September, 2011

Is Microsoft shaping Linux’s future?

There's been a bit of outrage recently over what seems to be Microsoft's sly tactic against open source operating systems on Windows machines. Worry over what this means for non-Windows users - especially in the vocal Linux community - has run rampant despite

Are pretty graphs the next big security threat? The consumerization of business intelligence analytics

Are pretty graphs the next big security threat?

Two companies down: What’s next for HP’s Leo Apotheker?

HP hasn't been...

Coming to an App Store near you: Lion, Metro and IT

It looks like app stores are coming to a desktop near you, which means a lot of changes for how IT provisions, purchases and manages software, for better and worse. A few years ago, I took a look at mobile phone app stores: They were all...

Windows 8: Successful first date, but will it lead to marriage?

Law and Order: Cisco

HP’s head in the clouds, this time on purpose

HP...

HP: We’re committed to the PC … just in an open relationship

Maybe Léo Apotheker has just been watching too much CW: HP insists it isn't dumping its market-leading PC making division, it's just spinning it off. Making it more agile. Well, that's the preferred course. What actually happens ... Well, let's just see how things go? No labels or...

Introducing VMware’s Octopus, with tentacles poised at Dropbox and Sharepoint

Throughout VMworld I was asked again and again, "What's the most exciting thing you've seen?". And while there were a lot of great...

Windows 8: Have your desktop and eat it, too

"Essentially, you can think of the Windows desktop as just another app," Steven Sinofsky explains in the Windows 8 blog's most recent post. Apple's one-liner returns to me,...