Nobody has yet warmed to our suggestion to call System Center Operations Manager
2007 "OpMan" (hey, it's
better
than SCOM
), but at least the product now has its
first
service pack
.
Posted by Lee Pender on February 27, 20080 comments
Another week, another update on Microsoft's attempt to spend every bit of the
cash it has in its coffers (and more).
Even if Yahoo isn't ready to accept Redmond's overtures, Microsoft employees
will be, or should be, ready for what seems to be an inevitable consumption
of the Internet pioneer. Microsoft executives e-mailed
the company's employees last week a guide to swallowing Yahoo, laying out
how an acquisition would affect Redmond's rank and file.
More
Posted by Lee Pender on February 26, 20080 comments
Last week's big to-do about Microsoft
offering
up some of its protocols
and otherwise paying EU-mandated lip service to
"openness" drew a surprisingly mixed reaction from the open source
community -- surprising because it wasn't entirely negative.
Linux guru Linus Torvalds, in fact, seemed downright
pleased with Microsoft, if still a little skeptical of the company's motives.
Other folks took more of a wait-and-see
attitude, with some complaining that Microsoft isn't releasing code to open
source and is still going to charge license fees for some patents.
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Posted by Lee Pender on February 26, 20080 comments
Well, that's what "
people
say
," anyway, according to the Bloomberg headline.
Posted by Lee Pender on February 26, 20080 comments
Next time you get a traffic ticket, take the money to pay your fine, place
it lovingly in a cheery greeting card, deliver it to city hall and declare in
the most grandiose manner possible that you're "making a donation to the
city." Then, you'll know exactly what it's like to be Microsoft.
Heck, you could even hold a press conference. That's what Microsoft did yesterday
to announce its new
openness initiatives, the basics of which RCPU managed to sneak into yesterday's
issue. The conference call, which evidently required a "War Declared"-level
media alert on Thursday morning, started brilliantly -- after waiting about
15 minutes past the start time, reporters finally heard some Microsoft official
apologize for the late start and explain that it had been caused in part by
"technical problems we had to solve." What, did Ballmer's PC blue-screen
when he tried to open PowerPoint, or something?
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Posted by Lee Pender on February 22, 20081 comments
It turns out that a bunch of stuff
isn't
working
with Vista's first service pack -- which seems appropriate given
how much stuff never worked with Vista in the first place.
Posted by Lee Pender on February 22, 20080 comments
Recession? What recession? Strictly speaking, this isn't channel news (for
Channel News Thursday), but it is interesting. HP had a blowout quarter in its
last quarter, and things are
looking
positive
going forward. Let's have more news like this, please.
Posted by Lee Pender on February 21, 20080 comments
The provider of wireless LAN infrastructure systems has a new partner program.
Check out all the details
here
.
Posted by Lee Pender on February 21, 20080 comments