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The McJobs Big Bang

Lately, the word on the Street is: jobs boom.

What's interesting is that analysts are far more bullish than economists proper about the prospects of jobs booming once again. The consensus amongst economists, I think, is far more pessimistic.

Here's what's really happening. We're trading yesterday's jobs - relatively high value, secure, jobs, with career paths and safety nets, of a sort, at least - for the opposite: low value, insecure, often temporary, narrow, and limited jobs, with no safety nets, and little skills gains. 

Chang's Comment on "Windows 7 Grabs 4% of PC Market"

Can Windows 7 repair Microsoft Corp.'s reputation and trigger enough sales to pull the technology sector out of its financial funk?That seemed to be the overriding question Thursday as Microsoft officially took the wraps off its latest operating system, much of which was already public knowledge, with more than 8 million testers having used it since January.

This post was written as a comment on Windows 7 Grabs 4% of PC Market by DailyTech: 

Microsoft has a lot riding on Windows 7 after Vista was poorly adopted by enterprise users and consumers. Windows 7 so far has been doing much better than Vista and is growing rapidly in marketshare in the computer market.

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