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- Jobs' Apple as premier platform mantra to accelerate
- Apple CEO Steve Jobs will deliver another sermon to the Mac faithful at the Worldwide Developer Conference WWDC, but amid all the pyrotechnics about the iPhone, App Store and third party software goodies keep in mind the big picture: There's a platform war about to start. It's...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, Developer, Apple Macintosh, Platform, Apple Inc., WWDC, Gartenberg, Morgenstern, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Crazy sales video rocks out: 'Gotta get me some' Windows Vista
- Microsoft can't seem to catch a break, whether from Apple's latest ads targeting switchers, or in a crazy music video celebrating Vista SP1 that was done by Redmond's channel group. Jupiter Research Analyst Michael Gartenburg pointed to this video on YouTube called Windows...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Video, Object Management Group, Gartenberg, Sales Strategy, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Sales Force Management, Sales, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
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- The "ubiquitous computer" changing the ed tech landscape
- The Christian Science Monitor is featuring a piece on netbooks and the drastically decreased cost of bringing computing to students and adults in both mature and developing markets. According to Michael Gartenberg, vice president and research director at Jupiter Research, They represent the idea of the "ubiquitous computer...
- Tags: Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Productivity, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Sametime vs. OCS Act II
- Apparently my post comparing Sametime and OCS raised a few hairs. IBM PR dashed off an e-mail listing a bunch of points where they disagreed with the piece and the offering manager for IBM Lotus Real-Time Collaboration blogged about it as well. Thanks folk. Now here's where they were...
- Tags: IBM Lotus SameTime, SUT, Exchange, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- Jeff Jones (err Microsoft): Vista more secure than everything
- Jeff Jones err Microsoft: Vista more secure than everythingWhat metric should be used?To gauge security. It's clear counting vulnerabilities and patching isn't optimal. For those of you out there cleaning machines and in the field what's the metric or set of metrics we should use?I realize it's not an easy...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, MSFT, Microsoft Corp., Jeff Jones, Microsoft Windows Vista, Linux, security, anti-Microsoft
- Discussion threads 2008-01-24
- T-Mobile Shadow sets the standard for Windows Mobile usability
- T-Mobile Shadow sets the standard for Windows Mobile usabilityGreat articleOf course Pogue continues his pro-apple propaganda with completely inaccurate statements about the Shadow, but your replies were on the money. Pogue must be getting paid by Apple to write that garabage.RE: T-Mobile Shadow sets the standard for Windows...
- Tags: Operating systems, Handhelds, MyFaves, T-Mobile Shadow, T-Mobile, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Windows Mobile usability, Microsoft Windows, mobile
- Discussion threads 2007-11-09
- Open challenge to Microsoft's Robbie Bach: If Zune is #2 after X-Mas, I'll shave my head
- This is Microsoft's chance to get even with me for anything I've written that it doesn't agree with. It's all in good fun which we need more of in this industry and it's a great way to exhibit how passionate if not disputatious journalists and vendors are when it...
- Tags: SanDisk Corp., Microsoft Zune, Apple Inc., Story, Microsoft Corp., Digital Media, Digital Music, Media Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
- Apple releases Vista-compatible Boot Camp
- Apple releases Vista-compatible Boot CampWrong info[i]On March 28, Apple released a new version of Boot Camp, 1.2, that is compatible with 32-bit Vista. Boot Camp is Apple-developed software that allows Windows to run on top of the Mac OS without requiring emulation.[/i]It does not run Windows on top of the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Steve Jobs, PC
- Discussion threads 2007-03-29
- Apple releases Vista-compatible Boot Camp
- It looks like DigiTimes was wrong on at least part of its story about Apple having to delay Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" due to its inability to get Boot Camp to run Windows Vista. On March 28, Apple released a new version of Boot Camp, 1.2, that is...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Digital music, Operating systems, Digital media, Apple Computer Inc., Leopard
- Blog posts 2007-03-29
- Is Microsoft's Vista behind Apple's alleged 'Leopard' delay?
- Is Microsoft's Vista behind Apple's alleged 'Leopard' delay?I'd like to see Leopard ASAPWhy wouldn't Apple provide Leopard with a Beta of Boot Camp that would work with XP and then when the new Boot Camp is ready, offer it as a software update?I want leopard nowI don't have vista, so...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), rumor mill, Microsoft Corp., development tool, Microsoft Windows Vista, Leopard, Apple Inc., software
- Discussion threads 2007-03-23
- Trading places: Microsoft for Jupiter
- Michael Gartenberg, after less than a month on the Microsoft payroll, has decided to quit Microsoft and go back to being an analyst at Jupiter Research. In mid-February, in a much-publicized move, Gartenberg accepted a job as an "enthusiast evangelist" with Microsoft. On March 7, he blogged that he...
- Tags: Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- You can taste the irony of Microsoft's patent positions on MP3 and Linux
- You can taste the irony of Microsoft's patent positions on MP3 and LinuxNo good optionEventually Microsoft will have to realize they have no good options and are inevitably going to be the loser in every IP case they get entangled in.If some small software distributor knocks off a Microsoft idea...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Network technology, MP3, Linux, Microsoft Corp., IP, software
- Discussion threads 2007-02-23
- Who will be Microsoft's next top evangelist?
- Microsoft is snapping up some off-the-beaten-path hires, as of late.The latest to join The Empire: Former Jupiter Research analyst Michael Gartenberg. In his new role at Microsoft, Gartenberg will be "an enthusiast evangelist." This new group of individuals is charged with doing "outreach to users" and creating new content for...
- Tags: Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- Ballmer finally admits the obvious: Zune's DRM is Microsoft's future
- Ballmer finally admits the obvious: Zune's DRM is Microsoft's futureNo big surpriseI've said it before and I'll say it again here--the big money lies not in selling music players or selling songs. The big money lies in selling DRM. If your DRM becomes the standard, then everyone who sells...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, music, Microsoft Zune, Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2007-01-17
- 3 weeks later and the Zune is better than the iPod
- As readers know I purchased a Zune about 3 weeks ago and posted some initial thoughts on my blog. Since that time there has been lots more written on the internet about the Zune, mostly some harsh feedback that sounds like the authors didnt spend too much time with the...
- Tags: Microsoft Zune, Gadgets, Microsoft, MP3 players
- Blog posts 2006-12-05
- How do you like your RSS?
- JupiterResearch's Michael Gartenberg asks a great question: do you prefer a "river of news" presentation of RSS or a more structured presentation like the one delivered by NewsGator Inbox in Outlook? If you had asked me that question at any time through last week, I would have replied that NewsGator...
- Tags: FeedDemon, NewsGator
- Blog posts 2006-07-15
- Web-based collaboration apps invade the enterprise
- Stowe Boyd recently spoke to Adam Gartenberg - the Offering Manager, Real-time and Team Collaboration, IBM Workplace and Lotus Software - about real time collaboration in the enterprise: "He [Adam Gartenberg] pointed out that instant messaging and other lightweight collaboration tools seem to come into...
- Tags: Web, collaboration
- Blog posts 2006-05-15
- Free Vista (and Office) for holiday shoppers?
- Jupiter's Michael Gartneberg has a great suggestion for Microsoft: give holiday season PC purchasers a free copy of Vista. And Office. It's a terrific idea that would spur a lot of fence-sitting potential PC purchasers to spend their holiday bucks on a shiny new PC instead of a hi-def TV...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2006-05-04
- Understanding Google: Exclusive look at a JupiterResearch report
- JupiterResearch recently released a Concept Report entitled Understanding Google. Subtitle: Competing and Partnering with the Most Influential Company Online. It costs $750 to purchase this report, so I asked Jupiter's Michael Gartenberg if I could get it for free and blog about it - as...
- Tags: Jupiter Research, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-03-23
- Ultra-Mobile PC (aka Origami) now official
- So much has been written about these devices already that I thought it might be interesting to take a different tangent on discussing the announcement. You can learn more about the devices themselves from Microsoft's official announcement, the Origami Project website, and ongoing coverage at GottaBeMobile. Channel 9's Robert Scoble...
- Tags: Origami, ultramobile PC
- Blog posts 2006-03-09
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