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Category Archives: Microsoft
Here is the summary: We’re following Google to the cloud. Forget about Software + Services, just cloud. Apple pretty much owns us as we missed the whole iPhone, iPad but we’re following. We have a lot of money, so if … Continue reading
Sick of it yet? It’s about to get a whole lot worse. Microsoft WPC, at least from the vendor standpoint, is all about the cloud. By my brief account while trying to locate the ExchangeDefender booth (#743) the cloud is … Continue reading
About a week from now I’ll be heading to Washington DC to the Microsoft WPC event. I really, really, really don’t want to say anything negative about MSFT, but.. I also really don’t want to beat a dead horse – … Continue reading
Provocative title, except I do not intend it to be. This weekend was an upgrade weekend at Casa de Vlad. I upgraded my Macbook Air to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. I upgraded my desktop to Windows 7. These … Continue reading
Over at MarketWatch: “Is the party over for behemoth Microsoft?” If you read that and don’t feel uneasy; read it again. I don’t really have a comment short of just nodding my head in disbelief.
Last year was the first in the recent memory that I skipped out on WPC; two from my team went and had a far different impression of it than I used to. This year, I went again with the team … Continue reading
Since Chris Rue is now done speaking and I can attribute quotes to him without fear that he’ll be gunned down for his low “Microsoft opinion / revenue” ratio, last week he really called the Microsoft/Partner relationship: It’s kinda the … Continue reading
Interesting day today, lots of announcements again focusing on the cloud. The presentation started with some very cool virtualization technology and the now WPC-customary dig at Vmware followed by a catchup demo of what Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager can … Continue reading
Day 1 at WPC is officially in the books and I’ll save you some time if you don’t feel like reading a lot: meh. The downside: Windows 7, Office 10 The announcement was pretty much as expected. Unfortunately, it is … Continue reading
It’s something you hear in the voices of many IT people these days, particularly those in the Microsoft Partner world whose business was established on one primary vendor. So I have a question for you: What would you do for … Continue reading