Jay Cross

AUGUST 12, 2012

Twenty-five years ago Apple released a visionary product, Hypercard. Apple abandoned Hypercard in its near-death days, but the idea lived on with General Magic. Apply had agreed to bury another brilliant programmer’s masterpiece, Mac Basic, to get a lifeline from Microsoft, which immediately killed it.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 7, 2015

I spent an hour with Apple on the phone. I opened up Microsoft Word 98 and began entering text. The problem seemed to be the iMac, not the keyboards. We were stymied because we couldn’t boot into Safe Mode. That takes a letter R and I no longer have one of those. I resigned myself to slogging into the Genius Bar for a fix.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 4, 2009

These videos from Microsoft Office Labs envision technology ten years out. These videos remind me of the concept video of John Sculley showing the then-hypothetical Apple Newton. For history buffs, check out this Apple Newton video. For history buffs, check out this Apple Newton video.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 7, 2011

The web was invented on a NeXT machine, the computer Steve envisioned and created after he was fired from Apple. Life was too short for any more of the Microsoft’s clunky interfaces, viral vulnerability, and catastrophic failure. Apple products have their own breed of problems, but I will never go back.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 16, 2008

Some put Apple decals in the rear windows of their cars. When my ThinkPad ate its hard disk last fall, I had to get a divorce from the whole PC/Microsoft axis. The Apple menu wouldn’t show its drop-down menu. And does the Mac community of practice shield mother Apple from criticism? They are the guy on the right.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 20, 2011

Microsoft Sides With Apple on H.264 Map of the Decade, ExaTrends of the Decade, and the Zeitgeist for 2011 - Ross Dawson , December 13, 2010. 5 Stages of Workplace Learning - Social Media for Working & Learning , May 7, 2010. 264 Video, Leaving Google in the Cold - Marcia Conner (FC) , February 4, 2011. What if Flickr fails? -

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Jay Cross

MARCH 9, 2011

Microsoft Sides With Apple on H.264 It is the structure of social networks that shapes influence… and the structure is changing - Ross Dawson , February 5, 2011. The connected company - Dave Gray , February 8, 2011. The Horizon Report 2011 - Jane Hart , February 9, 2011.

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