Some analysts are predicting that this week's earnings report
won't be a positive one
for Microsoft. We'll have more about Microsoft's earnings on RCPmag.com after Thursday's announcement and (probably) even more in next week's RCPU.
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/21/20090 comments
Live Mesh is going to, uh,
mesh
with Live Services.
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/21/20092 comments
We'd like to thank Citrix and Intel for revealing this week that they've been working on what they're calling a "bare metal" hypervisor that'll be optimized for Intel technology.
Oh, we're sure it'll be a fine product, but the tag "bare metal," aside from sounding like name of a nudist hard rock band, gave us a great excuse to troll YouTube for old heavy metal videos and call it work. So, before we go on, let's set some background music.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 01/21/20091 comments
No pink slips yet, but Microsoft
won't be expanding
at the rate it had planned. Lousy economy...
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/21/20091 comments
We received an e-mail from Alejandro at Nortel last week:
"Nortel is not bankrupt, but we had to go through several internal sessions yesterday to understand Chapter 11. The goal is to protect you from creditors to restructure debt and the company structure.
"I understand your article. Most of the media captured bankruptcy. Only a few added bankruptcy 'protection' to the headline. We clarified this to several partners and customers and received their support to do business as usual."
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Posted by Lee Pender on 01/20/20092 comments
Microsoft owns the desktop (for now). Google owns the Web (also for now). But this Software-as-a-Service stuff is wide open, and a huge player kicked up its pace in the SaaS race this week.
IBM unveiled LotusLive this week in Orlando at -- where else? -- Lotusphere. LotusLive is a hosted collaboration suite that includes pretty much everything you would think it would include -- e-mail, file sharing and various online collaboration bits. It slots in competitively, more or less, with Windows Live and maybe a bit with Google Apps as well.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 01/20/20092 comments
Haven't we been through this before? Like, a long time ago? And didn't Microsoft lose...but not really lose? Well, that was all in the U.S., and the EU doesn't care about that. And now the EU competition folks, who have dogged Microsoft for years, are back on Redmond's case, claiming that Internet Explorer might just
infringe on antitrust laws
.
It would seem to us that this argument had a lot more strength when Microsoft was busy dumping Netscape's lifeless body into Puget Sound almost a decade ago. But now? Well, all we're saying is that your editor is a user of both Firefox and XP, and Firefox seems to be nipping away at Microsoft's market share all the time. Does that mean that IE doesn't violate antitrust laws in Europe? Not necessarily. But the question we're asking is, who cares? And why this? Why now? Competitors -- Firefox, Chrome, Safari -- are eating away at IE's market share, anyway. This feels like some sort of EU witch hunt or vendetta or something...but surely our friends across the pond wouldn't take that attitude. Oh, surely not.
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/20/20092 comments
From the in-case-you-missed-it file, it's
MED-V
! But not everybody's so impressed thus far.
Virtualization Review
's Keith Ward
weighs in
. (Chapeau to Doug Barney, who also
posted a link
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Posted by Lee Pender on 01/20/20091 comments
Oh, it's on now. Sure, Microsoft and Google have been competing for a while, battling it out in search and, to a much lesser extent, in productivity suites (which means Microsoft Office and Google Apps, in case you were wondering).
But it's really on now because Google has decided to replicate arguably the smartest move Microsoft ever made: selling through the partner channel. That's right -- Google has a partner program, and it's looking for you.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 01/15/20091 comments
There's a change in management at Yahoo -- will Carol Bartz's arrival
attract interest from Microsoft
again? And don't you just love newsletter entries that are really just questions?
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/15/20090 comments