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- Look who's running VMware now
- Former Softie Paul Maritz has a new challenge on his hands: Competing head-to-head with his former employer in the virtualization space. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Hypervisor, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Mystery explained: Why you have to reboot Windows so often
- Mystery explained: Why you have to reboot Windows so oftenYou failed to explain...WHY rebooting in necessary.It's because of the Windows architecture. It is so monolithic that it can't recover from simple application errors. When one thing goes wrong, it is a snow ball effect. Other OS's do not suffer nearly...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Other OS, reBoot Windows, operating system, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-28
- IT catfight in Portland, OR
- IT catfight in Portland, ORSacraficeMy company just finished an ERP release, successfully!It takes whole company sacrifice and requires separate Change Management groups to come to power to lead staff and executive management with the project and the temporary sacrifices in business process and political ownership. It takes years of...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Leadership, information technology, change management, ERP
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- Windows 7: What will Microsoft reveal this week? Touch
- Is this week the week that Microsoft finally will shed a bit more light on what's coming in Windows 7? Istartedsomething.com blogger Long Zheng recently reported that Microsoft is planning to show off Windows 7 at the D6 conference in Southern California this week. But given the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Microsoft's competitor to Adobe Lightroom gets another champion
- What's Microsoft want with Adobe Photoshop guru Mark Hamburg, who recently joined the Redmond juggernaut? Hamburg a programmer who has been part of the Adobe Photoshop team since version 2.0 and helped lead the Photoshop Lightroom one, is now a Softie, as News.com's Stephen Shankland reported on...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Lightroom, Microsoft Corp., Team Management, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- News to know: Salesforce and Google; LiveMesh; Cloud computing; Linux
- Notable headlines: Phil Wainewright: Salesforce and Google team to conquer the enterprise Garett Rogers: Google announces SalesForce integration with Google Apps Techmeme Mary Jo Foley: The big reveal: Live Mesh Statement: Blockbuster proposes to buy Circuit City ...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Data Center, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Storage, Operating Systems, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Former Softie getting the old band back together?
- Former Microsoft platforms chief -- who, these days, is heading up cloud computing at EMC -- might be trying to get at least some of the old Microsoft band back together again. According to a few different sources who asked not to be named, Maritz has hired...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Microsoft Corp., EMC Corp., Smart Desktop, Storage, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- Major flaw in State of Pennsylvania online voter registration puts user data at risk
- Major flaw in State of Pennsylvania online voter registration puts user data at riskCommonThis is a common phenomenon, happens to MS-only shops.You get a 'developer' who only knows Microsoft technology. (aka: Softie). Since Microsoft stresses ease of use (they don't do complexity well), you get the point and click 'developer'...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., ASPX, online voter registration, voter registration, MAJOR Flaw
- Discussion threads 2008-03-19
- Microsoft DeepZoom + PhotoZoom = Another Software+Service combination
- Microsoft is continuing to roll out more Software+Service (S+S) combinations, the latest being the DeepZoom-PhotoZoom combination. DeepZoom is a feature of Silverlight 2, Microsoft's next release of its Flash competitor which is due out this fall. DeepZoom "allows users to explore collections of super high resolution imagery,...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft DeepZoom, PhotoZoom, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Digital Cameras, Microsoft Windows, Digital Photography, Internet, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-09
- News to know: Microsoft interoperability; Bypassing FileVault; Woz; Black Hat; More benchmarks
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft pledges interoperability--again Reading the fine print on Microsoft's new open-source promises Larry Dignan: Microsoft's real game: Open interoperability protects its stack Dana Gardner: Microsoft on open APIs: New tune or blowing more smoke? Dana Blankenhorn:...
- Tags: Black Hat, Interoperability, Disk, Dana Blankenhorn, Apple MacBook, Microsoft Corp., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-22
- Former Softie Maritz to head cloud computing at EMC
- Former Microsoft Platforms chief Paul Maritz may be best remembered for his alleged threat to "cut off Netscape's air supply." (For the record, Maritz has denied he ever said those exact words.) But in his new job, as head of EMC's newly created Cloud Infrastructure and Services...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Computing, EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- Microsoft fleshes out small-, mid-size Windows server plans
- Microsoft fleshes out small-, mid-size Windows server plansJust what we need: More versions of WindowsHow is it that I can take one copy of Solaris and run it on a uniprocessor desktop as well as a 106 processor F15K server? OS X comes in two versions: A home version "OS...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Servers, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Server, data center, server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Elk M1 Gold
- Discussion threads 2008-02-20
- Don't cry for the open-source heroes
- I don't think anyone will be shedding any tears over Microsoft's open-source heroes promotion -- except possibly for true open-source zealots who still hate the idea that Microsoft is managing to convince some open-source vendors to port their wares to Windows. On February 27, Microsoft will hold...
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Microsoft's Yahoo play: Some love it; some hate it
- Former Softie Robert Scoble thinks Microsoft's bid to buy Yahoo is the first "interesting" thing Microsoft has done in over a year. A poster on the Mini-Microsoft blog called the Microsoft play "assinine," and equated it to "John Edwards merging with Rudy Guiliani." I have to say...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Former Softie Robert Scoble, Corporate Law, Internet, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Operations, Investment, Finance, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- HP: The ActiveX security follies continue
- HP: The ActiveX security follies continueActiveX has always been a security problem!I still don't understand why ActiveX has been so successful in spite of it being a known security issue!Why ActiveX is the problemAn ActiveX control sitting on your harddrive can be invoked by any webpage you view with IE....
- Tags: ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Middleware, Web browsers, Previous Experience, ActiveX, Mozilla Firefox, tool, Hewlett-Packard Co., security
- Discussion threads 2008-01-22
- The Microsoft reorg week in review
- It's time, yet again, to update the ever-changing Microsoft org chart. Here's another piece to add to the seemingly never-ending stream of Microsoft reorg news: Developer and Platform Evangelism DPE Chief Sanjay Parthasarathy has given up his post (as of mid-December, 2007). Parthasarathy has led evanglism of...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Parthasarathy, Microsoft DPE Chief Sanjay Parthasarathy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Structures, Microsoft Word, Investment, Finance, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- The ZunePhone is dead. Long live the ZunePhone
- Much is being made of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' proclamation this week that Microsoft won't release an iPhone competitor. But I interpret Gates' remarks a bit differently than some Microsoft watchers. I think all Gates is saying Microsoft won't build a phone. If you read his response...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., ZunePhone, Smart Phones, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- What do Xbox Live problems say about Microsoft's back-end infrastructure?
- What do Xbox Live problems say about Microsoft's back-end infrastructure?maybe they should extend every ones account...a couple of months for free.RE: What do Xbox Live problems say about Microsoft's back-end infrastructurIt just goes to show.. You can have people with all the worlds highest degrees and they still haven't figured...
- Tags: Game players, Games, Microsoft Corp., Xbox Live problem, Electronic Arts Inc., Microsoft Xbox Live, Microsoft Xbox, game
- Discussion threads 2008-01-07
- Microsoft to build an 'Emacs.Net' text editor
- Developers are puzzling over recent clues blogged by a few Microsoft employees regarding a new "Emacs.Net" tool the company is building. Microsoft's Connected Systems Division (the folks who developed the Windows Communication Framework, a k a "Indigo") is hiring developers to build a product that team member...
- Tags: Editor, Microsoft Corp., Emacs.Net, Emacs, Microsoft Windows, .Net, Team Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Recruitment & Selection, Productivity, Construction, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-12-31
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