So Microsoft will, after all, launch a beta program for its new Web analytics
tool,
code-named
"Gatineau."
Now, we're sure that there must be a mistake in here somewhere. Surely Microsoft
wouldn't use some town in Quebec as a code name. Oh, no. We suspect that Redmond
meant to call its forthcoming heavy hitter "Gastineau," after
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Posted by Lee Pender on July 26, 20070 comments
This week marks the
HostingCon
2007 conference in Chicago
, which, aside from serving as a forum for Microsoft
to show off its application-hosting technologies, also sounds like something
you might do if you invited a convicted felon over for dinner. (Get it? "Con,"
like convict? Never mind.)
Posted by Lee Pender on July 25, 20070 comments
We've said many times here at RCPU that Microsoft, in general, is very good
to its partners, and we still believe that it is true. The only problem, as
most partners probably know by now, is that sometimes the Microsoft Partner
Program can offer -- as the old saying goes -- too much of a good thing. And
sometimes that good thing -- maybe the one good thing a partner really needs
-- is a bit hard to find.
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Posted by Lee Pender on July 25, 20070 comments
Commenting on earnings only a few hours after they come out (we're writing
this on Thursday afternoon, FYI) is a bit like
reading
the CliffsNotes
for a great novel and then doing a book report. Earnings
reports from big companies like Microsoft are absolute monsters (seriously,
check
this thing out
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Posted by Lee Pender on July 20, 20070 comments
Interesting
little story here
in The Times of London, old chap, about how Microsoft
actually figured out how to profit from piracy in China. Leave it to Bill Gates
and friends to turn a sow's ear into yet another expensive silk purse.
Posted by Lee Pender on July 20, 20070 comments
Squarely in the "in-case-you-missed-it" category,
here's
a story
on last week's Partner of the Year awards doled out at the Microsoft
Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver.
Out of curiosity, what do these awards mean to you? If you're a partner, do
you actively try to win them or partner with companies that have won them? And
if you're in IT (and we know you're out there reading), are you more likely
to partner with a company that has won an award? Let me know at
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Posted by Lee Pender on July 19, 20070 comments
Those of you who remember the gilded age of the late 1990s (and before) will
simply love an article that's been circulating on the
21
biggest tech flops
.
Our favorite tech flop (which did make the article) is speech recognition software,
if only because your editor got a bit of a scoop at Comdex some years back by
reporting that Microsoft wouldn't be including speech recognition in whatever
the next version of Windows was at the time. Hey, it might seem ridiculous now,
but it was pretty darn exciting at the time.
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Posted by Lee Pender on July 19, 20070 comments