Monthly Archives: March 2008

Is Shrink-Wrapped Software Dead?

Posted: 10:43 am
March 9, 2008
Web 2.0
6 Comments

The latest issue of Time (March 17) questions whether we’ll soon see the end of commercial software installed on the PC in favor of web-based apps that do pretty much the same thing. Except for free and without the associated … Continue reading →

Man of the Year

Posted: 6:47 pm
March 7, 2008
Vladville
1 Comment

This is the biggest badass I have ever seen. He just ran a half-marathon, at age 101, drinks beer, smokes and stays out late. Among the quotes: And Martin likes running, “but not as much as I like my beer,” … Continue reading →

What does Rumba mean in Hindi?

Posted: 2:14 pm
March 7, 2008
IT Culture
3 Comments

It’s Friday.. joke time. Last week, after spending some quality time mopping my office floor, I decided it was time to get some help. As hard as many of you feel I work, I am lazy in day-to-day life on … Continue reading →

Year in review: Is SBSC community better off?

Posted: 11:10 am
March 7, 2008
Microsoft
on Year in review: Is SBSC community better off?

I’ve been blogging about doing business with Microsoft for a few years now and every year, as our program renewal comes up, I like to ask myself if we are better off or worse off as a community that relies … Continue reading →

Exchange ActiveSync in iPhone

Posted: 3:15 pm
March 6, 2008
Apple, Exchange
1 Comment

Courtesy of PC World, Apple today announced that 1.1.5 will ship with Exchange ActiveSync functionality which will, for all intents and purposes, make iPhone “business capable,” more: Enterprises want great push e-mail–“huge request.” And push calendar information. And push contacts. … Continue reading →

Google Calendar Sync

Posted: 1:00 pm
March 6, 2008
Google
1 Comment

Most of my community work and freebie stuff runs off of Google and I don’t think I’m cutting it short when I say that Google has by far the best calendar/scheduling app on the market today. So this release has … Continue reading →

Financing for Idiots

Posted: 8:45 pm
March 5, 2008
IT Business
6 Comments

One of my pet peeves is watching local infomercials in disbelief that there are so many idiots out there, just dying to give me their money. In my next business venture I am picking something far more evil than IT. Consider … Continue reading →

In Defense of Microsoft

Posted: 10:10 am
March 5, 2008
Microsoft
1 Comment

One of the things you eventually have to come to terms with is that business is not always fair. Not everyone gets compensated the same, not everyone gets the treatment they deserve, not everyone gets their fair share of the … Continue reading →

What is a rollup? Exchange 2007 SP1 Rollup 1

Posted: 9:30 am
March 4, 2008
Exchange, Microsoft
on What is a rollup? Exchange 2007 SP1 Rollup 1

One of the more frequent questions about Exchange 2007 is the new update technology, the rollup: Rollup is a collection of hotfixes and Exchange system updates that apply to the entire product. While in the past, Exchange hotfixes included updates … Continue reading →

Microsoft Software + Services – Partners = The Future

Posted: 11:37 pm
March 3, 2008
Microsoft
5 Comments

My favorite cat killer is right, I don’t like where Microsoft is going with it’s Software+Services strategy. What I specifically don’t like about it is the PR way in which they are trying to crush their partners in order to … Continue reading →