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Yearly Archives: 2009
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
After years of speculation.. here is the announcement. Many are seeing this as a tactical nuke at Microsoft’s monopoly, however, let’s keep in mind that Google too often dreams big but things never quite catch up (see: backpack, Google Talk, … Continue reading
When in Course of IT events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the marketing budgets of larger companies which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the free tshirt, the separate and equal … Continue reading