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Category Archives: Microsoft
Good news for the folks that are willing to spend the weekend testing a new Vista build. Get to it before everyone else brings connect.microsoft.com to a crawl. Dear Longhorn / Windows Vista Beta Tester, We are pleased to announce … Continue reading
As much progress as places like Gmail have made there is simply no substitute for an offline mail storage that web based solutions simply do not offer. Looks like the Live folks actually got that message and are rebranding the … Continue reading
While the two are not similar in any perceptive way I feel these announcements mark a day on which two closet technologies really matured. First Microsoft releases Atlas, an IDE for AJAX web based applications and CentOS releases a stable … Continue reading
So the name changed but not the products cronic delays: Vista Launch Delayed I'm happy to see this and I'm sure everyone who has alpha/beta tested Vista so far will agree it needed a lot more time to be the … Continue reading
This one is for all my friends at Microsoft that haven't killed me (yet): The bitchslap of the week award goes to Bill Gates commenting on the $100 computer: ""If you are going to go have people share the computer, … Continue reading
There is a lot of public bashing about Microsoft Small Business Summit being a failure. From webcasts crashing to the poor application design all the way to the following line mentioned in the newsgroups: "This has got to be the … Continue reading
I was playing an interesting game with a friend called "who is the real Microsoft partner" among registered Microsoft partners. But what, oh what, could these guys find in the Microsoft Partner Program if their primary (or secondary or tertiary) … Continue reading
Best Buy is now a Gold Certified Partner in addition to being trained by Harry Brelsfords books. There has been relatively little interest in this by IT consultants but having dealt with Microsoft Partners for over a decade I can … Continue reading
Just a quick update on all the piracy talk we had on Vladville a little earlier last month. It seems that a number of meetings that Eric was in have taken some fruit and there is at least some stronger … Continue reading
My Golden Boy has a very interesting post of Microsoft going around him to reach the client he nominated for a promotion. Ouch. So not only are Microsoft partners completely abandoning the hope in Microsoft of ever developing secure software, … Continue reading