There's an old expression that people use in lots of different parts of the
U.S., although the people who use it always think that it only applies to where
they live: "If you don't like the weather here, wait a few minutes and
it'll change." (Incidentally, we have not at all found that expression
to hold true in New England in February or March, when it's pretty much cold
and gray all of the time -- but we digress. And, on a sunny, 80-degree day in
May, we won't complain.)
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Posted by Lee Pender on May 31, 20071 comments
In case you haven't seen demos of (or even heard of) "Surface," Microsoft's
new tabletop
computer
, trust us when we say that it's pretty cool. It also could be coming
to a hotel or casino near you.
Are any partners out there involved in selling Surface? If so, tell me your
story at
[email protected]
Posted by Lee Pender on May 31, 20070 comments
Anybody with even a feeble sense of irony will have to chuckle at least a little
bit at this one: The Federal Trade Commission is looking into the
possible
antitrust ramifications
of Google's proposed purchase of DoubleClick. (This
doubles Google's investigation trouble, as the ever-nosy European Union is
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Posted by Lee Pender on May 30, 20071 comments
After Microsoft announced that R2 of the forthcoming Windows Server 2008 (nee
Longhorn) will only come in a beefy (get it?) 64-bit version, rumors spread
that Microsoft might not release another 32-bit operating system after Vista.
That might or might not be the case, though -- because
Redmond
hasn't decided yet
Posted by Lee Pender on May 22, 20070 comments
Last week, in a
rather
innocuous RCPU entry
, we linked to a study put out by the school of business
at the University of Michigan that suggests that Microsoft's rating for customer
satisfaction is getting worse. We wanted to get your take on that and how it
affects partners.
Let's just say that we touched a nerve. RCPU's inbox quickly filled with e-mails
about dissatisfaction with Microsoft -- although not all of them were as angry
as you might think. Here's the best of what we received, edited in some cases
a bit for length. (And, lest you think we've lost our grammar skills, yes, the
headline of this entry is an allusion to the classic Rolling Stones song. We
hope you knew that already, though.)
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Posted by Lee Pender on May 22, 20070 comments
If you're old enough, or just enough of a fan of TV trivia, you might remember
the tastefully named Lee Majors starring in "
The
Six Million Dollar Man
." The actor played a test pilot who was horribly
injured in a plane crash and subsequently rebuilt by the U.S. government with
all sorts of high-performance bionic parts in his body -- hence the reason his
reconstruction cost $6 million, a hefty price tag back in the mid-'70s. (That
kind of money might get you a decent middle reliever today, but we digress.)
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Posted by Lee Pender on May 18, 20070 comments
Unlike some other commentators, we're not big fans here at RCPU of referring
to Microsoft as "evil" or "the devil," so let's put the
headline of this entry into context. SAP -- the big, German, still mostly dominant
enterprise resource planning vendor -- has been
snuggling
up to Microsoft lately
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Posted by Lee Pender on May 17, 20070 comments
Whether or not the latest (and oddly persistent) flare-up of the
Microsoft-to-buy-Yahoo
rumor
turns out to be true -- and we're not betting that it will -- Steve
Ballmer does seem to have a hankering for a bit of shopping. Ballmer said this
week that he wouldn't rule out dropping a bundle of Microsoft's
dwindling
pile of cash
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Posted by Lee Pender on May 11, 20070 comments