Your non-news news of the week is that people still don't like Vista. Specifically,
some research group called Janco -- we've never heard of it, so get that grain
of salt ready -- says that Vista still has a market share of
less
than 15 percent
after almost two years of availability.
Not quite 15 percent? That actually sounds a bit high to us, but we got to
wondering...where was XP at about the same point in its lifespan? Well, after
a very quick Google search (no, we're not even going to pretend that we use
Live Search, or whatever it's called), we found a vague, six-year-old
reference on a message board to a long-departed article, which apparently
stated that XP had gained 20 percent market share in less than a year.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 08/12/20081 comments
Let's not even pretend that this has been an interesting news week for Microsoft followers. Tonight's earnings will provide plenty of fodder, sure -- but, for the time being, it's a famine after last week's Worldwide Partner Conference news feast.
So, today, we have the final pieces of Microsoft's virtualization product offering falling into place. Specifically, we now know that Virtual Machine Manager will ship in the fourth quarter of calendar 2008 and will not have to be bundled with the over-named System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 07/17/20080 comments
We bring you
this
little item
only because Microsoft still
hasn't
stopped trying
to acquire Yahoo (apparently) and because such an acquisition
would bring Microsoft from a distant third in search to a somewhat less distant
second.
Posted by Lee Pender on 07/16/20080 comments
Last week's Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference was, as these things always
are, quite a production. But behind the bands, the fireworks, the Nobel Prize-winning
keynoters and the half-decent meals is one thing: money. It's always the bottom
line, of course, and this week, the financial rubber hits the road again.
Microsoft is announcing earnings in a market that we might call unstable if
we were in a friendly mood. In an unfriendly mood, we'd call it a bear market,
which it technically is -- or has been, at least, at times in recent days. So
Microsoft's earnings report, due Thursday after the close of the stock market
(and therefore not likely to appear in RCPU until Monday, although RCPmag.com
will have coverage) is a big deal. Maybe a bigger deal than usual.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 07/16/20080 comments
The ActiveX attacks on the database aren't done yet, the security giant
warns
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 07/15/20080 comments