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What's coming with Windows? Even the insiders aren't sure...: Sometimes you find fascinating little tidbits of Microsoft news buried in obscure places, tossed in as throwaway remarks. Today’s case in point comes from a post at the Windows Installer team blog, which tries to explain why some references to Windows Installer 4.1 appeared on an MSDN and then were...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Explanation, News, Reality, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott; Blog posts 2007-10-01
Day 3 with a new Dell and Vista: Coming in late? Catch up with the Day 1 and Day 2 installments. The executive summary: I’m documenting my experience with a new Dell C521 running Windows Vista Home Premium. A buggy BIOS update delivered by the Dell Support tool caused a catastrophic hardware failure on Day 1, but after...; Tags: Windows Vista; Blog posts 2007-06-14
Is Jobs planning a hostile takeover of the Windows desktop?: Let’s just get this out of the way right at the start: Steve Jobs is a genius and rarely makes stupid decisions. If you accept that statement as gospel, then you have to assume that Jobs has a brilliant master plan behind yesterday’s announcement that Apple’s Safari browser would be...; Tags: Uncategorized; Blog posts 2007-06-12
Microsoft's licensing mess: If you've been selling a product for more than 10 years and you've shipped hundreds of millions of units, you'd think your customers would know what they're buying. For Microsoft, that's not the case.The culprit is the hopelessly confusing, practically Byzantine Windows licensing structure, which consists of a maze of...; Tags: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Microsoft, Licensing; Blog posts 2007-06-07
Web 2.0: What does Pew really know?: Matthew Ingram hails:"The latest Pew study into how people use the Interweb. These studies are useful in part because the Pew Internet & American Life Project does such a thorough job with them — you know they weren’t cooked up by marketing types to sell more banner ads."Perhaps not, but...; Tags: Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Social Media, Metrics; Blog posts 2007-05-08

What's the plan, Hector?: Intel and AMD have unveiled their latest plans for the future. AMD’s aim is to return to profitability, the company’s top executives told its shareholders at a meeting held yesterday. The company is looking to its quad-core Barcelona Opteron chip, due this summer, to help it become more competitive...; Tags: Uncategorized, semiconductors, notebooks, multicore processors, Intel, Desktops, AMD; Blog posts 2007-05-04
Google's YouTube divides community: Advertising rules, not users: Google’s YouTube blog post headline says it all: “YouTube elevates most popular users to partners.”There goes Chad’s pet “community”?While Google YouTube will undoubtedly be lauded for “finally recognizing” the hard work of dedicated YouTuber legitimate uploaders, the video sharing picture is not as pretty as it is painted.YouTube on its...; Tags: YouTube, Video, User-Generated Content, Google, Amateur Content, Advertising; Blog posts 2007-05-04
AMD's hired guns: Here’s another thing to consider when evaluating AMD’s current position in the market: Outsourcing. AMD’s top executive, Hector Ruiz, hinted about a potential new directing for the chipmaker during its earnings call on April 19. (You can view the transcript courtesy of SeekingAlpha, here.) Ruiz indicated AMD was exploring...; Tags: Uncategorized, Servers, semiconductors, notebooks, multicore processors, Desktops, AMD; Blog posts 2007-05-02
Another take on AMD's debts: I have been looking at AMD’s cash flow situation, recently. While it’s true that the company will have a relatively high amount of debt after it issues its $2 billion in senior notes—that’s $2 billion, as you can see here (link: here) , plus extra $200 million set aside to...; Tags: AMD, Desktops, dual-core processors, notebooks, semiconductors, Servers, Uncategorized; Blog posts 2007-05-01
This Vodafone pricing model could set the tone for North American Skype-over-handset charges: Come June 1, Vodafone UK is launching a pricing model that gives users up to 15MB a day from 85p.Thats about $1.70 U.S. "Pay for the first 0.5MB… and we’ll give you the next 14.5MB for free."Then Vodafone says: "There&rsquo;s no catch. The first 0.5MB (approximately 20 pages)...; Tags: Providers, General; Blog posts 2007-04-30
The Post-Shai Era II: On the plane home from SAP’s Sapphire conference, reflecting on the overall impact of the announcements and the gestalt of the conference, it’s easy to conclude that SAP will survive Shai Agassi’s abrupt departure. It may be hard on the press – who seemed to be craving the acerbic sound...; Tags: Uncategorized; Blog posts 2007-04-25
HP discovers sex: Its not often that ones grandma reinvents herself as a nymph. As Alan Deutschman explains in his very readable Change or Die, radical change is a challenging business that favors only the most nimble. But Hewlett-Packard have pulled off a dramatic facelift, going from the greyest company in Silicon Valley...; Tags: Uncategorized; Blog posts 2007-04-18
Microsoft vs. Google: Will MSN, Windows Live compete?: Microsoft Steve Berkowitz upstaged by Ms. Dewey, LIVE in the Big Apple, and it was by design!Many portray the Google $3.1 billion cash buyout of DoubleClick as above all a defensive play thwarting Microsoft from acquiring the banner ad serving system which would have provided critical mass, and credibility,...; Tags: Search, ROI, Google, Search Advertising, Microsoft, Metrics, Media, Marketing, Google Ads, Advertising; Blog posts 2007-04-14
Unified Messaging is Legacy: VoIP Loop blogger, Blair Pleasant, asks Is Unified Messaging Still Relevant?There is a premium for UM [unified messaging] over plain voice mail, plus the integration costs can be not insignificant. And then there&rsquo;s the integration issues – UM isn’t generally plug and play. And lastly, the ever-present ROI [return on...; Tags: Voice Services, Unified Communications, Unified Messaging, Messaging, Email; Blog posts 2007-04-12
JP Rangaswami on open source and hybrids: JP Rangaswami, CIO at BT Global Services and Confused in Calcutta blogger, responded to my post "The True Nature of Open Source," where I said the economics dont favor pure open source as a business model. First, JP makes five points, and believes that economics can favor open source, although...; Tags: IT Management, General, Open Source; Blog posts 2007-04-10
Google aims to usurp campus email systems: What is missing from college campuses today? Google Apps Education Edition, of course! Not for long though, if the latest Google ambitions are fully realized.Google is promoting Google Apps on campus directly to students themselves, not university administrators or IT managers, with the goal of building student demand for Google...; Tags: Google Ads, Advertising, Search Advertising, Search, Google Software Applications, Google Apps, Google, Gmail; Blog posts 2007-04-10
BriefingsDirect SOA analysts explore converged governance and the new SOA Consortium: Read a full transcript of the discussion.The role and importance of governance is growing. As enterprises embrace governance, risk and compliance GRC platforms, as well SOA governance approaches, are these capabilities headed for a mash-up, if not technically than at least operationally? Do they lead to an uber governance that...; Tags: SOA Governance, SOA, Podcasts, management, IT Service Management, Interarbor Solutions, Enterprise 2.0, Application Lifecycle Management, Software Infrastructure, SOA architect, SAP, ITIL, IT Management, business intelligence; Blog posts 2007-04-06
Obama trounces Clinton in online campaign money grab: Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Barack Obama is spoiling Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign fundraising celebration, big time.Hillary Clinton snags $4.2 million online in first quarter 2007, I reported Monday. Obama for America, however, now announces its campaign raised $6.9 million...; Tags: President Clinton, User Generated Politics, Presidential Race, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama; Blog posts 2007-04-04
Vista Hands On #15: Access shared folders from a Linux machine, part 2: In the last installment of this series I showed how to quickly mount a shared folder on a Windows Vista machine from a Linux machine (specifically, from one running Ubuntu 6.10). This solution works if you just want to read files on the Vista PC and you don’t mind re-entering...; Tags: Windows Vista, Tips; Blog posts 2007-04-03
Adventures in wireless: This is a blog about hardware. But sometimes it’s the software that really gets in the way. I spent time last night setting up a wireless router for a friend who recently purchased two shiny new computers. One, his machine, is a MacBook Pro. The other—which we’ll call “hers”—is a...; Tags: Uncategorized, semiconductors, notebooks, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, dual-core processors, Apple, AMD; Blog posts 2007-04-02