Down in East Texas, there's a large area known as the Piney Woods, given that it's home to pine trees that aren't exactly common in much of the rest of the state. There's some real beauty to East Texas; Caddo Lake, the state's only natural lake, has a certain swampy appeal, and Tyler -- native city of football legend Earl Campbell -- is home to famous rose gardens.
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Posted by Lee Pender on August 19, 200910 comments
The big distributor has signed a load of deals that focus on (to quote its statement rather directly): "mobile computing, security, video production, document management, virtualization and professional IT services solutions." Wow, that's a lot of stuff. There's more detail straight from Tech Data here.
Posted by Lee Pender on August 19, 20090 comments
Finally, some time in 2010, "Entourage" will be nothing for Mac users but a fairly entertaining HBO sitcom. The e-mail client in Mac version of Microsoft Office will be Outlook, at last.
Posted by Lee Pender on August 18, 20090 comments
One study says that 40 percent of what's on Twitter amounts to "pointless babble." The other 60 percent, of course, is RCPU updates at http://twitter.com/leepender. That is, if the Russians haven't taken down the site altogether.
Posted by Lee Pender on August 18, 20090 comments
It's all good news on this mid-August day, right? Microsoft, in a bolt of wisdom, has signed a deal with Nokia to offer Office on Nokia handsets.
Finally, Microsoft is admitting that Windows Mobile isn't ever going to be what Windows is on the desktop. Not even close, in fact. (Well, OK, Microsoft is still giving Windows Mobile lip service, but let's face it -- the mobile operating system is something of a dud and is getting less popular, not more.)
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Posted by Lee Pender on August 13, 20092 comments
Apparently unimpressed with VMware's plan to buy SpringSource, a Microsoft executive this week went to great lengths to explain to investors why the purchase will fail. VMware, of course, might have a different take on the matter...and is, after all, still the undisputed king of the virtualization mountain. So, let's not forget about that.
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Posted by Lee Pender on August 13, 20090 comments
After RCPU lauded readers last week for playing down Browser Wars II, we got rather a brush-off e-mail from reader Andy:
"Browsers are not an application -- they are a platform. And no one wants Microsoft to use one monopoly to gain another monopoly. Please go on and talk about something new."
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Posted by Lee Pender on August 12, 20093 comments
Your .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 betas could be at risk if you upgrade to Windows 7. But since this problem only seems to affect Vista users, there probably aren't many of you who care.
Posted by Lee Pender on August 12, 20090 comments