This
is one of those press releases that tried to make a new technology offering
sound like a dramatic tale of love and deceit set during the Crimean War. If
you can figure it out, let us know what it's about.
Seriously, dig this: "If data is the lifeblood of an organization, the
applications are its heart."
It just sort of goes on from there.
Posted by Lee Pender on 02/06/20080 comments
Let's not even pretend that there's going to be a bigger story this week (or
maybe this year). Let's just get right to some links:
Microsoft's earnings per share would -- get this -- break
even for the next couple of years if the Yahoo deal goes through.
Congress would look
into the deal, too, according to one intrepid news source. Oh, really? A
$46 billion deal involving Microsoft might get some attention from Congress?
In other news, Bill Gates has a lot of money. (Sorry, we're still kind of bitter
here about the Super Bowl.)
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Posted by Lee Pender on 02/06/20080 comments
Some of the things that Microsoft has been promising for a while are coming
to fruition. This week, Redmond
released
to manufacturing
Windows Server 2008 (formerly "Longhorn") and
the first Vista service pack.
Posted by Lee Pender on 02/05/20080 comments
"I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down, tumbling down"
-- from "I Feel the Earth Move" by Carole King
We've had a little bit of both the last few days -- moving earth and tumbling
sky. (And, yes, RCPU apologizes to our more macho readers for quoting an artist
as...uh, sensitive as Carole King two days after the Super Bowl. Hey, we're
feeling introspective.) First, the earth moved on Friday, as Microsoft (finally)
proposed a $44.6
billion buyout of Yahoo. Hey, that much money in that many briefcases hitting
a boardroom table would make anybody's floor shake.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 02/05/20080 comments
RCP
Editor in Chief Scott Bekker
digs
deep
into Microsoft's most recent earnings statement and uncovers some things
that the rest of us hadn't yet discovered.
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/31/20080 comments
Call it a hat trick, as Bekker serves up a tidbit on how the Southeaster...
uh, sorry, not that SEC...the Securities and Exchange Commission
might
be able to help you
, partner.
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/31/20080 comments
Despite what you might have heard, nobody in France actually says "Sacre
bleu!" as an expression of surprise. Maybe people did at one time, but
they don't anymore. These days, "oh la la!" (yes, just like in the
old
Sassoon commercials
) is the expression of choice. So, if you're going to
react with shock to the fact that the French national police force has
dumped
Microsoft for Ubuntu Linux
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Posted by Lee Pender on 01/31/20081 comments
Dig the lead of
this
story
:
"Cisco Systems Inc. introduced on Monday a new data-center switch
that the company says can copy all the searchable data on the Internet in
less than eight minutes, or run 5 million concurrent high-quality videoconferences
between New York and San Francisco."
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Posted by Lee Pender on 01/30/20080 comments