Welcome to an abbreviated version of RCPU: We're in the midst of a lot of other
stuff, including an article for that
pesky
print publication
, so, for once, we're employing an economy of words. And
we're in a linguistic recession right now.
So while we know that partners don't seem overly interested in a potential
Microsoft-Yahoo deal (and, really, we're not, either), we did find it interesting
that Yahoo has launched a
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Posted by Lee Pender on April 01, 20080 comments
Reports indicate that Microsoft might kind of, sort of, be thinking about developing
something that would be a little bit like a
hosted
version of Office
. Maybe. Kind of. Eventually.
Posted by Lee Pender on March 31, 20080 comments
The revelations from the ongoing and high-profile Vista Capable class action
lawsuit against Microsoft continue. (Check out the entire litany of subpoenaed
e-mails in a huge PDF file
here
.)
Apparently, a surprisingly (to us, anyway) large percentage of Vista crashes
in the operating system's early months were caused by
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Posted by Lee Pender on March 31, 20082 comments
It's not just the new OS that's having a hard time breaking into the corporate
world. It's also (editorial comment coming) the
genuinely
awful IE 7
.
Posted by Lee Pender on March 31, 20080 comments
We've heard so much from Microsoft in the last year or so about its hosted
customer relationship management offering that it's hard to say why the news
of a name change for the product didn't arrive until late last week.
Dynamics CRM Live isn't anymore -- well, it isn't "Live," anyway.
The hosted application suite lives, but it's now Dynamics
CRM Online, an altogether better name that helps alleviate some confusion
in Microsoft's branding. Until now, it seemed as though everything Microsoft
did that had even the most remote connection to the Internet was branded as
"Live." Online might not be groundbreaking, but it's simple and descriptive.
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Posted by Lee Pender on March 31, 20080 comments
The provider of tools for SQL Server management has a new deal for Dynamics
partners. Check it out
here
.
Posted by Lee Pender on March 27, 20080 comments
Given
this
week's news
that Symantec drivers and Vista Service Pack 1 are getting along
about as well as Microsoft and the European Union, we thought we'd bring you
readers' yarns of frustration and anger about SP1. (Yes, somebody out there
is running Vista and trying to install this service pack. Hey, it came as a
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Posted by Lee Pender on March 27, 20083 comments
OK, so not everybody has a
disaster
story or a cautionary tale
to tell about Vista. In the interest of balance,
here are a few happy tales of service packing.
Bob seems pretty pleased so far:
"I've been running Vista since beta 1, and my only complaint is user
access control. Everything else, including better drivers once they became
available (for mainstream hardware), and lots of other pluses made me a convert
on both x86 and x64 long ago. SP1 installed onto an x86 workstation, my main
x64 monster box and my Dell e1505 laptop without a hitch the day it was available
(via MSDN)."
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Posted by Lee Pender on March 27, 20082 comments
Ken Schrader's No. 49 car will sport a
big
ol' Microsoft logo
-- and a small-business partner logo, as well. What we're
wondering is if Mr. Schrader should suffer an unfortunate crash during a race
(hey, it happens in NASCAR), will anybody say that he "blue screened?"
Because we would.
Posted by Lee Pender on March 27, 20080 comments
Oh, it's a slow news week. What better time to drum up a little drama? On top
of much ado about not much regarding the
first
Vista service pack
, this week we have news about ol' reliable XP and its
forthcoming major update.
Apparently, XP SP3 could RTM -- how's that for alphabet soup? -- as
early as April. Now, given that we've all been running XP for the better
part of a decade now -- and given that most people seem to have almost a Brett
Favre level of totally irrational love for it -- it wouldn't seem to be that
big a deal if XP SP3 comes out in, say, June, instead of in April...right? After
all, it's been a while, almost an Olympiad, since the last XP SP.
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Posted by Lee Pender on March 26, 20084 comments