Google: World's Biggest Brand

Another brand survey? Yes -- but this one we've seen before. For the second year (not the third, as the linked article suggests) in a row, Google has topped the list of the world's biggest brand according to Millward Brown Optimor.

Back in the summer of 2006, RCP More

Posted by Lee Pender on April 22, 20080 comments


Another Microsoft Bug Surfaces

In case you missed the news last Friday, there's a LocalSystem access bug out there.

Posted by Lee Pender on April 22, 20080 comments


Microsoft and Google: Another Patriots' Day?

Yesterday was Patriots' Day , a uniquely Boston holiday that's meant to honor the first battle of the American Revolution but mainly serves as a mini-spring break and as the weekend of the Boston Marathon. (No, it has nothing to do with Tom Brady.) Oh, and there's an 11 a.m. Sox game every Patriots' Day, too -- yesterday, they completed a sweep of the Texas Rangers. More

Posted by Lee Pender on April 22, 20080 comments


Microsoft, Novell Focus on China Linux Sales

Everybody's favorite partnership (open source folks, we see the steam coming out of your ears) is hitting the road in a much more serious way -- specifically, the road to China. (Yes, we know it's across the Pacific and there's no "road" that goes there, but we've got a theme going here).

Novell and Microsoft are ramping up SuSE Linux sales More

Posted by Lee Pender on April 22, 20080 comments


N-able Has Free Offering for Partners

Want to know more about it? Of course you do...but you'll just have to click the link . (Hey, we have to pay the bills around here, too.)

Posted by Lee Pender on April 17, 20080 comments


New Channel Head at HP

A 20-year veteran of the company is the new head guy for channel operations.

Posted by Lee Pender on April 17, 20080 comments


Avnet Issues Earnings Warning

Could this be the first sign -- or one of the first signs -- of a possible recession hitting the channel? The financial news from Avnet is not good .

Posted by Lee Pender on April 17, 20080 comments


Ingram's Seismic Shift for SaaS

There's hype, and then there's movement. All of the articles -- some of them here -- about SaaS being the next big thing, about how partners should prepare for it, about whether Microsoft is ready for it...that's all, or at least mostly, hype.

Ingram Micro's announcement this week that it will expand its portfolio of hosted Microsoft applications and offer partners the opportunity to resell private-label hosted applications...is movement.

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Posted by Lee Pender on April 17, 20080 comments


Redmond Touts 'World's Cheapest Laptop'

It's made by a company in India; it'll run (ahem) XP, and it'll cost about $425 . What's not to like, actually?

Posted by Lee Pender on April 16, 20080 comments


Execs Exit

Another Windows executive and Vista co-conspirator has " retired ," meaning another shakeup of executives is in order in Redmond.

Posted by Lee Pender on April 16, 20080 comments


XP, Vista and the Long Run for Microsoft

"Who is gonna make it?
We'll find out
In the long run"

-- "The Long Run" by The Eagles, from 1979

(And, yes, you'll be humming that song all day now. You're welcome.)

Let's go ahead and call it a movement, or at least a cause. What started as an online petition demanding that Microsoft offer XP indefinitely and not scrap it with OEMs for Vista in June has become something greater, something that has leaked out of the trade press and nerd circles and into the real world.

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Posted by Lee Pender on April 16, 20085 comments


Microsoft Lays out Plan for Embedded Windows

OK, confession: We mainly stuck this news here because we thought that some of the comments at the end of this related blog entry were funny.

Posted by Lee Pender on April 16, 20080 comments