Given the hysteria in this part of the world over Tom Brady's knee, we barely
noticed that the London Stock Exchange crashed yesterday. Yes, that's right;
the news is shocking -- Tom Brady's out for the season.
No, wait, that's not the news we meant to talk about. What we meant to say
was: Yes, that's right; the news is shocking -- the
London freaking Stock Exchange went down. For almost an entire day. During
a rally.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 09/10/20080 comments
Well, that's what
the
headline
says, although we wonder how much one has to do with the other.
And, at 0.7 percent market share, Chrome seems like much less of a threat to
IE than Firefox -- for now. But, hey, we all love to read about Google, right?
Posted by Lee Pender on 09/10/20086 comments
From the cloud comes a cool, refreshing
rain
of updates
for Microsoft's hosted CRM service.
Posted by Lee Pender on 09/09/20080 comments
So, this week, Microsoft held one of those non-event events in which it gathers
reporters together to release a few details about upcoming products, and reporters
go because, well, it's Microsoft.
OK, so it wasn't
a total non-event, but we do kind of wonder sometimes why Microsoft bothers
with a whole big press event when a press release and a couple of spokespeople
available to take calls would
suffice.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 09/09/20080 comments
Let's just jump ahead a few years -- maybe more than a few, maybe not -- into
a world in which Software as a Service (SaaS) has made the operating system
a commodity, if not totally obsolete.
This doesn't really take that much imagination, does it? What with Google
Chrome lining up against IE and Firefox (and Safari, we suppose), it's clear
-- and has been for a while, really -- that the forthcoming battle in the software
industry won't be over software at all but over online applications, SaaS, cloud
computing ... whatever you want to call it. So we're not going too far afield
here. We all know that this is happening.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 09/04/20081 comments
Despite what we've been telling you here for months -- and, to be fair, the
vast majority of e-mails
we get still bash it -- not everybody is unhappy with the forlorn Vista operating
system. We've run tons of negative e-mails on Vista, and we've received some
more very good ones recently.
But in the interest of some equal time, and because we said we would, today
we're giving you positive -- or at least not screamingly negative -- e-mails
about Vista. Some of these, as always, we had to edit for length, but the basic
ideas are intact. Let's get started:
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Posted by Lee Pender on 08/28/20081 comments
With the news that '90s icon and TV syndication legend Jerry Seinfeld is going
to help Microsoft
try
to rescue Vista
, we asked you this week to name your ideal Microsoft spokesperson.
Here's what we got:
Brad gets us off to a potentially controversial start:
"I suggest one word, or really one letter: W. After all, he'll be
looking for work, anyway. Maybe the copy could read something like
this: Hi, do you know me? Or maybe I should ask, 'Do you loathe me?' As the
leader of the free world, I had to make some tough, unpopular decisions. So
that's why Microsoft asked me to be their spokesman..."
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