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Longhorn: Hurry up and wait

Longhorn: Hurry up and waitwhere's the news?um... was there anything in this that hasn't really been mentioned recently on zdnet?No news hereJust more obligatory daily M$ praise to keep the advertising dollars coming in.All in all, quite boring verbiage for more vaporware.THIS IS PERFECT TIMING!Now all the lemmings will never...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Operating systems, .NET, OPEN SOURCE, vaporware, Microsoft Longhorn, See Vaporware, Linux 2.6, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2003-10-28

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Marketing 101 for Tech Vendors

Satire For those of you who work for a technology firm, particularly you Marketing types, you will no doubt want to hold an "Analyst Day" to wow, dazzle and impress some influential types - like IT Research Analysts and the Enterprise Irregulars (disclosure - I'm an EI...

Tags: Analyst, Corporate Communications, Marketing Research, Marketing, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-09-23

Windows 7 hits Milestone 3

Windows 7 hits Milestone 3Careful with the generalizations there, kid, you'll put your eye out - NTNTNowHe is starting to sound like Mike Cox :) More euforic and less incorrect facts.God save us allstability, scalability, reliability, security, and robustness? How can you use any of those words in the...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Milestone 3, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-09-16

VMware wants to trump Windows and Linux servers with its Virtual Datacenter OS

VMware's new CEO Paul Maritz right used his first VMworld keynote on Tuesday to introduce the company's Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS) to an audience of IT professionals and technology industry insiders at the VMworld 2008 conference at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. With the Virtual...

Tags: Linux, Data Center, Linux Server, Operating System, Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc., VDC-OS, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Servers, Management, Software, Hardware, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2008-09-16

Enomaly's open source virtual platform moves VMs in the cloud

Enomaly's open source virtual platform moves VMs in the cloudEnomalism == VaporwareThis is old news (2005 vintage). Did you test the software? Apparently not because if you did you would have given it an absolute panning like everyone else - I tried to get it working a week or two...

Tags: Enomaly, open source

Discussion threads 2008-09-09

Google Chrome: Steal this browser

Google Chrome: Steal this browserMemory Usage not commendableFirefox 3 uses lesser memory than Google Chrome. The base browser itself uses about 75MB and with 5 tabs opened, the total memory usage is around 200MB. Firefox with the same number of tabs is less than 100MB. Makes me wonder how efficient...

Tags: Web browsers, Google Chrome, Web browser, Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

A (Microsoft) Codename a day: Rouge

A Microsoft Codename a day: RougeAnother series on MS vaporwareSlow news day? Speculation runs amok with more nebulous code names we'll never see.

Tags: Rouge, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

No Firefox for the iPhone/iPod touch ... D'oh!

No Firefox for the iPhone/iPod touch ... D'oh!Why LiMo? Interested in your reasons.[i]Roll on LiMo. My next cellphone will, without a doubt, be a LiMo.[/i]Can I ask why? No ulterior motives, I'm just wondering why I should hold off on buying an HTC Touch Diamond, hold off on Android, and...

Tags: Web browsers, Digital media, Digital music, Apple iPod, Apple iPod Touch, LiMo Foundation, Apple iPhone, D'oh, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2008-08-12

When Google disowns you

When Google disowns youThis is a real danger in general with the "Cloud"PaaS, SaaS,Cloud, or call it what you want, this is only one of the major problems that can creep up when you pass your data and applications on to a third party service provider. You put your business...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Storage Encryption, Long-Term Data Usability, NameSecure, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-06

Is Microsoft ready to move beyond Windows?

Is Microsoft ready to move beyond Windows?Is Microsoft ready to move beyond Windows?[i]start imagining a world without Vista, system crashes and the blue screen of death.[/i]I've been living in this world for a number of years. Hi, I'm Earth, have we met? Anyways, this is just natural progression...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, FUD, move beyond, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., BSOD

Discussion threads 2008-08-04

MobileMe drops subscribed calendar syncing

MobileMe drops subscribed calendar syncingMobileMe InconsistenciesSo Far, MobileMe is not delivering on its Grand Promise. As such, it can't yet be considered as even a 1.0 offering, but rather a Beta that costs its users $99/year or less for those who have obtained discounts. Until Apple can figure...

Tags: Desktops, MobileMe, Apple Inc., MobileMe drop

Discussion threads 2008-08-04

Mossberg: MobileMe Is Far Too Flawed To Be Reliable

Mossberg: MobileMe Is Far Too Flawed To Be ReliableWow, you know it is bad when...You know it is bad when one of your most fervent fanboys tells you to stay away from an Apple service![i]The planned iDisk File Sharing featured was delayed[/i]More vaporware from Apple. Sounds like once again, they've...

Tags: Desktops, Groupware, MobileMe, Mossberg

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Please tell me an actual Apple netbook is on the way

I've said it several times before: I want a netbook. An Asus Eee would be great, the HP MiniNote is a bit pricey but looks very slick, Dell's proposed netbook is still vaporware but worthy of excitement, and I'm still waiting for US OEMs to pick up on the...

Tags: Apple Inc., Productivity, Notebooks, Apple Mac OS X, Keyboards, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Peripherals, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Hands on with the XO Sugar OS

Haven't heard much from these guys lately. This is me, not caring, while I'm on vacation. However, is the lack of news after their vaporware announcement of the next gen XO a sign of impending doom? I'll read what you think when I get back. For...

Tags: Operating System, Kid, Linux, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-17

First impressions of the HP iPAQ 910 Business Manager

It has been quite a while since HP announced the new iPAQ 900 series back in September 2007 and I was beginning to wonder if the device would end up being vaporware. I was just sent an evaluation HP iPAQ 910 device to check out for a couple of weeks...

Tags: Device, Hewlett-Packard Co., iPAQ 910, Display, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Microsoft Windows, GPS, Operating Systems, Marketing, Hardware, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Microsoft: Silverlight 1.0 breaks with Firefox 3

Microsoft: Silverlight 1.0 breaks with Firefox 3It seems odd that if it's a Firefox...problem that it would be fixed by a Silverlight update.M$ is trying to break firefoxsame old story: M$ releases an update that screws third parties.MS bad code, MS fix exists but not released?!According to the bug report,...

Tags: Web browsers, Nigel, Reading, Obviously Microsoft, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Silverlight 1.0

Discussion threads 2008-06-17

Will the sun power your future iPhone?

Will the sun power your future iPhone?Yes!!That's "Thinking Different"All devices?Give me a small panel that I can put onto any device that charges via mini-USB (not Apple devices though, they have their own connectors. Suckers). Better yet, just start putting this on everything-- it needn't be under the...

Tags: Apple Inc., Solar Powered, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-05-28

Tension emerges between SOA and mashup camps

Tension emerges between SOA and mashup campsUI components are not normally considered services"...they can actually create services on their own."UI components, including composite applications or mashups, are not typically "services." They may be service clients but typically services do *not* provide a user interface.The SOA/Mashup Tension is GOODJackBe agrees that...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, JackBe, SOA, mashup

Discussion threads 2008-05-27

Windows 7 to have support for Virtual Hard Disks

Windows 7 to have support for Virtual Hard DisksVHD stands from...vaporware HD.It's a just a new marketing ploy meant to keep M$ relevant.But which SKUs will have that support?I found out the hard way that different Vista SKUs give you different disk capabilities when I tried to span two hard...

Tags: Operating systems, PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows 7, VHD, Microsoft Windows, Virtual Hard Disk, computer

Discussion threads 2008-05-23

How much do you need to know about Windows 7 today?

How much do you need to know about Windows 7 today?You would think they learned.By the mistakes of ALL products they have released in the last year plus. It appears they are headed down a path of further customer complaints about a product that if they would just ask what...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Windows 7 today, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Longhorn, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-05-22