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WPC Day 2 – From bad to worse

Microsoft
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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

Microsoft
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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

Microsoft
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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

Google Chrome OS

Google
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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

Community 2.0

Podcast
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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

The SPAM Show

SBS Show
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In the long, long ago, Chris Rue (happy birthday!), Susanne Dansey and myself put on the SBS Show: dedicated to the world of small business technology and technology consulting. The time for the SBS Show had come and gone, with … Continue reading

Happy 4th of July

SBS Show
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Hope you had a wonderful holiday. Earlier tonight I stood in the front yard of my new home and watched the fireworks over Cinderella’s Castle in Magic Kingdom / Walt Disney World. I don’t mean that euphemistically, like being able … Continue reading

The Difference

OwnWebNow, Vladville
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A few weeks ago a buddy of mine asked an open ended question: What makes you different? In a market where change is constant and companies range from deadbeats to broke to $30 billion a quarter, how are you positioning … Continue reading

ConnectWise swallows up HTG

IT Culture
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Congrats to Arnie and the team for taking over HTG Partner Groups; Yeah, yeah, strategic partnership sounds better in a press release but when you force software and invoices down the entire organization it’s pretty obvious what happened. You can … Continue reading

Blogyear in Review

Vladville
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Last week of the quarter, half and fiscal year for Vlad Media, Inc aka Vladville.com. Time for a look back: Financially, vladville.com (the Google ads) made more money than two average crackheads working the McDonalds drivethrough. I don’t want to … Continue reading