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Category Archives: Microsoft
Microsoft has announced that several cool virtualization features will be dropped from what was promised for Longhorn release. Bink quotes a seemingly angry quote complaining about the lack of live migration, no hot-adding of resources, CPU core limitations, etc. I’m … Continue reading
It sucks to lose, but when you lose big it makes you scratch your head about your approach. May 6, 2007: Biggest Exchange loss in over 10 years. (at least in Vladville) Comcast chose Zimbra to power it’s SmartZone portal. … Continue reading
Eric writes about how SBSC partners will be recognized for their SBSC certification at a location basis instead of the organization as a whole. This is particularly useful for us bigger folks with multiple points of presence because we now have … Continue reading
Want to try out Exchange 2007 for free but don’t want to install it or play sysadmin? Well, I have good news, Microsoft and Unisys have teamed up to offer a free trial account. Fill out a form with three … Continue reading
Well, got my tale between my legs. The little eruption here regarding the crashed Outlook at 5 hours of downtime were not related to Outlook performance fix kb933493. I am not sure if I’m allowed to comment on what the … Continue reading
Just wanted to clear the air a little because I got an email from a Microsoft PM today that said, paraphrasing “We want to keep you as an MVP and a fan of the product”. So for him and all … Continue reading
This is not a joke, not a Geek Squad employee recording their customers in the shower, not a deathbed confession of who killed JFK. This is real. This is the most eloquently put illustration of Microsofts incompetence / ignorance. I … Continue reading
Bink is reporting about the end of the road for OEM XP installations coming at the end of the year. That’s right, coming January 2008 you will no longer be able to purchase a brand new computer with Windows XP. … Continue reading
This cracked me up. Someone wrote an iPhone emulator for Windows Mobile. Would I have died to be in on that discussion: “Here we have an awesome portable media appliance, cell phone, remote management platform…. how do we dumb down the … Continue reading
An interesting bug came up in the OWN Forums over the weekend, when downloading Office 2007 Word (docx) document from an Apache hosted site, the file either comes up garbled (application/octet-stream) or opens up a zip folder. This is usually the case when you have … Continue reading