Microsoft
Sometimes it is a wonder how the obvious manages to escape the eyes of the supposedly knowledgeable.
Case in point is Microsoft's decision to add ODF and PDF read/write functionality directly into the next service pack of Microsoft Office 2007, this before the ISO 29500-standard is implemented.
Last week, the news came down that the OLPC had decided to use Microsoft's Windows XP as one of the operating systems shipping with the system.
What a letdown for those folks looking to colonize the next generation of 3rd World inhabitants to satisfy their warped egos.
If the allegations made by a former OLPC drone Ivan Krstic are true, then Nicko is a real sick fucker!
One of the more intriguing new offerings from Microsoft is the 'X' Online series of hosted applications, of which CRM Online is one of the more visible.
When you tell a lie often enough, it takes on a patina of truth each time it is uttered, and after a while, it starts to sound like the truth.
Rumors of underhanded tactics, skullduggery, and outright bribery have been heaped on Microsoft since the win.
Microsoft has largely remained silent, in my opinion, allowing these rumors to fester.
In the just-concluded, successful standardization process for ISO 29500, aka OOXML, a lot of ink has been spent by the opposition to OOXML in trying to discredit Microsoft and the standardization process.
Technorati Tags: Microsoft Office,OOXML,DIS29500,ISO29500,ECMA,Doug Mahugh,Jason Matusow,John Obeto,AbsoluteVista.com,SmallBizVista.com,LogikworxYou've just got to take a lot of the crap blathered by a lot of IT pundits as face value: c-r-a-p, crap!
Take the brain dead, grossly under-powered Linux PC Wal-Mart had been supposedly selling for the past few.
Today, the US INCITS voted to approve the Open Office XML document format specification for fast-track approval to the ISO.
Why?
Actually, why not?
It is always a good idea to take your daily dose of sensational headlines in the IT press with a grain of salt!
In the last couple of weeks, the blogosphere has been abuzz with news that (Microsoft’s) BitLocker drive partition encryption process was penetrated, and indeed, easily defeated.
My first thought upon reading the research document from a team including the esteemed Edward Felton, was that this was an attack more likely to occur in exotic situations, and/or against highly targeted victims.
We are currently evaluating Graffiti CMS, another product from the excellent developer-focused firm, Telligent*.
We use Community Server here at AbsoluteVista.com. However since we do not avail ourselves of the other powerful features of CS, moving to Graffiti for blogging alone will be 'a god thing'.
Props to Telligent for another hit!
*Telligent's main product is Community Server, which has powered AbsoluteVista.com for the past year. Telligent is also one company I wish Microsoft would purchase, since the ease of use of their products, and the fact that the products provide solutions for Microsoft technologies would, IMO, make it a good fit. Furthermore, they take tech support to the max, even for their free products.
When Microsoft and Cisco announced an agreement last year to co-ompete, people wondered if it was real or fluff.
I lauded the agreement as two giants letting their constituencies know what the planks in their relative platforms were. (Hey, it's the election season.)
Last week, the first fruits of the new arrangement was announced: the embedding of Windows Server 2008 into a line of WAAS appliances manufactured by Cisco.
Earlier today, Microsoft released Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solutions Accelerator.
This free tool, first blogged about here , will enable you to do the following:
Windows Vista™, build 6.0.6001.18000, was released to manufacturing three weeks ago.
After over a month working with the RTM bits – which I received prior to RTM, and greatly expanding our test to select customer sites, we have seen better driver coverage, increased performance, and no unexpected compatibility issues.
Yahoo, the company, not it's board
Come into my parlor said the spider to the fly....
...and we all know how that ended.
The same seems to be about to play out in the Redmond vs. Sunnyvale drama, with Microsoft being the spider, and Yahoo! taking up the role of the fly.
In my SmallBizVista Editorial, I look critically at the issue as it stands today.
Free downloads of:
Really?
A better title should be:
In a post last week, on St. Valentine’s Day no less, Chris Pirillo states his 50 reasons to switch from Windows (any version?) to OS X.
After getting past his preamble about neutrality, he delivers his thoughts.
Actually, we are supposed to take his thoughts as neutral, since, in his opening statements he declared his relationships with some sponsors. Feel free to ingest a grain/several grains of salt with his recommendations.
I have taken it upon myself to provide a public service by attempting to debunk some of the outright errors, factual errors, product plugs, and gross misconceptions in his beliefs.
There you have it: an impassionate dissection of his reasons.
What did I find?
A few – total 5 good, true, or valid points.
Or 8%
8%!
He is true in his declaration that the article was not an Apple lovefest.
It was worse than that.
Without meaning to be invidious, the only thing I can say about the article is that he did his sponsors proud.
I have been testing Microsoft Windows Vista™ SP1 for the past several months.
Windows Vista SP1 is a worthy compatibility and optimization pack to Windows Vista. It is NOT a replacement for Windows Vista.
Contrary to the either uninformed writings of some so-called tech pundits, and the unprepared CYA rants of lazy IT administrators, it was NOT necessary to wait for SP1.
A year ago, the 'WOW' was born.
Windows Vista was released into general availability.
The rest is history: about 100 million units sold, new sales records, etc, etc.
Happy Birthday, Windows Vista.
Today, I received my first quad-core review system, a Dell PowerEdge 1900 server powered by dual Intel Xeon E5310 processors.
Baldwin Ng, Senior Program manager for the Microsoft Assessment & Planning Solutions Accelerator is interviewed by David Tesar of TechNet Edge in this two-part video.
Part one:
Part two: