I use Firefox but there's really nothing of substance here. At this point IBM is largely a money sucking consulting organization and it stopped innovating in spaces that consumers have any interest in long ago (OS/2 anyone?).
I suppose that's fine. There are companies that live in areas that don't touch the average consumer. I doubt injection molding equipment sees much talk at the local Starbucks (versus say the iPhone 4 - "Hey is that the new iPhone?").
Talk of "cloud computing" by IBM fails to impress. IBM is not a vanguard in the cloud computing space. They may claim to have lots of machines in some data center(s) but sorry, cloud computing is most interesting when it allows an entrepreneur to defer capital investments by being able to provision and effectively use someone else's hardware (Amazon's EC2 being an excellent example). Looking at my email via a web browser is not an interesting "cloud computing" example.
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