[Yr7-10it] web 1 = windows 98 ?

[Costello, Rob R]

Software versions are a clever way to make you feel that your current
set up is out of date 

 

Word 6 must be hopeless, given word 7,8,9 are out etc

 

Microsoft took it to a new levels by naming the product after the date
(office 98, 2000, 2003, 2007) etc - in built obsolesce - who wants to be
5 years out of date

 

So maybe there is implicit marketing spin, in "web 2.0 "? 

 

 I don't think people will jump onto web 3 and web 4 with the same
enthusiasm - tends to run out after a while 

 

Related thoughts on the train with a couple of IT types I ran into 

http://thinkingcurriculum.decenturl.com/web2bubble

 

Rob 

 

 

 


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