We think that
each
one
should be named for one of Dick Van Patten's brood from "
Eight
Is Enough
." Then, IT people could say things like, "I've implemented
Nancy, but I'm having some trouble with Susan. And I can't get Nicholas to download
properly..."
Posted by Lee Pender on April 08, 20080 comments
Microsoft just gave us a wonderful reason to
buy
a low-cost PC
in the next couple of years.
Posted by Lee Pender on April 08, 20080 comments
Vista what? Vista who? As if it wasn't hard enough being Windows Vista already
-- what with the love for XP in the user base, the scant enterprise adoption
and the routine pounding in the trade press -- the man most responsible for
making Microsoft what it is today is already talking about Vista's successor.
Bill Gates kind of, sort of said that Windows 7, Vista's successor and an OS
that won't have to follow a legend like XP, might
come out in 2009. The rest of Microsoft -- from which Gates is supposed
to finally, officially retire this year -- put
the kibosh on that notion, saying that the 2010 release date most pundits
expected is still circled on Redmond's calendar.
More
Posted by Lee Pender on April 08, 200815 comments
Many have the times been here at RCPU that we've defended Microsoft -- in the
EU antitrust cases, in certain disputes with other vendors and against the more
communist element of the open source movement.
But this is just nasty.
Avistar
Communications is going through a rough time. That's probably the first
thing that we should understand here. Avistar makes videoconferencing software
with a specialty in enterprise desktop video, and its new CEO, an affable Brit
named Simon Moss, sees his company's wares as a great fit for the cresting wave
of unified communications (UC) platforms.
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Posted by Lee Pender on April 03, 20082 comments
Microsoft's
famous
victory
in getting its Office Open XML standard approved by the ISO might
not be a done deal yet, if the
pesky
EU
has anything to say about it.
Posted by Lee Pender on April 03, 20080 comments
One survey of resellers finds that leads from vendors
aren't
so great
after all.
Posted by Lee Pender on April 03, 20080 comments
This is the way it used to be when the New York Yankees were dominant, when
the Steelers or 49ers were winning Super Bowls, and when Manchester United couldn't
be stopped (and, actually, those days for Man U seem to be returning). They
might fall behind here and there, maybe lose a game, maybe even lose a championship...but
then they would collect themselves, rally and unleash fury upon their hapless
opponents, reminding them who was boss after all. That's pretty much what Microsoft
did with Office Open XML.
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Posted by Lee Pender on April 02, 200838 comments
Google's word processor-y sort of thing isn't just a SaaS application anymore.
Google Docs is
now
available offline
in what a lot of people are calling a challenge to Microsoft
Word.
Our note to Google: Be careful what you're getting into here. You've still
got Microsoft over a barrel with the whole SaaS-apps thing, but offline productivity
software is Redmond's bread and butter, and Microsoft has crushed all competitors
that have tried to usurp its position in the market. We're just saying...
Posted by Lee Pender on April 02, 20080 comments
No jokes, please. It's an
MIT
consortium
on network authentication. Now,
those
must be some rockin'
parties.
Posted by Lee Pender on April 01, 20080 comments