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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on July 28, 2009
At first blush, the fact that Microsoft failed to provide direct upgrade options from Windows XP to Windows 7 didn't excite much comment; after all, the company has rarely stretched back two versi...
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The Vision Thing
by Scott Wilson on July 22, 2009
If you have been anywhere near the Internet over the past couple of days you have heard about Amazon's disastrous decision to remove legitimately purchased (although illegitimately provided; more ...
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General
by Scott Wilson on July 17, 2009
As summertime comes to the Pacific Northwest, workers get lazy and gazes start to linger on the cool blue and green scenery just outside the office windows. I am by no means immune to this malady and ...
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The Cloud
by Scott Wilson on July 15, 2009
Microsoft has released the pricing and SLA commitments for their Azure cloud offering, currently in limited beta testing and scheduled to be generally available for commercial use this November.
The ...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on July 13, 2009
I'm not sure I want to hop on this bandwagon yet, but it sounds like someone is already trying to start up a "Skip Seven" movement in the same way that some of us argued for skipping Vis...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on July 10, 2009
After the original explosion of Google Chrome OS related articles immediately after the announcement, today we get the day-after "thoughtful" posts exploring what it all means, and what will...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on July 9, 2009
And the development project, much sought and speculated over for years now, has been hiding in plain sight the whole time: Google's Chrome web browser project.
Since Google has done little more t...
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Enterprise Hardware
by Scott Wilson on July 8, 2009
eWeek's Don Reisinger has an editorial up titled "Should Apple Even Care About the Enterprise?" in which he answers unequivocally "no." Reisinger lays out all the usual points;...
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Enterprise Hardware
, Information About
by Scott Wilson on July 6, 2009
While everyone has been busy catching iPhone fever, and Blackberries have firmly entrenched themselves as must-have tools in corporate America, the consumer-oriented, scorned netbooks may be the next ...
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The Cloud
by Scott Wilson on July 3, 2009
Pretty much every cloud service failure these days results in a predictable volley of coverage; the unbelievers crow over another purported example of the perfidy of over-hyped utility computing solut...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on July 1, 2009
A single line in reports on a Tuesday conference call with Cisco VP Doug Dennerline opens up the intriguing possibility that the company is "thinking about" getting into the online office po...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on July 1, 2009
So, after running across the CIO Dashboard of Twittering CIOs last week, I had been toying with the idea of doing a post on dashboards in general. I'm of mixed opinions on them, generally; I think...
