Author Archives: Vlad

Ouch, the death of SBSC

Posted: 12:22 am
March 13, 2008
IT Business, Microsoft, SMB
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Due to the popular and seemingly angered demand, here is a blog post for you today. In the few years that I’ve posted here on nearly daily basis I’ve encouraged you to take these rambling, incoherent, grammatically and politically incorrect … Continue reading →

BB in 1 Week with Monkey & Weasel

Posted: 6:18 pm
March 9, 2008
OwnWebNow, Shockey Monkey
7 Comments

After two years of pushing this stuff forward by myself (and a few thousand partners) the time has finally come to put the Own Web Now monster behind The Monkey and The Weasel and let it out of my direct … Continue reading →

Time based Outlook 2007 rules

Posted: 5:57 pm
March 9, 2008
Exchange
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Every now and then time-dependant rule questions come up and today I took a few minutes to figure them out. The good news is, Exchange 2007 transport rules make this easy and seamless. The bad news is, Outlook 2007 can … Continue reading →

Determination over Awareness

Posted: 11:10 am
March 9, 2008
IT Business
10 Comments

Over the course of the past week, two of my very dear friends Karl and Marx have blogged about how they will not let the negativity over US economy interfere with their business direction this year. Among the notable quotes: … Continue reading →

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
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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
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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
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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 →