I’m wondering if it would be better to stick this into the upcoming Vladville Vlog or keep it in the blog for my partners but every week I find a lot of info that I don’t have any particular opinion on (though I do find it somewhat interesting). I tried doing this with Quick Vlad blog but I really don’t have the time/energy to run another blog. Anyhow, Monday was a big news day so here is what may have slipped through the cracks.
So you’ve never heard of Motorola’s track record in making bad SmartPhones based on Windows OS? Whatever prompted you to make the stupid decision (shiny advertising, needed a new phone, but dude my m0to r0x!!!) get ready to join an army of unsatisfied Motorola Q owners.
Supposedly AMD <> Dell partnership is getting hotter and hotter. Makes you wonder if this is just a part of Dell realizing that AMD technology is better in certain circumstances or if they just figured they can make more money offering a wider range of products. Given that their moto was JIT for so many years and that the company is maturing.. who knows. One thing is for sure, this looks more and more like a guy bitter that his ex-girlfriend is dating again (Intel – Apple relationship)
Nobody has taken the $5 bet that SBS R2 launches at WWPC which probably means SBS MVPs know something we all don’t. So if you’re around on Monday at WWPC (the day before) check out the small biz event. If you’re getting to Boston late on Monday, Eric has a list of top 15 small business sessions at WWPC, along with an invitation to the yellow lounge. If you’re curious what a “chat” is think of a guy in front of a whiteboard with about a dozen people chatting.
Digg is now v3. In summary, Digg == Slashdot++. New Digg == Old Digg + More Categories. It’s my homepage, there is no better place on the net to get a quicker grasp on whats going on in IT.
Get a free copy of SBA 2006. I’ve got to hand it to them, they are working on SBA really hard. It must be a frustrating effort, working so hard on a product nobody uses or respects. I guess they are motivated at taking Quickbooks down from its pedestil but so far not a single person I’ve met has anything good to say about SBA 2006. It is interesting that the ones who half-like it complained about the lack of literature for the product — well, I was at B&N over the weekend and actually saw a book on Small Business Accounting! Microsoft Press, one of the entry titles, but its a start!
Publishing SharePoint to External SBS users
Tavis found a link to a whitepaper on Microsoft’s site covering the publishing of SharePoint on SBS to external users. While I would love to praise them for doing this… just whats the point? The appeal of SBS to the small business owner is the ability to configure the server without understanding the details – this document would scare them. Targeting an IT consultant? Ouch. Dear Business Owner, if your IT consultant is reading this printout to configure your server you need a more competent consultant.
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