Mary Jo Foley asks today How can Microsoft overcome Vista's lingering image problem? I would be more inclined to ask, however, whether or not it's even worth it for them to try. Microsoft is...
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Shoring up an oft-lamented and widely noted deficiency in their enterprise software portfolio, Microsoft announced last week their acquisition of FAST Search and Transfer. Microsoft's existing...
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This time from Jason Hiner at TechRepublic in his blog appropriately titled "Tech Sanity Check." Hiner suggests that Microsoft will actually encourage this course of action by accelerating...
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Actually, if you have ever heard Steve Ballmer speak in person, you'll know that he's never unplugged. Today at Microsoft's annual Most Valuable Professional Global Summit in Seattle was...
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There was quite a lot of reporting and commentary last week over Gartner analysts Michael Silver and Neal McDonald's recent presentation alleging that Windows is collapsing. I stayed out of it; I...
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This is no more than speculation, based largely on other speculation, itself based on an indescriminate statement Bill Gates made recently (as reported by CNET news) which may or may not have...
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At least as far as corporate customers are concerned, Microsoft's "drop dead" (which seems to be their message to users, as well) date for ending Windows XP sales will remain as...
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Last month I wrote a post in response to another blogger's comments on a story in the Seattle Times about the issues Seattle public schools were having in dealing with a legacy VAX student...
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Vista just can't seem to catch a break. With the release of the widely anticipated service pack 1 on Tuesday, Microsoft may have thought that many of the complaints that have plagued the...
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To be honest, I am a bit Microsofted-out after the last few weeks, but I have one last thing to mention before I go on a Microsoft-moratorium (which will only last as long as they fail to make...
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Predictably, my post from last Friday dealing with the readiness of some open-source advocates to take the hard road to solving common problems has drawn some fire. I expect more of the same from...
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To be honest, the Vista price cuts Microsoft announced today don't mean a thing to you, the CIO. They affect retail box copies only, not the volume agreements you are using. They aren't even...
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While Microsoft and other agencies have been busy reaching out into the virtual machine infrastructure and management sector, VMware has quietly been working to cement their own considerable lead....
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To date, the only serious options for managing large-scale, spread-out virtual machine infrastructures has been to either roll your own management tools or to invest in VMWare's comprehensive...
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I'm sure if you've been reading this blog long enough you have had a chance to hear some of my tired anecdotes about the idiocy of Microsoft's licensing programs, but today from Britain I...
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As most of you probably know, for a variety of reasons the planned phase-out of Windows XP from Microsoft's distribution channels was pushed back from January of this year until June 30. Now, not...
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IBM had been hinting at some expanded Web 2.0 capabilities being added to its Lotus line of mail and collaboration software and unveiled it today at Lotusphere in Florida (and you thought that the...
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Perhaps spurred by VMware's acquisition last week of application virtualization company Thinstall, Microsoft has whipped out the checkbook and kicked its own virtualization strategy into high...
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Well, I have finally worked my way through last week's 37 page report released by the Burton Group recommending Microsoft's Office Open eXtended markup language (OOXML) over the Open Document...
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VMWare has announced the acquisition of application virtualization provider Thinstall, adding considerable flexibility to their virtual systems portfolio and buying their way in to the next big...
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The big news this morning is Sun's one billion dollar acquisition of MySQL AB, the German company behind the popular open-source database of the same name, which also may be one of the most...
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Or it will, anyway, on February 12th as Microsoft pushes out a patch via Windows Software Updates Services that is absent the increasingly omnipresent Window Genuine Advantage validation checks for...
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