heading back into COVID-19 lockdown, and on top of all the practical realities that this will entail for me and my family (from childcare and educational uncertainties to our canceled Thanksgiving plans), my mind is being pulled in a hundred directions at once; […]
read more »What is the Metaverse? In Neil Stephenson‘s seminal 1992 sci-fi novel Snow Crash, it was a virtual space in which human-controlled avatars interacted online for every conceivable purpose—work, play, entertainment, commerce, friendship, dating, criminality, vice, and espionage—essentially all of the same purposes that the current internet is used for. A virtual reality (VR) extension of […]
read more »I have a reliable habit of looking at innovative electronics as a new device and thinking, “Nice! But not for me.” That’s how I reacted to the BB-8 toy – essentially a real-life version of a movie robot, minus the strong general AI. I’m glad it exists! I think I played with one in a […]
read more »And it’s September. What is there to talk about? The kids are starting to head back to school (depending on your location, perhaps they won’t be), and as Aaron noted in his most recent Enterprise Dish episode (embedded below), we’re nearing the start of a mad rush to get things done before the holidays and […]
read more »This month, I’ll be writing a reaction blog post to Aaron and Brad’s discussion on the Enterprise Dish podcast. This is not intended as a recap of what they discussed, and I may even contradict them some of the time (don’t tell Aaron!), so I would encourage you to check out their discussion as well, […]
read more »We often receive support questions around some aspect of customizing a Windows 10 default profile. Even though this isn’t specific to SmartDeploy imaging software, our customers often want to customize default profiles as part of their new hardware rollout or Windows 10 migration project. Since Windows 10 no longer supports the traditional CopyProfile method to […]
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