The companies
renewed and expanded their partnership
this week. There's a pretty good Q&A with both CEOs
here
, and we get the sense that it's not lost on either one of them that EMC still owns VMware, Microsoft's primary rival in virtualization.
Posted by Lee Pender on February 05, 20090 comments
It's an expansion of the distributor's Advanced Infrastructure Solutions Division. More details
here
.
Posted by Lee Pender on February 05, 20090 comments
Apparently, some of the employees laid off by Microsoft have decided to raise a little cash by unloading some of their painfully uncool apparel. Have a gander at a small gallery
here
.
Posted by Lee Pender on February 05, 20090 comments
Everything considered, this is probably a good thing for most Microsoft partners and customers. After all, anything that Microsoft can do to better serve the companies that invest in its technologies is a good thing, right?
Probably. But Microsoft's announcement this week that it would introduce a Premier Mission Critical Support level did raise some concern that Redmond might be moving in on partners' territory. The new support offering will give customers credits if they don't get a response from Microsoft to their support calls within 30 minutes -- and that's 24 hours a day.
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Posted by Lee Pender on February 04, 20090 comments
Remember how there were about 435 different versions of Vista? Well, there are going to be
quite a few versions of Windows 7
, too, but Microsoft won't focus quite so much on trying to push them all.
Posted by Lee Pender on February 04, 20092 comments
Or maybe the better question is: Why would they? With Windows 7 due out some time within the next 12 months, it's hard to imagine why companies would buy into Vista rather than waiting for what looks like a better operating system. But a recent Forrester survey suggests that while Vista has tiny market share right now, almost half of companies responding were
planning to start Vista deployments
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Posted by Lee Pender on February 04, 20092 comments
You've probably heard about this by now, and maybe you experienced it, but we'd be remiss if we didn't note the comedy of Google
identifying every site on the Web
as potentially malicious. Then again, isn't there some hidden truth in Google's snafu? Something to consider..
Posted by Lee Pender on February 03, 20090 comments
The world "clickjack" makes us think of
Skipjack's
, a small chain of seafood places here in the Boston area. And since we're writing this at just about dinnertime on Monday evening, we're going to just skip right to
the article
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Posted by Lee Pender on February 03, 20090 comments
Windows 7 might just be a true rarity, a blue moon rising in the Pacific Northwest. Microsoft's next operating system could just be, if early returns are accurate, a highly anticipated product that actually lives up to its considerable hype.
Of course, following Vista is kind of like following one of those acts that gets chased off stage on Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater; it would take a considerable effort to actually look bad after something like that. So, Windows 7 has that going for it. Timing is everything, or at least very important.
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Posted by Lee Pender on February 03, 20095 comments