Vladfire

Today my blog was linked from a story on the front page at digg.com. Talk about a good timing, vladville.com gear was updated just recently. They even coined a new word – Vladfire! What the author of the article spotlighted was my outrage over promotion of beta software and my utter disgust with ActiveX. They did get that I was a Microsoft fan but I figured it was time to revisit the good old Vladvisory. You see, I'm a big fan of Microsoft software. They really put in a lot of time to get the things to work, look and feel right. But when they go bad, they really go bad. Microsoft Licensing and ActiveX are the retarded children of a drunken Microsoft marriage. I hate them, very much, and you will be hard pressed to find an IT Professional that does not share that view – even within Microsoft. I'm not a Microsoft employee, PM, not a PR appologist, not a fanboy. I am the voice of the Microsoft customer, Microsoft partner and a Microsoft certified professional, one that is knee deep in Microsoft software good and bad. I spend my day working on Microsoft software, talking to Microsoft professionals and IT business owners, Microsoft partners, Microsoft support, development teams, PM's, GM's, you name it. My motivation is to clear things up for some that are not used to reading between the lines and to help everyone be more effective – to a certain degree we all want the same things. I'm not ZDNet, at least in terms that I have a real job and don't make my living selling advertising, so I call it like it is. Sometimes I come off as a baptist sermon, sometimes just a geek… but always honest.