Yes!
Service
Pack 1
has given us here at RCPU an opportunity to revive one of our favorite
activities: bashing Vista! Microsoft's ne'er-do-well operating system finally
got the update that Redmond hoped would push it into the enterprise, and guess
what? SP1 is deeply flawed -- so much so that Microsoft is
offering
free support
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Posted by Lee Pender on 03/25/200813 comments
What? Something's coming out of Redmond not just on time, but early?
Apparently
so
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 03/20/20080 comments
The word
"ecosystem"
might have a distinctly flora-and-fauna feel about it, but in the software game
it means something entirely different. For Microsoft, as for most big vendors,
the ecosystem is a universe of partners, customers and other friendly entities
that facilitate sales and implementation of applications. Or something like
that.
This week, Microsoft has been growing its ecosystem -- feeding a plant here,
breeding some animals there, if it were in the natural world -- for unified
communications. Following on the heels of UC deals with Polycom and Tandberg
is this week's announcement with Aspect
Software, which makes technology for contact centers (otherwise known, as
far as we can tell, as call centers).
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Posted by Lee Pender on 03/19/20080 comments
Hey, Aspire Technologies, we don't mean to alarm you or anything, but you seem
to have misspelled the last half of your product's name. Next time, do a spell
check before going live. Anyway, info on updated QuoteWerks is
here
(PDF).
Posted by Lee Pender on 03/19/20080 comments
So, here it is. Vista SP1.
Available
now
. Anybody interested? Anybody? Bueller? Remember when everybody anticipated
Vista's arrival with bated breath? Yeah, that does seem like a long time ago.
Posted by Lee Pender on 03/18/20083 comments
Kidaro is the latest company to be
subsumed
into Redmond.
Posted by Lee Pender on 03/18/20080 comments
Microsoft
loses
another court battle
as the big honchos, the Supreme Court, allow Novell
to go ahead with an old antitrust lawsuit. It's interesting to note that the
chief justice of the Supreme Court is a Microsoft shareholder, though.
Posted by Becky Nagel on 03/18/20080 comments