No, it's not the dreaded Windows Genuine Advantage rearing its terrifying head
again. This time, Microsoft has actually come up with an anti-piracy service
that it's selling to ISVs, and it looks pretty darn useful at first glance.
Keith Ward fills in the details
here
.
And that's not all that Microsoft's doing on the anti-piracy front this week.
Yesterday, it announced the
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Posted by Lee Pender on October 03, 20070 comments
Adobe is reaching into your editor's new hometown of Waltham, Mass. (also home
to Novell, incidentally) to buy a company that'll give it a
Flash-based
online word processor
.
And if going after Microsoft Word wasn't enough, Adobe's also teaming with
business intelligence heavyweight Business Objects in
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Posted by Lee Pender on October 02, 20070 comments
We just love using "ink" as a verb.
Ingram
will boldly go
wherever the Geek Squad can't get the job done.
Posted by Lee Pender on September 25, 20071 comments
Oh, we try hard, so hard, not to pile on with this Vista stuff. It's just that
every time we think it's getting old to talk about what a, uh, "mitigated
success" (yes, we're being kind) Vista has been, something else comes out
that demonstrates that this operating system is about as popular as
New
Coke
was once upon a time. (By the way, thank you, Internet and Wikipedia,
for providing us with more information than we ever thought existed on New Coke.
What was life like before the Internet? We don't remember...and we don't care.)
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Posted by Lee Pender on September 25, 20074 comments
Steve Ballmer
pulled
in about $1.3 million
in fiscal 2007,
a
pittance
according to Microsoft.
And, really, it doesn't seem like that much money for a guy who heads a company
that made more than $50 billion in the same fiscal year. Our favorite part of
this story, though, comes from the second linked article (the one from Australian
IT):
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Posted by Lee Pender on September 25, 20070 comments
The first release candidate for Windows Server 2008 came out today, as did
the initial public beta for Vista Service Pack 1.
Keith
Ward has all the details
, including a note on how Vista and Windows Server
2008 seem to be keeping the same schedule (no doubt recorded in their Outlook
calendars) these days.
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Posted by Lee Pender on September 25, 20070 comments
That's
Houston
in July.
And for those of you who haven't been to Houston in July, well...don't
bring a jacket.
Posted by Lee Pender on September 25, 20070 comments
Oof. It's never easy staying on top -- not even for Microsoft, which has dominated
the software industry for so long that it's hard to remember when IBM was the
"evil empire" of technology.
It was bad enough that last week, Google
and Capgemeni got together to try to rope and tie Microsoft's cash cow,
Office. Now, though, Google appears to be going
after Outlook, too, and it's not the only competitor trying to carve out
a bigger
slice of the e-mail pie. Nor is Google the only Microsoft rival to take
a fresh run at Office, now that IBM
has a free suite of its own.
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Posted by Lee Pender on September 21, 20071 comments
Does
this
seem like a fair trade for Yao Ming? Probably not, if you're a Microsoft executive.
Posted by Lee Pender on September 21, 20070 comments
We were all prepared with a joke along the lines of, "And in other news,
the earth continues to rotate on its axis..." but there's no use piling
on.
Here's
the study.
Posted by Lee Pender on September 20, 20070 comments