Here at RCPU, we always thought that Vista sounded more like a code name than a real Windows product name. It didn't have a "vintage" sound to it, like Windows 98 or 2000; it didn't sound all tech-y like XP or NT, and it didn't have a cute little moniker like Bob or ME (although it might go down in history with those last two after all).
No, Vista sounded a bit like a code name that somebody accidentally released to the outside world, as if the name slipped into a PowerPoint marketing presentation or something, and it was too late to go back after that and rename Vista "Windows 2007" or some such.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 10/15/20083 comments
Okay, it's jargon time: Microsoft is talking up the release of OCS R2 as a boost for its UC strategy. Confused? You won't be after this episode of
Soap
! Whoa, how did that late-'70s TV reference get in there? See, a totally different plane of existence.
Anyway,
here's the story
on (did you guess?) Office Communications Server R2 and Microsoft's unified communications strategy.
Posted by Lee Pender on 10/15/20080 comments
Whoever wins the presidential election in a few weeks' time, George W. Bush will be on his way out of Washington, DC -- and Microsoft Office will be right behind him.
OK, so we're only talking about the municipal level in DC here, not the federal big time, but Google Apps scored a victory recently with the news that it had toppled long-time incumbent Microsoft Office as the District's productivity suite of choice.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 10/14/20081 comments
We're not totally sure why Research in Motion didn't call its device something like the RIMshot rather than the BlackBerry. In any case, Microsoft might be interested in buying the whole company.
Or so the rumor goes.
Posted by Lee Pender on 10/14/20081 comments
Now that the Dow and NASDAQ have rocketed back up (on Monday, anyway),
this news seems so last week
: Analysts are projecting a drop in IT spending, but nothing like the one that crippled the industry at the outset of this decade http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/101308-gartner-it-spending.html.
Of course, if the indices have gained another 900 points each by the time you read this, we all might make champagne our first expenditure! (Or, at least a six pack of beer.)
Posted by Lee Pender on 10/14/20080 comments
This
looks primarily like a European play (or Europlay, we suppose) for Symantec.
The purchase price came out to $695 million, or approximately 35 Euros plus
change. (Just kidding -- we hope.)
Posted by Lee Pender on 10/09/20081 comments
The company that just loves to buy
snapped
up
a maker of project-management software this week.
Posted by Lee Pender on 10/09/20080 comments
It has seemed for a while as though the global financial storm was going to
deal a mostly glancing blow to the technology industry. Everybody hurts when
markets go into free fall (and, as we're writing this on Wednesday afternoon,
the Dow Jones has just closed down another 189 points -- although, as always,
it could be up 500 points again by the time you read this). But if Wall Street
and the banking sector are having a tornado rip through their gilded trailer
parks, tech has, thus far, mostly just experienced some rain and a few gusts
of wind in its relatively quiet suburb.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 10/09/20084 comments
Whatever UC
actually
is
, everybody wants to be a part of it. And everybody, especially Microsoft,
wants to offer Software as a Service, too. Microsoft and a company called BroadSoft
teamed up this week to combine the two hottest areas (along with virtualization,
but that's another topic altogether) in technology, announcing a
joint
SaaS UC effort
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Posted by Lee Pender on 10/09/20080 comments
It's the story that never goes away -- although lots of people wish the operating
system would. Vista is back in the news, or, more specifically, XP is back.
The beloved operating system got
another
stay of execution
this week, as Microsoft essentially announced that it
would allow OEMs to "downgrade" users to XP for six months longer
than planned.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 10/08/20081 comments