One of the Directions on Microsoft guys 
thinks 
  it's possible
, and they're not often wrong about the goings on in Redmond. 
  So, Vista inches ever closer to the scrap heap of history...with poor (OK, not 
  that poor, given his contract) Jerry Seinfeld in tow. 
 
	
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    Well, presumably Mark Conley's parents actually named him...but CommVault has 
  
hired Conley
 as 
  director of North American channel sales.
 
	
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    Oh, how the proprietary have fallen. Well, not fallen really, but certainly 
  changed. Microsoft is making noises about openness and collaboration again, 
  this time with a couple of standards-oriented initiatives. 
Redmond said this week that it'll work on a Web services interface with IBM 
  and EMC, and it's also joining a standards group called the Object Management 
  Group. (OK, so we didn't know what that was, either -- but this 
  story told us).
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    Well, that's what 
the 
  headline
 says, although we wonder how much one has to do with the other. 
  And, at 0.7 percent market share, Chrome seems like much less of a threat to 
  IE than Firefox -- for now. But, hey, we all love to read about Google, right?
 
	
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    Given the hysteria in this part of the world over Tom Brady's knee, we barely 
  noticed that the London Stock Exchange crashed yesterday. Yes, that's right; 
  the news is shocking -- Tom Brady's out for the season. 
No, wait, that's not the news we meant to talk about. What we meant to say 
  was: Yes, that's right; the news is shocking -- the 
  London freaking Stock Exchange went down. For almost an entire day. During 
  a rally. 
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    So, this week, Microsoft held one of those non-event events in which it gathers 
  reporters together to release a few details about upcoming products, and reporters 
  go because, well, it's Microsoft.
OK, so it wasn't 
  a total non-event, but we do kind of wonder sometimes why Microsoft bothers 
  with a whole big press event when a press release and a couple of spokespeople 
  available to take calls would 
  suffice. 
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    From the cloud comes a cool, refreshing 
rain 
  of updates
 for Microsoft's hosted CRM service.
 
	
Posted by Lee Pender on September 09, 20080 comments