From the Somebody Must Care About This file comes a story about the
uncertain
status
of Windows Mobile 7.
Posted by Lee Pender on 11/11/20080 comments
Well, failures of
driver
installations
, to be specific...and printers in particular did not fare
well.
By the way, many thanks to those of you who have written to share your opinions
of Vista SP1 for
Redmond
magazine's reader review. We're a little late
following up with you (sorry about that), but someone from the magazine will
be in contact this week.
Posted by Lee Pender on 11/11/20080 comments
Don't press any panic buttons or anything, but some of the projections coming
out of mega-vendor Cisco
don't
sound too positive
-- even if they also shouldn't be too surprising.
Posted by Lee Pender on 11/06/20080 comments
It's a tough time to be...well, anything in business right now, it seems. But
it's a really tough time to be a startup business, what with credit markets
still tight and so forth. But there's some hope for those companies trying to
get a technology infrastructure up and running, and it's coming from Microsoft.
BizSpark
is a program through which Microsoft is providing lots of technology and services
with no up-front costs to companies that are fewer than three years old and
earn less than $1 million per year in revenue. It's a shot over the bow of open
source for Redmond, which has at times in the past had trouble convincing small
companies that the total cost of ownership for Microsoft technology is less
than that of open source.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 11/06/20080 comments
Well,
one
says
, anyway...a blogger who takes a pretty long look at the successor to
the forlorn Windows Vista.
Posted by Lee Pender on 11/06/20080 comments
With the aftermath of the U.S. election in full bloom (by the time you read
this), NFL playoff races heating up and much of the country basking in unusually
warm fall weather, we're going to head back a few months and make...an Olympics
reference! Or, at least, a track and field reference, which might as well be
an Olympic reference. (Seriously, though, doesn't it seem as though the 2008
Olympics happened about 17 years ago? The shelf life for an event is short in
our YouTube culture.)
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Posted by Lee Pender on 11/05/20080 comments
So if Vista's got much better security than XP, what's posing a threat to the
pariah operating system? Uh,
Microsoft's
own ActiveX
, actually. And who's making that claim? Er...Microsoft. Yeah.
That's a little awkward.
Posted by Lee Pender on 11/05/20080 comments
Identity and security might sound like topics to discuss with a therapist,
but at Microsoft they're key components in a burgeoning product line. Redmond
this week announced that it's adding some capabilities to a couple of identity
and security applications.
First off, there's Identity Lifecycle Manager, which combines identification
management and certificate management -- sort of the chocolate and peanut butter
of security, as we once
called them, much to the amusement, apparently, of some folks in Redmond.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 11/04/20080 comments
Andrew McLennan finally got tired of being ripped off, so he started a security
company.
Well, it didn't happen exactly like that, but McLennan's experience as a video
game developer did eventually lead to his founding of Metaforic,
a maker of anti-tamper software. During his time at Steel Monkeys, a Belarus-based
game developer, McLennan saw the company's products hacked, cracked and available
for illicit sale literally before Steel Monkeys had released them in some markets.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 11/04/20080 comments
Partners, take note: As if you didn't know this already, a new CDW survey has
found that confidence in IT spending is
on
the decline
. It looks as though that nasty old economic downturn is hitting
IT...but the numbers really aren't that bad. Look at it this way: You could
be an investment banker.
Posted by Lee Pender on 10/30/20080 comments