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- The Waltham Pact: Where are the tangibles?
- Â This week, Microsoft renewed their union with Novell, to the tune of an additional 100 million dollars in commitment to buy more SUSE Linux support certificates that it can sell to its customers. Dang, Ballmer, for that kind of cash, you can get your vows renewed...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux, Open Source, OpenOffice, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Office Suites, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Why do you want WinFS?
- Every time the conversation turns to Windows 7, the subject of WinFS comes up. This next-generation file storage software was cut from Windows Vista and eventually killed completely nearly four years ago. But it keeps reappearing on lists of features that people want to see in Windows 7. Why? WinFS...
- Tags: WinFS, NTFS.com, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Our educational system needs an overhaul (and how can Intel help?)
- Fellow ZDNet blogger, Sam Diaz, wrote an interesting piece yesterday highlighting a vital message from Intel Chairman, Craig Barrett, during his keynote at the Intel Developers' Forum. Quoting both Barrett and Sam's paraphrasing, "Nations are as strong as their educational systems," he said, noting that in...
- Tags: Craig Barrett, Intel Corp., Kid, Productivity, Blogging, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Windows 7 wishes
- Windows 7 wishesOn layers.Per Ed's post, IE 8 continues to be integrated and integral to the OS. It is likely that many other user space apps that MS creates, will at least be partially embedded, if not completely.End user applications have no business being part of the OS itself,...
- Tags: Operating systems, 64-bit, Luna, Microsoft Windows, Windows 7 Wishes, operating system, Aero, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Apple releases iPhone 2.0.2, as usual, sans changelog
- Apple today release firmware 2.0.2 for iPhone and the iPod touch. Yipee. But, once again, Apple is completely lame in the software update department. This screen is a perfect example: Apple needs to begin implementing a real changelog with its software updates. It's pretty...
- Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Software Update, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- PitchEngine revs up public beta, puts the social in PR
- PitchEngine revs up public beta, puts the social in PRMaybe I'm misunderstanding.......but I don't think that "pitches" are what journalists and bloggers are looking for. Informed commentary yes; reliable information on the company's plans and policies, yes; official positions on news items involving the company, yes; pitches, no (that's...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, PR Practitioners, PitchEngine, public relations, bad apple, public beta
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- My Windows 7 wish list
- My Windows 7 wish listPut more muscle in thereWhen you pay 100+ bucks, you'd expect it's loaded with more than just Notepad or Paint. Those two haven't had much major upgrade since Windows 3.0. If you want some themes, you shouldn't have to pay another 40 or so to get...
- Tags: Keyboards, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- My Windows 7 wish list
- Cynics see the new Engineering Windows 7 blog, which launched last week, as a pure PR play from Microsoft. Maybe. But in a 2000-word post yesterday, Windows boos Steven Sinofsky provided some more details about the development effort, including some clues as to what to expect in Windows 7. In...
- Tags: Team, Microsoft Windows 7, Sinofsky, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- More photos and a video of the Palm Treo Pro are revealed
- Last week Palm inadvertenly posted some details on the Treo Pro device and then removed the information. This morning I had an email from a news alert site I subscribe to that stated Palm Unveils Treo Pro Smartphone that linked to photos and a video, but by the time I...
- Tags: Palm Inc., Palm Treo, Video, Photograph, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Corporate Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Practical tips for working with Word 2007 documents
- Once you get past the initial learning curve, you can hone your Word 2007 skills for more power and efficiency. This sample chapter from Tricks of the Microsoft Office 2007 Gurus introduces a range of time-saving techniques, from easier ways to save and protect documents to macros that calculate billable...
- Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Word 2007, Que Publishing, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Office Suites, Software
- Book chapters 2008-08-19
- Jive Clearspace 2.5: increasingly sophisticated social productivity tools
- Clearspace, Jive Software's 'social productivity' collaboration software, hits version 2.5 today. This latest release builds on a solid foundation, and has many new features and enhancements, as the above video illustrates. 2.5 marks some significant upgrades - there has been some major tweaks under the hood to...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Tool, Clearspace Team, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Collaboration, Groupware, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Searching by color to nibble away at Google.
- Searching by color to nibble away at Google.Must be a slow news day...The reality is, anyone who wants to create such a tool USING Google's index can do so using Google Custom Search. In fact, many are.The fact that someone COULD make a custom search engine using their own...
- Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., search engine
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Is the "killer app" argument dead?
- Is the "killer app" argument dead?Great blog.It is about the browser nowadays. The age of convoluted proprietary lock-ins is going going but not quite gone .....An awful lot of devs are now building web based sharing tools, and any IE only dev, if it still goes on, is by the...
- Tags: Web browsers, PRODUCTIVITY, knowledge economy, killer application, Web browser, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Office 14: Alpha testing to begin before year-end
- Office 14: Alpha testing to begin before year-endSlowly but surely going 64-bitI heard about the nominations for TAP and I was interested in joining but after reading about the requirements I think I will skip and hold out until the private technical beta. Its good to see Microsoft is moving...
- Tags: Office 07, Microsoft Office, Office 14, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- IBM: The mainframe is back
- IBM: The mainframe is backMainframe decision makers...As long as IT departments are headed by baby boomers who are in bed with IBM, the z series will continue to exist and propogate. There are a number of old systems (re: COBOL) that still meet the business needs, and will continue...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- An Event Apart 2008: Day 1
- The antique Palace Hotel in San Francisco houses An Event Apart, a collaboration of interactive presentations about web standards, user experience design, and best practices. The two-day conference features well-known speakers from around the world, including AEA's hosts Jeffrey Zeldman and Eric Meyer. ...
- Tags: Web, Framework, Web Design, Interfaces, Craftsmanship, D, Channel Management, Marketing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Fedora infrastructure breach?
- Fedora infrastructure breach?Denial isn't a river in EgyptRather than deny anything, the Fedora team is just going to try to keep it under wraps. Wonder what OS their servers are running?Updates seemed to be working last nightBut thanks for the heads up.RE: Fedora infrastructure breach?Hopefully they didn't lose the...
- Tags: Fedora Project, Grub
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- 12 early warning signs of IT failure
- 12 early warning signs of IT failure"Nepal Airlines’ risk mitigation practices"Huh? Seems like a hyperlink is in order there.Another one...not sure how to categorize itProject managers have accountability but not enough authority to make team members work on the project. Team members often come from different departments, and...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology, goat, IT Failure
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- A walk through the two new student tools for Office 2007
- Late last month I wrote about the five newly released tools designed for students and academics. I was on the phone last week to an old colleague of mine, a professor in his field over at Oxford University, who'd been trying out these two new programs that I wrote about. ...
- Tags: Creative Commons, Microsoft Office 2007, Tool, Creative Commons Add-in, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Productivity, Office Suites, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
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