It's Product News Wednesday, so we're stretching
VMware's
acquisition of Thinstall
from a financial story into a product story, as
Thinstall's stuff will eventually make it into VMware's desktop virtualization
offering.
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/16/20080 comments
Microsoft
took
the wraps off
of a retail component of the Dynamics suite of business applications
this week.
Perhaps hoping for better things from America's Team, Microsoft included in
its
press
release
a Dallas Cowboys customer reference that ended up being somewhat
poorly timed. No doubt Jerry Jones installed the Dynamics retail app himself
and does all the maintenance on it, such is his obsession with controlling every
detail of his football team, including fourth-quarter coaching. Apparently,
not even Microsoft Dynamics can deliver a playoff victory.
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/16/20081 comments
The word "malware," which we assume has its
roots
in Baudelaire
, has always sort of made us snicker. But this
new
malware toolkit
(whatever that is) that's making an end run around anti-virus
applications doesn't sound too funny at all.
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/15/20080 comments
Bill Gates, you knew about. The press has written stories, sonatas and sagas
(well, stories, anyway, and lots of them) about the departure of Microsoft's
legendary leader. Redmond has worked to ensure his line of succession, with
Steve Ballmer continuing as CEO mostly for the business side of things and Ray
Ozzie taking over the technology reins.
But there's a lot more to Microsoft's transition than just Gates' departure.
Bruce Jaffe, architect of some of Microsoft's biggest acquisitions -- including
the massive
aQuantive buyout -- will be gone
by the end of February. And, perhaps more critically, Jeff Raikes, president
of the Microsoft Business Division, the group responsible for a little product
called Office, will
be gone -- "retired" -- by the end of the summer of 2008.
More
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/15/20081 comments
Perhaps flush with the victory they scored in court last fall, European regulators
are
on
Microsoft's back again
-- this time, in part, because of (you guessed it)
the Internet Explorer browser! Couldn't they just Goog...uh, we mean Live Search
the U.S. antitrust settlement and figure something out?
Microsoft isn't the only one in trouble, though;
New
York is after Intel
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/15/20080 comments
The big distributor has some interesting leasing finance options for partners
that work with SMBs. Launch yourself into the press release
here
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/10/20080 comments
Last week's post on the
ultimate
demise of Netscape
got readers into a nostalgic mood. Since it's a slow-ish
news day, let's jump right into your Internet memories:
First off, Mike from Finland writes again, this time to correct RCPU on an
extremely important point. RCPU referred to pop legends ABBA as "four singing
Swedes" -- when, in fact, one of the ladies in the group was actually Norwegian
(and therefore probably should have had a place in another
recent entry).
More
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/10/20080 comments
More news from a big distributor: Tech Data has inked (sorry, we couldn't resist)
a
deal
with FMAudit
to offer managed printing services.
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/10/20080 comments
Let's see...hockey joke or
McKenzie
brothers
joke? Ah, heck, we love Canada. We'll just
give
you the link
so you can see what this workstation thing is all aboot, eh.
(There's no cliché like a Canadian cliché.)
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/09/20080 comments