Owen Williams

owened.co.nz · Personal blog · on HN since 2012

Owen Williams, a New Zealand-based writer, covers Microsoft, Apple, Google and Facebook products and how they affect users.

What HN saysHN links it in a comment about the trouble of moving internationally with Microsoft's ecosystem; commenters give no wider opinion of the blog.
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kefs · 2012-10-25
..until you have to move internationally. http://owened.co.nz/how-microsoft-might-sink-its-own-ecosystem

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