This is our last edition of the year, and with it I'd like to thank the people who make RCPU possible. That's right -- I'm dropping the royal "we" for today because this is personal. (That sounds sort of menacing, but it's about to get very sappy.)
First, to the readers, the e-mailers and the contributors to entries on the blog site, thank you for your attention and participation. I hope that at least you're entertained here and occasionally even informed. I love reading your comments and enjoy having e-mail discussions with you -- something I'm going to try to do more often in 2009. You are the lifeblood of RCPU, and I wouldn't have a newsletter (or possibly even a job) without you. So thanks for being part of our little community, and I hope to hear more from you in 2009.
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Posted by Lee Pender on December 18, 20081 comments
The CTP of the new SQL implementation is
due in January
from PASS. (Seriously, we can't get enough of acronyms.)
Posted by Lee Pender on December 17, 20080 comments
A recent survey from Intel suggests that Americans are
hopelessly addicted to the Internet
. OK, maybe it doesn't suggest that, but that's sort of how we feel ourselves sometimes. The proliferation of wireless routers into every home that allowed for the deadly TV-Internet combo, combined with the spread of high-definition TVs, might have been the most important development in the last half of the 20th century. Well, maybe not
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Posted by Lee Pender on December 17, 20080 comments
We're huge fans of acronyms here at RCPU -- we even refer to ourselves as an acronym -- so we were very impressed to get the following e-mail from frequent contributor Jon in response to a
brief but acronym-laden post
:
"You seem to be enjoying acronyms in today's RCP Update. Here we have many acronyms that start with the same letter as the name of the company, which has resulted in a few that sound very similar. So we invented another acronym: TAS -- Tangled Acronym Syndrome."
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Posted by Lee Pender on December 17, 20080 comments
Sometimes we really do wonder why people pay so much for Office when there are free or cheaper alternatives out there. But then we remember that everybody has Office, and it can be something of a pain to exchange non-Office documents. Is that changing? With Microsoft seemingly willing to
open Office to other file formats
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Posted by Lee Pender on December 17, 20080 comments
It's that time of year when news slows to about the pace of current returns on an investment with
Bernard Madoff
, and everybody in the press fills Web site space with top-10 lists.
There are top-10 lists of every conceivable nature, from the top 10 Microsoft stories, to the top 10 Linux stories (or at least the top Linux stories -- we didn't count them...or read them), to the top 10 Internet stories, to, as far as we can tell, the top 10 stories, period, at least from a technology-industry perspective. There's even a list of the 10 most influential "biztech" leaders of 2008.
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Posted by Lee Pender on December 16, 20080 comments
Whether anybody cares about
this
or not, we have no idea. But, hey, it's a slow news...month.
Posted by Lee Pender on December 16, 20082 comments
One of the Compaq PC lines will have Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
(SLED, in case you needed another acronym)
pre-installed
.
Posted by Lee Pender on December 11, 20080 comments
We were wondering when this would happen. We've asked here many times over
the last couple of years whether we'd ever see a true hosted version of Office
from Microsoft -- and unless Stephen Elop somehow falls from power and
Microsoft changes direction dramatically in the months to come, the answer
appears to be yes.
Yes, we will see a hosted version of Office, that is. Elop said as much this week, and he didn't stop
there. Apparently, Redmond is looking at offering multiple pricing models for
hosted Office, including the one that attracts us the most at first glance:
free.
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Posted by Lee Pender on December 11, 20080 comments