That's right -- Microsoft has started a clothing line. No, really! And it's
called..."Softwear"! Just remember that the marketing guru who dreamed
this up probably makes well into six figures, if not more. Check out
this
story from
Macworld
, but be ready for a snark attack in the comments
section.
Posted by Lee Pender on 12/09/20080 comments
So, the beta version of Vista SP2 is
now
available
, which is only important if you bothered with Vista or Vista SP1.
Already, the reviews for SP2 beta
lack
enthusiasm
but, hey, it's only a beta version, right? And Vista's only two
years old -- it could still catch on. Right? Right?
More
Posted by Lee Pender on 12/09/20084 comments
Microsoft is
integrating
RSA's Data Loss Prevention into the Windows infrastructure. RSA, of course,
is now part of EMC. So that's EMC's RSA's DLP being integrated into Windows.
Got that?
Posted by Lee Pender on 12/09/20080 comments
We suppose you could call
these
the sky in cloud computing...or something like that.
Posted by Lee Pender on 12/04/20080 comments
For those who have bothered to deploy Vista,
SP2
is already in beta
. The Windows Server 2008 beta is available, too.
Posted by Lee Pender on 12/04/20081 comments
A quick note before we start: Your editor didn't realize until it was too late
that there would be no RCPUs the week of Thanksgiving, otherwise known as last
week. We had planned to run a barrage of reader feedback that week, but instead
we went dark. So, as the holidays near and news inevitably slows over the next
couple of weeks, expect some reader feedback from pretty deep in the archives
to appear in this space. Your weeks-old e-mail might show up here yet. Don't
give up hope!
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Posted by Lee Pender on 12/04/20082 comments
Wondering how the channel is going to participate in this whole cloud computing
thing? Well, Ingram Micro is now offering Microsoft Service Provider License
Agreement to its partners. There's more detail in Ingram's entirely comprehensible
(and thank you for that, Ingram)
press
release
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 12/04/20081 comments
Finally, something having to do with unified communications makes sense -- because
it really isn't focused on UC at all.
We've mentioned here before that we
just don't get UC, and we kind of doubt that anybody else really does, either
-- including a lot of the marketers who work for UC vendors. But one vendor
that's more or less in the UC space is finally making sense to us, primarily
by attaching an actual practical application for UC.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 12/03/20082 comments
The soon-to-be-dead Windows Live OneCare wasn't a failure, Microsoft folks
are saying -- it just didn't succeed because people in developing countries
couldn't afford it. Uh, do what, now? Hey, we don't get it, either...but check
out the furious spinning for yourself
here
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 12/03/20080 comments
No, Barbara Walters isn't prominently involved...as far as we know. This View
is a
new VMware
product
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 12/03/20080 comments
Seriously, Microsoft's not kidding about this patch stuff. If you haven't been
on top of it, you'd better read
this
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 12/02/20080 comments