No Microsoft security jokes here, please. The company is working on Windows 7 security with a pretty good authority on the subject: the U.S. Department of Defense.
Posted by Lee Pender on 07/01/20090 comments
Apparently, the folks at Gartner went a little overboard with negativity and lowered its forecast for first-quarter PC shipments too much. The analysts are now saying that the market should recover nicely in 2010 -- and that 2009 isn't going to be as nasty as expected, either.
Your editor has had a sneak peek at the upcoming salary surveys for both RCP the magazine and Redmond. Watch for those in print and online in the next couple of months -- you might be surprised at what we've found.
Posted by Lee Pender on 06/30/20090 comments
From the "in-case-you-missed-it" file, Microsoft released a fix for a SharePoint SP2 glitch late last week. More details here.
Posted by Lee Pender on 06/30/20090 comments
You can leave your reading glasses behind for today's RCPU, as it'll be a short one. The main thing we're seeing is that Windows 7, on which Microsoft released pricing details last week, is gaining momentum. A discounted version is already a big hit on Amazon in pre-order, and financial types like its potential so much that analysts are predicting a bump in Microsoft's stock price.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 06/30/20091 comments
The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished down on Wednesday afternoon, but the NASDAQ finished slightly up, and positive earnings reports from Red Hat and Oracle sparked hopes that a tech-stock rally might be real. We can only hope.
Posted by Lee Pender on 06/25/20090 comments
Microsoft is more or less keeping part of PerformancePoint server alive for some customers...under certain conditions. It's complicated, actually. The details are here.
Posted by Lee Pender on 06/25/20090 comments
What does the Microsoft Partner Program have against suspense, anyway? The big Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference blowout will happen in New Orleans next month, and the partners of the year will be the guests of honor.
There's only one problem. We already know who they are! Microsoft this week revealed the winners and thereby ruined all the excitement for everybody except the partners who know that they've won.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 06/25/20091 comments
The founding father who didn't stick around in Redmond has done a lot of stuff since leaving Microsoft more than 20 years ago, but one thing he hasn't done in any serious way is sell software. Until now.
Posted by Lee Pender on 06/24/20090 comments
Microsoft's popular SharePoint Server is now a bridge of sorts between the Zoho online applications suite and Microsoft Office.
Posted by Lee Pender on 06/24/20090 comments
It's no secret -- in fact, it's extremely well-known -- that the most powerful torpedo that struck the Good Ship Vista and started its descent to the depths of the operating-system ocean was a lack of preparedness. Third parties didn't have drivers ready for the OS; nothing worked with it particularly well when it came out.
Whether that was Microsoft's fault or the fault of other vendors, the fact is that it put Vista into a hole that it never quite managed to climb out of. (Then, of course, there was the famous "Vista Capable" lawsuit, which is only tangentially relevant here -- but we just love posting the link to the story.)
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Posted by Lee Pender on 06/24/20090 comments