There's a
new
version
of the authentication application out.
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/23/20080 comments
The
next version
of Windows
could be available by the end of next year (that's the end of
2009 for those of you still writing 2007 on your checks -- if you even write
checks anymore). Of course, if Microsoft has a late-2009 release for Vista's
successor on its roadmap, we should probably expect the OS some time in 2015.
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/22/20082 comments
Microsoft is like a quick-strike football team that's never really out of
a game no matter what the score or how much time is left on the clock. When
a new technology comes along, Redmond can fumble, throw interceptions and blow
coverage for three quarters and still storm back in the fourth quarter to win...or
at least to send the game to overtime. (Yes, we're caught up in the excitement
here in Boston about the perfect Patriots. Bear with us, please. It's going
to be two long weeks until the Super Bowl.)
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Posted by Lee Pender on 01/22/20081 comments
The former Disney CIO is Microsoft's
new
head techie
. And talk about a small world after all -- his last name is
Scott, which was the same last name the old CIO had. Now, that's just goofy.
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/22/20080 comments
Channel consolidation continued this week as one Gold Certified Partner
snapped
up another
: Ascentium is purchasing U.K.-based SharePoint consulting firm
Artemis.
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/17/20080 comments
RCPU had a little sit down this week (well, a phone conversation, anyway) with
Steve Hale, vice president of the North American Partner Organization for
F5
,
a vendor of technology that, among other things, provides a platform for the
delivery and optimization of applications for enterprises.
If Hale's name sounds familiar, it's because he was with Microsoft for 17 years
and has just been with F5 for the last six months or so. But he's been a busy
guy in his short time at the new gig. Primarily, he's trying to take an F5 partner
base that's "very transactional in nature," he said, and get some
of its membership to start providing services as well as ringing up sales.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 01/17/20080 comments
Microsoft partner Phase 2 International, sensibly based in Hawaii, is all over
Redmond's SaaS (or, we suppose, S+S) play. Kurt Mackie has more about Phase
2's SaaS-y goings-on
here
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/17/20080 comments
In case you missed it, a
public
beta of Vista SP1
has been out there since late last week. For those of
you actually running Vista, that is.
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/16/20080 comments
Here in panic nation, with the sub-prime mortgage fiasco and the resulting
credit crunch leaving blocks of houses empty, and the stock market tanking like
the Cowboys in a playoff game, all the talk is starting to boil down to one
word: recession.
The signs
of an economic slowdown are everywhere, and presidential candidates are
starting to address the issue -- and when politicians wake up and realize that
something's going on, that's when you know that whatever it is they're talking
about is at an advanced stage and is very much upon us.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 01/16/20080 comments