Links for 10-30-2012

• Ten IT Predictions For 2013 - Chuck's Blog
• Microsoft and Apple at Their Crossroads | MIT Technology Review - "It’s an interesting historical moment for the two founding companies of the personal-computing revolution. Microsoft knows it's slowly dying, and declines to accept its fate; Apple, flush with cash, doesn't yet have to admit that with the death of its tutelary genius, it has lost its way. But secretly, its executives, designers, and developers must fear that something is badly wrong."
• 007-style travel: Best James Bond hotels - Pack Up - Boston.com - I've stayed at two of these (and been in a third).