October 27, 2008 8:16 AM
Posted by: Bcournoyer
Colin Steele,
Microsoft,
Tech BlogsMicrosoft is using this week's Professional Developers Conference to celebrate the birth of Windows 7, its next operating system. And guess who wasn't invited to the party?
Windows Vista.
Of the 194 sessions at the PDC, 22 are devoted to...
October 22, 2008 2:08 PM
Posted by: Bcournoyer
Colin Steele,
IT buyer market research,
Microsoft,
News,
Server virtualization,
Tech Blogs,
VMwareVMware posted strong financial results yesterday, despite the weak economy and increased competition from Microsoft.
The virtualization market leader took in $472 million in its third quarter -- a 32% increase over last year and more than Wall Street expected. Ashlee Vance of The New York...
October 1, 2008 9:16 AM
Posted by: Bcournoyer
Colin Steele,
News,
Tech Blogs"I'm a PC, and I won't give you a deadly disease."
Microsoft might want to consider adding this line to its new TV ads, after a French newspaper reported that Apple's Mac Pro computers emit a...
September 24, 2008 12:08 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
IT channel products and technologies,
Microsoft,
News,
SMB,
Tech BlogsThe RTM version of Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 is posted to Microsoft's TechNet and MSDN for subscribers. Some subscribers that is. A few subsets of that population still cannot...
September 3, 2008 1:46 PM
Posted by: Bcournoyer
Google,
Managed services providers,
Microsoft,
Software as a service (SaaS),
Tech BlogsGoogle Chrome isn't anything special as a Web browser -- at least not yet.
Sure, Chrome is fast and clean-looking. But it really doesn't have any "Cool! I...
August 19, 2008 7:42 AM
Posted by: Bcournoyer
Network and application security,
Tech BlogsRegulatory compliance has driven a whole lot of business for security resellers in the past few years. But that doesn't mean you can just walk into a customer site, say "compliance" and...
August 18, 2008 7:06 PM
Posted by: Bcournoyer
IT buyer market research,
Microsoft,
Tech BlogsA recent study -- albeit a highly unscientific one -- has found that 35% of business users who bought PCs with Windows Vista licenses have downgraded to Windows XP.
The study comes from...
August 11, 2008 8:09 AM
Posted by: Bcournoyer
Cisco,
Collaboration software,
Google,
IBM,
Microsoft,
Software as a service (SaaS),
Tech BlogsThe most recent round of rumors about Cisco buying EMC came about because Cisco CEO John Chambers said his company needs to expand into new tech markets. Now the question is, what will those markets...
July 29, 2008 12:25 PM
Posted by: Bcournoyer
Microsoft,
Tech BlogsThe great 20th-century British philosopher Mick Jones once asked the defining question of his era: "Should I stay or should I go?"
OK, OK, OK. Jones wasn't a philosopher. He was the singer for The Clash. But...
