Columnist’s corner: I’ve just to got love David Margulius’ honesty even if I do find it hard to believe. “When I wrote my first InfoWorld article back in December 2001. I had absolutely no clue what I was talking about.” Margulius reflects on his columns and confesses, “worse, I drank the Kool-Aid that technology was moving so fast it would soon solve all enterprise problems.” The six years since have to done to him what they have to so many in this field: turned him hardened and calloused. So Margulius also looks forward. Getting entrepreneurial in 2008. “I now know that technology is just one piece of the puzzle, it’s really about people, strategy and execution.”InfoWorld News Quiz: Think quick: which airline is not offering in-flight Net access? Got it. Okay, next: On what island did Googler Larry Page just get hitched? One more. What are the names Microsoft considered using for IE 7’s successor? If you can answer those, then you’re on your way to a strong score on this You don’t tech news quiz. “There’s no math this time, but familiarity with acronyms may come in handy. Ready? Let’s rumble.”Notes from the field: The venerable, and consistent, Robert X. Cringely delivers to you the geek week in review. The apocalypse is coming, the apocalypse is coming! But how does he know? The proclamation w00t, which Merriam-Webster’s declared its word of the year. As if that’s not foreboding enough, there’s also Googlepedia and The Greek Squad. Platforms: You get what you reward. Those are Bob Lewis’ words that one reader hands back in an explanation of why Netware withered that suggests IT managers opted, instead, for Windows because it required more admins to manage, patch, reboot, defrag and, thus, justified higher pay scales for the managers since they were in charge of a larger staff. Interesting theory, true or not. “Having lived through that period of IT history, I really don’t think that’s what happened,” Lewis counters in The history of the world, part whatever — why Windows beat Netware. Mr. Lewis offers four reasons to back up his conclusion that, “Novell bungled, pure and simple.” Software Development