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MIX07: Microsoft's expanding Web platform: MIX07: Microsoft's expanding Web platformTruth = ConsitencyFitzgerald is less than truthful when stating that Windows has a consistent model. Consistency is a problem with Windows because each flavor of Windows is rendered by a different project team and managers. Hence we have the Windows flavor that was not DOS but...; Tags: Operating systems, Fitzgerald, Web, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-05-07
What's wrong with this CBS News story is also what's wrong with the mainstream media: What's wrong with this CBS News story is also what's wrong with the mainstream mediaI think I heard the answer in a 'cast.Defwheezer of Mental Escher probably answered your question best with one of his own:[i]"Is mass-media so vapid because it's a conspiracy for our minds, or is it so...; Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Cable, TV & Home Theater, Fitzgerald, media, CBS Broadcasting Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-04-23
Cloud services adopting Microsoft's multi-headed platform model: In a recent post poking a little fun at the pure browser-based services, Microsoft general manager of platform strategy Charles Fitzgerald wrote:The reality is the desktop is moving into the cloud and the cloud is moving onto the desktop. The winners will bring together the unique capabilities of both....; Tags: Game players, Microsoft Outlook, Fitzgerald, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox; Blog posts 2007-03-27
This beat could last another five years: Adam Fitzgerald, director of developer marketing for BEA, says the company's "blended source" strategy will work for the foreseeable future.Pressed on how long a future he foresees, Fitzgerald guessed about five years.The open source movement is pressing all commercial software vendors, even giants like BEA. Rather than just fight, or...; Tags: open source, Fitzgerald, Apache Tomcat, BEA Systems Inc.; Blog posts 2006-01-13

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ManageIQ releases EVM 2.0: Joe Fitzgerald, CEO of ManageIQ, gave me an update on what his company was doing and the improvements that would be in the second version of the company's Enterprise Virtualization Management™ EVM Suite. Joe's rich experience in management technology really shows during our discussions. Here's...; Tags: Virtual Environment, Resource, Virtual Machine, ManageIQ, Joe, EVM Suite Version 2.0, EVM Control, VM, Policy Template Library, Desktop Virtualization, RSS, Internet, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-06-11

The Storm Worm would love to infect you: The Storm Worm would love to infect youUm... It this page a stormworm vector??It certanly looks suspiciousRE: The Storm Worm would love to infect youWhat the heck is that article The Storm Worm would love to infect you talking about? I didn't understand any of it.Will ZDNet please please hire...; Tags: Scanners, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Storm Worm; Discussion threads 2008-05-19
Former Softie getting the old band back together?: Former Microsoft platforms chief -- who, these days, is heading up cloud computing at EMC -- might be trying to get at least some of the old Microsoft band back together again. According to a few different sources who asked not to be named, Maritz has hired...; Tags: Cloud Computing, Microsoft Corp., EMC Corp., Smart Desktop, Storage, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-04-11
The Microsoft reorg week in review: It's time, yet again, to update the ever-changing Microsoft org chart. Here's another piece to add to the seemingly never-ending stream of Microsoft reorg news: Developer and Platform Evangelism DPE Chief Sanjay Parthasarathy has given up his post (as of mid-December, 2007). Parthasarathy has led evanglism of...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Parthasarathy, Microsoft DPE Chief Sanjay Parthasarathy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Structures, Microsoft Word, Investment, Finance, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-01-11
Another of the Microsoft old guard moves on: While the the Microsoft depature upon which most company watchers focused this week was that of Bruce Jaffe -- the former Mergers & Acquisitions Chief -- another Microsoft veteran is moving on, as well. Charles Fitzgerald, Microsoft's General Manager of Platform Strategy, is leaving the company...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Blogging, Programming Languages, Java, Investment, Finance, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-01-10
Should Microsoft join or fight the OpenSocial?: In all the conversation this week about Google's OpenSocial launch, Microsoft's own social network -- Windows Live Spaces -- is absent from just about every blog post, article and discussion. Instead, most pundits are positing that the new playing field looks like this: Google, MySpace, Bebo, Ning,...; Tags: Google OpenSocial, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2007-11-02
With Google, everyone is an armchair HR critic: The handwringing over Google's hiring practices is getting to be comical. Google hired 2,130 people in the third quarter and now employs almost 16,000. Oh no! News.com's Elinor Mills asks what these people do? Short answers: Sell ads, cook up new technology and add brainpower to the...; Tags: Hiring, Google Inc., Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-10-19
eBay: All is not well: Forget the Skype acquisition debacle. It's eBay's core business you should be worried about. That's the takeaway from Wall Street on Thursday after eBay reported what appeared to be strong third quarter results also see Techmeme. But there's the fine print. Currency effects--if you haven't noticed the...; Tags: eBay Inc., Taxes, Free Trade, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Financial Planning, Finance, Investment, Business Operations, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-10-18
Mobile Solutions Provide "Anywhere, Anytime" Access to World Financial Markets: Global financial service providers Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Partners are migrating to Windows Mobile and away from BlackBerry for new mobile applications because Windows Mobile enables them to build more powerful mobile solutions, deliver those solutions faster, and maximize their existing software development environment and skill set. For customers, the...; Tags: Microsoft Access, Financial, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Financial Market, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Marketing, Software; Case studies 2007-08-01
SF power outage reveals disaster recovery plans need tweaking: When a power outage that affects a mere 30,000 to 50,000 customers knocks out some of the more popular sites on the Web you know disaster recovery plans have some holes. On Tuesday afternoon a host of sites such as Craigslist, Red Envelope, Yelp Technorati and ZDNet had trouble delivering...; Tags: Business Continuity, Datacenter, Disaster Recovery, General, Hardware Infrastructure, IT Management, Software Infrastructure; Blog posts 2007-07-25
Jerry Yang to make Yahoo earnings debut amid low expectations: New Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang makes his Wall Street debut Tuesday and the expectations couldn't be lower.In some respects that's good news. If Yang can deliver anything on the earnings conference call--halfway decent results, a glimmer of hope, a few coherent answers and a proper pronunciation of Yahoo--he'll overdeliver. Why?...; Tags: General; Blog posts 2007-07-16
Financing SaaS ventures: The pay-as-you-go business model of on-demand software makes it more difficult for up-and-coming vendors to reach break-even point than with conventional licensed software. Instead of signing a handful of customers to get enough money in the bank to start covering its overheads, an on-demand vendor needs to sign up dozens...; Tags: Business models, Venture capital; Blog posts 2007-05-24
Senate subpoenas Gonzales' emails with Rove: Senators subpoenaed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales emails today, demanding all email correspondence between him and Karl Rove related to the firings of eight federal prosecutors, The Washington Post reports. "It is troubling that significant documents highly relevant to the committees inquiry have not been produced," Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick...; Tags: Justice, Government technology, Congress; Blog posts 2007-05-02
MIX07: Microsoft's expanding Web platform: I met with Charles Fitzgerald this afternoon to talk about the MIX07 Silverlight and related announcements. He is general manger of platform strategy for Microsoft, which means he carries the evolving script for understanding how all the pieces at the company should fit together and cohere as an underlying, point...; Tags: Broadband, General, Microsoft, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, Storage, Web Technology; Blog posts 2007-04-30
No demand for Microsoft Office in the cloud?: While I was at the SAP Sapphire 2007 conference this week I ran into Jeff Raikes, president of Microsofts Business Division. He was at the event to promote the extended roadmap of Duet, the collaboration between the two companies that integrates Microsoft Office and SAP business processes. I asked Raikes...; Tags: General, Microsoft, Office 2.0, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology; Blog posts 2007-04-26
Microsoft's Ray Ozzie on Google, Adobe and Microsoft's resilience: Knowledge@Wharton has an interview with Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie. He doesnt offer much in the way of new revelations about Microsoft strategy, but provide more nuance to the multi-headed vision that Microsoft General Manager of Platform Strategy Charles Fitzgerald discussed with me last week.What struck me was Ozzies...; Tags: Web Technology, SaaS, Mobile, Microsoft, Software Infrastructure, Personal Technology, General, Adobe; Blog posts 2007-04-04