"This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
Where you can buy a full office productivity suite for $100...."
OK, so maybe Willie Shakespeare didn’t write that last line when he penned "King Richard II," Act 2, Scene 1. But he could have if he had hung around until 2006. And wouldn’t that have made for better reading in high school English class?
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Posted by Lee Pender on October 03, 20060 comments
They probably don’t
wear tuxedos
or drink their martinis
"shaken, not stirred,"
but it would be really cool if they did. Microsoft and the Russian police have been playing James Bond over the last year or so, working for his majesty’s (in this case, presumably Steve Ballmer’s) secret service and eyeing software pirates in Russia with a
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Posted by Lee Pender on September 26, 20062 comments
Here’s an interesting little tidbit: Apparently somebody from the U.S. embassy in Brussels has been hounding (sorry, lobbying) European Union competition czar Neelie Kroes to take it easy on Microsoft in the wake of the EU’s heavy fines against and
general harassing of the company
.
The rumor that the caller was really Steve Ballmer crank calling after quaffing a few pints of Leffe in the Belgian capital is totally unconfirmed -- especially since I just made it up.
Posted by Lee Pender on September 26, 20060 comments
So, Symantec, after yammering to the EU about
Microsoft moving into the security space
, is trying to play down whatever difficulties it might have in
making its apps work
in the forthcoming Vista operating system.
Robin, who has been good enough to write before, says that Symantec has every right to complain about Microsoft:
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Posted by Lee Pender on September 26, 20060 comments
The Uncool MySpace
. Great, another project that
takes Microsoft away
from its moneymaker.
Mike, who writes from Finland and adds the caveat that he’s not a Mac zealot, is tired of Microsoft coming up with ideas for entry into new markets and not following through on them:
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Posted by Lee Pender on September 26, 20060 comments
So, a friend from outside tech world calls me at work today as I’m preparing the newsletter. Right as I pick up the phone, I see a link to a story about a
Microsoft-powered coffee maker
. I tell her about it, and she says, "Why does Microsoft want to make technology for coffee makers?" Good question.
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Posted by Lee Pender on September 19, 20065 comments
So, there’s a
patch to patch a patch that patched a patch
-- or something like that.
With all of the publicity Microsoft’s security issues get, it’s hard to say how users will greet the company’s entry into the enterprise security market. How can partners sell companies on Microsoft security applications when Redmond’s reputation in that area is, well, less than stellar? One wonders ....
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Posted by Lee Pender on September 14, 20060 comments