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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If you're not yet entirely bored with the subject, and want to see what may be up with the next version beyond Vista (tentatively referred to as "Windows 7"... let's see, is 7 before...
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It is starting to verge on redundant to point out some other agency or company taking a pass on Vista, but Becta, the organization responsible for IT strategy for the UK public school system and...
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Microsoft announced today that they have made an offer to acquire enterprise search solution provider FAST for $1.2 billion. This represents a significant move in a market the Redmond software giant...
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Apparently smelling blood in their perpetual battle with Linux for the server market, Microsoft is going for the jugular by relaxing licensing restrictions in their next release of Windows Server Web...
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Let me say "no" immediately so as not to engender accusations of hopping on the sensationalism bandwagon (I think it is stuck over at Scoble's house today anyway). But Matt Asay's...
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I'm not much at specific predictions and I'm not going to get into the business of offering any up now, but if you're in the business of offering advice in the field of Information...
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It's that time again when pundits are assembling their top ten lists of the previous year and holding forth with bold new predictions for the coming year (and only rarely bothering to tie last...
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If you're going to talk about virtualization, then it may be helpful to get some perspective on the relatively short history of the concept by reviewing the vision and predictions of one of the...
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Or perhaps not, if this Seattle P-I survey of media sources is broadly reflective of general attitudes toward the not-quite-new-anymore operating system. Citing year-end wrap-ups in Wired, CNET, PC...
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Mary Jo Foley posts another way of looking at the same thing. The numbers she posts regarding the adoption of online office suites are telling: almost no one has used them, almost everyone who does...
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I was chatting with a friend of mine who works for Microsoft over the weekend and the topic of online office suites came up and he voiced the opinion that Office Live Workspaces, as such things go,...
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I have been meaning, for the past several days, to come up with some insightful and unique take on the brouhaha that erupted last weekend over who in the blogosphere "understood" enterprise...
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SAP, long a provider of mobile solutions to integrate it's CRM software with a mobile work force, has announced that they will now be providing software for Apple's iPhone as well. In fact,...
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Yesterday at it's annual Software Universe conference in Barcelona, HP unveiled the product at the end of the rainbow arc of recent IT and management support software vendor acquisitions, and...
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Part of the reason that many CIOs aren't jumping on the Vista bandwagon are reports such as this Computerworld article showing Vista twice as slow running the company's own Office suite as...
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As I was looking into Azyxxi for a post last week, I came across this short article in the Washington Post about the original development of the software. This detailed how the software came about...
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Although Linux devotees, by virtue of their oppressed minority status in the enterprise software market, have been forced to band together in the public sphere and make common cause against the dark...
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As wise companies do after a major product roll-out, Microsoft seems to be engaging in some introspective after-action reports on the Vista development and release process. Mary Jo Foley chats with...
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Microsoft announced today that Azyxxi, their big foray into the healthcare information market, has landed a significant coup: it will be adopted by the St. Joseph Health System, a large West Coast...
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It has been difficult, through all the marketing spin, to determine what has actually been happening in the enterprise with Windows Vista. Microsoft claims strong sales numbers and rosy outcomes,...
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