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This is a great article!

I highly recommend it!

Especially for all the Apple whiners out there!

"The answer is solution orientation. We hear that buzzword in all facets of corporate life and although I understand it, I always try to find examples to explain it to others. Solution orientation in IT is looking beyond just a single technology. Instead, it focuses on delivering a valuable experience for the end user."

Link to full article: What can we learn from Apple?

Happiness 101

Positive psychology brings the same attention to positive emotions (happiness, pleasure, well-being) that clinical psychology has always paid to the negative ones (depression, anger, resentment). Psychoanalysis once promised to turn acute human misery into ordinary suffering; positive psychology promises to take mild human pleasure and turn it into a profound state of well-being. “Under certain circumstances, people — they’re not desperate or in misery — they start to wonder what’s the best thing life can offer,” says Martin Seligman, one of the field’s founders, who heads the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Thus positive psychology is not only about maximizing personal happiness but also about embracing civic engagement and spiritual connectedness, hope and charity. “Aristotle taught us virtue isn’t virtue unless you choose it,” Seligman says.

Timely reading.

Your problem isn't just mobile. Apple and Web 2.0 startups are kicking Windows' butt in front of developers. They're ashamed of Windows. You can solve both problems by launching an applications store for mobile devices, Windows and the Web. Apple's App Store is the model, but it's tied to iTunes and iPhone. You can do better—imitate and exend—and in process offer the choice you so often tout as the Microsoft differentiator.

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/corporate/2009_definitive_unsolicited_...