Follow WPC '10 at RCPmag.com

It's all WPC all week here at RCPU, and there's more online about the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference at our dedicated Web home for the WPC. Scott Bekker and Jeff Schwartz are running around DC like lobbyists chasing after Congressmen, digging up stories and talking to partners to get their perspective on the show. Here at RCPU, we're aggregating Scott and Jeff's work, but the WPC '10 site is definitely worth following daily. Check it out. It's just like being at the show except that there are no box lunches.

Posted by Lee Pender on July 12, 20100 comments

WPC: IAMCP Has New International President

Ulises Aguilar Nahle probably should have been player of the tournament at the World Cup with a magnificent name like that, but he'll have to settle for being the new president of the International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners.

Posted by Lee Pender on July 12, 20100 comments

WPC: Microsoft Makes Changes in Partner Organization

Just as the Worldwide Partner Group of Microsoft got a shakeup with the departure of Allison Watson, Microsoft's U.S. Partner Group has some new faces in new places, as well.

Posted by Lee Pender on July 12, 20100 comments

WPC: Windows Intune Beta 2 Available

Well, it's sort of available ...It's open to the first 10,000 organizations that get to it, anyway.

Posted by Lee Pender on July 12, 20100 comments

EMC Buys Greenplum

This purchase is all about data warehousing and data analysis for EMC, and Greenplum will become a new division of the Hopkinton, Mass.-based storage giant.

Posted by Lee Pender on July 08, 20100 comments

Prepping for the Worldwide Partner Conference

The premier annual event for Microsoft partners will take place next week in what might be a sizzling Washington, DC -- although nothing could compare to the Houston Humidity Festival from '08.

Anyway, Microsoft partners invading DC will want to have a plan, which RCPmag.com helpfully lays out here. And those of you who won't be there (which will be most of you) will still be able to follow the WPC blow-by-blow with superb reporting and expert commentary from RCP's coverage team on our dedicated WPC site.

Posted by Lee Pender on July 08, 20100 comments

Researchers Complain About Un-Patched Windows Flaws

Apparently some security researchers aren't feeling the love (or anything positive at all, for that matter) from Microsoft and are fed up with that they perceive as repeated snubs by Redmond. So, what do they do? Form a group with a semi-clever four-letter abbreviation, of course. What did you expect, protests outside Microsoft's campus? That would have been a lot more fun, actually...

Posted by Lee Pender on July 08, 20101 comments

Kin Kills Everything It Touches

Microsoft's biggest product disaster ever (in our opinion) is dead, but it's not forgotten. Or, at least, it wasn't for a while. Apparently some smart fellow came up with a Kin tribute site that let users memorialize the phone, the life of which only just managed to outlast the presidency of William Henry Harrison. Well, now, not only is the Kin dead, the site is apparently dead, too -- pending a new home, at least. Is there anything the Kin can't destroy?

Posted by Lee Pender on July 07, 20101 comments

Hackers Exploiting XP Flaw

An un-patched flaw is playing heck with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, according to various reports. Microsoft is working hard to fix the flaw by next Tuesday, apparently, but in the meantime a Fixit tool from the company might be the best option. Actually, it's probably the only option.  

Posted by Lee Pender on July 07, 20100 comments

What Microsoft Knows About You

Some months ago here, we asked for your take on Microsoft and privacy for a story called "What Does Microsoft Know about You?" which was to run in Redmond magazine, RCP's sister publication.

At last, that article is now online, and we're pleased to say that it has received a healthy response from readers. (That is to say that it has driven some traffic to our Web sites -- hooray!) Anyway, we mention this because there really is some pretty interesting information in this piece.

Posted by Lee Pender on July 07, 20101 comments

Yet Another Tablet on the Way

LG Electronics is the latest vendor to take up the utterly futile challenge of trying to compete with the iPad and produce a tablet computer. This one will be based on Google's Android operating system.

And if you thought that reading e-books would save you some time compared to paging through dead trees, think again. Apparently people read e-books more slowly than they read old-fashioned books, for what it's worth.

Posted by Lee Pender on July 07, 20101 comments

Microsoft Kills Kin

Wow, this is almost hilariously embarrassing. Microsoft's Kin phone, evidently named for what Jed Clampett called his family, is...dead!

Yes, it's all over for the phone that was supposed to kind of, sort of take on the iPhone by appealing to those darn kids, who just can't get enough of the Facebook and the Twitter these days. Apparently, they can't get enough of the iPhone, either, because they sure didn't buy the Kin, even after Microsoft and Verizon started nearly giving the awkward little phones away.

Posted by Lee Pender on July 01, 20106 comments