May 27, 2009 6:53 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
General Electric,
IT Channel,
Jack Welch,
Microsoft Worldwide Partner ConferenceFormer General Electric poohbah, author, and Red Sox fan Jack Welch will take center stage at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans. In July.
May 26, 2009 6:51 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Android,
Barbara Darrow,
Google,
Intel,
IT channel products and technologies,
Linux,
netbookFirst there was news that Hewlett-Packard, Dell and possibly other hardware makers would consider slapping Google Android on netbooks.
Last week, Intel said it's jumping into the netbook OS market...
May 22, 2009 12:01 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Channel,
social networkPat Taylor, a former system builder who has been a member of Intel's Premier Partner Board of Advisors for years who also has been its president for three years, wants the channel to stand up for itself with vendors.
Taylor has founded Atypical...
May 17, 2009 4:18 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Add new tag,
Barbara Darrow,
IT channel products and technologies,
Microsoft,
Microsoft Office,
TechEd 2009,
Vista,
Windows 7The pallid economy took its toll on TechEd 2009 attendance. But there were still lessons to be learned or reinforced. My top five:
1: Microsoft burns with Silverlight fever. This is not a good thing. Microsoft, everyone knows you have Flash envy, but remember that many Web...
May 14, 2009 3:40 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Google,
Google News,
Google outage,
Microsoft Live SearchThe reporters in my row are agog as the Google news outage continues.
Folks wanted to know which alternative search engine to use. The consensus winner was Ask.com, although Altavista and...
May 12, 2009 6:32 PM
Posted by: badarrow
64-bit,
Barbara Darrow,
Office 2010,
SharePoint 2010,
TechEd 2009The next release of Microsoft SharePoint will leave 32-bitness behind. Microsoft dropped the news that SharePoint 2010 will be 64-bit only in its blog and at a...
May 11, 2009 7:58 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Bill Veghte,
Microsoft,
TechEd 2009,
Vista,
Windows 7The most interesting thing--and there were several interesting things--in today's TechEd 09 keynote was Bill Veghte's words of wisdom to current Windows shops.
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May 6, 2009 9:32 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Atrion Networking,
Heather Clancy,
IT Services,
Risk-Free TechnologyOne moniker that gets bandied about plenty in the channel, especially in times like these when everyone is trying to define their "value," is the idea that an IT solution provider should be considered a "trusted adviser" or "trusted partner."
May 6, 2009 4:55 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Google,
Microsoft,
Microsoft Office,
Scott McNealy,
Steve BallmerLast month, the New York Times brilliantly reproduced Steve Ballmer's white boarded vision of the company's cloud services plan. It depicts the company's "software plus services" vision with...
