Microsoft partner Phase 2 International, sensibly based in Hawaii, is all over
Redmond's SaaS (or, we suppose, S+S) play. Kurt Mackie has more about Phase
2's SaaS-y goings-on
here
.
Posted by Lee Pender on January 17, 20080 comments
It's Product News Wednesday, so we're stretching
VMware's
acquisition of Thinstall
from a financial story into a product story, as
Thinstall's stuff will eventually make it into VMware's desktop virtualization
offering.
Posted by Lee Pender on January 16, 20080 comments
Here in panic nation, with the sub-prime mortgage fiasco and the resulting
credit crunch leaving blocks of houses empty, and the stock market tanking like
the Cowboys in a playoff game, all the talk is starting to boil down to one
word: recession.
The signs
of an economic slowdown are everywhere, and presidential candidates are
starting to address the issue -- and when politicians wake up and realize that
something's going on, that's when you know that whatever it is they're talking
about is at an advanced stage and is very much upon us.
More
Posted by Lee Pender on January 16, 20080 comments
In case you missed it, a
public
beta of Vista SP1
has been out there since late last week. For those of
you actually running Vista, that is.
Posted by Lee Pender on January 16, 20080 comments
Microsoft
took
the wraps off
of a retail component of the Dynamics suite of business applications
this week.
Perhaps hoping for better things from America's Team, Microsoft included in
its
press
release
More
Posted by Lee Pender on January 16, 20081 comments
International Business Machines -- we just love full names like that -- gave
Wall Street a much-needed jolt this week with
earnings
that beat expectations
.
Posted by Lee Pender on January 15, 20080 comments
Bill Gates, you knew about. The press has written stories, sonatas and sagas
(well, stories, anyway, and lots of them) about the departure of Microsoft's
legendary leader. Redmond has worked to ensure his line of succession, with
Steve Ballmer continuing as CEO mostly for the business side of things and Ray
Ozzie taking over the technology reins.
But there's a lot more to Microsoft's transition than just Gates' departure.
Bruce Jaffe, architect of some of Microsoft's biggest acquisitions -- including
the massive
aQuantive buyout -- will be gone
by the end of February. And, perhaps more critically, Jeff Raikes, president
of the Microsoft Business Division, the group responsible for a little product
called Office, will
be gone -- "retired" -- by the end of the summer of 2008.
More
Posted by Lee Pender on January 15, 20081 comments
Perhaps flush with the victory they scored in court last fall, European regulators
are
on
Microsoft's back again
-- this time, in part, because of (you guessed it)
the Internet Explorer browser! Couldn't they just Goog...uh, we mean Live Search
the U.S. antitrust settlement and figure something out?
More
Posted by Lee Pender on January 15, 20080 comments
The word "malware," which we assume has its
roots
in Baudelaire
, has always sort of made us snicker. But this
new
malware toolkit
(whatever that is) that's making an end run around anti-virus
applications doesn't sound too funny at all.
Posted by Lee Pender on January 15, 20080 comments
The big distributor has some interesting leasing finance options for partners
that work with SMBs. Launch yourself into the press release
here
.
Posted by Lee Pender on January 10, 20080 comments