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Fair Warning To ISV’s Auto Installing IE Toolbars In Their Applications!

Fair Warning To ISV’s Auto Installing IE Toolbars In Their Applications!

by Scott Kane on November 23, 2008 in General ISV Issues, ISV Software Design, Internet Explorer Search Bar, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV, User Interface Design Hall Of Shame

I did so tonight and the company concerned should be bloody ashamed of themselves for installing – hereby known on this blog – CRAPBAR – into Internet Explorer without my permission…

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The Politics Of Software Pricing Models, FOS, FUD And Economic Pragmatism.

The Politics Of Software Pricing Models, FOS, FUD And Economic Pragmatism.

by Scott Kane on November 1, 2008 in General ISV Issues, ISV Software Design, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV, User Interface Design, User Interface Design Hall Of Fame, User Interface Design Hall Of Shame

There can be a lot of heated talk generated when it comes to the pricing of software. From FOS advocates stating it should be free (for reasons that range from ethereal and absurd to downright Marxist), to software companies large and small, the media pundits and the consumer. FOS…

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Stupid ISV Is – As Stupid ISV Does

Stupid ISV Is – As Stupid ISV Does

by Scott Kane on September 6, 2008 in General ISV Issues, ISV Software Design, Starting an mISV, User Interface Design, User Interface Design Hall Of Shame

Most ISV’s are probably very familiar now with the idea that putting up a barrier to a sale is decidedly not a good idea.

It’s been spoken about by so many authors on the subject of software sales, website design and in the bricks and mortar world it’s been pretty much assumed knowledge for millennia…

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