Microsoft
I am in Los Angeles for the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2008, aka PDC2008.
This promises to be a ‘ very big deal’ , as several new technologies will be announced, showcased, and demo-ed here.
Most importantly, Windows 7, will be shown...(read more)
Kinda looks real good right now, eh?
When the cash portion was about 22 a share, or the blue sky scenario of $34 per in cash, you turned it down. ...(read more)
There is nothing more in telling about an arriviste company than when they suddenly try to bite off more than they can chew.
Case in point is Google.
If this report in ComputerWorld in correct, and I have no reason to doubt that magazine, then Google wants to take on Mega-Telco by, get this, coming up with a system allowing
mobile operators to compete in an auction for the chance to offer you service and then switching from one operator to the next multiple times a day to get the best rate or more bandwidth.
Stop it! I’m so not making it up!
Is this arrogance, hubris, confidence in your technology, assurance in the righteousness of your now-discredited mission statement*, faith in your barrister, a belief in your manifest destiny, or worse, a deadly combination of all of the above?
Like death and taxes, one of the certainties of life in these United States is the sacrosanct nature of the business practices of Mega-Corp, each in their own spaces: Mega-Telco, Mega-Oilco, Mega-Energyco.
In no jurisdiction of Terra have these companies ever being reigned in. Even the United States government couldn’t do jack: hasn’t AT&T reconstituted?
In plain English, you just don’t fuck with them.
Now come these clowns from the Googleplex in Mountain View trying to accomplish a Sisyphean task of taking down Mega-Telco!
If they think that Microsoft is a formidable opponent, then taking down Mega-Telco is tantamount to the difference between playing with a slingshot, and undertaking an interplanetary Earth-return mission to Jupiter.
FYI, Mega-Telco co-wrote the book on bribery lobbying!
They never play fair, and they are very proactive in squashing gnats.
I am gleefully looking forward to seeing how this unfolds.
*Mission Statement: Do no Evil. Do no evil my a$$!
Aka, go away.
On Thursday, September 25, 2008, a three judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., confirmed what I called back in August of 2007, namely, there isn’t any $1.52 billion payday for Alcatel...(read more)
Light posting for the past several weeks due to being sick and completing a major migration at the day job.
I’ll be retro-posting on issues on my mind during that time.
The Microsoft SharePoint Administrator’s Toolkit v2.0, the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, and the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 (eval) have been released into the wild by Microsoft.
At LogikLabs, we use the MDOP, and are...(read more)
O Oh!
I guess it isn’t a cakewalk to produce an OS, any OS, after all, is it?
When those arrivistes from 1600 Amphitheater Parkway in Mountain View announced their all-encompassing mobile phone OS sometime in the past year, the mainstream media harlots went agog...(read more)
One of the best PowerToys out there has been SyncToy, formerly in version 1,4
Now, SyncToy v2.0 has been released....(read more)
How cool is this?
According to Dean Paron, Group Program Manager for SBS 2008, the following are what to expect from SBS 2008...(read more)
I am so NOT surprised!
That is a revelation I had thought about for a while. ...(read more)
They were?
Weren’t they Linux systems?
That supposedly unbreachable system?
To compound it all, the intruders gained access to systems used to sign Fedora packages.
How titillating!
How does that old adage go again? Something about people, glass house, and stones?
Heal yourself, Red Rodent, before trying to mouth off!
In comments to my post, Taiwan starts orbiting the silly galaxy, reader ‘adacosta’ feels it is a sovereignty issue, while reader ‘Michael Turton’ starts back down that tired line of Windows Vista is bad.
Since I spent quite a few minutes on my reply,...(read more)
Just when you think it is safe to go outside comes the news of another formerly sensible country entering the silly constellation.
This time it is Taiwan!
In news straight out of Mad magazine, the powers that be at that manufacturing powerhouse have decided...(read more)
The Recipe: Take your flagship product. Improve it . Insert secret ‘time bomb’ code into it. Release gold version of said product with the stupid code intact. Have users unable to use their systems when the date activates the shut down code. Is this how...(read more)
Sometimes, you just have to really wonder when supposedly smart folks hopelessly fall asleep at the wheel.
Case in point is the new series of ads showing real humans, not the drones at Gartner or Forrester, actually experiencing the ‘WOW!’ for the first time.
If rumors are correct, Windows 7, the next iteration of the flagship Microsoft client operating system will be publicly introduced at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in November of this year.
In order to avoid the public relations fiasco Windows Vista is today, Windows 7 must adhere to the following ten steps:
(This is a reprint from the July 2008 issue of The Interlocutor)
On Tuesday, July 8, 2008, Microsoft dropped a helluva bombshell: it would offer a complete set of SaaS offerings for $15 per user per month, with the Exchange Online product for $3.00 per user per month.
It was a jaw-dropper!
Microsoft walked the talk.
(This is a reprint from the July 2008 issue of The Interlocutor)
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About time!
With all the talk about alternative office suites out there, Microsoft has been lagging in articulating it’s strategy for delivering a financially-competitive offering in this space.
No longer.
With the announcement of Microsoft Equipt – formerly code-named ‘Albany’, Microsoft is attempting to kill several birds with one stone.
Yesterday, I was at the HP facility in Fort Collins, Colorado, where I was briefed on HP's offerings in the workstation space.
I went in to see what the offerings were with a view to finding out more information about the systems, and to see if they would pass muster, and become Logikworx's recommended line of workstations, replacing our current line.
In a nutshell, I came away impressed.
I am in possession of the new HP 2133 Mini-Note PC for a review.
First impressions: this is a sweet baby!
Read on