Microsoft, having quietly thrown in the towel on the fight to convince die-hard XP proponents (or plain-old Vista haters) to upgrade before the release of Windows 7 some time in the next year or so,...
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I don't always agree with Ed Bott, but I think he gives honest, no-holds barred technical assessments of new Windows releases, and what he has to say about Windows 7 so far lifts my heart. The...
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Earlier this week I linked to a post on the Engineering Windows 7 blog called "A View from the Bottom" by Larry Osterman, a Microsoft veteran whose own blog is a pretty good read if you are...
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It's always easiest to notice new information which tends to support your existing beliefs or which somehow validates prior decisions or recommendations, and maybe that is why I am seeing so many...
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Well, "Windows Seven" if you want to spell it all out, but I imagine most people won't. I like it. Another breathy attempt to be trendy like "Vista" would have just been a bit...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, David Parsons I don't mean literal train wrecks... sorry, I suppose that's a rather tasteless metaphor at the moment. But it's the one used in this...
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InternetNews.com is reporting that leaked internal Microsoft calendars show that the release of Windows 7 is slated for June of 2009, rather than sometime in 2010 as the company has publicly stated....
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Sun's acquisition of MySQL AB earlier this year carried with it the prospects that all such acquisitions of successful, smaller, open-source companies do, both positive and negative. The up side...
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Tucked into an announcement made yesterday regarding the release to manufacturing of version 4.5 of App-V, Microsoft's application virtualization product (itself probably worth of a separate blog...
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When I said, a couple days ago, that the Windows Server naming confusion indicated "...internal discord, and consequentially a lack of discipline and organization..." I didn't know the...
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EDIT: Updated at 08/19/08 18:38 PDT to reflect clarification from Microsoft regarding the name of the next major version of Windows Server. So it turns out what I posted this morning was a bunch of...
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EDIT 08/18/08 13:39 PDT- Mary Jo has retracted her initial information regarding the demise of Windows 2008 Revision 2; it appears that it is still on track as originally planned, and Windows Server...
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I thought I would throw a quick link up for the new, officially sanctioned Windows 7 blog run by Windows Engineering chief Steven Sinofsky and Windows Core OS Division head Jon DeVaan. The blog joins...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Angel Herrero de Frutos Speaking of Enterprise 2.0, it seems that the CIA is well on board with the trend. I don't know if the director filled out the recent...
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© psd The last time that COBOL (that's COmmon Business Oriented Language, a 1950's era mainframe programming language) got this much press was just prior to Y2K, when the effort to purge...
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Two counter-claims spotted in the blogosphere today causes me to revisit this seemingly quiet battlefield again, although I bring no conclusions or opinions to the matter. You be the judge! First,...
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© John Vetterli Since the introduction of agile development methodologies as an identified alternative to classic waterfall style development in the late nineties (agile methods themselves not being...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Andrew Dernie Of course they don't put it quite that way; instead, they are "Transitioning all customers to the Enterprise Support offering." Of course,...
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© All¡son J Deploying new applications is among the most fraught duties of the CIO. Change in IT, despite its constancy, is always loaded with the potential for badness, and new applications make...
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Drawing a line in the sand and pulling out the checkbook, Microsoft has signalled that it doesn't intend to continue standing by quietly and allowing Vista to be sullied by ads, pundits, and...
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That seems to be the implication in Senior VP Bill Veghte's letter to Microsoft customers announcing the ship date for Windows 7 (around about January 2010... all those 2009 rumors needed to be...
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Even Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs), at least according to vendor Managed Objects. With their unveiling of "myCMDB" at Gartner's IT Infrastructure, Operations &...
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There is a broad disparity between the views of software manufacturers and their customers with regard to who is ultimately in control of the software running on the customer machine. Businesses (and...
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That's the word on the street at the moment, at least. Just when I was looking for some major company to demonstrate the viability of skipping Vista (as I have been suggesting) despite the...
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