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- Why criticize Microsoft for giving away free software? It's the trend nowadays!
- Why is Joe Wilcox Microsoft Watch criticizing Microsoft for giving away free software? Dosent he realize that this is the modern trend?Wilcox seems to be taking a very narrow view of the software market. Yes, Microsoft is giving away a lot of free software nowadays, and it also...
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- Rules of engagement for Microsoft
- Joe Wilcox of Jupiter Research offers some sage advice for Microsoft about how to engage with the rest of the world. Many times when I've spoken with Microsoft employees, they talk about how living and working in Redmond is like being in a different world. That can be a blessing...
- Blog posts 2006-04-18
- Are the OS wars a three-horse race?
- A JupiterMedia study, reported on by ComputerWorld, shows the Mac OS X operating system taking some significant hunks of market share in mid-sized and large businesses.While the survey found 17-21% of desktops and 9-14% of server users had Macs, it doesn't mean that OS X has complete control of...
- Blog posts 2005-07-23
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- Ballmer: Apple logo costs $500
- eWeek's Joe Wilcox enlightens us on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's latest comments on Apple from McGraw-Hill's 2009 Media Summit in New York. "The damned thing is only about this big!" Apple gained about one point, but now I think the tide has really turned back the...
- Blog posts 2009-03-20
- Despite what blogs (and Apple) say, Macs will eventually have malware
- People seemed to get into a tizzy about Apple posting an announcement recommending Anti-Virus software for Macs. Even though it was retracted, I do think that Apple priming Mac users for the eventuality of widespread malware is a good idea. People who believe that the fundamental design of...
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- How much would an $800 Apple laptop hurt Microsoft?
- How much would an $800 Apple laptop hurt Microsoft?RE: How much would an $800 Apple laptop hurt Microsoft?apple make an 800 dollar laptop.... dont think so...maybe an 800 dollar netbook... that seems more in line with apple raping its customers...Maybe, maybe not.I know, it's a weak answer, but it really...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Yes, Macs are expensive ... so what?
- According to Joe Wilcox, a Mac notebook will cost you about twice as much as a similar offering running Windows. So what? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violation
- Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violationwho do they think they are fooling?apologizing for nothing does not absolve M$ of the other grave crimes they commited in the last 20 years.The point of CodePlex is???I have a fellow developer thats completely oblivious to anything non-MS. We would discuss...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-06
- Silverlight 2 beta 2 coming this week
- At TechEd today Bill Gates said that the second beta of Silverlight 2 will be available for download at the end of the week with a Go Live license. The Go Live license is similar to the one that was used late in the beta process for Silverlight 1 and...
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- Microsoft Office not dead yet
- Via Mary Jo Foley's blog: In spite of all the hype this year, there’s still no real momentum among either consumers or businesses for Web-based office suites, according to independent, non-Microsoft-funded researchers. Market watcher NPD has released results of a new study that found a very...
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- Are Mac users more honest than Windows users?
- Details of new research on Mac OS X Leopard show that Mac users are buying family pack licenses, even though they aren't forced to. On the other hand, Microsoft goes to great lengths to validate every Windows installation. So does this mean that Apple customers are more honest than Windows...
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- Leopard's Time Machine: Consider the 'bad and ugly' side of storage
- Leopard's Time Machine: Consider the 'bad and ugly' side of storageApple is PERFECT and has already thought of thisJust format your Time Machine drive to use ZFS. OS X's implementation of ZFS is far superior to Solaris' and will survive even a total physical failure of the disk.You know, the...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-23
- The sorry state of security software
- Over the years, I’ve made no secret of my distrust of the Windows security software industry. With the security tools in Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista, an alert Windows user is protected from the overwhelming majority of security threats and has to actually participate in any plot...
- Blog posts 2007-03-22
- Slow start for Vista? So what else is new?
- As part of a consulting contract, I've been reading up on the history of Windows in the mid-1990s. Given the criticisms of Windows Vista I've been seeing lately, I thought this article from InfoWorld in March 18, 1996 (seven months after the launch of Windows 95) was interesting:"I'm finding it...
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- VMware attacks Microsoft virtualization strategy
- VMware attacks Microsoft virtualization strategyNot an issueThere's plenty of VM market growth potential to be had without even considering MS Vista.MS Vista is only going to weaken its position with restrictive licensing and they really aren't a player in VM anyhow.Why bother?Why do people continue to choose a platform which...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-26
- The Novell / Microsoft agreement and .NET
- The Novell / Microsoft agreement and .NETin unrelated newsPalestisrael goverment will use the Winlux OSmono e monoAnd now a word from our sponsor:[pre] ooMMMMMMMooo ...
- Discussion threads 2006-11-03
- The Novell-Microsoft agreement and .NET
- Microsoft and Novell recently signed a cooperative technology deal that will make it easier for Novell's Suse Linux distribution and Microsoft Windows to work together. In unrelated news, Palestinians and Israelis agreed to end their differences and create a new country called "Palestisrael." Yes, the news that Microsoft would agree...
- Blog posts 2006-11-03
- Whatever Dell's Kevin Kettler is on (re: Vista), please pass some to me
- Either our sister site's Sylvia Carr (over at Silicon.com) heard it wrong, or Dell CTO Kevin Kettler has had a momentary lapse of reason. Wrote Carr: Businesses will upgrade to Microsoft's Vista in droves as consumers bring their love of the next-generation operating system from home to work, a Dell...
- Blog posts 2006-10-25
- Out of the mouths of Redmond watchers
- Sometimes, Microsoft watchers say the darndest things. And many times, I am right there with them. Here are a few favorite sound bites on some of Microsofts recent strategic moves on the spending and licensing fronts: R&D: Its not rocket science. Or is it? Microsoft CEO...
- Blog posts 2006-10-18
- Vista fans, circle January 30 on your calendar
- Joe Wilcox at Microsoft Monitor stumbled across Amazon's Windows Vista pre-order prices today. They've been up for nearly two weeks and no one has noticed. But he missed this detail: For months, Microsoft has been saying Windows Vista will be ready in January. More recently,...
- Blog posts 2006-08-28
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