Well, that's what "
people
say
," anyway, according to the Bloomberg headline.
Posted by Lee Pender on 02/26/20080 comments
Another week, another update on Microsoft's attempt to spend every bit of the
cash it has in its coffers (and more).
Even if Yahoo isn't ready to accept Redmond's overtures, Microsoft employees
will be, or should be, ready for what seems to be an inevitable consumption
of the Internet pioneer. Microsoft executives e-mailed
the company's employees last week a guide to swallowing Yahoo, laying out
how an acquisition would affect Redmond's rank and file.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 02/26/20080 comments
Next time you get a traffic ticket, take the money to pay your fine, place
it lovingly in a cheery greeting card, deliver it to city hall and declare in
the most grandiose manner possible that you're "making a donation to the
city." Then, you'll know exactly what it's like to be Microsoft.
Heck, you could even hold a press conference. That's what Microsoft did yesterday
to announce its new
openness initiatives, the basics of which RCPU managed to sneak into yesterday's
issue. The conference call, which evidently required a "War Declared"-level
media alert on Thursday morning, started brilliantly -- after waiting about
15 minutes past the start time, reporters finally heard some Microsoft official
apologize for the late start and explain that it had been caused in part by
"technical problems we had to solve." What, did Ballmer's PC blue-screen
when he tried to open PowerPoint, or something?
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Posted by Lee Pender on 02/22/20081 comments
It turns out that a bunch of stuff
isn't
working
with Vista's first service pack -- which seems appropriate given
how much stuff never worked with Vista in the first place.
Posted by Lee Pender on 02/22/20080 comments
The big distributor is keeping it real in the virtual world by
offering
to VARs
the most popular virtualization apps on the market today.
Posted by Lee Pender on 02/21/20080 comments
Recession? What recession? Strictly speaking, this isn't channel news (for
Channel News Thursday), but it is interesting. HP had a blowout quarter in its
last quarter, and things are
looking
positive
going forward. Let's have more news like this, please.
Posted by Lee Pender on 02/21/20080 comments
The provider of wireless LAN infrastructure systems has a new partner program.
Check out all the details
here
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 02/21/20080 comments
We're as excited as you are about Windows Server 2008. Seriously. After Vista
failed to impress last year,
the
buzz
around the star of this year's crop of new Microsoft products has grown
steadily.
And why not? Windows Server 2008 has blockbuster sales potential for partners
and already has
customers' attention. And now, it has an added bonus: a built-in
service pack.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 02/21/20080 comments
Just in care you were confused by Microsoft's server offerings for small and
medium-sized businesses (does anybody not know what "SMB" means?),
Redmond is here to make things clear. (Yes, that last part was supposed to rhyme.)
Microsoft announced today the Windows
Essential Server Solutions family, which we could call "WESS"
but won't. The concept behind this is simple. There are two versions of the
aptly named Windows Small Business Server 2008 -- Premium and Standard -- for
small businesses, and two versions (yup, Premium and Standard again) of the
Windows Essential Business Sever 2008 aimed at midsize companies.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 02/20/20080 comments
OK, we know. It's right up there with the news that the earth is round and
the shocker that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Still, if you
were curious, a new survey "reveals" that half of all IT managers
have
no plans
to deploy Vista
.
Well, they have no plans to deploy Vista "at this time," according
to the survey. Don't let that bit on the end slip away. What happens when a
company undergoes a hardware refresh and can't get anything but Vista for new
machines? As we've suggested
before in RCP, that's when Vista might finally make a break for enterprise
pay dirt.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 02/20/20082 comments