Monthly Archives: October 2006

Ghost to Ghost

Posted: 8:02 pm
October 31, 2006
Friends
4 Comments

Tonight is Halloween and sad to disappoint but I was not an American child. Every year I have the pleasure of taking my (now) wife to Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween so I know what that is all about but … Continue reading →

Presenting at FACUG

Posted: 3:52 am
October 29, 2006
Events
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I’m doing my bit to support the local Florida User Groups. In the morning I will be presenting two ITPRO sessions at the Florida Computer User Group Association’s annual conference in Orlando, Florida. Come out and check them out: UnMicrosoft … Continue reading →

Microsoft in Orlando: What Went Wrong?

Posted: 6:44 pm
October 28, 2006
Events
on Microsoft in Orlando: What Went Wrong?

My last live post from Microsoft/Intel Ready to Rock show got quite a bit of attention. It also raised a lot of attention with the press so instead of letting them misquote or take me out of context I figured … Continue reading →

Microsoft Antagonizing Partners at Ready To Rock Roadshow

Posted: 10:48 am
October 26, 2006
Microsoft
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Microsoft often talks about how they do not sell software and how its partners are their sales force. So every now and then they have feel-good roadshows (TS2) where someone actually listens to the small business owners, OEMs and SMB partners … Continue reading →

Vlad’s Book Club: Books that make Vlad cry

Posted: 11:58 am
October 25, 2006
Vladville
on Vlad’s Book Club: Books that make Vlad cry

Relax wuss, they are the tears of joy. Every now and then I look at that new business book just to realize that I will only get a few pages worth of insightful and original thought from hundreds of pages … Continue reading →

News around SBS land

Posted: 7:57 pm
October 24, 2006
Microsoft
3 Comments

So it’s been a while since we published an episode of the SBS Show but there are news in our market nonetheless. First of all, Andy Goodman has published an installation guide on how to get CRM Express Mobile Client … Continue reading →

Firefox 2.0 Released

Posted: 10:37 am
October 23, 2006
Web 2.0
7 Comments

So the release of IE 7 didn’t really make much noise at all, at least not in the positive way among the IT community which is finding it crashing OWA, no Administrative templates and a slew of people trying to … Continue reading →

Important: OWN Blog Goes Live!

Posted: 12:29 am
October 21, 2006
IT Business, Vladville
8 Comments

It is my great pleasure to announce the first ever Own Web Now Corp blog. Click here to add it to your RSS2 aggregator. If you do any business with OWN or ever intend to, you need to add that blog to … Continue reading →

Keeping Passwords Secure

Posted: 2:02 pm
October 20, 2006
Security
3 Comments

Don’t worry, this isn’t The Susan Bradley ™ rant. This is just something for you to think about on a slow Friday afternoon while you’re planning your weekend and likely using the same password for your desktop as you do … Continue reading →

IE7: Install or Block

Posted: 11:00 am
October 19, 2006
Microsoft
13 Comments

There are a lot of IT Professionals living under a rock. Some bothered to email me last night, in panic, that IE7 is going to be deployed on their systems without a choice. One guy even asked me to call … Continue reading →