We're as excited as you are about Windows Server 2008. Seriously. After Vista
failed to impress last year,
the
buzz
around the star of this year's crop of new Microsoft products has grown
steadily.
And why not? Windows Server 2008 has blockbuster sales potential for partners
and already has
customers' attention. And now, it has an added bonus: a built-in
service pack.
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Posted by Lee Pender on February 21, 20080 comments
The big distributor is keeping it real in the virtual world by
offering
to VARs
the most popular virtualization apps on the market today.
Posted by Lee Pender on February 21, 20080 comments
Just in care you were confused by Microsoft's server offerings for small and
medium-sized businesses (does anybody not know what "SMB" means?),
Redmond is here to make things clear. (Yes, that last part was supposed to rhyme.)
Microsoft announced today the Windows
Essential Server Solutions family, which we could call "WESS"
but won't. The concept behind this is simple. There are two versions of the
aptly named Windows Small Business Server 2008 -- Premium and Standard -- for
small businesses, and two versions (yup, Premium and Standard again) of the
Windows Essential Business Sever 2008 aimed at midsize companies.
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Posted by Lee Pender on February 20, 20080 comments
OK, we know. It's right up there with the news that the earth is round and
the shocker that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Still, if you
were curious, a new survey "reveals" that half of all IT managers
have
no plans
to deploy Vista
.
Well, they have no plans to deploy Vista "at this time," according
to the survey. Don't let that bit on the end slip away. What happens when a
company undergoes a hardware refresh and can't get anything but Vista for new
machines? As we've suggested
before in RCP, that's when Vista might finally make a break for enterprise
pay dirt.
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Posted by Lee Pender on February 20, 20082 comments
"Hmm, maybe if we move this person into this job (and, um, buy Yahoo),
we'll finally get this Web thing right..."
-- Overheard (not really, of course) in a Redmond board room around the time
this
decision
was made.
Posted by Lee Pender on February 19, 20080 comments
To
high
school and college kids
, that is. So, grow a bad teenage mustache, brush
up on the parlance of today's youth (we think we heard some of it in the movie
Juno
, but we can't be sure), and see if you, too, can pass for a high
school kid and score some free stuff. Or not.
Posted by Lee Pender on February 19, 20081 comments
Hi, reader, what's happening? Like
Lumbergh
from Office Space
, we're playing a little catch-up today, not because
we've "lost some people" but because we took the very un-Lumbergh
step of not working over the long weekend. As a result, we're writing Tuesday's
newsletter on Tuesday and not the day before. So, it'll be short and sweet today.
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Posted by Lee Pender on February 19, 20080 comments
Sweeter than discount chocolates the day after Valentine's Day, it's RCPU reader
feedback! We're hoping that you're either savoring a post V-Day glow or at least
capably explaining to the wife why you came home empty-handed again this year.
(We're big fans of, "Valentine's Day is just a retail scam! I love you
every day!" Eventually, that's got to work. Oh, and ladies -- we're guessing
that 90 percent of our readers are married guys, so please excuse the one-sided
attempts at humor.)
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Posted by Lee Pender on February 15, 20080 comments
How much does Yahoo not want to become part of Microsoft? So much that the
company is apparently running toward
Rupert
Murdoch's News Corp.
for safety.
Meanwhile, Yahoo's staying busy. CEO Jerry Yang is trying
to explain to shareholders why his company -- their company, really -- rejected
Microsoft's first overture. And Yahoo's still trying to run a business here,
doing what companies do: buying
other companies and laying
people off.
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Posted by Lee Pender on February 15, 20080 comments