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- SAP beats Oracle? Oracle surrounding SAP? Microsoft raking in new customers?
- Who's winning what and does anyone really care?SAP just turned in a great quarter, one that, according to my favorite financial analyst, Charlie di Bona, cemented his contention that "SAP continues to compete aggressively against ORCL in the applications market." It also proves, di Bona, that SAP is growing twice...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-07-20
- Microsoft CRM to Salesforce.com: It's Lunchtime
- Microsoft unveiled pricing at its Worldwide Partner Conference today for its on-demand CRM offering, and in the process sent an absolutely clear message that, from now on, basic on-demand CRM is all about price. With a range of offerings priced from $44 per user per month to $59 per user...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Not one, but two Windows service packs
- Late last night, the U.S. and state attorneys leading the enforcement effort in the antitrust judgment against Microsoft filed their latest joint status report (a PDF copy of the report is available via the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which also has a tidy wrap-up).I’m still reading the report, but these two tidbits...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Racing Towards the Future, Stuck in the Past: Microsoft BI Moves… Not Far Enough
- Attending Microsoft’s first Business Intelligence Conference has been an illuminating experience, mostly for how Microsoft’s major strengths in BI are becoming its major weaknesses. The issue is one that I’ve ranted about in the past, and it’s an industry-wide problem, not just Microsoft’s. After a day sitting through the pre-conference...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Patch Tuesday: 7 bulletins, 18 flaws, all critical
- Its an all-critical Patch Tuesday.Microsoft has just released seven advisories -- all rated critical -- with patches for at least 18 vulnerabilities affecting the Windows operating system, the widely deployed Office productivity suite and the dominant Internet Explorer browser.Five of the 18 vulnerabilities affect Windows Vista.The batch of updates includes...
- Tags: Apple, Botnets, Browsers, Data theft, Exploit code, Hackers, Metasploit, Microsoft, Open source, Patch Watch, Pen testing, Responsible disclosure, Spam and Phishing, Spyware and Adware, Uncategorized, Viruses and Worms, Vulnerability research, Windows Vista, Zero-day attacks
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Buy Microsoft, buy Yahoo!
- Two things happen in metaphysical economies -- markets in which everything is based on faith & there is no concrete economic reality: Hyped media companies (Broadcast.com, Napster, AOL, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace etc etc) get radically over valued.Media companies valued on traditional economic criteria (Time-Warner, Yahoo & Microsoft) get radically undervalued....
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-05-06
- Why is Vista lame?
- Critical reception of Vista is cool, at best. Yet I know Microsoft didn't set out to create a mediocre product. They have a lot of smart, passionate people who really want to create industry leading products. It is just that, on their flagship product, they haven't. Explanations abound, with the...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- Is the $3 Winsdows/Office bundle too good to resist? It is when you throw in a cheap PC
- When Microsoft decides to devalue Windows and Office down to $3 per seat in emerging markets which currently make limited use of technology (no, you and I wont be getting these great deals!), you know that the Redmond giant is Maybe $3 for Windows an Office is an offer that...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- How to turn off RPC management of DNS on a large scale
- In an advisory issued earlier today, Microsoft issued several workarounds/mitigations for the Windows DNS server service zero-day attacks, including a recommendation that network admins completely disable remote management of RPC capability for DNS Servers.The recommendation included instructions on registry key edits but if youre in charge of a large-scale Windows...
- Tags: Zero-day attacks, Uncategorized, Responsible disclosure, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Microsoft, Metasploit, Hackers, Exploit code, Data theft, Browsers
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- Intel (and Microsoft) in your hip pocket
- Intel could have UMPC Ultramobile PC news up its sleeve, or possibly in its hip pocket for next week. A number of news sources are reporting that the chipmaker is preparing to announce its latest UMPC ultramobile PC platform at its spring Intel Developer Forum, which will takes place in...
- Tags: semiconductors, Uncategorized, UMPC, notebooks, Intel, consumer electronics
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- Microsoft: Beware of .HLP files
- Microsoft is urging Windows users to be very careful when opening ".hlp" attachments.The warning follows the release of exploit code for possible new zero-day bug in the Microsoft Help subsystem, which is used to display files with the ".hlp" extension. The proof-of-concept code, posted at Milw0rm.com, provides instructions on how...
- Tags: Zero-day attacks, Viruses and Worms, Spam and Phishing, Rootkits, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Microsoft, Hackers, Exploit code, Data theft, Vulnerability research, Uncategorized, Spyware and Adware, Responsible disclosure, Browsers
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- Microsoft knew of Windows .ANI flaw since December 2006
- A private security research outfit says it notified Microsoft about the animated cursor (.ani) code execution vulnerability since December 2006, a full four months ahead of yesterday's discovery of Internet Explorer drive-by attacks.According to Alexander Sotirov, chief reverse engineer at Determina, his research team discovered and reported the flaw to...
- Tags: Zero-day attacks, Windows Vista, Vulnerability research, Uncategorized, Spyware and Adware, Spam and Phishing, Rootkits, Responsible disclosure, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Mozilla, Microsoft, Hackers, Firefox, Exploit code, Data theft, Browsers, Botnets
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Leapfrog on the Desktop
- No good idea goes unchallenged, and today’s announcement at the Microsoft Dynamics Convergence conference that Office has become the new client for its enterprise applications suite follows on the extraordinary success that the Office gang has already registered in the SAP market. That success , aka Duet, has been one...
- Tags: desktop, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Dynamics, Duet, SAP AG, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- The lazy person's guide to adjusting your PC for daylight saving
- Who cares if your PC is an hour out of sync with the rest of the world for a few weeks starting this Sunday? It only matters if it has to synchronize with other PCs. Unfortunately, of course, most peoples PCs do, even if only to set up appointments or...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Microsoft, Collaboration
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- MS Patch Tuesday: 12 bulletins, 6 critical, 20 vulnerabilities
- Microsoft's Patch Tuesday train rumbled into security central with a full load today: 12 bulletins with patches for at least 20 vulnerabilities in a wide range of widely used software products.Six of the 12 bulletins are rated "critical," Redmond's highest severity rating.As expected, there are fixes for gaping holes...
- Tags: Botnets, Browsers, Data theft, Exploit code, Hackers, Microsoft, Patch Watch, Uncategorized, Viruses and Worms, Vulnerability research, Zero-day attacks
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
- Oracle Losing the Transparency War. Microsoft Trying Too.
- Yesterdays release of Oracles most recent financials continued to push Oracle into a race for last place in the world of corporate transparency. Its disclosures were full of all sorts of information, except the information needed to really assess how well the companys acquisition strategy is doing. Charlie Di Bona...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., Oracles, transparency
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
- Microsoft The Ecosystem Player -- Love Thy Enemies or Just Co-opt Them?
- Yesterdays Internation Herald Tribune has an article that highlights yet another in a continuing series of moves by Microsoft to expand its ecosystem and, in doing so, bring on board companies and technologies that would have seemed anathema to Microsoft not a short while ago.The new Interop Vendor Alliance (oh...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-11-14
- Microsoft says Gmail is a virus
- It seems that Microsoft has started flagged Gmail as a virus in their virus scanning software Windows Live OneCare. Many people are reporting that every time they open Gmail, a warning is displayed telling the user they are infected with "BAT/BWG.A". Now, either Gmail is a virus, or Microsoft...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Gmail, Google Gmail, virus
- Blog posts 2006-11-12
- Microsoft's ERP "Live", Duffield's Workday, and the Future of Software as a Service
- At announcements two continents apart but spiritually joined at the hip, Microsoft unveiled its plans for SaaS versions of its Dynamics ERP suite on the same day that PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield threw his hat in the ring with the announcement of his new Workday SaaS company. Both events, not...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
Additional Resources
- 21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XP
- Last October, roughly one year after the release to manufacturing of Windows Vista, I did a comparison of how well Windows Vista was living up to its promise of being more secure than its predecessor, Windows XP. My data source was the Microsoft Security Bulletin Search page, where I tallied...
- Tags: Security, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
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