Microsoft Makes V-Day Date Official

As Virtualization Review Editor Keith Ward reported some time ago , Microsoft will indeed hold a big virtualization launch event on Sept. 8. What, exactly, will get launched is still up for speculation. More

Posted by Lee Pender on August 13, 20080 comments


The Cyber War Against Georgia

This article simply fell into the too-interesting-not-to-run category. It might not be classic RCPU material, but it's worth a read.

Posted by Lee Pender on August 13, 20080 comments


PowerPoint Presentations To Be Somewhat Less Boring

Business Objects, now part of SAP, has a new tool that lets presentation builders plug Excel info directly into the dreaded slide software.

Posted by Lee Pender on August 13, 20080 comments


Green Technology Trend Still More Talk Than Action

It's not easy to write an entry on green technology and not use the hackneyed Kermit the Frog phrase, "It's not easy being green"...and, indeed, we've just failed to do it ourselves. But whether being green is easy or not as far as technology is concerned, it can have its benefits, as RCP More

Posted by Lee Pender on August 13, 20080 comments


Vista, IE Struggle with Market Share

Your non-news news of the week is that people still don't like Vista. Specifically, some research group called Janco -- we've never heard of it, so get that grain of salt ready -- says that Vista still has a market share of less than 15 percent More

Posted by Lee Pender on August 12, 20081 comments


Seven Critical Patches Coming Today

Get your fix(es) on Patch Tuesday.

Posted by Lee Pender on August 12, 20080 comments


SP1 for VS 2008 and .NET Out

The Skittles and Mountain Dew crowd will love this new service pack .

Posted by Lee Pender on August 12, 20080 comments


Spectra Logic Expands Channel Program

The data storage company has a new deal for the channel.

Posted by Lee Pender on July 17, 20080 comments


Redmond Builds Search Functionality Into Servers

Microsoft has thrown search features into a bunch of servers, including SharePoint .

Posted by Lee Pender on July 17, 20080 comments


Microsoft Virtualization Strategy Coming Together

Let's not even pretend that this has been an interesting news week for Microsoft followers. Tonight's earnings will provide plenty of fodder, sure -- but, for the time being, it's a famine after last week's Worldwide Partner Conference news feast.

So, today, we have the final pieces of Microsoft's virtualization product offering falling into place. Specifically, we now know that Virtual Machine Manager will ship in the fourth quarter of calendar 2008 and will not have to be bundled with the over-named System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise.

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Posted by Lee Pender on July 17, 20080 comments


Is There Life Without Microsoft Office?

One reporter drops a lot of words trying to find out.

Posted by Lee Pender on July 16, 20080 comments


Redmond Still Getting Clobbered in Search

We bring you this little item only because Microsoft still hasn't stopped trying to acquire Yahoo (apparently) and because such an acquisition would bring Microsoft from a distant third in search to a somewhat less distant second.

Posted by Lee Pender on July 16, 20080 comments