By far the strangest part of this story is the fact that a company called Cactus
is based in Canada. Other than that, this is a
tidy
and interesting read
about how one Microsoft partner is playing a big role
in the development of Commerce Server.
Posted by Lee Pender on August 09, 20070 comments
Everybody loves Action Packs, those free bundles of Microsoft applications
available to just about anybody and everybody in the Microsoft Partner Program. [Editor's note: they actually cost $300.] As of now, Action Packs are nice little perks for everybody whose company is
at least a Registered Member in the program. They're generally considered to
be a no-strings-attached (or at least, few-strings-attached)
bundle of appreciation from Redmond to partners.
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Posted by Lee Pender on August 09, 20073 comments
Remember
those
patches for Vista
that caused some confusion last week? Well, maybe they
weren't SP1 after all, because they're
well
and truly out there
for anyone to download now.
And with Vista back in the news (as if it ever really left), let's go to the
vault for some reader e-mails.
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Posted by Lee Pender on August 09, 20070 comments
It's been way too long since we've made a
Pirates
of Silicon Valley
reference here at RCPU. So, with this week marking
the 10th anniversary of Microsoft's big investment in Apple (which happens at
the end of the movie -- not to give it away or anything), we couldn't resist
typing once again fictional Bill Gates' famous words to fictional (but not Fake
--
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Posted by Lee Pender on August 08, 20070 comments
Fun little story here about Nicolas Sarkozy, the still-new president of France
and noted firebrand,
going
off on a couple of American photographers
during Sarko's vacation in New
Hampshire.
We throw this in because: 1) Your editor lived in France for almost five years
and is a bit of a Francophile; 2) Your editor has also been to the lake where
Sarko is vacationing (as have, we're guessing, most New Englanders); and 3)
Sarko is crashing at Michael Appe's pad, and Appe is a former Microsoft executive,
making this entry entirely relevant for RCPU. Or at least as relevant as
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Posted by Lee Pender on August 07, 20070 comments
Let's not even pretend that we'll have a bigger story than this one this week.
This one is right up there with "Microsoft Makes Major Investment in Apple"
(which happened, by the way, 10 years ago this week) and "Bill Gates To
Transition Away from Microsoft" (well,
sort
of
).
After 14 months of stealth
parody of Apple's iconic leader, we
now know who the Fake Steve Jobs has been all along. The decidedly old-media
New York Times unmasked the legendary blogger and new-media meme as...Forbes
Senior Editor Dan Lyons, who just happens to be one of your editor's former
colleagues! (OK, so your editor worked at the same publication as Lyons about
10 years ago and met him once -- it still counts! And we at RCPU can confirm
that Mr. Lyons is a very funny guy.)
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Posted by Lee Pender on August 07, 20070 comments
Almost as soon as the
first
entry in yesterday's RCPU
about mysteriously disappearing Vista fixes went
out, we had an e-mail from Stuart (although not the Stuart whose e-mail appeared
yesterday):
"Get your facts straight, Lee. The fixes you describe are certainly
NOT the bulk of what will be available in SP1 and as of today, 8/1, they're
still available to Connect subscribers."
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Posted by Lee Pender on August 02, 20071 comments