Our friends from FullArmor recently treated us to some sushi at the local buffet
(I used all my willpower and only had one heaping plate), and between sips of
miso soup, chomps of calamari, mounds of mackerel and tons of tuna, we talked
about their latest product:
FullArmor
Endpoint Policy Manager
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Posted by Doug Barney on March 27, 20070 comments
Adobe is taking a stab not just at Web development, but at rich application
building, as well.
Apollo,
now in alpha test
(how I've missed that term, overwhelmed by a tidal wave
of CTPs, RCs, RTMs and other inane Microsoft names for test software), takes
the best of what Adobe has learned with Web development and ties this to OS-style
services such as printer drivers and personalization.
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Posted by Doug Barney on March 27, 20070 comments
The Slashdotters have struck again. The popular discussion site (what is it
about the Internet that releases inhibitions faster than a double Grey Goose
martini?) picked up our cover story about Microsoft's fledgling effort to work
with the open source community.
We praised Redmond for its efforts to build quasi-open products and its more
serious stab at interoperating with the open community.
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Posted by Doug Barney on March 26, 20070 comments
It's rare that I find myself jealous of those in less-developed countries, but
hearing what Dell is doing in China has me pleased and steamed simultaneously.
I'm happy because
Dell
built a $230 desktop for China
that runs XP and has a 40GB drive and a quarter-gig
of RAM.
Then I got mad wondering why we can't all buy a brand-new, low-priced XP machine.
Before sinking into total depression, I did some fact-checking (yeah, I do this
occasionally) and found a $350 Dell Vista desktop with an 80GB drive and half-a-gig
of RAM. If I were in the People's Republic, I might just order my machine from
Austin!
Posted by Doug Barney on March 26, 20070 comments
The man who invented
Fortran
– and, in the process, laid the foundation for much of what we now take
for granted in computer programming --
passed
away at the age of 82
. John Backus developed Fortran for IBM out of frustration
with all the low-level work required at the time to program.
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Posted by Doug Barney on March 22, 20070 comments
Palm Inc., longtime maker of hand-held devices that are actually easy to use,
is reportedly
up for sale
, with either Nokia or Motorola as the presumed buyer.
This has been an interesting space, with Microsoft getting better and better
at making smaller and smaller operating systems, and Apple set to get into the
market with a phone that comes stocked with all the hand-held computing basics.
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Posted by Doug Barney on March 22, 20070 comments
I do this all the time, but for some reason it bugs me when someone, besides
myself, who's never run a company tees off on those who do.
Robert Scoble, who was paid by Microsoft simply to blog, became famous because
Microsoft paid him simply to blog -- so famous, in fact, that he left the company
that helped make him famous and went out on his own.
Now Scoble thinks he knows more about success on the Internet than Bill Gates,
Steve Ballmer and Ray Ozzie put together.
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Posted by Doug Barney on March 22, 20070 comments
Here's a technology I don't think I need and know I don't want. By figuring
out what wireless router you're using, AOL's instant messaging service can let
your friends (and your boss)
know
exactly where you are
.
This reminds me of all the hype around presence, when we were all supposed
to fall in love with the notion of knowing if our co-workers were in the office,
on the phone or in the john. It's not enough that we are tethered to work through
cell phones, BlackBerrys and home broadband connections -- now our every physical
move is to be known, as well?
Posted by Doug Barney on March 21, 20070 comments
Microsoft this week promised to support and promote AJAX interoperability by
joining the OpenAJAX Alliance. If all parties truly cooperate, then Microsoft's
ASP.NET AJAX (I had to use the caps lock to type that name!) will work with
AJAX tools from other vendors.
This also shows that Microsoft is serious about Web 2.0-style development.
In fact, if you really think about it, Microsoft has a broader range of Web
2.0 development tools than Google. Here's
what Google offers in this area.
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Posted by Doug Barney on March 21, 20070 comments