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Beware the gotchas in Microsoft Windows 7 upgrade, family pack pricing

Beware the gotchas in Microsoft Windows 7 upgrade, family pack pricingHome Premium = For consumers, why upgrade?When buying home premium, why should you upgrade? All the features offered in Pro & Ultimate are not for the average home user, but are all aimed at business use. (Bitlocker, AppLocker, RDP, EFS,...

Tags: Pricing, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Marketing research, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., pricing strategy, Microsoft Windows 7 upgrade, gotcha, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-07-31

Leopard gotcha: Filemaker

Leopard gotcha: FilemakerNever mind Filemaker, try getting Java 1.6 working...Do Apple beta test their products before pushing them onto the Mac addicts?[url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/29/no_java_for_leopard/]Apple's Leopard rejects latest version of Java[/url][url=http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1196049&tstart=0]Apple discussions...[/url]Another 'Leopard gotcha'?Where are all the howles from the Mac fanbois devrying Leopard......a failure? They're not holding Leopard to a different standard...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Construction, Apple Inc., Filemaker Inc., Leopard

Discussion threads 2007-10-29

End of the gotcha clause?

End of the gotcha clause?There can be only one?[i]The days of the "gotcha" clause in software licenses are quickly fading into history.[/i]Sounds like you, as most, haven't read a Microsoft EULA lately.Keep in mind that under current copyright law a EULA is nothing [u]but[/u] one giant "gotcha" -- it confers...

Tags: gotcha, EULA, gotcha clause, software

Discussion threads 2007-05-03

End of the gotcha clause?

Ever since launching this blog Ive written stories about "gotcha" clauses.These are additions to standard contracts, usually meant to confer some commercial advantage to the provider.It turns out Don Imus had a "gotcha" clause in his contract with CBS. Of course, this was language in an employment contract, not a...

Tags: Standards, Software Licensing, publishing, Legal, General, content

Blog posts 2007-05-03

Screen shots: Experts give Vista advice

Nine Windows experts share advice on "gotchas" of which Vista users should be aware.

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, gotcha

Image galleries 2007-01-26

Retailers back Warner Bros. DVD combination

Retailers back Warner Bros. DVD combinationThis is insanityThe purpose of HD-DVD was supposed to be lower cost than Blue-ray. A disk with both formats, and players that can read either format [b]increase[/b] the cost to consumers.Both sides are lying. The only motivation behind this so-called format war is...

Tags: HD DVD, Consumer electronics, TVs, TV & Home Theater, gotcha, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., DVD, HD-DVD

Discussion threads 2007-01-10

License mess Burns me up

The best laid schemes o mice an menGang aft agley,An leae us nought but grief an painFor promisd joy.See, laddie, it was Robert Burns I was thinking of, when reading the account of our own David Berlind concerning open source license proliferation. Im not burned up at all.Berlind writes that...

Tags: management, Linux Server OS, Microsoft, General, Linux, Software Licensing, Legal, gotcha, open source

Blog posts 2006-11-29

Gotcha 3.0.6.9 (Windows)

This surveillance software from Prescient Systems records images only when triggered by motion. It provides time-stamped video files of events as they occur, without recording the inactivity between events. Features include the ability to mask out unwanted movements, to play an audio file when someone enters your office, and to...

Tags: Gotcha, Motion, Prescient Systems, Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Software downloads 2002-05-31

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Apple introduces multitouch Magic Mouse, single or multi-button; $69

Wow...imagine that.A mouse that can do more than single-click. What an innovation!Um...The Mighty Mouse has had 4 programmable "buttons" two are touch and not mechanical since it came out years ago. If you can't make an informed comment them...you know what to do...it involves a rolling donut.This mouse is multi-touch...do...

Tags: Mice, Mighty Mouse, mouse, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Apple shipping new jailbreak-proof iPhone 3GS

hasince they used the work impossible i'll give them 1 month. That is, one month until the figure out how to jail break that sucker, may be 2.If people are able to figure out how to make their own hackintosh computer I'm pretty sure they will be able to...

Tags: Smart phones, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

Microsoft patches gaping Windows worm holes

So basically all of them......affecting Vista or 7 require user intervention just like all other modern operating systems these days?OK.RE: Microsoft patches gaping Windows worm holesAll of the bulletins specifically say that Win7 is not affected.Two require no user interaction whatsoever.The first two listed require user interaction only in that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), INTERNET, Patches, UAC, user interaction, OS X., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, patch management

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

Frustrated developers and scrutiny of other apps: Are things falling apart at Apple's app store?

I'm probably just as tired as all of you over this matter of Apple and the Google Voice app for the iPhone. But I would like to share two related posts that I read this morning and chime in with some reaction to both. The first, which...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., App, NYT, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-25

Prepping for an Earning Call â€" CFO/CEO must-do’s

Several of the Enterprise Irregulars were floundering around last week trying to make sense of a SaaS vendor’s recent financial results. Several serious rounds of conversations transpired as to how these earnings numbers could be understood but I think we need to start with the process of how execs get...

Tags: Revenue, Accounting, Booking, CFO, CEO, Accrual, Operational Accounting, Software As A Service (SaaS), Finance, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-08-18

Microsoft submits Hyper-V compatibility code for Linux kernel

Microsoft submits Hyper-V compatibility code for Linux kernelAn attempt by MS to remain relevant as an OS running on hardware.I believe that with virtualization moving into the mainstream, MS wants to be the platform on which VMs are run.MS has to realize that being installed in a VM is just...

Tags: Corporate law, OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Linux kernel

Discussion threads 2009-07-21

Read the fine print in Microsoft's new application platform license

Read the fine print in Microsoft's new application platform licenseAs it should be...You need to pay to play with these fine products. If a company is so short-sighted that they let their APA run out, they deserve to be stripped of all products covered under said APA. Microsoft is slaving...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operational accounting, new application platform, Microsoft Corp., fine print, application platform, APA

Discussion threads 2009-07-16

Video of the day: Prankster mocks those who linked to fake Chrome OS images

Here in the tech blogosphere, we love our news scoops. And when we can't get them ourselves, we're quick to link to those who do get them. Apparently, that's not always the smartest move. At some point yesterday, when everyone and his mother was posting news about...

Tags: Google Inc., Prankster, Video, Blogosphere, Image, Blogging, Corporate Communications, Internet, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-09

How to publish a PowerPoint presentation to the Web

Putting a presentation on your Web site isn't terribly complicated -- but browser differences can pose a big gotcha. Here's a look at the publication process and the hurdles you may encounter.This download is also available as an entry in our Microsoft Office blog.

Tags: Web, Microsoft PowerPoint, Web Browser, PowerPoint Presentation, Susan Harkins, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Microsoft Office, Internet, Marketing, Office Suites, Software

Download resources 2009-05-29

Windows Vista SP2 ready for download (and Windows Server 2008)

Windows Vista SP2 ready for download (and Windows Server 2008)Only 5 languages? Get the SP2 for ALL LANGUAGES from eMuleed2k://|file|mu_windows_vista_sp2_x86_cd_x15-39755.iso|499329024|EF3439826F02B84E26AE34405C5A8969|h=333KDXF2LVWXW2I3VDKW57MB7VDLFUCP|/SHA1: 91FB7F33B838D0378647F49E35850622BABED4BF RE: Windows Vista SP2 ready for download (and Windows Server 2008)I thought Windows7 was the next service pack for Vista ;-)RE: Windows Vista SP2 ready for download (and Windows...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows Vista SP2, Microsoft Windows, Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server

Discussion threads 2009-05-26

ActiveHealth shows how all this PHR stuff should work

ActiveHealth shows how all this PHR stuff should workThat's a nice startYears ago I developed systems for a chain of department stores. A wonderful job because each project started with a clean sheet of paper. That allow me to "catch" potentially problems. If a markup percentage was...

Tags: medication, patient

Discussion threads 2009-04-27

Rackable CloudRack operates in 104-degree data centers

Rackable CloudRack operates in 104-degree data centersOne little gotcha ...is that *nothing else* in the datacenter can take the heat. Want to turn up your thermostat? Where are you going to put all the switches? Or all the other servers (assuming you're not 'drinking the kool-aid' and getting rid of...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, data center, Rackable CloudRack, Rackable

Discussion threads 2009-03-20