Monthly Archives: July 2009

Good or Bad?

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I was looking at the financial breakdown of our company today, tracking some of the trends and trying to gain some confidence in the new business models, annual shift of responsibilities and the next huge growth curve we’re (hopefully) about … Continue reading

Ownership

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Once upon a time, in the long long ago, I was a broke college student. After series of tables that you would see broken in half during WWF fights, I actually sublet a furnished room in an apartment from a … Continue reading

The best blog post I’ve read in a long time

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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.

Windows 7 RTMs; Already gets bad reviews

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From one of the most respected and fair people in the IT industry, Walt Mossberg of the WSJ. While I totally agree with Walt’s assessment that Windows 7 migration will suck for Windows XP users I wonder just how fair … Continue reading

Selling a clue. $1 obo

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True conversation from earlier today, partner/friend of years that seems to be stuck in the past, finding the future isn’t for working out for him: Bob: Economy sucks. Vlad: Really? Bob: Yes. Vlad: Are you selling anything new? Bob: Nobody … Continue reading

WPC: The Afterthought

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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

WPC Day 3 – A Glimmer of Hope

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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

WPC Day 2 – From bad to worse

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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

WPC – Day 1

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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

Depression

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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