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'Death By PowerPoint' No More: Apple's Keynote Leaves Its Microsoft Counterpart Trailing Behind

I was sitting on a plane and the person next to me was running a Mac. She had booted into Windows via Bootcamp and was working on a doc in Powerpoint. I alerted her to the fact that Powerpoint was on the Mac, but better than that, Keynote is FAR superior. After showing her a few features she was ready to give it a try.

And then for the hardcore you had S5

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Google vs. Microsoft (GOOG, MSFT)

Very interesting content. Michael's view ties a little into what I find important. Everyone talks about "open source", but I care more about "open data" when selecting products.

An example is in the software bug tracking world. Some of the open source (and commercial) products make it very hard to get access to the data, and you have to reverse engineer to work out exactly what is there. This makes you locked in.

In comparison, a commercial product called JIRA isn't open source, but the data is VERY open. You can export everything, details are there on the formats, and thus YOU the consumer own the data.

The next revolution would be in opening up all of the data, although since that is where the power is, it will be a tough sell :)