A recent survey from Intel suggests that Americans are
hopelessly addicted to the Internet
. OK, maybe it doesn't suggest that, but that's sort of how we feel ourselves sometimes. The proliferation of wireless routers into every home that allowed for the deadly TV-Internet combo, combined with the spread of high-definition TVs, might have been the most important development in the last half of the 20th century. Well, maybe not
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Posted by Lee Pender on 12/17/20080 comments
We're huge fans of acronyms here at RCPU -- we even refer to ourselves as an acronym -- so we were very impressed to get the following e-mail from frequent contributor Jon in response to a
brief but acronym-laden post
:
"You seem to be enjoying acronyms in today's RCP Update. Here we have many acronyms that start with the same letter as the name of the company, which has resulted in a few that sound very similar. So we invented another acronym: TAS -- Tangled Acronym Syndrome."
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Posted by Lee Pender on 12/17/20080 comments
Whether anybody cares about
this
or not, we have no idea. But, hey, it's a slow news...month.
Posted by Lee Pender on 12/16/20082 comments
In case there was any lingering doubt, we can confirm this week that
Microsoft is serious about this SaaS -- or even Software Plus Services -- stuff
after all. And despite some early concerns, it's becoming clearer that partners
won't be as shut out as they might have thought.
This week, Microsoft and HP revealed an initiative aimed at preparing
VARs to undertake what's called private-label hosting. Basically, VARs resell
applications hosted in datacenters by Microsoft-approved managed service
providers (or MSPs, of course); HP and Microsoft provide some technical
infrastructure and handy tips for getting started.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 12/11/20081 comments
One of the Compaq PC lines will have Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
(SLED, in case you needed another acronym)
pre-installed
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 12/11/20080 comments
We were wondering when this would happen. We've asked here many times over
the last couple of years whether we'd ever see a true hosted version of Office
from Microsoft -- and unless Stephen Elop somehow falls from power and
Microsoft changes direction dramatically in the months to come, the answer
appears to be yes.
Yes, we will see a hosted version of Office, that is. Elop said as much this week, and he didn't stop
there. Apparently, Redmond is looking at offering multiple pricing models for
hosted Office, including the one that attracts us the most at first glance:
free.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 12/11/20080 comments
It's apparently -- chemistry majors we were not -- the symbol on the
periodic table of for sodium chloride. In any case,
NaCl, or Native Client
, is Google's effort
to bring Web applications up to the same level of performance as desktop apps.
And already ink-stained (if we can still be called that in the Web era)
journalists are predicting that it could someday spell doom for Microsoft. From
the
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Posted by Lee Pender on 12/10/20080 comments
UC still remains (mostly) a mystery to us, but the price tag on
this new effort
at least makes it
interesting.
Posted by Lee Pender on 12/10/20080 comments
And so we come back to this because it just won't go away. Despite a recent
improvement in the performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, there's
still a
global economic freak-out
in full swing...and journalists
and newsletter writers (ahem) aren't exactly keeping a balanced perspective
about it. It's time for a little
mea culpa
.
Wrote reader Dennis back in November in response to RCPU's most grievous freak-out:
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Posted by Lee Pender on 12/10/20080 comments