Before we get to Ballmer's mafia handle, let's look at a few reader e-mails
on other topics.
Colin quite rightly called your editor out for having been too lazy to look
up the old magazine cover with Apple's logo and the word "Pray" on
it that we
referenced last week. Turns out it was Wired, not Upside,
that ran the cover -- and it turns out that the cover's quite famous, as you'll
see from Colin's note:
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Posted by Lee Pender on May 11, 20070 comments
As we do sometimes here at RCPU, we're going to throw a topic completely open
to you, the faithful reader. In other words, we'll give you a bit of news and
just let you run with it in e-mail form or as commentary on the blog. (Yes,
this means that we're going to mainly keep our mouths shut on this issue --
for now.)
We did this last summer with Windows
Genuine Advantage and got tremendous
feedback. So here we go again. This week, it's time to Get
Smart, as the topic is business intelligence (clever, huh?).
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Posted by Lee Pender on May 10, 20071 comments
Here come those third parties Microsoft has been waiting for on Vista. Virtualization
kingpin
VMware
has released Workstation 6
, the first of its virtualization products to
support Vista.
Posted by Lee Pender on May 10, 20070 comments
OK, so we already snuck a few in on you with the last entry. Well, here are
some more. RCPU got an absolute bumper crop this week, so we'll run a few now
and save the rest for next week. To those who took time to write, we offer our
thanks, as always.
On Microsoft's offer of $3
Windows to students in developing nations, Mackey says it's a great idea:
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Posted by Lee Pender on April 27, 20070 comments
We kick off this week's Friday reader feedback with a message from frequent
contributor Robin about Microsoft's
pending
legal problems in Japan
and, more specifically, about how companies should
protect their intellectual property from the hungry beast that Redmond can be.
Robin has some tips for partners
on
his Web site
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Posted by Lee Pender on April 20, 20070 comments
If your
weekend
was a washout
, just keep in mind that it could have been worse. You could
work for the search team at Microsoft.
Redmond's flailing search ambitions took a major hit late last week when Google
announced that it intended to spend $3.1
billion to buy DoubleClick, the provider of online advertising-management
technology that Microsoft also coveted. (The worst part about the whole deal
for Microsoft seems to be that, according to the Times of London, old
bean, Microsoft matched Google's offer -- but DoubleClick
turned Redmond down. Ouch.)
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Posted by Lee Pender on April 17, 20070 comments