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Microsoft responds to commentary regarding Office bloat

Microsoft responds to commentary regarding Office bloatQuestions not askedDavid, I'm a bit disappointed that you didn't ask the really critical question regarding bloat: How many of those 1500 commands would it take to meet the needs of (pick a percentage, let's say 99%) of those users?From a marketing perspective, [b]that[/b]...

Tags: Groupware, Word processors, Microsoft Word, Micrsoft, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2007-04-25

Ballmer: Not the time to scale back

Ballmer: Not the time to scale backBallmer has been NegligentDarn it -- if this fellow just paid attention to Microsoft rather than spreading himself so thin by also sitting on the board of Accenture, until recently, he would not have missed the great opportunities with multi-core business PCs/phones and consulting....

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Investment, Financial accounting, Micrsoft, Windows Live Era, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Live Era

Discussion threads 2006-05-01

Why Longhorn matters

Why Longhorn mattersWhat?Longhorn doesn't matter to me. Just curious how much people are going to have to shell out for a system that supports this bloated piece of vaporware.I refuse to buy another computer because the OS needs it to work properly.Why Longhorn mattersI read this and I read...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Micrsoft, Microsoft Longhorn, operating system, Longhorn matter, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2005-04-22

Additional Resources

Microsoft's search ambitions are its Vietnam

Microsoft's search ambitions are its VietnamMicrosoft's search ambitions are its VietnamThe simple answer is no. Microsoft has Google envy? Since when? Google has been in constant decline for a couple of years now. Microsoft on the other hand has been growing. Their interest in search is...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Live Mesh, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., software

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Enterprises still not getting full benefits of open source

Enterprises still not getting full benefits of open sourceQuestionYou say:"The real problem, it seems to me, is they don’t understand the nature of support in an open source world. It’s a mutual process, a matrix, combining your own efforts, those of vendors, and those of communities which may include competitors.The...

Tags: Blogging, Self-Reliance, open source, communism, benefit

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

About those Windows XP 'upgrades' from Vista ...

About those Windows XP 'upgrades' from Vista ...Windows Xp a hero now?It's weird how everyone thinks of Windows XP as that damn good. I guess no one remembers the Blaster virus and it's variants that were so deadly and did cost millions to business. Plus a lots of other bugs...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-06-11

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

EU shows size of Microsoft credibility gap

EU shows size of Microsoft credibility gapBlimey.[i]The European Union will investigate Microsoft’s support for the Open Document Format ODF in Office.[/i]If the Commission decides that Office support of ODF doesn't increase customer choice, that would imply that they potentially might prevent Microsoft from supporting this ISO standard?At the same time,...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format

Discussion threads 2008-05-22

Poll: No Microhoo for you: Good or bad?

Poll: No Microhoo for you: Good or bad?Almost certainly goodMicrosoft really seemed to be looking at a Yahoo takeover as a cure-all -- and when a company does that, it usually means that the company is going to drag down the outside firm. It either has no idea what...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, PRODUCTIVITY, YUI, Microhoo, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-04

SugarCRM 5.1 sails into beta with mobile phone support, monitoring, advanced reports

Open source CRM star SugarCRM has released into beta testing an upgrade of its platform that offers new wireless support and vastly enhanced reporting capabilities. SugarCRM 5.1, which is available for testing now, supports mobile phones including the Blackberry and iPhone as well as advanced reporting and analytics, data import...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, Monitoring, Cell Phone, Beta, SugarCRM, SugarCRM 5.1, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-04-30

Windows updates galore: The latest on SPs, FPs and UEs

Windows updates galore: The latest on SPs, FPs and UEsSo let me get this straightMicrosoft will release new features for Vista, but the only ways to get them are to either buy a new system from an OEM partner with those features included, or wait until a CD is for...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows updates galore, galore, Microsoft Windows Update, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-04-24

UI guidelines: one reason the Mac shines, Windows sucks

UI guidelines: one reason the Mac shines, Windows sucks...KDE is an excellent example of Microsoft done right... simple, elegant, customizable AND not annoying with all the pop-ups and such. Toss in Compiz Fusion and you have a desktop UI that competes (well, beats the snot out of actually) with Vista/XP...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-03-26

Microsoft releases updated Office-OpenOffice XML translator, ramps up document interop efforts as ISO mulls OpenXML

Microsoft today launched an update of its OpenXML and ODF translator for its Excel and Powerpoint applications and pledged to keep churning out more documentation to enable interoperability -- and more patents to protect that IP. Following its interoperability announcement on Feb 21, the...

Tags: Novell Inc., Patent, ISO, Microsoft Corp., OpenXML, Interoperability Initiative, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Open Source, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Emerging Technologies, Quality, Business Operations, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-03-06

What will run on Windows Server 2008 -- and when?

What will run on Windows Server 2008 -- and when?Help me understandIf Microsoft themselves end up having to do this much rewriting of existing applications to run on a new version, how much does the rest of the world end up spending for each upgrade cycle?Wouldn't it make more sense...

Tags: Operating systems, Servers, DC Role, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., server

Discussion threads 2008-02-04

Only Microsoft stands between me and 64-bit bliss

Only Microsoft stands between me and 64-bit blissHey ... Shadey ...Why should it even be NEWS ... AT [b]ALL[/b]??Like Mikey Cox, every time I talk to MY Microsoft Rep, he is pushing 64-bit, 64-bit, 64-bit. Then we discover that the right hand at MS doesn't know what the left...

Tags: Network technology, 64-bit, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-01-07

Opera: Setting the record straight on Microsoft and Web standards

Opera: Setting the record straight on Microsoft and Web standardsThey're doing no such thing.Don't think for a minute they're doing this for us. Microsoft is under no obligation to pass Acid2.Message has been deleted.There are no such things as "community standards"The writer is clearly not informed as to what a...

Tags: Quality, Web browsers, Yes IE, Microsoft Internet Explorer, standards, Opera Software, Microsoft Corp., W3C

Discussion threads 2007-12-14

Vista SP1 Release Candidate expected next week

Vista SP1 Release Candidate expected next weekVista SP1I have been using Vista for a few months now and I managed to get hold of an early release of SP1 for Vista. It did fix some issues, but Vista was still too sluggish for me to want to use as my...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista SP1 Release, Vista SP1 Release Candidate, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-11-28

A new Microsoft-hosted security service in the making: Forefront Online

It looks like the Softies weren't kidding when they said to expect Microsoft to deliver a Microsoft-managed version of nearly every one of its enterprise products. According to sources, a new and as-still-officially-unannounced Microsoft managed service -- Forefront Online -- is under development. Forefront Online is going...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Forefront Online, Forefront, Security, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-10-22

Silverlight as the driver for Microsoft's services

Silverlight as the driver for Microsoft's servicesHistory repeats itself?I look back at so many technologies that were not "innovated" by Microsoft but failed to gain traction in business until Microsoft put thier weight behind it. I have to say I see the same thing happening again in the RIA...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., rich Internet application

Discussion threads 2007-10-18

Ballmer speaks; Can Microsoft be everything to everyone?

Ballmer speaks; Can Microsoft be everything to everyone?Sure...M$ can be everything for the 'Mike Cox' crowd, but it is NOTHING but a crook for most of us.Clean your own room first, BallmerFirst, find a way to stop treating your customers like criminals. The more you do silly things like...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, SECURITY, Microsoft Windows XP, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., virus

Discussion threads 2007-10-10