And the former Microsoft whipping boy’s new competitor is ... Google? Good luck to our
Canadian friends
, eh.
Posted by Lee Pender on September 05, 20060 comments
There’s something about anticipation that becomes impossible to shake. It just builds, getting better and worse at the same time, the closer we get to an important or potentially exciting event. It becomes all-consuming, something that’s in the back of our minds all the time and in the front of our minds most of the time. Kids can’t wait for Christmas. Movie buffs can’t wait for the latest film starring their favorite actors. Book hounds can’t wait to pick up the most recent tomes from their favorite authors.
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Posted by Lee Pender on August 29, 20062 comments
The long-time partners have expanded their partnership to
target branch offices of big companies
-- which, incidentally, is also a big target of Microsoft’s Dynamics ERP suites.
Gartner has some advice as to how IT people should react. Notice, too, how the Gartner guys congratulate themselves for predicting a Microsoft-Cisco battle back in 1997. Maybe it’s just me, but I’m not sure I’d be so excited about a prediction I made taking 10 years to come true. But, since nobody will remember this little newsletter entry 10 years from now, I’ll come out and say that Google will own at least 50 percent of the OS market by 2016. Take that with a grain of salt -- or maybe a shaker. I’ll be back to brag about it if it comes true, though!
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Posted by Lee Pender on August 24, 20061 comments
OK, so I’m not the only one who found this week’s little
proclamation from Google
banning the use of the word "Google" as a verb completely ridiculous.
Mike wrote:
"Maybe Google had better start googling to find the mind they’ve apparently lost. 'Genericide?' It is the ultimate compliment to become a verb. They ought to be worried about new and innovative ways to improve their product or expand, not how someone uses their name as a verb. There is certainly no guarantee that just because they’re the search engine of choice today that it will stay that way. I seem to recall at one time Netscape was the de facto standard Web browser. I reach for a Kleenex, even though it’s a Scot tissue. I put on a Band-Aid, even though it’s a non-stick Curad. I just got back from Xeroxing something, although I have no idea what brand the copy machine is (and don’t care).
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Posted by Lee Pender on August 17, 20061 comments
Actually, the terrorists aren't winning today, thanks to some
crack
work by our friends in the UK
. Given that serious backdrop, it's a
little incongruous for us to hear that downloading Windows patches is
a matter of national security, or at least a topic important enough to
merit
a decree
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Posted by Lee Pender on August 10, 20061 comments
Because
it's so
popular
, Microsoft is expanding the Windows Genuine Advantage program
to
PC makers
and (get ready) system builders!
Got any thoughts about WGA heading your way (again)? Tell me here or
at
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Posted by Lee Pender on August 10, 20060 comments
From the files of "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" (for fans of really old Saturday Night Live episodes),
here’s an article
telling us that Microsoft will continue to buy security companies in its quest to build a well-rounded offering.
Goodness! Next thing you know, we’ll find out that Redmond has business interests outside of Windows and Office...
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Posted by Lee Pender on August 03, 20060 comments
It’s a list that would have made
Carnac the Magnificent
proud, but it doesn’t have much of a punch line. In fact, Gates was selected, along with a strange myriad of historical figures, by a state-run newspaper as
one of 50 foreigners
shaping China’s modern development.
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Posted by Lee Pender on August 03, 20061 comments