Many have the times been here at RCPU that we've defended Microsoft -- in the
EU antitrust cases, in certain disputes with other vendors and against the more
communist element of the open source movement.
But this is just nasty.
Avistar
Communications is going through a rough time. That's probably the first
thing that we should understand here. Avistar makes videoconferencing software
with a specialty in enterprise desktop video, and its new CEO, an affable Brit
named Simon Moss, sees his company's wares as a great fit for the cresting wave
of unified communications (UC) platforms.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 04/03/20082 comments
One survey of resellers finds that leads from vendors
aren't
so great
after all.
Posted by Lee Pender on 04/03/20080 comments
Microsoft's
famous
victory
in getting its Office Open XML standard approved by the ISO might
not be a done deal yet, if the
pesky
EU
has anything to say about it.
Posted by Lee Pender on 04/03/20080 comments
This is the way it used to be when the New York Yankees were dominant, when
the Steelers or 49ers were winning Super Bowls, and when Manchester United couldn't
be stopped (and, actually, those days for Man U seem to be returning). They
might fall behind here and there, maybe lose a game, maybe even lose a championship...but
then they would collect themselves, rally and unleash fury upon their hapless
opponents, reminding them who was boss after all. That's pretty much what Microsoft
did with Office Open XML.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 04/02/200838 comments
Google's word processor-y sort of thing isn't just a SaaS application anymore.
Google Docs is
now
available offline
in what a lot of people are calling a challenge to Microsoft
Word.
Our note to Google: Be careful what you're getting into here. You've still
got Microsoft over a barrel with the whole SaaS-apps thing, but offline productivity
software is Redmond's bread and butter, and Microsoft has crushed all competitors
that have tried to usurp its position in the market. We're just saying...
Posted by Lee Pender on 04/02/20080 comments
Welcome to an abbreviated version of RCPU: We're in the midst of a lot of other
stuff, including an article for that
pesky
print publication
, so, for once, we're employing an economy of words. And
we're in a linguistic recession right now.
So while we know that partners don't seem overly interested in a potential
Microsoft-Yahoo deal (and, really, we're not, either), we did find it interesting
that Yahoo has launched a
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Posted by Lee Pender on 04/01/20080 comments
No jokes, please. It's an
MIT
consortium
on network authentication. Now,
those
must be some rockin'
parties.
Posted by Lee Pender on 04/01/20080 comments
It's not just the new OS that's having a hard time breaking into the corporate
world. It's also (editorial comment coming) the
genuinely
awful IE 7
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 03/31/20080 comments
Reports indicate that Microsoft might kind of, sort of, be thinking about developing
something that would be a little bit like a
hosted
version of Office
. Maybe. Kind of. Eventually.
Posted by Lee Pender on 03/31/20080 comments