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Predictions
The Pulpit
December 1999
December 30, 1999
You Can't Get There From Here: Twenty Predictions for the Year 2000
December 23, 1999
Dress for Success: The Fragile Relationship Between Technology and Commerce on the Internet, and a Final Y2K Update, Too
December 16, 1999
There's a Sucker Born Every 60,000 Milliseconds: Who Wins by Day-Trading Stocks? Not You
December 9, 1999
What's a NUON?: How to Play a CD Backwards and Why We Should Care
November 1999
November 25, 1999
The 700 Club: That's How Many I, Cringely Readers Wanted to Share Their Ideas on Microsoft's Legal Situation
November 18, 1999
Hit Me, Slap Me, Make Me Write Bad Code: Bob's Ten Point Plan for Civilizing Microsoft
November 11, 1999
And Your Little Dog, Too: Judge Penfield Jackson Opens Up a Can of Whoop Ass on Microsoft but Misses a Few Points in the Process
November 4, 1999
Let Them Eat Borscht: Maybe Russians Have Been Hacking DoD Servers After All, but It's Still Our Fault
October 1999
October 28, 1999
Everybody's a Critic: The Early E-mail Returns are in and People Generally Hated My Y2K Show
October 21, 1999
Y2K: The Winter of Our Disconnect?: Not If We Stay Calm and Don't Do Anything Stupid
October 14, 1999
I'm From the Government, Trust Me: Why Russia Probably Isn'tInvading U.S. Government web Sites and Even if They are, It Doesn't Matter
October 7, 1999
Quantum Dilemma: If the World Banking System is Compromised by Quantum Computing, Why Aren't We Worried?
September 1999
September 30, 1999
Real Trouble: How Reverse Engineering May Yet Kill Real Networks
September 23, 1999
Ignore That Man Behind the Curtain!: Why Internet Advertising Doesn't Really Work, But We Pretend It Does
September 16, 1999
Money on Our Backs: Why Silicon Valley is (and Will Remain) So Materialistic
September 9, 1999
Terminal Condition: Why Sun's Aggressive New Workstations Are ReallyJust a Blast From the Past
September 2, 1999
Tactics Versus Strategy: Why Microsoft and Intel Both Lost GroundThis Week to the Open Source Movement
August 1999
August 26, 1999
Be Careful What You Wish For: Why Being Acquired by Microsoft MakesHardly Anyone Happy in the Long Run
August 19, 1999
The Sky is Falling: If You Think the Internet is Causing Turmoil for Phone Companies on Earth, Look What's Happening in Space!
August 12, 1999
You Can Run But You Can't Hide: How Intel Has Lost Its Processor Leadership (for Awhile) and Why This Should Make Us Happy
August 5, 1999
Being an Accessory Makes the Man: How I Barely Avoided Being a ComputerFelon and Lived to Regret It
July 1999
July 29, 1999
What's in a Name?: How Microsoft's Internet Messaging Strategy Threatens AOL and Microsoft
July 22, 1999
Free Flight: How the Advent of Free PCs Makes Life More Dangerous for Microsoft
July 15, 1999
This Time the Flavorade is Sweet: How Apple is Using Open Source Software to Defeat Microsoft Without Appearing to Do So
July 8, 1999
Let a Billion Computers Crash: Why Microsoft's Success Makes Us Even More Vulnerable to Y2K Craziness
July 1, 1999
Let It Ride: Fantasy Meets Reality on the IPO Trail
June 1999
June 24, 1999
Never Trust a Pirate: How Bad TV Movies and Misrepresented Business Deals Prove Once Again That Nothing is As It Seems
June 17, 1999
Unprotected Hex: How We Have Become Our Own Enemies Concerning Computer Viruses
June 10, 1999
Alienation of Inflection: How Intel is Reinventing Itself the Wrong Way
June 3, 1999
It Beats Flipping Burgers: How Cisco Systems is Using High School Students to Dominate the Internet
May 1999
May 27, 1999
Cooking the Books: How Clever Accounting Techniques are Used to Make Internet Millionaires
May 20, 1999
You Can't Get There From Here: We Are Years Away From Watching Movies Over the Net
May 13, 1999
Y2K, That is the Question: Another Visit to Microsoft's Millenium Strategy
May 6, 1999
Net Megabucks!: Why Yahoo! is Worth $30 Billion
April 1999
April 29, 1999
Hate.com: The Real Role of the Internet in the Colorado High School Massacre
April 22, 1999
Comdex, Bloody Comdex: How the Second-biggest Computer Show in the World Has Become, Well, Inconsequential
April 15, 1999
I Want My MP3!: How Microsoft May Have Already Won the Internet Audio Distribution War
April 8, 1999
With a Name Like Smuckers: What Microsoft Learned (and the Department of Justice Didn't) From the Grocery Business
April 1, 1999
It's a Sony: How Playstation 2 Will Conquer Home Computing
March 1999
March 25, 1999
Noorda's Revenge: IP Telephony is About to Shakeup What it Means to be a Network Software Company
March 18, 1999
If You Can't Beat Him, Join Him: How Microsoft Plans to Drive Linus Torvalds Insane by Introducing MS-Linux
March 11, 1999
Windows 2000, Users Zilch: The Y2K Disaster Parading as Microsoft's Windows NT Marketing Plan
March 4, 1999
Report From Eden: Celerons and Cybersmut on a Drive Down Under
February 1999
February 25, 1999
When a Bunny Suit Just Isn't Enough: The Aging of Intel
February 18, 1999
Of Mice and Microsoft: Linux Takes Another Step Forward While Steve Jobs Attempts Rodentophelia
February 11, 1999
There is No Such Thing as a Free PC: Why This Week's Flurry of Free Computer Hardware Isn't for Real and Probably Isn't for You
February 4, 1999
Please, May I Use My Own Money?: How the Internet Saved Us (Again) From a Bad Government Idea
January 1999
January 28, 1999
Make Three Wishes and Call Me in the Morning: The Hidden Flaw in Sun's Jini Plan
January 21, 1999
Why Is Everyone So Excited?: How Cringely Helped Make Excite a Success and Then Would Have Killed It Had Not the Founders Wised Up
January 14, 1999
Dr. McCoy on the Bridge With Tourette's Syndrome: Cringely's 1999 Predictions Render Him Wacky
January 6, 1999
What Color is That Flavorade?: How Steve Jobs Makes Friends and Influences People With Colorful New iMacs