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- Inevitable, huh? Not in Ed Tech
- Inevitable, huh? Not in Ed TechYou're so right!The costs and trauma for moving to Vista make free and open source software that much more attractive for schools. In the US, issues with the credit crunch and real estate, both make money for schools more difficult to come by.There...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Inevitability, Ed Tech
- Discussion threads 2008-04-29
- The inevitability of an Apple phone?
- The inevitability of an Apple phone?I'll try to be niceJust what "OS" is running on iPods? I haven't seen any specs or heard anything about it. Although Apple did lock the Newton OS into a mausoleum after the murder, they DID take the handwriting recognition out and put it into...
- Tags: Operating systems, iPODS, Apple Inc., BSD, Unix, phone, inevitability, Apple iPod
- Discussion threads 2006-01-12
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- Microsoft's "flat Earth" ad falls flat for me
- Microsoft's "flat Earth" ad falls flat for meI have to agree: The flat Earth thing is funny.Unlike Vista, no one changed the Earth in an attempt to prove the common belief wrong.Microsoft's "flat Earth" ad falls flat for meTom Servo!Crow!The ads aren't that bad, it's just retro.RE: Microsoft'si mentioned all...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), AppŁe, Microsoft Windows Vista, advertisement, flat-Earth, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Vista To Win in the Enterprise, The Ugly Way
- Vista To Win in the Enterprise, The Ugly Wayre: Winning Ugly[i]Why should Microsoft be any different? If you look at how enterprise software vendors have traditionally dealt with upgrades to their software products, the general tendency has been to put the vendor’s interests well ahead of the user. Upgrades to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, UNIX, Yes Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- Vista To Win in the Enterprise, The Ugly Way
- I came away from this week's Microsoft Worldwide Partner WPC conference convinced, finally, that the future of Vista is assured in the enterprise. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't because of anything Microsoft said -- the combined mea culpa/back atcha delivered by Microsoft's Brad Brooks, the Corporate Vice President in...
- Tags: Desktop, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- Harry Potter and the da Vinci book of Soduku
- Harry Potter and the da Vinci book of SodukuIt's called Sudoku.Amazing in how may ways you spell that word in your blog.... :-)Linguistically laymanComplicated? Sure it is! But, without trying to sound absurd, I always thought Sherman Morgan was the older, alter ego to Harry Potter in a...
- Tags: Harry Potter, Internet, Soduku
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- The top Sun Ray myths
- The top Sun Ray mythsInteresting, but ignores the fact that Sun Ray is proprietary protocolAn interesting summary and provides a good foundation for any discussion relating to thin client solutions or Server Based Computing as a whole.However, it was not pointed out that Sun Ray utilizes a proprietary protocol and...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Servers, Network technology, Sun Ray, SunRay, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Accelerating Microsoft Windows Vista Migrations with Citrix XenApp
- For many organisations, migration to Microsoft Windows Vista is not a question of "if" but "when." This inevitability is causing companies to start asking the difficult questions. This white paper describes how XenApp can help companies simplify and accelerate their migration to Windows Vista by delivering both older legacy applications...
- Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Migration, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2008-06-17
- XP era ends: Will Vista step up?
- XP era ends: Will Vista step up?All software eventually expires and is upgraded.The operating system is no different.Personally, I think that this entire conversation has been missing the point.Most people, by which I mean consumers not IT staff, don't care what operating system is on their computer. They will use...
- Tags: Service Pack 1, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- Microsoft's ODF support looks good ... but on paper only
- Microsoft's pledge to support ODF as a native file format in Office 2007 SP2 is good news for OpenOffice – but on paper only. The devil is in the details – and Microsoft hasn't spelled out precisely how or if its ODF 1.1 implementation will support macros...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- What's wrong at OpenSolaris
- The OpenSolaris community just released the first complete "Project Indiana" edition of the OS - and in that process demonstrated why community enthusiasm for the product seems to have weakened recently. It's a great product -everything from ZFS to a new package management system...
- Tags: OpenSolaris, Intel X86, Developer Argument, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Unixfication II
- Can the Linux community get over its "not invented here" ideology which has often hindered its ability to adopt technological improvements from outside sources? I keep saying to myself, I hope so. But recent events have shown me that we have a long way to go until we become a...
- Tags: GPL, Virtualization, Kernel, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Sun Solaris, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Inevitable, huh? Not in Ed Tech
- I just finished a post on Ubuntu 8.04; the OS has converted my son from a Linux-hater to an OS-not-carer (yes, I just made that term up, but I think you know what I mean). Then I stumbled across a ComputerWorld article on the inevitability of Vista adoption in...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Questioning IT
- Questioning ITLose the rhetoric = better articleYou started out strong, but you lose everyone when you slide into what appears to be a vendetta against CIPS. What does "their Windows only website and addiction to hiding important email in floods of junk" have to do with business continuity? ...
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, disaster recovery, Questioning IT, IBM SVC, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-04-18
- Questioning IT
- Questioning IT This is the 14th excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. This section is concerned with things you should talk to your CIO about - informally, but with attention. Topic one: disaster avoidance Basically...
- Tags: CIO, Data Center, Information Technology, Credit Card, Clustering, Membership Database, Data Centers, Backups, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Could Apple sell 45 million iPhones a year?
- Could Apple sell 45 million iPhones a year?Fun Facts$45M? That is unlikely.Putting things into perspective with some fun facts found [url=http://www.symbian.com/about/fastfacts/fastfacts.html]here[/url]:[b]Significant Symbian Facts & FiguresMarket leaderAs of 31 December 2007: * 22.4 million Symbian smartphones shipped by licensees in Q4 2007 up 53% from Q4 2006 ...
- Tags: Smart phones, Engineering, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Symbian Inc., Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, battery, Symbian Smartphone, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-03-31
- The CIO's innovation dilemma
- The often uncomfortable relationship between IT and business is nothing new but has taken on fresh piquancy. The visibility achieved by the impact coming from the use of socialprise I have seen among major brands fuels that debate. There is a history here and I sense that...
- Tags: Information Technology, Ross, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Yahoo's Hail Mary tour stops at Time Warner
- If Yahoo were a quarterback it would be trying to engineer a touchdown from the 20 yard line with 30 seconds to go. In other words, Yahoo needs a minor miracle to beat Microsoft's bid. The clock is ticking and Yahoo is heaving Hail Mary passes in hopes that Time...
- Tags: Time Warner Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- The meaning of Microsoft Server 2008
- The meaning of Microsoft Server 2008Strange curriculum for bossesPeople with no interest in technical issues took courses in Unix in school and remember the content well enough to consider PowerShell nostalgically?Well, that's what you wrote:Surprisingly it could also turn a long term Microsoft strength, the lack of interest in technical...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., Unix, software
- Discussion threads 2008-03-04
- The meaning of Microsoft Server 2008
- Server 2008 looks like a bit of an odd duck - it doesn't meet the promises made for "Longhorn" and "Blackcombe", it's probably neither more reliable nor more efficient than its 64 bit 2003/XP based predecessors, and unlike Vista with which it shares some code the kernel changes amount to...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Kernel, Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
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