The Chinese
aren't
such big fans
of Windows Genuine Advantage. We're all for fighting piracy,
but is WGA really the best way to do it? Then again, with piracy rates at something
like 90 percent in China (according to the article, anyway), it's hard to blame
Microsoft for trying to fight fire with fire -- even if everybody ends up getting
singed a bit.
Posted by Lee Pender on 10/23/20080 comments
OK, somebody at MS (MBD President Stephen Elop, actually) says that OCS 2007
R2
could KO
PBX
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 10/22/20080 comments
Pirate-themed humor isn't as funny as it used to be, what with
real
pirates
making news now in fairly gruesome ways.
So, on Microsoft's Anti-Piracy Day -- which was Tuesday,
in case it wasn't pre-programmed into your Outlook calendar -- we were already
planning to eschew the walk-the-plank, peg-leg-and-eye-patch theme. Then we
noticed that somebody -- from your editor's hometown newspaper (well, Web site,
anyway), no less -- had done
it for us. So, we thank you, The Dallas Morning News, for spicing
up RCPU this week. Yarr and all that to you.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 10/22/20081 comments
No,
really
. Here's what he said: "We're not going to have products that
are much more successful than Vista has been."
A financial success, maybe -- but, really, Steve, give this one up. Just
do better with Windows 7, continue to embrace the cloud and let Vista go down
as an unfortunate footnote in Microsoft history. Please.
Posted by Lee Pender on 10/21/20088 comments
No longer raging quite so much at open source, Microsoft is now all about
"mixed-source"
ventures
. Here's a long and fairly useful Q&A about the whole thing.
Posted by Lee Pender on 10/21/20080 comments
Lasting fame is rare in our YouTube culture. Gone are the days when
Jaws
or
Star Wars
would dominate at the box office for months. Movies come
and go, make millions and then fade off into cultural oblivion.
TV, once the home of massively popular sitcoms that nearly everybody seemed
to watch, is now one bad reality show after another. The "characters"
quickly fade from memory. Music? Well, we wouldn't know much about that here
at RCPU, but it strikes us that today's stars will probably only be famous tomorrow
if their lives go completely off the rails.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 10/21/20082 comments
Its stock price might have tumbled (with everybody else's) during the recent
market freak-outs, but the fundamentals of Google's economy are
still
very sound
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 10/21/20080 comments
We haven't done this in a while, so we're going to drop in a little reader feedback today. We've been a bit low on e-mails lately -- presumably readers are busy yanking their 401K money out of the market or stockpiling non-perishable foods -- so please feel free to contribute on any topic any time to
[email protected]
.
What that out of the way, we go to Don, who's not wild about the District of Columbia switching to Google Apps:
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Posted by Lee Pender on 10/16/20080 comments
It'll be virtualization and cloud computing that'll top the list of hottest technologies next year, the soothsayers of
Gartner, um, say
.
Virtualization Review
's Tom Valovic
seems happy
enough with No. 1, but he's got a few issues with the rest of the top 10.
Posted by Lee Pender on 10/16/20080 comments
It's Project Kensho, which does some sort of virtualization stuff
better explained
by somebody who writes for a virtualization magazine.
Posted by Lee Pender on 10/15/20080 comments