It makes sense if you think about it. It might even make sense if you don't. That's why we're prone to believe the rumor that Windows 7 could arrive as early as September.
This week, an executive at an OEM in Taipei dropped the mega-hint that the final version Windows 7 might not wait until December or January to come bursting out of the womb. Ray Chen of Compal Electronics is talking about Microsoft releasing the magnificent 7 this fall, maybe in September or October.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 02/26/20092 comments
Hmm. Maybe there's something to the idea that a down economy will be a boon to companies that offer a hosted model. Salesforce.com bucked the industry -- and the global -- trend by blowing its earnings out of the water in its most recent fiscal quarter.
Posted by Lee Pender on 02/26/20090 comments
HP is distributing Solaris 10
on Proliant servers and blades
; the two companies seem to be aiming the effort squarely at both Microsoft and Linux. Good luck.
Posted by Lee Pender on 02/26/20090 comments
"Dance with the one what brung ya."
-- Old Texas saying often used by, and possibly even coined by, Darrell Royal, former football coach at the University of Texas
We hope that your editor's fellow TCU Horned Frogs out there -- we know you're reading -- will forgive a quote from an old rival, but we just couldn't think of a better quip to describe Steve Ballmer's state-of-Microsoft speech delivered on Wall Street this week.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 02/25/20091 comments
In the same week in which VMware
started releasing parts
of its Virtual Data Center Operating System (which
Redmond
magazine was
all over
back in December), Red Hat also threw its, um, hat into the virtualization ring. Keith Ward has that story with a much better hat reference
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Bull, Dell and HP are some of the big partners involved with
this effort
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 02/25/20090 comments
VMware now has its own
virtual campus for partners
, operating in no fewer than nine languages. The malodorous-sounding abbreviation "PU" seems to be the only drawback here, but hey, it works for Princeton and Purdue and probably a bunch of other schools.
Posted by Lee Pender on 02/24/20090 comments
And we're not talking about another version of IE here, either. Redmond is working on
popping a whole new kernel
that could make browsing safer than ever before.
Posted by Lee Pender on 02/24/20090 comments
In an industry so rife with overwhelming market share in so many areas -- operating systems, anyone? -- it's nice to see an old-fashioned battle shaping up in virtualization.
VMware still has the biggest plate at the virtual table, but this week Citrix and Microsoft announced an extension of their already close relationship that could help them take a chunk out of VMware's pie. Keith Ward, editor of Virtualization Review, offers up the news here and breaks it back down here.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 02/24/20091 comments
Actually, Microsoft taketh away (employees' jobs) and then giveth (severance packages). But after having given a bit too much severance to some workers, Microsoft wants to take away again by having ex-employees
refund some of their walking money
. We're holding our breath...
On the plus side, though, Microsoft giveth, or will be giving,
lots of free training and courses
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Posted by Lee Pender on 02/24/20091 comments