Oh, we try hard, so hard, not to pile on with this Vista stuff. It's just that
every time we think it's getting old to talk about what a, uh, "mitigated
success" (yes, we're being kind) Vista has been, something else comes out
that demonstrates that this operating system is about as popular as
New
Coke
was once upon a time. (By the way, thank you, Internet and Wikipedia,
for providing us with more information than we ever thought existed on New Coke.
What was life like before the Internet? We don't remember...and we don't care.)
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Posted by Lee Pender on 09/25/20074 comments
Steve Ballmer
pulled
in about $1.3 million
in fiscal 2007,
a
pittance
according to Microsoft.
And, really, it doesn't seem like that much money for a guy who heads a company
that made more than $50 billion in the same fiscal year. Our favorite part of
this story, though, comes from the second linked article (the one from Australian
IT):
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Posted by Lee Pender on 09/25/20070 comments
Does
this
seem like a fair trade for Yao Ming? Probably not, if you're a Microsoft executive.
Posted by Lee Pender on 09/21/20070 comments
Oof. It's never easy staying on top -- not even for Microsoft, which has dominated
the software industry for so long that it's hard to remember when IBM was the
"evil empire" of technology.
It was bad enough that last week, Google
and Capgemeni got together to try to rope and tie Microsoft's cash cow,
Office. Now, though, Google appears to be going
after Outlook, too, and it's not the only competitor trying to carve out
a bigger
slice of the e-mail pie. Nor is Google the only Microsoft rival to take
a fresh run at Office, now that IBM
has a free suite of its own.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 09/21/20071 comments
We were all prepared with a joke along the lines of, "And in other news,
the earth continues to rotate on its axis..." but there's no use piling
on.
Here's
the study.
Posted by Lee Pender on 09/20/20070 comments
In old-school video games -- and, we gather, in most new ones -- there are
levels of play. You get past one, and your reward is a whole 'nother one, as
we'd say back in Texas, that's even more difficult to conquer. There's not much
time for celebration moving up the ladder of success. Well, that's what business
is like these days for Salesforce.com, in case you were wondering just where
this was going. (We're not gamers here at RCPU, but your editor did spend a
few months working for a company that makes video games.)
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Posted by Lee Pender on 09/19/20070 comments
Cuddly, cuddly! What a week for former Microsoft rivals to nuzzle up to Redmond.
Still-new friend Novell is teaming with Microsoft to
open
an interoperability lab
in Cambridge, Mass. (perhaps America's smartest
city), and there are
new
customers
for the infamous Microsoft-Novell Linux deal, too.
Posted by Lee Pender on 09/13/20070 comments