Just a quick note before we get started: We're giving you a break from reader
feedback this week, even though we've had some great stuff come through recently.
This week's
entry
on social networking
has drawn some especially interesting feedback, so
we're actually going to blow that out a bit and come back to the subject in
future RCPUs. In the meantime, keep the good stuff coming to
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Posted by Lee Pender on 06/12/20080 comments
While it has absolutely nothing on
RCP
the magazine's
annual
salary survey
, we'll admit that Glassdoor, a new startup, sounds pretty
cool. It's all about tracking salaries and levels of employee satisfaction in
companies such as Google and Microsoft.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
blogger
John Cook has the lowdown
here
Posted by Lee Pender on 06/12/20080 comments
These days, Microsoft's Tech-Ed conference is an obnoxious two-week binge,
with one week devoted to developers and the second to IT folks. With a minimum
of product announcements on the slate, the more interesting (or at least somewhat
less nerdy) second week is all about agenda-setting for Redmond rather than
about product pumping. (And, no, RCPU is not there, in case you were wondering.)
So, what's on Microsoft's agenda? This week, anyway, it's our
old friend virtualization. Microsoft is touting
its architecture and applications as excellent candidates for the virtualized
environment, pushing the forthcoming Hyper-V and noting that the Forefront security
suite, if anybody wants it, will run in a virtualized environment.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 06/11/20080 comments
Mary Jo Foley suspects that Office 14 might just end up being called
Office
2009
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 06/11/20080 comments
Apparently too intimated to sit down and face the icy stare of RCPU, Bill Gates
and Steve Ballmer instead went running to the
Wall Street Journal
(how
very old-media of them) to reminisce about old times and talk a bit about the
future. Actually,
this
is a really entertaining interview.
Posted by Lee Pender on 06/11/20080 comments
Releasing an open source product
with
no source code
? Tsk, tsk, Microsoft. The party does not tolerate that kind
of behavior, comrades.
Posted by Lee Pender on 06/11/20080 comments
Here's something you should know upfront: Your editor is not on Facebook, or
MySpace, or any of the popular social networking sites of the day. A few message
boards? Sure. E-mail? A lot. The Internet in general? Pretty much all the time.
But not the social networking sites. Why? Well, it's hard to see what they
deliver on top of everything else, other than providing little ego.com spaces
for most of the people on them (and most of your editor's friends are on them,
in case you were wondering). This relative luddite still gets by on e-mail and
occasionally via telephone without much problem.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 06/10/20080 comments
Here's one for all you health care partners out there, in case you missed it.
Kaiser Permanente (as opposed to Kaiser Temporalis, we suppose) and Microsoft
have an initiative to
digitize
health records
and safely store and transfer them online.
Safely? Well, that might be a bit of a sticking point, we suspect, with a lot
of patents and doctors. Still, there could be money to be made here for enterprising
health care channel players.
Posted by Lee Pender on 06/10/20080 comments
Like RCPU, it sort of hits you with unrelenting regularity. This month,
seven
patches
. Enjoy.
Posted by Lee Pender on 06/10/20080 comments
Ever wonder who's really seeing those IMs that are always flying around your
office? Depending on which client you're using, they might be more public than
you think. Check out the comprehensive (we'll give CNET credit for this one)
review of IM security
here
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 06/09/20080 comments
Is somebody plotting something dastardly in the background while you're on
Skype with your best friend in Europe or maybe virtually attending your family
reunion?
Could
be, apparently
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 06/09/20080 comments
There's the forest, and then there are the trees. Sometimes it's hard to see
one for the other. That seems to be the case right now with unified communications (UC).
With what? That's the question a lot of small to midsize business (SMB) owners
are probably asking themselves if they're reading this. bMighty.com,
a Web site for SMBs, recently released results of a survey
that revealed that SMB owners and IT folks aren't nearly as excited about UC
as some of us in the trade press and the channel are.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 06/09/20080 comments