RAHADIYAN

WINDOWS 8

2009-10-31T14:39:00.000+07:00

Rahasia Windows 8 Terbongkar

CALIFORNIA – Microsoft sedang kebakaran jenggot, sebab spesifikasi Windows 8, yang merupakan kelanjutan dari Windows 7, bocor dan tersebar luas di internet. Parahnya, yang membongkar sistem operasi terbaru itu, adalah karyawan Microsoft sendiri.

Detail mengenai Windows 8 itu sendiri bermula dari Robert Morgan, yang menuliskannya di dalam kolom profil di situs jaringan bisnis Linkedln. Morgan yang memegang posisi Senior Research and Development menuliskan, kalau dirinya bekerja di departemen penelitian dan pengembangan dengan tingkat keamanan tinggi untuk proyek jangka panjang dan menengah.

Cerobohnya di profilnya, Morgan menuliskan sedang mengerjakan proyek Windows 8 dan berencana membuat Windows 9. Di dalam profil tersebut juga tertulis “Kernel Windows 8 kompatibel dengan arsitektur 128-bit dan Windows 9 sedang dalam perencanaan”. Demikian yang dikutip melalui PC World, Selasa (13/10/2009).

Padahal seperti diketahui, Windows 7 yang akan dirilis pada 22 Oktober 2009 mendatang, baru mendukung 32-bit dan 64-bit. Untuk dukungan 64-bit sendiri, Microsoft menggunakannya pertama kali pada Windows XP Profesional edisi X64 yang diluncurkan pada Mei 2005 silam.

Belum ada tanggapan dari Microsoft mengenai bocornya sistem operasi yang masih dirahasiakan ini. Morgan yang membocorkan Windows 8 dan Windows 9 telah menghapus tulisan tersebut di dalam profilnya, walaupun ‘jejak kejahatannya’ dapat terekam di mesin pencari Google.

PROFILE BARACK OBAMA

2008-03-26T11:50:00.007+07:00

PROFILE BARACK OBAMA

Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Hussein Obama,
Sr. (born in Alego, a village in Nyanza Province, Kenya,) and Ann
Dunham (born in Wichita, Kansas).[4] His parents met while both were
attending the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii at Manoa,
where his father was enrolled as a foreign student. When Obama was
two years old, his parents separated and later divorced; his father
went to Harvard to pursue PhD studies, eventually returning to Kenya.
[5] His mother married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian foreign student,
and they had one daughter. The family moved to Jakarta when Obama
was six years old.[6] Four years later, Obama returned to Hawaii to
live with his maternal grandparents.[7] He was enrolled in the fifth
grade at Punahou School, a large, private college preparatory school
in Honolulu,[8] which he attended through 12th grade, graduating in
1979.[9] His father died in a car accident in Kenya when Obama was
21 years old.[10] Obama's mother died of cancer a few months after
the publication of his 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father.[11]

How to develop a new product

2008-03-26T11:17:00.001+07:00

How to develop a new product

Product development process

Why do you need a product development process? Quite simply it controls the costs and time taken to develop a new product. More importantly it helps your organisation to look on product development as investment rather than risk.

When you examine companies that succeed in product development (3M, Sony, Black & Decker, Polaroid) they have one thing in common, the development is divided into a number of stages.

Because this article discusses products in their widest sense, covering not only hard products but services as well, we have created an idealised set of stages that should be applicable no matter your industry or the size of your project.

The process

Creativity

How do you continually come up with new ideas for your business? How do you develop new ways of attacking problems? How do you capture and assess these ideas and distil them down to the ones that are worth investing more time and effort in?

Defining the Concept

How do you turn an idea into a real business opportunity and determine the necessary investment and expected return? This requires a number of questions to be answered. What is the market potential? Is it technically feasible? What are the timescales? How will it effect existing products? How will the competition react? And so on. On this information the decision to go ahead and invest will be made.

Developing the Concept

Typically the early part of this stage looks at defining the customer requirements, followed by the translation into some form of prototype or pilot service. The key is that perceived customer needs are translated into a possible solution to these needs. In reality the design or development of the product or service will continue into subsequent stages as the product or service is refined to the point that is released to the market.

Testing and Finalising the Concept

This is sometimes referred to as alpha and beta testing of products. It is the controlled release of the product so that the sales, customer, manufacturing and support organisations can test and modify the product. One outcome of this stage could be that the concept was wrong, there is no market, and the product should stop prior to committing to the expense of releasing it into the market.

Full Product Launch

This is probably one of the most difficult and expensive stages. It includes developing the market, the correct sales channels, ramping up the volume of business and supporting the product.

Managing the Life Cycle

Managing the decline of a product, or extending its life with a "mid life kicker", is often not considered. Unfortunately when this activity is not planned the need to develop new products is often triggered by falling sales. At this point there may not be enough time for new products to be developed.