The soon-to-be-dead Windows Live OneCare wasn't a failure, Microsoft folks
are saying -- it just didn't succeed because people in developing countries
couldn't afford it. Uh, do what, now? Hey, we don't get it, either...but check
out the furious spinning for yourself
here
.
Posted by Lee Pender on December 03, 20080 comments
Finally, something having to do with unified communications makes sense -- because
it really isn't focused on UC at all.
We've mentioned here before that we
just don't get UC, and we kind of doubt that anybody else really does, either
-- including a lot of the marketers who work for UC vendors. But one vendor
that's more or less in the UC space is finally making sense to us, primarily
by attaching an actual practical application for UC.
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Posted by Lee Pender on December 03, 20082 comments
No, Barbara Walters isn't prominently involved...as far as we know. This View
is a
new VMware
product
.
Posted by Lee Pender on December 03, 20080 comments
Seriously, Microsoft's not kidding about this patch stuff. If you haven't been
on top of it, you'd better read
this
.
Posted by Lee Pender on December 02, 20080 comments
We'd like to thanks the
Times of London
, old chaps, for giving us something
to write about in what's bound to be a slow time leading up to the holidays.
Some Times reporter said this week that Microsoft is going to pay $20
billion to buy Yahoo's search business -- a claim quickly refuted in the gosh-darn
American Wall Street Journal (well, in one of its blogs, anyway), by
a couple of investors who were supposed to be involved in the deal. All the
relevant links, plus a nifty news story, are here
on RCPmag.com.
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Posted by Lee Pender on December 02, 20080 comments
The question isn't so much when Vista SP2 is coming out as it is whether anybody
cares that it's coming out. But if you do care,
April
might be your lucky month.
Posted by Lee Pender on December 02, 20081 comments
So, OneCare is dead, but Microsoft's effort to be a security vendor is still
alive. Sort of. Microsoft will replace OneCare next year with a set of
free
security applications
. Or maybe Microsoft will finally just take steps to
secure its own applications the way users have wanted it to for a long time.
In any case, there's the potential for trouble in all this.
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Posted by Lee Pender on November 20, 20081 comments
It's a little company called Transitive that's
falling
into Armonk's hands
. (By the way, we're going to start referring to IBM
as "Armonk" the way we refer to Microsoft as "Redmond"...just
because.)
Posted by Lee Pender on November 20, 20080 comments
Just in time for a deep global recession, it's a new enterprise software application
from Microsoft! This time, it's small-business-focused Dynamics NAV that's getting
an update.
Seriously, this doesn't seem like the best time for Redmond to introduce a
new enterprise resource planning offering, but Chris Caren, general manager
of marketing and product management for Microsoft Dynamics, isn't freaking out.
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Posted by Lee Pender on November 19, 20081 comments
It probably won't affect the channel except at the very low end, and even there
partners who are trying to make money strictly by reselling software are probably
going broke, anyway. But the
opening
of Microsoft's online store
in the U.S. might still make a few partners
queasy.
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Posted by Lee Pender on November 19, 20080 comments
Jerry Yang is
out
as CEO of Yahoo...which is, perhaps, a sign that Microsoft
might
be back in
to buy the company -- eventually.
Posted by Lee Pender on November 19, 20080 comments