A couple of quick things before we begin: First off, thanks once again to Scott Bekker, the Earl Morrall (or Jeff Hostetler, if you prefer) of RCPU, for writing the newsletter last week while your editor was in England watching West Ham beat Birmingham in the other kind of football. And thanks also to Jeff Schwartz, who was busy cranking out stories yesterday while the rest of us enjoyed the day off by watching the Olympics and...well, that's about it, really. It is February, after all.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 02/16/20101 comments
Don't you hate it when the cure is worse than the disease? Microsoft surely does, as it's now having to look into a patch for XP that apparently crashes the operating system. How funny is it that both Microsoft's corporate color and its infamous death screen are blue?
Posted by Lee Pender on 02/16/20100 comments
This effort has a four-letter acronym, just to be refreshing. Want to know what it is? You'll just have to click.
Posted by Lee Pender on 02/04/20100 comments
The analysts at Forrester have put out a tasty little tidbit about upgrading to Exchange 2010. Increase RCPmag.com's hit count by reading more about it here.
Posted by Lee Pender on 02/04/20100 comments
Well, this just figures, doesn't it? As soon as we at RCPU start to go and brag on Windows 7 and tell partners what a great opportunity it'll provide for them, the whole operating system goes kaput.
Well, not really. Windows 7 is still popular and working well for most folks. But for others, it literally is going kaput -- or at least threatening to, due to a puzzling bug that keeps telling users that their laptop batteries are dying or faulty. In fact, it seems as though Windows 7 might be damaging the batteries themselves. Or, Windows 7 might not be at fault at all. Everything's a bit murky right now. The root of the problem isn't clear at this point.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 02/04/20107 comments
We still think of cola when we hear the letters "RC," but if you're thirsting for knowledge on the forthcoming version of Microsoft's big moneymaker, you can take a sip or two here. (Heh, we carried that whole beverage thing all the way though the sentence. Not bad. Not bad.)
Posted by Lee Pender on 02/04/20100 comments
So, Microsoft posted a job entry seeking a manager for a new, SMB-focused, hosted collaboration and e-mail service...and then took it down. And then wouldn't say anything about it. And now probably wishes the whole thing would just go away, at least for a little while. Well, it won't -- because Jeff Schwartz is on it.Â
Posted by Lee Pender on 02/03/20100 comments
It's called the integrated cloud storage connector, but it doesn't make CommVault a storage provider. Rather, it lets users integrate storage with cloud offerings from providers such as Microsoft and Amazon. That sounds pretty useful, actually.
Posted by Lee Pender on 02/03/20100 comments