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Ten months ago I ordered a Dell laptop to replace my MacBook Pro at the office. I’ll be honest, at the time I thought I would be so convinced that OSX was a better O/S that 6 months into the decision, I’d want my Mac back.

That’s not the case at all.

Sure, I still run Mac’s at home and I’m not interested in changing that, but as a word device, my 64-bit Windows 7 environment makes everything much easier. Network drives? No problem. Cisco/Sametime integration – check. Quickr connectors? Eh, don’t go there.

So while I once called this move going to “the dark side” I have to admit I’ve only benefited from the change. In fact besides the overwhelming sense of being cool, the only thing I miss from the Mac environment is quick look and expose/spaces.

It was interesting to think about all this on the drive in this morning and then see an article about the Top 10 Reasons Apple is the future of IT. I get the point and I’m open to the idea in our environment but my own personal experiences as a HUGE Mac fan suggest that in our environment (which has lots of IBM, Cisco and Lotus Notes based utilities), its not something that makes as much sense as Win7, XP or even Vista.

Tags: ibm, lotus, mac, windows7

This is one of the funniest, most clever things I’ve seen IBM do! There are a few other examples of this concept out there (Disney had a great one last year, too) but the idea is that you enter someone’s name and it is inserted into what appears to be a news report personalized to be all about them.

You can check out the one I put together for my alter-ego by clicking the screen shot below. You can also create your own for your team’s IT superstars.

Tags: funny, ibm, team-building

Now this is a great website design! I had to do a double-take on the URL to make sure I was really looking at a Lotus webpage, and I was.

The site design here is very contemporary, attractive and easy to get around. All of the key points of information are quickly brought to your attention (including the all-important “contact us” – which, let’s face it, is the one link every single company hopes you click on … assuming there’s not a “buy now” link that is).

The solution looks really nice, too. I really think they’re on to something here with a one-stop-shop server room in a box for smaller companies.

All that being said, I’m still a bit confused about what software is all included in this tool. It looks like a nice sampling of Lotus software, but its not clear if you get everything; turn on what you want to purchase; or only get selected pieces of software.

… and that’s probably intentional so that you click on the “contact us” links to get more information from a sales rep or business partner.

Tags: design, foundations, ibm, lotus, ui, website