Not too bad for Microsoft, that is. Some experts were actually impressed that the browser held out for two minutes in the
Pwn2Own hacking event
. Good to know where that bar is set, then.
Posted by Lee Pender on 03/29/20102 comments
BeyondTrust dropped in this week to tell us that eliminating administrator rights for end users can eliminate a lot of the vulnerabilities in Windows 7. It's handy information to have...except that BeyondTrust said just about the exact same thing a year ago. Well, at least we know that nothing has changed.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 03/29/20101 comments
If you've been to a grocery store--and it's hard to imagine that you haven't--then you've seen the tabloid headlines. Some Hollywood star, usually a washed-up sap whose fame flickered out 20 years ago, sadly succumbs to some awful affliction, and the tabloids at the supermarket checkout counter chronicle his or her journey into that good night.
Almost inevitably, the tabs use the headline "Brave Last Days." Presumably, anybody who was ever even mildly famous is "brave" as the clock winds down. But we digress...and this is getting a little morbid. The reason we bring up the "brave last days" meme, though, is because we're reaching that point for an old, trusted friend: Windows XP.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 03/29/201013 comments
Never count Microsoft out. We've said it here many times before, and partners know what we're talking about. Sure, Redmond slipped big time with Vista, but Windows 7 looks like a winner. Yeah, Microsoft had a few rough financial quarters, but its last earnings report was pretty spectacular. Again and again, pundits want to write Microsoft off, to say that the Redmond giant is on its last legs.
It's happening now with Windows Mobile (including in this space, sometimes)--or, at least, it was until Microsoft started talking about Windows Phone 7. Now, the Web is spinning about the new operating system that could put Microsoft right back in the exploding mobile game. Windows Phone 7 has some intriguing characteristics, which should differentiate it from the much-maligned Windows Mobile 6.5 (which, by the way, will live on post-Windows Phone 7), as well as help Microsoft stand out in a crowded mobile OS market place.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 03/25/20103 comments
After July 1 of next year, Select Licensing
will give way to
...Select Plus (which isn't actually new at all). Well, it at least sounds better, doesn't it?
Posted by Lee Pender on 03/24/20100 comments
Symantec is saying that
its new hosted manage service
can catch malware attacks right as they're happening, rather than after they've done their damage -- and, in some cases, before they even hit. Interesting stuff here (if we do say so ourselves...).
Posted by Lee Pender on 03/24/20100 comments
After last week's nearly $106 million patent-infringement verdict against Microsoft, plaintiff VirnetX wasted no time in
hitting Redmond with another lawsuit
. This time, Windows 7 is in the crosshairs.
Posted by Lee Pender on 03/22/20100 comments
Microsoft is getting ready to give pricing advantages to Software Assurance customers for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure access to Windows, and it's also
boosting its partnership with Citrix
to improve Redmond's desktop-virtualization capabilities. All of this is good news for partners who are looking at desktop virtualization as a way to get people away from XP and on to Windows 7.
Posted by Lee Pender on 03/22/20100 comments
A
hole
in Microsoft's Virtual PC hypervisor? Surely not, says Redmond... It's more of an
unlocked door
, really.
Posted by Lee Pender on 03/22/20100 comments
The first salvo might have missed, but the gates to the castle appear to be open. Novell has rejected a $2 billion acquisition offer from a New York-based hedge fund, but the bidding for the company might have only begun.
The company turned a cold shoulder on Elliott Associates, but it is now considering its options -- in other words, probably looking for a buyer. Check out this bit from a Novell statement quoted in Jeff Schwartz's RCPmag.com story:
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Posted by Lee Pender on 03/22/20101 comments