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