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Category Archives: Microsoft
Orlando IT Pro was very fortunate to host Mike Sanders from Kaseya earlier this week and see how professional managed services can benefit IT solution providers. So when the following tool was announced I was all ears: Baseline TCO Assessment … Continue reading
Mary Jo Foley has an article over at eweek covering the apparent move by Microsoft to bundle ($5 if you get a Microsoft guy to say "bundle") a lot of server products they intended to roll out on their own … Continue reading
Last paragraph is not for the faint of heart, you've been warned. Eric Ligman, the only person at Microsoft capable of explaining licensing, has posted about the NFR software and the few famous posts that we've drilled Microsoft over. He's … Continue reading
I wonder how many phone calls this post is going to generate but rest assured: If you call me, I will be asking the questions. Why such a polite post? Well, it appears that our friends from SurplusComputers are back … Continue reading
One of the best ways to dodge feature criticism is to say "it will be in the next releases." I know that, because in our own products everything that didn't get classified as "We tried that, failed miserably, it turns … Continue reading
This has been quite a good week so lets see if we can have a little fun with this one shall we? Below is the picture of Steve Ballmer (CEO of Microsoft) presenting at the Microsoft TechReady conference. Steve is … Continue reading
So in today's mailbag comes a question from Nick asking: "Love the SBS Show especially one thing questions and I have one for you: What should we do to prepare for the Windows Vista?"; Just among the many folks in … Continue reading
Don't you just love the acronym land? Did you know that there is actually a person at Microsoft whose sole job is to manage the list of acronyms that Microsoft uses (TLA)? If you didn't then please add that to … Continue reading
Participating in a Microsoft launch event As you read the following I hope you keep the following in mind: I'm an IT Pro and I am absolutely shameless. I recently participated in a state-wide launch of a Microsoft product and … Continue reading
So its the R2 day at Microsoft. Some products are going gold, others are up as evalutation versions (snag a 180 day copy of Virtual Server 2005 R2). Windows Server 2003 R2 is being released today so the R2 of … Continue reading