This week marks the
HostingCon
2007 conference in Chicago
, which, aside from serving as a forum for Microsoft
to show off its application-hosting technologies, also sounds like something
you might do if you invited a convicted felon over for dinner. (Get it? "Con,"
like convict? Never mind.)
Posted by Lee Pender on 07/25/20070 comments
Interesting
little story here
in The Times of London, old chap, about how Microsoft
actually figured out how to profit from piracy in China. Leave it to Bill Gates
and friends to turn a sow's ear into yet another expensive silk purse.
Posted by Lee Pender on 07/20/20070 comments
Mary Jo Foley tries to slice and dice
through
the confusion
of exactly when the first Vista service pack is going to appear,
but even she is
having trouble
with her Microsoft
Ginsu
knife
blade.
Incidentally, in the interest of balance, we've found a couple of fans of Vista.
(See, we couldn't lay off the reader e-mails after all.) Paul writes:
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Posted by Lee Pender on 07/20/20071 comments
Squarely in the "in-case-you-missed-it" category,
here's
a story
on last week's Partner of the Year awards doled out at the Microsoft
Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver.
Out of curiosity, what do these awards mean to you? If you're a partner, do
you actively try to win them or partner with companies that have won them? And
if you're in IT (and we know you're out there reading), are you more likely
to partner with a company that has won an award? Let me know at
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Posted by Lee Pender on 07/19/20070 comments
Those of you who remember the gilded age of the late 1990s (and before) will
simply love an article that's been circulating on the
21
biggest tech flops
.
Our favorite tech flop (which did make the article) is speech recognition software,
if only because your editor got a bit of a scoop at Comdex some years back by
reporting that Microsoft wouldn't be including speech recognition in whatever
the next version of Windows was at the time. Hey, it might seem ridiculous now,
but it was pretty darn exciting at the time.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 07/19/20070 comments
Want to know what the post-Vista world might look like? We'll bet you do.
Well, Microsoft dropped a hint or two with a couple of
recent
applications for patents
. No word yet on whether the open source folks came
up with any of this stuff first.
Posted by Lee Pender on 07/17/20070 comments
Oh, the double-edged sword of security that swings daily in Redmond. On one
hand, Microsoft is
pumping
major resources
into its Forefront integrated security suite, the one that
4,000 or so partners are now trying to sell. On the proverbial other hand, though,
there's a
problem
with Internet Explorer 7
(via Firefox, actually), and
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Posted by Lee Pender on 07/12/20070 comments
The bad news for Microsoft search watchers is that Google is extending its
market share lead. The good news is that Microsoft is kind of, sort of,
catching
up with Yahoo
a little bit.
Posted by Lee Pender on 07/12/20070 comments