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Microsoft is fighting lot of battles - that is one problem of being big. OS : Windows vs OS X, Linux, Solaris, and now Google Chrome OS Email : Hotmail/Live vs GMail, YMail Search : Bing vs Google,Yahoo.. Database : MS Sql Server vs Oracle,MySQL,PostgreSql.. IM : MSN Messenger vs GTalk, Yahoo Messenger,IRC,Pidgin Programming platform : .NET vs Java.. Languages : C#,VB.NET,ASP.NET vs Java, Ruby,Python,PHP,Perl.. Mobile OS : Windows Mobile vs Android, OS X, Symbian.. Media player : Zune vs iPod, Creative, Sony.. Office Suite : Microsoft Office vs OpenOffice, Google Apps Browser : Internet Explorer vs Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera Gaming Platform : XBox vs Nintendo, Sony and now iPhone Vector graphics for web : Silverlight vs Flash, Flex My head is spinning. If you notice the ones on the right of VS - for instance Opera - that is their entire life - the reason for their existence. They are focusing all their energies and souls into their products -yet Microsof...

Have you seen the movie - 300? It is the story of 300 Spartans who defy all logic and fight against wave after wave of attacks by a much bigger Persian army. Technically it is a well made movie and is a good entertainer - but as an entrepreneur you can draw lot of inspiration from this movie. The Spartans were severely outnumbered - but they believed in their abilities, their training, the trust they had with one another - sounds familiar? :) As an entreprenur you will have to fight lot of battles - thought not as gory as Spartans. Fight against a well established player : Like the Spartans, when Apple started they had to fight IBM. When Pepsi started it had to fight Coke. You can find so many stories where a small company challenged the giant in the industry. If you are one of those entrepreneurs fighting a bigger player - keep going. If you believe in your abilties, in your team - even if it is small - you can win the battle eventually. Fight against established norms : Spartans did ...

Last weekend I went to Staples Print Center in Marathahalli - Printo has closed shop and moved out. And when I got home I plugged the USB drive into Vista and AVG Anti Virus did not complain - but I saw a program called Khatra.exe asking for Admin privileges to run. Then I rebooted into Ubuntu and was horrified to see the files that were there. There were folders and lots of exes. Now I am upset with 2 entities here. 1. Staples Print Center Printo always scans the flash drives ( even if it used to take time ) and not once they loaded viruses on to my USB drive. Wish Staples learns from their competitor and educates their employees to follow proper process ( I am sure Staples will have it in their employee handbook ). 2. Vista I did not give administrative privileges to Khatra.exe, still it managed to copy itself in the registry in some 10 places, got itself added to startup , and had the guts to ask again for administrative privileges when I rebooted. I am shocked that inspite of all ...

Photos shot on my Nokia 6630 with his Avva in Reliance Footprint while his Ma shops ! this is equivalent of commenting out the failing test because the entire build was failing ! forgot where I took this one. in Lal Bagh or Cubbon park - one of them. after Prithvi's birthday party. Achu, this is for you ! on the terrace - should be the world for this little ant ! He is a Royal Challengers fan, but was just being nice. Next in human evolution - use mouth for carrying stuff, so hands are free to tweet and blog.