OK, confession time: Back in November of 2006,
RCP
the magazine
brought you the story of Microsoft Forefront, Redmond's
big move into the enterprise security market. As a cover piece, the
"Partners
in Security"
story itself was fine -- maybe even interesting, if you'll
allow the author to comment on his own story -- but the
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We told you last November about Microsoft's entry into unified communications
and Redmond's
curious
relationship
with rival Cisco. Well, this week, Jeana Jorgensen, director
of the Unified Communications Group at Microsoft, caught up with RCPU to tell
us how UC partner recruitment is going.
Microsoft has been concentrating on getting its more traditional software partners
into UC, with a strong focus on Office Communications Server, Microsoft's UC
technology backbone. At the same time, Jorgensen said, Redmond has been recruiting
new partners from the telephony space to handle voice applications. Now, she
told us, it's time to match one group with the other.
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In honor of the brands and companies in this entry, we'd like to start puttingWORDS
together and writing the second one in allCAPS.
Last week, mindSHIFT, a provider of hosted and on-site IT services for SMBs,
bought
a company called Collaboration Online, a provider of hosted applications
better known by some of its brand names, such as groupSPARK and AgileWave CRM.
The acquisition was of particular interest to RCPU because Ravi Agarwal, CEO
of Collaboration Online, featured prominently in RCP's April
cover story.
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Some
of them
are for non-technical folks; others are for more geeky types.
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Right here in the middle of the week, we're turning things over to you, the
reader. That's right; it's Reader Feedback...Wednesday!
We start with Larry's comment on OOXML
becoming an ISO standard (a topic that, incidentally, seems to have produced
a record number of comments on the RCPmag.com
blog site). Larry says:
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Microsoft just gave us a wonderful reason to
buy
a low-cost PC
in the next couple of years.
Posted by Lee Pender on 04/08/20080 comments
Vista what? Vista who? As if it wasn't hard enough being Windows Vista already
-- what with the love for XP in the user base, the scant enterprise adoption
and the routine pounding in the trade press -- the man most responsible for
making Microsoft what it is today is already talking about Vista's successor.
Bill Gates kind of, sort of said that Windows 7, Vista's successor and an OS
that won't have to follow a legend like XP, might
come out in 2009. The rest of Microsoft -- from which Gates is supposed
to finally, officially retire this year -- put
the kibosh on that notion, saying that the 2010 release date most pundits
expected is still circled on Redmond's calendar.
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We think that
each
one
should be named for one of Dick Van Patten's brood from "
Eight
Is Enough
." Then, IT people could say things like, "I've implemented
Nancy, but I'm having some trouble with Susan. And I can't get Nicholas to download
properly..."
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