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New Microsoft virtualization license lets hosters deliver third-party software as a service

The rumors from earlier this spring turned out to be true: Microsoft is licensing its application virtualization technology to hosting providers, setting the stage for hosters to offer third-party software as a service. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Virtualization, Microsoft Corp., App-V, Service Providers License Agreement, Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Emerging Technologies, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-09-03

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How about a Microsoft Security Essentials for servers?

How about a Microsoft Security Essentials for servers?Leave that for the 3rd party providersMS is already treading on anti-trust thin ice with the release of this for the client. By not stepping into the enterprise market, MS allows all the current AV providers to charge for their enterprise features. So...

Tags: Servers, X-WINDOWS, server, Microsoft Corp., security, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-06-23

Microsoft struggles with Xbox vs. Windows Media Center positioning

Microsoft struggles with Xbox vs. Windows Media Center positioningUnacceptableI am hoping they will change this. Media Center is a good product. I do not want to have to hook my laptop to my TV just to watch a movie. If this is the direction they are going with their 3...

Tags: Media Center PCs, Game players, Digital rights management (DRM), Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital media, Consumer electronics, Windows Media, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Media Center, positioning, Microsoft Corp., NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Xbox, Medi

Discussion threads 2009-05-21

Dell and Salesforce.com: So cozy they could merge (someday)

Dell and Salesforce.com have quite a partnership going on. Dell is developing its internal and some of its external application on Salesforce.com's force.com platform. Salesforce.com is moving its data centers to Dell hardware. And the two are teaming up on marketing pitches. Meanwhile, the relationship appears to be much more...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Dell bets on Salesforce.com's platform as a service

Amid a quarter that Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff called "spectacular," but spooked analysts worried about future growth was an interesting nugget: Dell has jumped on the platform as a service bandwagon. On Salesforce.com's second quarter conference call (earnings recap, InStranet acquisition) Benioff revealed that Dell signed a...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Marc Benioff, Billing, PaaS, Summer Sales Cycle, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Microsoft preps pay-as-you-go Office for June launch

After more than seven years of lobbying by service providers, Microsoft is finally set to allow pay-as-you-go licensing for Microsoft Office and other products downloaded to PCs using streaming technologies, according to information the company recently made available to channel partners. Many observers will see the move as a new...

Tags: PC, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Business Services, Desktops, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-04-30

Netsuite nightmares: part deux

Netsuite nightmares: part deuxRE: Netsuite nightmares: part deuxI was really surprised when I saw netsuite was raising big money through their IPO. We have a client who signed up through netsuite and it has been nothing but crap support from them. You email their support and wait for...

Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Enterprise software, NetSuite Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-01-11

Windows Defender (version 1593)

Microsoft Windows Defender is perhaps the best free antispyware application we looked at this year, but we disagree with Microsoft's aggressive need to verify our Windows license--not once but twice--before allowing us the opportunity to download and install Windows Defender. Given that it's a free app, we would prefer that...

Tags: Operating systems, Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, Microsoft Windows Defender, Windows Defender, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Product reviews 2007-12-13

Citrix's end-to-end virtualization powerhouse hastens the massive disruption of PC applications as we know them

Citrix Systems is moving aggressively to desktop virtualization with today's announcement of the new Citrix XenDesktop 2.0 products. Combined with other recent Citrix strategic moves, the world of PCs and applications delivered as services is soon to be flipped. Heads or tails, both end users and those...

Tags: Desktop, Application, Advertisement, PC, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Citrix XenDesktop, PC Desktop, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Data Centers, Desktops, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-10-22

Top 5 myths of GPLv3 dispelled (part 1)

Top 5 myths of GPLv3 dispelled (part 1)Top 5 what?You left out support. Give the software for free and sell support and.. service. Like development.Users need support and will gladly pay and do BTW.Isn't this a GPL issue in general?The issue of being able to sell GPL licensed...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Linux, GPLv3, Linux Distro, MS IP, GPL, IP

Discussion threads 2007-06-04

Windows Defender

Microsoft Windows Defender is perhaps the best free antispyware application we looked at this year, but it's lacking when compared to brand-name antivirus-plus-antispyware solutions. We also disagree with Microsoft's aggressive need to verify our Windows license not once but twice before allowing us the opportunity to download and install Windows...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Defender, Microsoft Windows, Windows Defender, Microsoft Corp.

Product reviews 2007-03-15

Why Microsoft should open-source SQL Server and SharePoint

Why Microsoft should open-source SQL Server and SharePointAnd that makes MS money how???Hmmm, lets see, sell it for several thousand dollars including cals or give it away in the hopes of MS abandoning being a software company and morphing into some sort of service company? (Like that has worked...

Tags: Enterprise software, Databases, SQL Server 2005 Express, server, Microsoft Corp., open source, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint

Discussion threads 2007-01-18

Are SugarCRM, Socialtext, Zimbra, Scalix and other abusing the term "open source?"

The next time you see the phrase "open source" used in association with some software, be advised that youll need to take that claim with a grain of salt. Thats because beauty what qualifies as open source is now apparently in the eyes of the beholder rather than the eyes...

Tags: General, Open Source, Software Infrastructure, Legal

Blog posts 2006-11-21

Google royalty-free content: fair use, or foul play?

“Google aims to obtain, control and own more content, cost-free to Google, for inclusion in its core search product via a no-cost content acquisition strategy through various Google Verticals,” I postulated in “Google Verticals vs. Google.com: What is Google's end-game?”Google CEO Eric Schmidt extolled the virtues of “financial sharing” in...

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-08-05

MS anti-piracy tools phone home, raising consent, disclosure and security questions

As I reported last week based on my own experience Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage WGA is an anti-piracy technology that checks in with Microsoft's servers across the Internet that Microsoft recently pushed out to users of Windows via its Windows Update service. Unless the software is able to validate...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., WGA

Blog posts 2006-06-08

Another real world example of why DRM is evil

One of the lesser discussed but equally troubling evils of digital rights management technology is what I call the "DRM switcheroo." The DRM switcheroo is where the person or company sitting at the DRM controls over the content you've accumulated under one set of rules switches to...

Tags: digital-rights management

Blog posts 2006-05-30

I don't want my MTV

CNET loves the new MTV/Microsoft music service, Urge:Even with the media player and the music service still in beta, these products make a fabulous team, with the type of superb integration usually associated with Apple products. If you're looking for the Windows Media answer to iTunes and the iPod, this...

Tags: Urge, software

Blog posts 2006-05-16

Ownership and on-demand

Misconceptions about the on-demand applications model are alive and well and were given a thorough airing by SAP blogger Jeff Nolan in An Open Letter to Phil Wainewright, which he wrote in response to my posting the other day about SAP's strategy around licensing. ...

Tags: business process, on-demand

Blog posts 2006-05-01

Apple calls French law 'state-sponsored piracy'

Apple calls French law 'state-sponsored piracy'What behavior is that, exactly?---Apple's behavior is even worse than MS. The only reason it hasn't faced a deluge of Anti-Trust lawsuits around the world is that it is a relatively minor player in the PC/OS market.---Can you show us all where Apple has broken...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Apple Inc., digital-rights management, piracy, Apple iTunes, music

Discussion threads 2006-03-22

BlackBerry saved

BlackBerry savedSHOW ME THE MONEY!See, that wasn't so hard...And RIM Wimps Out!!How RIM settles a dispute over patents that have been invalidated by the Patent office is beyond me.Granted the Judge was deciding whether to impose an injunction or not, but all they had to do was hold out until...

Tags: Handhelds, Research In Motion Ltd., NTP, patent, RIM BlackBerry

Discussion threads 2006-03-03