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- Microsoft starts selling PC hardware, third-party software via its online store
- Wow, 90 days of technical support.Because nothing ever goes wrong with a computer after 90 days!Seriously, Microsoft. Get a better service plan.RE: Microsoft starts selling PC hardware, third-party software via its online storeThey have to be kidding. So who do you go to if something goes wrong with...
- Tags: PC, online store, software, Microsoft Corp., hardware
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Sidekick outage says more about the future of 'Pink' than Microsoft's cloud
- This isn't about any service.This is about Microsoft in general. It brings up the question of whether they can manage a server environment. It doesn't matter what that environment is. Preservation of data is always job one. And this is the job where the failure occurred. So Pink, Azure, cloud,...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Mary-Jo, Microsoft Corp., Azure, job, Pink, IT administration
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- How Amazon builds the world's most scalable storage
- The cloud storage market is accelerating fast - despite naysayers and alarmists - and Amazon's S3 is leading the charge. Storing over 40 billion files for 400,000 customers Amazon is the one to beat. How do they it for pennies per GB a month? Read on. I...
- Tags: Data Center, Amazon.com Inc., Cloud Storage Market, Humans, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-03-09
- Windows 7: What does 'feature complete' mean?
- Windows 7: What does 'feature complete' mean?Feature Complete?Windows 7 at this point will almost certainly not be feature complete in any sense than they're not adding any more features to it.I'm still waiting for the official beta, and checking my connect account each day in anticipation, but I can already...
- Tags: Smart phones, Operating systems, Handhelds, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, virtualization layer, virtualization, smart phone
- Discussion threads 2008-12-30
- News to know: Microsoft predictions; XO en route; IBM; Palm
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: What's on Microsoft's agenda for 2008? Mary Jo's top 10 at right. Guess prediction 10. Dan Farber: ZDNet 2007: What the tag cloud tells us ZoneAlarm toolbar bundle raises a ruckus George Ou:...
- Tags: Desktop, Google Inc., Facebook, Palm Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Linux, Web 2.0, Desktops, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- Capital One customers experience data corruption
- My colleague Justin James has issued a warning to all Capital One customers about data corruption in his blog titled "Capitol One: What’s in your database?". If you're a Capital One customer, I would highly recommend reading this so that you can save yourself some headaches. But, at the...
- Tags: Data Corruption, Credit History, Capital One Financial Corp., George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- Lawmaker blasts U.K. government on Microsoft policy
- Lawmaker blasts U.K. government on Microsoft policyconfidentiality agreementEvery deal has a side deal in countries like England where the population still thinks its government not corruptible and more like parental units that would never harm the citizenry. The colonists in America split off from England for that exact reason. We...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-10
- Inside Amazon
- Inside AmazonHow does Amazon do itRobin, I recently started following your blogs and have contributed to two - How Microsoft puts your data at risk (http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=169) and Data corruption is worse than you know (http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=191).Thanks for your contribution to this misunderstood area. I was amused by some of the responses...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, TVs, Tesco, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-04
- Does listening signal commitment?
- Does listening signal commitment?Today topic is ........ Does listening signal commitment?Ans: No.Next topic pleaseWhat was the Adobe product?Over a pretty long time, I've found Adobe to be quite nice about things, even monitoring their own discussion boards and offering help. The same held with Macromedia.I've also found their...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., Adobe Systems Inc., signal commitment, IT decision company, software, information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-10-02
- Data corruption is worse than you know
- Data corruption is worse than you knowOpportunity for software designers, maybe ...Maybe this is an opportunity for software designers to create and implement data integrity applications similar to the rise of security applications that are all the rage today. By and large, most software today does not have any data...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, Cyberthreats, PRODUCTIVITY, Servers, data integrity, software, virus, Unix, server, disk, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-09-18
- ZDNet reader: Don't let OOXML vs. ODF shenanigans tarnish other standards setters
- I've been a watcher of the great many standards setting processes for a great many years and there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes that most people don't know about. In 2003, I even won an award for my coverage of standards from the American National Standards Institute:...
- Tags: JEDEC, Specification, ISO, Microsoft Corp., Computerworld, OpenDocument Format, Session, Standards, OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Quality, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- Vista MMCSS gigabit throttling a victim of hard-coding, jumbo frames to the rescue!
- For the last couple of days I've been working behind the scenes with fellow blogger Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Ed Bott, and Microsoft to get to the bottom of the Vista gigabit throttling effect. This throttling effect occurs when someone launches Windows Media Player and tries to copy files at gigabit speeds. ...
- Tags: Packet, Performance, Network, Microsoft Windows Vista, Gigabit, Microsoft Corp., CPU, Mbps, 4K, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-08-29
- Apple plugs 25 Mac OS X flaws
- Apple plugs 25 Mac OS X flawsWell...As you apparently hate Apple so much your title is misleading. You, as far as I can tell, will never buy a Mac.That being said, your personal experience is yours. However, could you please point the world to where there are OS X (and...
- Tags: Operating systems, SECURITY, Desktops, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, flaw, Mac OS X flaw, Apple Macintosh, bot, Apple Mac OS
- Discussion threads 2007-04-19
- How to avoid a FAT nightmare when upgrading to Vista
- What youre about to read is a recantation of the trials and tribulations that ZDNet reader Tim Patterson experienced when he attempted to upgrade a Windows XP-based system -- one with the Windows Vista Capable sticker on it -- to Windows Vista. Although he eventually achieved his goal, things didnt...
- Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, Mobile, Personal Technology, Vista
- Blog posts 2007-02-14
- Reader rails against 'obscene' costs of MS insecurity
- Reader rails against 'obscene' costs of MS insecurityToo bad you can't return Microsoft's "tool" like at Sears.If a faulty tool is broken, it get's replaced.If it's a poor design, it's taken off the market.If you don't know you can't return a tool until right before you use it, would you?Microsoft...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Operating systems, Desktops, Microsoft Corp., tool, security
- Discussion threads 2004-08-21
- Why certifying IT workers won't help
- Why certifying IT workers won't helpAndAlsoAnother problem is that most businesses really don't know what to do with IT in general and software development in particular. Is IT a revenue-generator, or is it overhead? Is IT as important to the company as Accounting or Human Resources? Should there be a...
- Tags: Quality, certification, information technology, MSCE
- Discussion threads 2004-04-27
- Watch your backup
- Watch your backupDoomsday ScenarioI always wondered what would happen if someone who really knew what they were doing created a cross platform polymorphic virus admittedly not easy to do that was fairly benign, except it very gradually corrupted data. Just in minor ways. A character substitution here and...
- Tags: Backups, backup
- Discussion threads 2004-01-28
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